The Plough and the Stars review " wartime drama enters defamiliarised zone
Abbey, DublinIn this refreshed, high-energy restaging, Sean O'Casey's 1926 classic of political theatre still has insistent questions to ask about social justice Inclusion of Sean O'Casey's 1926 classic in the Abbey theatre's commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising might seem inevitable, but director Sean Holmes sets out to defamiliarise it. Setting it in the present day, on a striking stage dominated by the stairwe…