Artistic Licence: Theatre worthy of praise

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the real millennium.

I don’t mean the minor sideshow of 2000, based on the unproven date of Christ’s birth and dodgy rumours of a millennium bug that allowed computer experts to build conservatories with overtime payments.

I refer to the millennium of 1988, when Dublin’s City Fathers decreed that in 988 the Vikings - bored of battering lice-infected Celts in local metropolises like Finglas - had ...