Quite a journey from ancient Greece to modern Ireland

Here is a lively, highly interactive melding, staged by Macnas and directed by Mikel Murfi, of the richly complementary imaginations of Barabbas and Galway's best-loved street theatre, which turns into a rustic and sometimes bucolic epic of rural Ireland, allegedly inspired by Homer's Odyssey.

But don't let yourself get into the pointless intellectual distraction of which event in the play represents which encounter in Homer's original. Just let it swirl about you or creep up behind you, as it does with the audience standing throughout on Leisureland's spacious floor and the actors among them, but standing slightly higher.

Don't worry why Scylla turns up without Charybdis. Just get stuck into the tale of Telemachus (Terry) setting out on the bus from Crazy Corner, Westmeath to look for his father Ollie (O. Deasy, geddit?), the great Galway hurler believed drowned off the Dursey Island ferry after his last all-Ireland hurling final in 1964.

Come to think of it, ignore the geography too. Enjoy the fact that you're a passenger on the bus going to Sallins without a seat, and watch the scenery passing by the windows, and the hilarious scene in the pub where Terry stops off to get local opinions and sandwiches, and the grand finale of the local production in the parish hall of the final scene of The Playboy of the Western World, or the sports day in Kenmare where Ollie is finally found in the egg-and-spoon race.

Never mind that Cyclops might be a tractor with one headlamp on the blink in the middle of a duck-hunt. It's that kind of 90-minute night and it's good fun.

Runs until Sunday, July 30th, at 8 p.m. Booking: 091-566577