Opera delivers despite difficult subject
The Last Hotel produces a sledgehammer effect that can pierce even a critic’s personal armour
The Last Hotel
By Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh
O’Reilly Theatre Dublin, September 27
Rating: ****
Reviewed by Dick O’Riordan
Suicide is always an unpleasant subject. But the assisted suicide of a healthy young woman who hopes to achieve some form of cosmic well-being and ethereal contentment is best not dwelt on in regard to theatre and films. But opera – that is a different question. So often considered an antediluvian irrelevance, opera ...