DublinLand at the Dublin Fringe Festival review: Satire on the capital sold to a US tech billionaire needs to put the boot in
This show has a lot going for it. It’s a satire, a great shape for drama. An embattled taoiseach called Simon Costello deals with Ireland’s massive national debt by selling off Dublin so it can be turned into a theme park. The citizens will become extras in an elaborate virtual reality attraction. There’s a lot of Fine Gael energy about this, with the ubiquitous “Simon” forename and the invocation of the Costello dynasty (Decan Costello was attorney general and architect of the FG “just society” policy; his father John A Costello had been taoiseach). DublinLand is to be financed ...
Source: independent.ie