Theatre: Yearning and lost, they seek love in a not so cold climate
Before Monsters Were Made, at the Project
Emer O'Kelly
Scottish playwright David Greig's The Events will come to Dublin as part of the Theatre Festival later this year. It's based on the shattering Anders Breivik mass slaughter of young people at an island camp in Norway a few years ago, and was hailed as a triumph of theatre in 2013.
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