Show Review: Mrs Brown’s Boys Metro Radio Arena
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Rating: 4/5
In the current climate, laughs seem pretty hard to come by – let alone something that thousands head to an arena for. However, this weekend many thousands did and all for a funny, old and witty lady Mrs Angnes Brown (otherwise known as the mastermind that is Brendan O’Carroll).
Good Mourning Mrs Brown is a show that is, despite its foul language and adult humour, a show for the family. It’s unusual how young and old can come together to enjoy something that is so adult in its nature, but it happens and, as far as I’m concerned, it’s the magic of Mrs Brown.
The show isn’t unique to the road – it is a congregation of a few episodes of the BBC TV series Mrs Brown’s Boys, featuring quite a few of the plot lines and a lot of the jokes you’ve seen past the watershed. If you’re a huge fan and have seen every single episode going like me, it can seem predictable, but it is still funny, just not as funny as it is hearing it all the first time.
One thing that has to be said is that Act One is nowhere near as funny as Act Two. It is almost as if the first half of the show is the warm up and the second, full-frontal Mrs Brown in all of her filthy glory.
Overall, though, it is a great show and one to watch, no matter where you are seated in the arena. Brendan O’Carroll and his family team are fantastic (even though Rory Cowan and Gary Hollywood,the actors who play Rory and Deano, are truly terrible in a good way: it is wrong to say they break character because they are never actually in it) and most definitely make the show what it is.