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ArtScape/Deirdre Falvey: 'I'm just glad they didn't make it a one-woman show," said Brian F. O'Byrne, as well the NY-based Irish actor might - he's to play Charlo in the first stage adaptation of Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked Into Doors.

He was talking at a press conference to announce the production, which started rehearsal this week and opens on May 1st at the Helix in DCU. "I've spend the morning rolling around in a bed with Hilda and dancing to Thin Lizzy - we're having fun in rehearsals," said O'Byrne. Adapted by Doyle and Joe O'Byrne, whose brilliant adaptation of Pat McCabe's The Butcher Boy into Frank Pig Says Hello augers well for this staging. It is a love story of sorts - O'Byrne says the play opens with Charlo's death, and finishes when Paula kicks him out, but in between is a flashback of the troubled, funny and brutal story of their relationship.