Theatre review: Two Pints: An overheard chat about all things trifling and momentous

Philip Judge and Liam Carney in Two Pints by Roddy Doyle at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin Pic: ROS KAVANAGH

Two Pints

Abbey Theatre, Dublin

Rating:***

Until August 10

Roddy Doyle’s Two Pints began life on Facebook, where Doyle used the flexible brevity of the social media forum to meditate on contemporary news stories through the device of two men bantering over a couple of pints.

In 2017, the Abbey Theatre invited Doyle to develop these fictional conversations into a full-length play, which premiered off-site at the neighbouring pub, the Flowing Tide, before ...