Theatre for One: This Ireland review – Brilliant, totally immersive one-to-one plays

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Cork Midsummer Festival 2024: The brilliance of these 12 five-minute plays lies in their containment

Theatre for One: This Ireland – Marina Carr, Enda Walsh, Stacey Gregg and Emmet Kirwan are four of this year's 12 playwrights. Photograph: Clare KeoghTheatre for One: This Ireland is a succession of totally immersive one-to-one engagements from which there is no retreat. Each visitor is ushered into a comfortably padded booth that, as the door to the world outside closes with a thud, is vaguely reminiscent of a cell.

In Bait, Una Kavanagh is a woman struggling into a dress. She appeals for an opinion as if from a friend sharing the fitting room, but it’s for her safety that she is appealing: the costume must please her abusive partner, who is otherwise inclined to describe her efforts as putting lipstick on a sow.

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