'King
of the Castle is a great play and a brave play.'
—Thomas Kilroy, The Irish Times
'Eugene
McCabe is — and has always been —a fiercely honest, raw, brutal
(in the finest sense) and magnificent writer.'
— Dermot Bolger
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Thirty
years after it was first produced and won The Irish Life Award
of the Dublin Theatre Festival, King of the Castle
retains its awful force.
'Scober' MacAdam is king of the castle. He has acquired by greed
and exploitation a former 'Big House' in County Leitrim. But he is
sexually impotent. Goaded by gossip, he devises a plot to impregnate
his young wife.
The latent savagery of Eugene McCabe's domestic tragedy discloses,
in the couple's struggle to converse, a series of wounds in the
household and in the neighbouring community.
