The Noble Call: A flawed but authentic expression of love and loss
Michael Hartnett’s new play, about the final days of a dying man in a hospice, is extraordinary only in its ordinariness
The Noble Call
Bewley’s Cafe Theatre, Dublin
Rating: ***
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