A mother, a son and the yawning chasm of intellectual difference

Elizabeth Moynihan cuts through conventions of dramatic realism with overlapping interludes that bring to life the interior lives of Quicksand's two main characters

Rex Ryan and Donna Dent in Quicksand at the New Theatre, Dublin 2

Quicksand

New Theatre, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Directed by Elizabeth Moynihan

Rating:***

Until June 22

In 2002, Scottish software developer Gary McKinnon was arrested after hacking into the computer servers of the US military. During initial police interviews, it was revealed that McKinnon had Asperger’s syndrome, and as a battle raged between the British and American court systems, the latter of which sought his extradition, an extended debate about criminal responsibility opened up. ...