McCabe’s masterwork still a visceral portrayal of a descent into psychosis

John Ruddy and Darragh Byrne in Frank Pig Says Hello at the Gaiety Theatre, DublinPATRICK REDMOND

Frank Pig Says Hello

by Pat McCabe

Gaiety Theatre, Dublin

Rating:*****

On tour nationwide

Frank Pig Says Hello was originally performed at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1992. It was written for Co-Motion Media by Pat McCabe as a theatrical complement to his novel The Butcher Boy, which was published the same year.

The morality tale is equally shocking in both stage and prose form: young Frank Brady murders the woman he believes ...