The setting is Dublin. We're talking modern-day and down-at-heel in this major new musical which has a deliberately scruffy look " with a launderette glowing in the dark and a concrete, four-storey housing block hulking upstage. The adaptation is by Roddy Doyle himself, based on his 1987 comic novel.read more
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 11:17AM on October 8, 2013