Chicken: An off-the-wall play goes surprising places
A Hollywood actor gives a late-career account of their life. They happen to be a chicken.
Project Arts Centre - Cube, Dublin Fringe Festival
★★★★☆
Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe once said, is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. No being may be immune to its corruption; in Eva O’Connor and Hildegard Ryan’s off-the-wall comedy Chicken, the latest performer to have a public meltdown – leaving small-town Ireland for the dizzying excess of the American film industry – is an animal actor.