Reviewed This Week: The Townlands Of Brazil

Theatre: The Townlands Of Brazil, written by Dermot Bolger, Axis, Ballymun, Dublin, until December 3.

Theatre: The Townlands Of Brazil, written by Dermot Bolger, Axis, Ballymun, Dublin, until December 3.

Dermot Bolger’s The Townlands Of Brazil is a play of two halves. The first is a history play, set in Ballymun in 1963, just before the rural townland is transformed into an urban suburb.

The second half is set in contemporary Dublin, where Ballymun is undergoing another transformation, into a multicultural community under the ghostly shadow of the ...