Porcelain points to potential of new voice in Irish theatre
Directed at a high emotional pitch by Cathal Cleary, Porcelain crams 26 scenes into 90 minutes without an interval, and is certainly never dull.
Porcelain
By Margaret Perry
Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage), Dublin
Rating: ***
Runs until March 10
‘Are you a witch, or are you a fairy, or are you the wife of Michael Cleary?” This old rhyme has always fascinated Hat (Lola Petticrew), a fragile young mother at the heart of Margaret Perry’s occasionally crude but often powerful new play Porcelain.
Hat comes from the same part of Co Tipperary where, in 1895, a labourer ...