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Lloyd Cooney and Alan Mahon in The Waste Ground Party

The Waste Ground Party

By Shaun Dunne Directed by Gerard Stembridge Peacock Theatre Runs until 22 November

Rating: ***1/2

Shaun Dunne’s impressively bleak new play is set in an inner-city Dublin that appears to be falling apart. Black sacks of rubbish keep crashing to the ground and nobody comes to take them away.

Residents complain that their community has gone to the dogs, and rats ...