Theatre review: King of the Castle, Gaiety (Dublin Theatre Festival)

The occasion of the Dublin Theatre Festival’s 60th anniversary is a fitting setting for this Druid revival, of a play first staged at the festival in 1964, and to much acclaim.

Another of the new works that year, Philadelphia, Here I Come! has since enjoyed innumerable stagings, a sure place in the canon of Irish plays, and on the country’s school curriculums. The same cannot be said for Eugene McCabe’s effort, though it has been revived occasionally, including by Druid director Garry Hynes herself, in the 1980s.