There's work, and then there's family. Or there's neither, if you play your cards as badly as the lads in Gerald Murphy's dark Irish comedy "Take Me Away." The play, getting its American premiere by local Irish specialists Solas Nua, depicts three dull brothers and their desperate father, who are complaining at a virtual standstill for much of its 100 minutes. Watching a bunch of losers go down hard can be brutish fun, but Murphy's sarcastic script is hardly foolproof. The production never really gets into the daffy swing of hypocrisy and ... (more)