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Mill Theatre, Dundrum, Dublin 8pm Until Aug 22 €20/€18 01-2969340

We aren’t particularly well acquainted with the qualifications of a professional assassin, but a conscience can’t be high on the list. Yet the actor/writer Chazz Palminteri put a conflicted hitman, whose principles get in the way of his assignment, at the centre of his 1996 stage comedy (later turned into a minor motion picture). Don Wycherley takes on the role of Tony in The Mill Theatre’s new production, sharing Italian-American aphorisms on fidelity with the radiant and entirely untroubled Carrie Crowley, a target for whom he is no match.