Roscommon Arts Centre to Present Seamus O'Rourke's STALEMATE, 6/12-13

Leitrim playwright, actor and director Seamus O'Rourke returns to Roscommon Arts Centre next Wednesday 12th & Thursday 13th June with his new play 'Stalemate'. Tickets €18/€16 are available through Roscommon Arts Centre's box office 090 6625824 or online at www.roscommonartscentre.ie

Seamus plays Paddy English the barman being held at gunpoint in a basement by rookie criminals Mary Donlon (Fiona Maria Fitzpatrick) and Marcus Sheridan (Jamie McClean). It's four in the morning and the pub is full of money. Sure what could go wrong for these rookies? Surely John Francis Milton (Tommy Sharkey) stopping by to collect slops for his greyhound 'Biscuit' won't alter their plans. But then there's the mention of those famous words no robber wants to hear...'Do I know you from somewhere?'

'STALEMATE' has nothing to do with politics or worldly matters but it's funny...if you think having no money is funny and if you think getting shot is funny and if you think being done out of first place at the 2002 Ulster Scór na nÓg solo singing competition is funny! So if you're looking for a night full of laughter then look no further.

Stalemate is the fifth in-house Backstage Theatre Canal Studio production and marks O'Rouke's second turn as director. It stars Jamie McClean (aka Flynn from the McDonalds ads) along side Fiona Maria Fitzparick from Belturbet who starred alongside Seamus in "The Pitch" and Tommy Sharkey from Cavan town who fans of O'Rourkes will recognise from "Victor's Dung" and "For Club and County."

Sea­mus is a writer, actor and direc­tor linked mainly with the Corn Mill The­atre Group, Car­ri­gallen, Co. Leitrim. He was heav­ily involved in the ama­teur drama scene for more than twenty years, fea­tur­ing in the All Ire­land Drama finals in Athlone on fif­teen occa­sions. In the finals, he has won Best Direc­tor, 2005, Best Actor, 2010, Best Sup­port­ing Actor, 2011 as well as being nom­i­nated for direc­tion and act­ing on eight other occasions.

Seamus made his pro­fes­sional debut, both as a writer and an actor with 'Livin' Dred Theatre Company's production of Ride On directed by Padraic McIntyre. He has since toured exten­sively with The Pitch by Shane Con­naughton and his own Victor's Dung and has just finished a tour of his own play, The Sand Park.

This is his eleventh play to make it to the stage. Dig, Down, The Trappe Family, Ride On!, Wagging Finger, Victor's Dung, Victor's Dung (The Second Cut), The Halfway House Hotel, For Club and County and The Sand Park.

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