The God and His Daughter: Eileen Walsh and Zara Devlin. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh
The God and His Daughter
Abbey Theatre
★★★☆☆
Marina Carr’s greatest gift as a playwright has been her ability to transform dense classical literature into something that sounds like a conversation overheard at a mart. By the Bog of Cats reimagined Medea in the Irish midlands; The Mai channelled Aeschylean intergenerational trauma through small-town despair.
At its best, The God and His Daughter, the second part of Carr’s reworking of Sophocles’ Theban plays, sounds like, well, a Mar
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