The Dead School

The difference between them is neatly embodied in their musical tastes. But, whatever the generational divide, both men are driven towards madness. You need to be Irish to understand all the resonances of McCabe's hectic, kaleidoscopic play.

But what comes across clearly is that the schoolroom is a symbol of the decay of the twin Irish gods of nationalism and religion and of the new rampant individualism. While the play has a strong elegiac quality, it is also mordantly funny.

There's a wonderful moment when Raphael plucks up courage to propose to his girlfriend by shyly asking her: Even if the play sometimes resembles an overstuffed suitcase, it is given a vividly surreal production by Padraic McIntyre for the Livin' Dred Theatre Company. In Marie Kearns's decrepit schoolroom set, door panels suddenly open up to reveal intruding hands and faces and a window flies apart to disclose a choric beggarman.

Amid the frenzied action, Sean Campion is a magnetic centre of attention as Raphael, slowly disintegrating along with his world of inherited Irish tradition.

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Malachy's downfall is less compelling, but Nick Lee still lends the younger man a similar sense of inexorable decline. Carrie Crowley, Gemma Reeves and Peter Daly revolve around the two teachers like orbiting satellites and dazzle with their quick-changing panache.

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Haunting lesson of 'The Dead School'

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