Dublin Gothic: Barbara Bergin’s play spans the Easter Rising, the emigration-ravaged postwar era, and the heroin and Aids epidemics of the 1980s. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh
Dublin Gothic
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
★★★★☆
Barbara Bergin’s new play at the Abbey is rooted in one place yet covers an extraordinary amount of ground. Set in and around a tenement in a reimagined version of the “north city innards”, Dublin Gothic features more than 100 characters, performed by a cast of 19, over the course of three and a half hours (with two int
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