Theatre Review: The Night Alive at Gaiety Theatre

4/5

Tommy (Adrian Dunbar) is one of life’s also-rans, a middle-aged man estranged from his wife and children, who rents a tatty backroom flat in the house of his uncle Maurice (Frank Grimes). A decent skin, Tommy makes a crust as a kind of Dublin Del Boy, doing odd jobs with his dim-witted accomplice, Doc (Laurence Kinlan).

However, when Tommy’s decides to give shelter to Aimee (Kate Stanley Brennan), a prostitute who has just been violently assaulted by her boyfriend, the ramshackle elements of his life finally close in on him.