Slim pickings make for a succulent play

Jamie O’Neill, Ashleigh Dorrell and Fabiano Roggio in Dinner in Mulberry Street FUTOSHI SAKAUCHI

Dinner In Mulberry Street

Bewley’s Café Theatre, Dublin

Rating:****

Runs until December 22

Winter is looking bleak for Agnes and Dick, two residents in a crowded rundown tenement on New York’s Mulberry Street. They are freezing in a barely-furnished flat, and they haven’t a nickel between them with which to buy food.

Luckily, the couple are rich in imagination. Instead of them wallowing in their misery and hunger, their empty larder inspires the ...