Emigration’s spectre looming over post-bailout Ireland

Theatre

The Games People Play

Everyman Theatre, Cork Directed by Bryan Burroughs Run concluded

Rating: ***½

The Games People Play is a deliciously modern take on the Tír na nÓg myth. In post-bailout Ireland, Niamh and Oisín, a couple in their early 30s, are in negative equity, and Oisín, a freelance exhibition organiser, hasn’t worked for eight months.

Set in their children’s playroom (conspicuously ...