Cork Midsummer Festival, theatre review: Gallows humour aplenty in The Saviour 

Marie Mullen and Brian Gleeson shine in a world premiere streamed live from the Everyman 

Marie Mullen as Máire in The Saviour. Picture: Jed Niezgoda

★★★★☆

The Saviour opens with Máire Sullivan (Marie Mullen) propped up in a brass bed looking like the cat who has got the cream. She is savouring a post-coital cigarette, a turn of events which is a huge surprise to this self-described “auld wan”. Sex, she declaims, has always been a means to an end, “foisted on me when I didn’t want it or offered for a bit of peace”.