Do You Come from Gomorrah? review – Frank McGuinness’s blistering portrait of abuse and prejudice

Abbey, Dublin An unnamed narrator recollects a 1970s childhood of institutional brutality and sectarianism in this allusive memory play Language is twisted and slippery in Frank McGuinness disturbing new memory play for the Abbey theatre. As an unnamed narrator, Man (Ryan Donaldson) looks back on his 1970s youth during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, he says that the past “does not belong to me”. The Man’s recollections come in snatches: sometimes hazily with humorous shrugs, then sharply focu