Abbey theatre, DublinBarbara Bergin's tale follows four families through strikes in the slums, the Easter Rising, the early years of independence and the HIV-Aids crisis of the 1980s In Barbara Bergin's epic "losers' history" of Dublin, street names tell their own story. Tosser's Pot leads to Cutpurse, then from Pokes Alley to Kiphouse Row. For the residents of the inner-city tenement building where the action opens …
