Decadent delivers with Pierre’s provocative prize-winner

Theatre: Vernon God Little

By DBC Pierre

Directed by Andrew Flynn

Town Hall Theatre, Galway Tours nationwide until November 8, see decadenttheatrecompany.ie/vernon-god-little-tour-dates/

Rating:***½

Reviewed by Brendan Daly

Few contemporary novels have harvested the zeitgeist with such gusto as DBC Pierre’s feral debut, Vernon God Little. Winner of the 2003 Man Booker Prize, the novel employs a Columbine-style high-school killing as a lacerating magnifying lens to examine media manipulation and our preoccupation with celebrity ...