Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Kate Gilmore is impressive as a vulnerable young woman, but parts of the staging overwhelm her character
Inside an empty ball alley, where she has made a bleak refuge for herself, a young woman sings a song of yearning: “Trying to think the new thoughts. / Dive into the blue.”, echoes the yearning for escape from some of his previous plays, where characters are desperately confined by their lives.
As the action moves into the recent past, during a grim period in Dublin, Grace is increasingly seen among the wreckage of a sad childhood: wearing a paper crown from a restaurant’s children’s meal, drinking on a throne cobbled together from street debris; while an interview clip voicing’s hopes for women’s futures comes across as a false promise.
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