Everyman appealing to every woman

While the Abbey carries on atoning for the male-dominated programme that provoked last year’s Waking the Feminists protest, the Everyman Theatre in Cork has no such problems. Its new production of Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa can boast an all-female creative team, including director, choreographer, set, costume and sound designers.

Friel himself would have surely approved, since his Tony Award-winning masterpiece is dedicated to the memory of “five brave Glenties women” (his mother ...