NEW YORK—The dazzling performer and playwright Mikel Murfi portrays an extraordinary assortment of people (and animals) in “I Hear You and Rejoice,” the companion piece for his earlier work “The Man in the Woman’s Shoes.” Both plays, which stand alone as single efforts, are being presented in rotating repertory at the Irish Arts Center in Manhattan’s Clinton area.
The stories are told by Murfi as Pat Farnon, a mute cobbler who, at the start of the tale, lives alone some miles far from a city center in Sligo, Ireland. After regaling us with spot-on vocal “portrayals” of birds, pigs, cows, and a Christmas turkey, he moves into the heart of the matter: He must deliver to the formidable Kitsy Rainey a pair of new shoes that she wants to wear for today’s football game, for Kitsy happens to be the manager of the team.
