Opera delivers despite difficult subject

The Last Hotel produces a sledgehammer effect that can pierce even a critic’s personal armour

Katherine Manley as Wife and Claudia Boyle as Woman in The Last Hotel

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 ...