Mermaid, WicklowFootball has been a gift to Irish playwrights in recent decades, with the snakes-and-ladders fortunes of the Irish soccer team providing ready-made melodrama. Metaphors of the national psyche have attached themselves to the game in a theatrical subgenre established, in part, by Dermot Bolger with his 1990 state-of-the-nation play, In High Germany. Twenty years later, he has revisited the central chara…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45PM on July 6, 2010