Barabbas Theatre Company's wonderful version of Lennox Robinson's The Whiteheaded Boy, the story of a mother's favourite son and his family's uphill struggle to make a success of him, has been sweeping around the country and packing them in at Andrew's Lane. And the punters are still baying for more. At least, it is to be hoped they are, because there will be a last chance to see the show in Dublin when the company brings it to the Olympia Theatre for two weeks from August 16th, excluding Saturday 22nd.

The show, directed by Gerard Stembridge, has been seen most recently at the Greenwich Theatre in London, where it won excellent reviews. Ian Shuttleworth wrote in the Financial Times: "Too many British companies in the same vein treat their physical and visual comedy skills as an end in themselves, rather than employing them in the service of an existing work; they might do well to learn from their Irish counterparts," while Mikel Murfi's performance won exceptional praise: the Kentish Times described it as a "a display of formidable acting skill".

Harvey Lichtenstein, president and executive producer with the Brooklyn Academy of Music (the presenters who brought The Steward of Christendom to New York) saw the show and is reported to have been impressed, while the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington has expressed an interest. So it looks like that whiteheaded boy is going to make something of himself, after all.