Theatre: Murphy’s rural tale of grief and reconciliation amongst women

Director Padraic McIntyre embraces the musicality of Murphy’s writing

Joan Sheehy and Maeve Fitzgerald in Bailegangaire
Cathy Belton and Rebecca OMara in Helen and I

Theatre

Bailegangaire

Civic Theatre, Tallaght

Rating:✶✶✶

An old woman lies abed ranting for the duration of Tom Murphy’s famously difficult play, Bailegangaire. She is Mommo, grandmother to Mary and Dolly, two orphans who grew up in her small cottage, just outside the town she renamed Bailegangaire – the ...