Abbey, DublinA double-edge runs through Tom Murphy's penetrating portrayal of exile and return, set in 1950s Ireland. On an annual summer visit to their hometown, a group of returned emigrants resent the publican for the money he is making from them, even as they drink his pub dry. And the ambivalence is mutual. The presence of these men, back for two weeks from England and America, seems to make everyone uncomfortab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PM on July 1, 2012