Gothic horror in Butcher Boy stage adaptation
Theatre: Frank Pig Says Hello. The Everyman Theatre, Cork. Directed by David Grant. Tours in the North and the Republic until May 23 (angrianan.com) Suitable ages 12+. Rating: ***. Reviewed by Brendan Daly.
Patrick McCabe’s The Butcher Boy (1992) opened with an unforgettable bang: “When I was a young lad 20 or 30 or 40 years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent.”
Premiered in the same year as The Butcher Boy’s publication, Frank Pig Says Hello is McCabe’s stage adaptation of his ...
