Theatre review: Juno and the Paycock, Everyman, Cork

This is a fine solid production of Seán O’Casey’s tragicomedy which raises laughter but is underscored by much pathos, set in a working class tenement during the Irish Civil War in 1922. Ger Fitzgibbon’s production is ‘set’ in Cork, but other than the Leeside accents, there is little sense that the play has been transposed fromDublin.

As was common in the time, the Boyle family’s poverty is acute with the matriarch, Juno, being the only family member working.