Katy Hayes: Tommy Tiernan is terrific but fine acting doesn’t paper over uneasiness of play about rural eejits
Tommy Tiernan and Aaron Monaghan in The Cave. Photo: Ros Kavanagh
Kevin Barry’s new play is a study in washed-up rural Irish masculinity. Brothers Archie and Bopper McCrea feel familiar; they remind us of the no-hope wretches that inhabit the plays of Marina Carr or Martin McDonagh.
They are “derailed” men, homeless and living in a cave above a town in south County Sligo.
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