Theatre: Murphy’s rural tale of grief and reconciliation amongst women
Director Padraic McIntyre embraces the musicality of Murphy’s writing
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 ...