Terminus is a supernatural drama variously promising singing, soliloquising serial killers, avenging angels and a demon made of worms who is also a surprisingly attentive lover. Irish playwright, Mark O’Rowe, is known for his dense, energetic style and an executioner’s feel for gallows humour that has earned him rave reviews as a dramatist and a bit of notoriety along the way. Something of a contemporary take on the epic poem, the narrative in Terminus unfolds through the rhyming monologues of its three main characters; a style which prompted the New York Times to describe it as “a mix between Jay-Z and Tom Wolfe on a gonzo riff: ‘We go, see the slo-mo ebb-and-flow of pub-spill; the mill, the babble, the rabble or wobbling waywards’.”

The CUB Malthouse, Merlyn Theatre