Cesar Cruz’s oft quoted "art should comfort the disturbed and disturb
the comfortable" offers an apt description for Brokentalkers brilliant
production ‘The Blue Boy,’ which raises uncomfortable questions about
the systematic child abuse carried out by the Catholic Church since the
founding of the Irish State in 1922.
Demonised and dehumanised simply for being born out of wedlock, orphaned young children were regularly subjected to corporal punishment, rape and all manner of mental, physical and emotional violence. Their constitutionally enshrined rights ignored and trampled upon all in the name of Mother Church. Haunting, harrowing, deeply disturbing and utterly moving, ‘The Blue Boy’ is a theatrical tour de force that serves as a chilling indictment of the nationalised, normalised and institutionalised child abuse that was carried out for decades.
http://www.examiner.com/review/brokentalkers-chillingly-brilliant-the-blue-boy
Demonised and dehumanised simply for being born out of wedlock, orphaned young children were regularly subjected to corporal punishment, rape and all manner of mental, physical and emotional violence. Their constitutionally enshrined rights ignored and trampled upon all in the name of Mother Church. Haunting, harrowing, deeply disturbing and utterly moving, ‘The Blue Boy’ is a theatrical tour de force that serves as a chilling indictment of the nationalised, normalised and institutionalised child abuse that was carried out for decades.
http://www.examiner.com/review/brokentalkers-chillingly-brilliant-the-blue-boy