Rough Magic presents the hugely entertaining and successful musical comedy, 'Improbable Frequency' in the Black Box Theatre from Tuesday 30 October to Saturday 3 November.

Winner of three Irish Times Theatre Awards, including Best Production and Best Director, Improbable Frequency is a joyous surreal satire that lifts the lid on Ireland's beloved neutrality and cuts to the heart of the tempestuous affair with its nearest neighbour, England.

Set in Dublin, 1941 while war rages across Europe, Dublin revels in its prized neutrality as its theatres and bars remain open for business. A hotbed of intellectual and cultural high living, the city is home to an excitable rabble of exiled intellectuals, British spies and Nazi sympathisers.

When a series of coded messages transmitted in the form of a radio programme draw the attention of MI5, a young code breaker is sent to investigate. His enquiries lead him into a series of improbable situations and encounters, with the likes of John Betjeman, suspected of being a British spy, Erwin Schrodinger, taking advantage of the intellectual (and sexual!) freedom Dublin has to offer, and the surrealist Irish Times satirist Myles na gCoaleen.

Inspired by real events, Improbable Frequency brings these three historical figures together as elements in a surreal series of absurd plots to overthrow the British, undermine the Nationalists and subvert the forces of nature.

For tickets, which are €20/€16, contact the Town Hall Theatre on 091-569777.

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