Noah and the Tower Flower

Dublin playwright Sean McLoughlin keeps well inside the damaged-souls-meet-in-a-bar pattern book and director Jim Culleton also mostly obeys the bounds of expectation in this brief look at the small lives of unemployed twentysomethings. But there are tidy dovetailing playwriting joints to marvel at, and the sheer, boggy richness of the Ballymun dialect to revel in.—Helen Shaw