This Beautiful Virtual Village review – drama that rages like a Twitter pile-on

Available online
Neighbours clash over racism and sexism in the Abbey theatre's virtual production of Lisa Tierney-Keogh's highly topical drama

The six members of a Dublin residents' association in Lisa Tierney-Keogh's drama first came together on the stage of the Abbey theatre to convene a meeting, about obscenely sexist graffiti daubed on a wall in their neighbourhood, that spiralled into hot, drunken political debate.

They are back in this virtual adaptation for a topical social satire on Zoom that focuses on misogyny and male privilege as the original, award-winning stage production did, and adds references to the chap George Floyd", the Black Lives Matter movement and its relationship to Irish identity.