Dublin Carol review " an undertaker battles with the bottle
Sherman, CardiffSelf-pity and misogyny meet melodrama in Conor McPherson's 2000 chamber piece about an alcoholic's Christmas Eve search for redemptionDecorations feebly festoon the back room of the funeral parlour. It's Christmas Eve. John (Simon Wolfe) is an undertaker who has undertaken to avoid the chronic drunkenness of his past, but not to give up the drink. He sups whisky from a mug and talks. Conor McPherson's…