Complex abortion story puts the audience in the jury box

Home is much too dramatically thin to be called a great stage work – but it still deserves praise

Gemma Kane and Megan O’Malley in Home

Home

By Megan O’Malley

The New Theatre, Dublin

Rating:***

Runs until February 3

Home is not so much a play as a social experiment. At the outset of Megan O’Malley’s first full-scale work, every audience member in the New Theatre is presented with a pencil and ballot paper. Tonight, we are the jury in a trial about an Irish woman’s abortion, effectively a dress rehearsal for the Eighth Amendment referendum that now looks ...