Douglas captivates in poignant tale of Catholic repression
Leigh Douglas’s poignant monologue cannot help but evoke comparisons to A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing, the dazzling novel and play that turned Eimear McBride into a literary sensation
Sacrament
By Leigh Douglas and the Minerva Collective
Theatre Upstairs in Lanigan’s Bar, Dublin
Rating: ***
Runs until November 25
Sacrament begins with a barefoot young woman clad in a white dress, kneeling on a church pew and earnestly telling God that she needs to “display my guts for you”. What sort of sin has she committed? The answer eventually comes after an hour of anguished storytelling, perfectly logical and yet extremely difficult ...
