Thin plotting can’t dampen Katie Roche’s raw power
Teresa Deevy’s overtly feminist play must have shocked audiences when it premiered at the Abbey in 1936
Katie Roche
By Teresa Deevy
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Runs until September 23
Rating:****
Katie Roche is out of control. She may be a mere servant girl with no idea of who her parents were, but this dangerously free spirit believes she was born to do great things. When people in authority warn her to be good, she laughs in their faces and responds: “I’ll be a great woman . . . I’ll make ...