Rare chance to see McCabe double-header

Frank Pig Says Hello and its sequel should make for fine viewing, writes Alan O’Riordan

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Dublin Theatre Festival, but also, within the programme, is another one of those I-can’t-believe-it’s-been-that-long revivals. This time it’s Pat McCabe’s hit Frank Pig Says Hello, 25 years on.

The play returns as part of a double-header, alongside McCabe’s The Leaves of Heaven, which was first staged last year and in which we find Francie Brady, 25 years on, in the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum. Joe O’Byrne returns as director to what was his first collaboration with McCabe. The pair have since, together, produced Loco County Lonesome, The Dead School, and The Revenant.