On matinee days we're each drinking ten pints!

Roddy Doyle's Two pints explores the friendship between two men attempting to navigate life's triumphs and tragedies over a drink, writes DIANE PARKES

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THE UK premiere of writer Roddy Doyle's bittersweet comedy Two Pints is currently being staged at Coventry's Belgrade Theatre.

The show takes us into a Dublin pub where two men chat over the heads of their Guinness. And while they debate football players and where the prostate is located, they also ponder the bigger questions of life and mortality.

Two Pints features actors Anthony Brophy and Sean Kearns as the men who are known simply as One and Two who meet over a few nights watched only by barman Raymond - and, of course, the audience.

“It’s pure Roddy Doyle” says Sean. “This is a very funny play but it’s also quite moving and very tender. It basically deals with the male inability to communicate on an emotional level. Surprisingly, these men do that, although they are probably unaware they are doing it.

“We are literally just sat at a bar talking so the challenge of that is to get internal choreography and an emotional choreography. Hopefully when people come out of the show, they might think there was a lot of movement in it because there are loads of gear changes and shifts.”