The Big Yum Yum by Patrick McCabe | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
“Put any two people in a room and they have a story to tell,” said writer Patrick McCabe in an interview given in advance of his most recent play, produced by Corcadorca theatre company and staged in the small, intimate space of the Half Moon Theatre in Cork. If this play is about anything, it is about the bounce and interplay, the shifts in pain and love and hate within the dynamics of personal relationships, particularly those of an intimate kind. Although audiences are likely more used to engaging with McCabe in cinema or in print, he has, in the past few years, moved towards theatre, and this stark, uncomplicated narrative has an understanding of the medium at its heart: it is the recognition and communion between audience and character that holds the energy of the piece over the hour and a half of its telling.