Dream Factory review: Parody of society’s environmental and ethical self-flagellation is hilarious from start to finish

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Dream Factory review: Parody of society’s environmental and ethical self-flagellation is hilarious from start to finish
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Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: This original new musical has all the components for a hit

Dream Factory review: Parody of society’s environmental and ethical self-flagellation is hilarious from start to finishA friend once told me the best children’s shows are the ones that make them laugh the hardest. I disagree: it’s the ones that make their parents laugh harder.

Set in the fictional town of Ballyplastic , it introduces us to Brida Spring , a young girl alienated by the hypercapitalistic Dream Factory that dominates society under a glitzy sheen. Throughout the show we meet a Trumpian chief executive with a hilariously soft underbelly , who takes direction from a mysterious giant sheep , Wizard of Oz style.

Predictably, it concludes with the audience dancing its socks off in an effort to banish the megalomaniac sheep.

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