A lyrical take on the capital’s overlapping voices and lives

Citysong

By Dylan Coburn Gray

Abbey Theatre

Until June 8

Rating:****

Citysong is an ode to Dublin: “riversplit and seakissed and roadrunnelled and concrete-brick-stone-steel-and-glass-formed”. However, it is more than a portrait of a place. It is an unlatching of the myriad lives within it: the teenagers, taxi drivers, teachers, which at any one moment express its life now, 50 years ago, or into the future, standing testament to “all that has happened to ...