Two Pints review — setting the world to rights on a barstool
Roddy Doyle's Two Pints began as short dialogue sketches shared on Facebook. After they were collected into a book in 2011, Doyle then adapted Two Pints for the stage in 2017, when it was performed in pubs around Ireland: a natural fit for a play where two men drink Guinness and shoot the breeze. It fits less well in the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry — quite literally, in that Claire Winfield's lovingly rendered old boozer set hugs the back wall of a venue where seating is arranged on three sides, rather than end-on. With its two characters only ever sat side by side at the bar, Sara Joyce's production leaves a strange, square vacuum of empty space where action would normally be.
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