Theatre: Hair-trigger Troubles family drama

Defender of the Faith. Everyman Theatre, Cork. Directed by Andrew Flynn. Tours nationally until November 29. Rating: 4/5. Reviewed by Brendan Daly.

Michael Ford-FitzGerald and Diarmuid de Faoite in Defender Of The Faith.

Defender of the Faith

**Everyman Theatre,** Cork

**Directed by** Andrew Flynn

**Tours nationally until November 29** (see decadenttheatrecompany.ie)

**Rating:** 4/5

**Reviewed by** Brendan Daly

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Defender of the Faith is an unsettling depiction of personal and political breakdown. Set in rural Armagh in 1986, it opens with a snapshot of a fractured family. Joe, the play’s mercurial patriarch, is struggling with recent events: his wife has entered a psychiatric hospital, unable to cope ...