Following the closing night of their latest collaboration Our Few and Evil Days at the Abbey Theatre on Saturday, Love/Hate's Tom Vaughan-Lawlor and writer-director Mark O'Rowe are now rehearsing for the Olympia Theatre run of O'Rowe's Howie the Rookie.
As he reprised his dual roles, Vaughan-Lawlor said: "I was lucky enough to have been asked by Mark to work with him again on his most recent brilliant play, the remarkable Our Few and Evil Days at the Abbey Theatre.
"To now get to revisit Howie the Rookie and play it at the Olympia Theatre means this will have been one of the most enjoyable and rewarding years I have spent in the theatre in my career."
O'Rowe added: "Following the enormous success of Howie the Rookie last year, I am delighted to have the opportunity to bring the show back again and to share Tom Vaughan-Lawlor's astonishing performance with new audiences."
Originally a two-hander, Howie the Rookie is described as an "...adrenaline-fuelled ride into Dublin's underworld, narrated first by the Howie, then picked up by the Rookie".
It will be staged at the Olympia Theatre for six performances only from Tuesday November 11 before the production moves to London and New York.
Vaughan-Lawlor won Best Actor at this year's Irish Times Theatre Awards for his work on Howie the Rookie.
