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Denouement review " darkly funny reckoning with relationship dystopia

by Helen Meany

Lyric, BelfastAnna Healy and Patrick O'Kane give nuanced performances as a volatile, long-married couple bunkered in a cottage that's being slowly engulfed by fire It is difficult to concentrate on writing a memoir when a nuclear reactor is flashing nearby and neighbours are killing themselves. Playwright John Morton and director Jimmy Fay wring maximum dark humour from this dystopian two-hander, set in 2048 at the e…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:18am on October 27, 2025