Theatre: There are plenty of laughs in John B Keane's Letters of a Successful TD
The Successful TD, Gaitey Theatre, Dublin

The Successful TD
Katy Hayes
There are plenty of laughs in this well thought-out production of John B Keane’s Letters of a Successful TD.
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