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