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26 Feb 2025

IFI@BrieryGap: SING SING

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When

26 Feb 2025

Time

8pm

15A

Oscar nominees Colman Domingo (Rustin), and Paul Raci (Sound of Metal) lead a cast of non-professionals, many of whom play themselves, in Greg Kwedar’s inspirational true story, based on the Rehabilitation Through the Arts programme founded at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in upstate New York, about a troupe of incarcerated people who escape the realities of prison life through the redemptive power of theatrical performance. Every six months the theatre workshop convenes under the auspices of programme director Brent (Raci), looking to Divine G (Domingo), their de facto artistic leader for guidance as they choose their next production. However, he gets more than he bargained for when he recruits Divine Eye (Clarence Maclin), a volatile new member, who suggests they stage a comedy, a first for the troupe. Notes by David O’Mahony

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Few contemporary actors have the presence of Colman Domingo. Over the past few years, with bossy performances in Rustin and The Color Purple, he has emerged as a master of both swagger and fragile emotion. He is excellent again in this true-life tale of redemption in the eponymous New York prison, even if his performance is at a different pitch from those of the nonprofessionals around him. It’s not that he’s too big. It’s not that he’s not real enough. It’s just that he has no way of dialling down his natural magnetism

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Donald Clarke | The Irish Times

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