Theatre review: The First Child is dark, strange and hugely enjoyable    

The third collaboration between Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh at Dublin Theatre Festival touches on themes around our digital second lives

Sarah Shine, Joan Sheehy and Caia Leseure in The First Child. Picture: Ste Murray

O’Reilly Theatre, ★★★★☆

In 2015, Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh gave us the first part of this accidental trilogy: The Last Hotel. That opera was based on the true story of a woman’s assisted suicide, but, as you’d expect from Walsh, was transformed into something mythic, which took in the absurdity and banality of modern life, combined with an eerie otherwordliness.