About a month ago I saw a flyer for Leper & Chip at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast. After seeing just the brochure, I knew that I had to see Lee Coffey’s latest play as soon as I could. It looks dark, gritty and very funny.

Leper & Chip is a high octane, blackly comic love story – a fast paced modern day Romeo & Juliet, set in contemporary inner city Dublin. Boy meets girl – but set at breakneck speed. Leper and Chip meet at a house party, which gets trashed, with both being on different sides; Leper and friends get chased by machete wielding maniac and love without madness isn’t love at all. Fast, frantic, funny… Dublin at 100mph with leopard coated cougars, Pringle eating whales and your almost-midget mate chained inside a fridge.

First staged in Dublin in April of last year, Bitter Like a Lemon Theatre Company bring Leper & Chip to the Lyric from 27-29 October. For more information or to book tickets click here.

Leper & Chip

Laura Caldwell

Author: Laura Caldwell

Hi, I'm Laura. I'm 30 years old and have a degree in Journalism with Photo-Imaging at the University of Ulster. I have an undying love for Belfast and all that it has to offer, an undying love for sleeping, Tegan and Sara, trashy tv shows, foreign snack-foods and being irresponsible with money. I also quite like origami, reading, jazz, hip-hop, dubstep, anything acoustic and Food Network TV. I've written for The Big List, Culture NI, Chatterbox and The Echo, as well as writing for BBC Across the Line.