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'

Arthur Riordan and Seamus O’Rourke in From Under the Bed

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 ...