Visualise two stools with a collapsed play between them. The victim is Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage And Her Children, and it has fallen between a new translation by Joe O'Byrne and the notion of Vanessa Fielding, its director, of setting it in the Northern Ireland of the past few decades. But it is wrong to mention Brecht in the context of a travesty over which he had no control, and I shall not use his name here again.

It is clear, minutes into the production, that things are going horribly wrong. The Irish idioms and accents are unsettling and the military and police activities range from unconvincing to absurd. Into this uneasy scenario comes Mother Courage with her three grown children, towing her trading cart behind her. She usually bests her customers one way or another, but by the ending - a consummation that takes three hours. Fielding's direction fails to integrate the 12 scenes into a coherent whole, lacks momentum and creates no sense of the passage of time.

A focal point in the production is the performance in the lead of Tyne Daly, the American actress, and she does not have that option. The welcome ending leaves the aftertaste of a poor idea allowed to develop into a worse play.

Runs until June 30; bookings on 01-6777744 or 1890-925100