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The
'Liverpool' playhouse: Olympia Theatre,
Dame Street, Dublin
Photograph: Malcolm Davis
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CREDITS
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Full
marks to Hugh Grant,
risking his newly-acquired star status after the phenomenal
success of Four
Weddings and a Funeral by playing the seedily manipulative
gay theatre director in Mike
Newellís film of Beryl Bainbridgeís backstage tragedy.
Set in Liverpool during the forties, the movie was filmed,
apart from a couple of establishing shots of the Mersey,
in Dublin, as once
again the Irish government scored with the tax breaks.
The ëPlayhouseí is actually the
beautiful 1,300 seat Victorian Olympia Theatre, 72 Dame
Street,
near the Temple Bar district.
Not far away is another Dublin institution, the tea-room
where members of the company swap gossip. Itís Bewleyís
Oriental CafÈ, 78-79 Grafton Street. Dublin Docks
stand in for Liverpoolís Merseyside equivalent, where
grand actor PL O'Hara (Alan
Rickman) rides his motorbike.
The theatreís rehearsal space might look familiar ‚
itís the same ornate, arched rehearsal room, above a
snooker hall, used by the band in Alan
Parkerís The Commitments.
It was Ricardo's; it's now been restored, to become
the Camden
De Luxe Hotel, 84-87 Lower Camden Street.
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