Theatre review: Vernon God Little, Town Hall Galway

Eleven years after it won the Booker Prize, DBC Pierre’s popular novel gets a welcome stage adaptation by Galway company Decadent. Using Tanya Ronder’s script for the Young Vic’s own very successful adaptation, the production distils all the mordant black humour of Pierre’s incendiary satire while at the same time teasing out a wonderful pathos.

The show is distinguished by a talented and charismatic cast and is bolstered, too, by the presence of a wonderful three-piece band — The Lifebuoys — who play a set of pining country standards throughout, evoking the Texan scrub town in which the story takes place.