Deft marital drama struggles to escape the confines of its outdated production
The midlands town where the action takes place is not paradise but purgatory, and the couple’s marriage is a terrifying portrait of middle age
Eden
By Eugene O’Brien
Nun’s Island Theatre, Galway
Until July 28
Rating:***
According to Billy, married life is “a load of me hole, rigmarole family crap”. Breda, his wife, might describe it more tersely as “pure mule”, which is small town shorthand for “anything desperate”, and Billy and Breda’s marriage is certainly that. Impotent Billy is obsessed with proving his masculinity by bedding the daughter of the most powerful man in town. Breda ...
