"The Year of the Moving Statues" is a satire on the nation's tendency towards religious hysteria. Set in the fateful year of 1985, the year of the apparitions, the play explores not just religion but our attitude to money, drink, politics, agriculture and wet summers. It is wildly funny and wickedly surreal. To quote the writer "The Year of the Moving Statues represents the Irish mindset as it might have been painted by Salvador Dali" It happened in the middle of a dreadful summer. In fact, it happened in the middle of a dreadful decade. If any year can be said to epitomize the grim...