Waiting for something like Godot, in lonely rural squalor
If the makers of From Under the Bed ever want a snappy strapline for their posters, they might consider 'Waiting for Godot meets D’Unbelievables'
From Under the Bed
By Seamus O’Rourke
Viking Theatre, Clontarf, Dublin
Rating:****
Runs until June 2, then touring
‘Well, it’s too late tonight to drag the past out into the light,” Bono sings towards the end of arguably U2’s greatest ever song. Pat McPartland, one of the two elderly Co Leitrim bachelors in Seamus O’Rourke’s charming and poignant new play, would not agree. He barges into his brother Eugene’s room at 5am with ...