After the distractions about whether Richard Dreyfuss’s ear was being fed words by wire, Kevin Spacey’s venue is back on track. Brian Friel’s 1990 play, set in 1936 Donegal, is confirmed as a modern classic and Anna Mackmin as one of our finest directors.
Mackmin elegantly draws the threads of Friel’s Mundy family — the rural lives of five unmarried sisters plagued by poverty, constrained by religiosity, yet each brimful of a pagan urge to dance like demons.
When their sad, humble futures are revealed by narrator Michael (Peter McDonald) — illegitimate son of the youngest sibling (Andrea Corr) — there is nothing more devastating or poignant on the London stage.
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