Consumed at Park Theatre review: an uneven Irish comedy with obsidian-black humour

But Lily Arnold’s set is a problem. I know what a hoarder’s house looks like and believe me this doesn’t come close. Though Irvine imbues Gilly with an impressively unnerving array of hollow chuckles and sing-song cadences, her mania never fully convinces. The character of Muireann is a loose assemblage of concerns including body issues, climate, cruelty to animals and surveillance capitalism. She has also, handily, done online research about the “famine gene” in Ireland.