The Matchbox " review
Playhouse, LiverpoolValentia, a tiny island off the coast of County Kerry, is the kind of place where you make your own entertainment. Sal, a young woman who has returned to her remote Irish roots, passes the time by striking matches and letting them burn. "There is, I find, something pleasant about the smell of sulphur," she says. Frank McGuinness's monologue begins with a seemingly inconsequential musing on the sub…