Terminus

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There's a fine tradition of contemporary Irish playwrights writing multiple-character, monologue-driven plays, as evidenced by works such as Conor McPherson's This Lime Tree Bower and more recently Abbie Spallen's Pumpgirl. But while several of these shows demonstrate a poetic sensibility in their use of language, Mark O'Rowe's stunning Terminus, presented by the Abbey Theatre as part of the Under the Radar Festival at the Public, takes the conceit a step further by being written in rhyming verse.

The interweaving and often fantastical tales are narrated by nameless characters listed in the program as simply A (Andrea Irvine), B (Eileen Walsh), and C (Aidan Kelly). The relationship of the [...]