Theatre Review: Ballyturk at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin
There’s a scene in Ballyturk when the characters share tea and biscuits. Of course this being Enda Walsh, that banal Irish charade has been reimagined as an absurdly cartoonish ritual in which the biscuits are piled Jenga-like. Pull the wrong one and it all comes tumbling down.
It’s an unfortunately fitting metaphor for the Abbey Theatre’s renewal of Walsh’s 2014 work. Cillian Murphy, it turns out, is the missing, load-bearing, biscuit.
