JONATHAN Ryder's play examines Tone's career in revisionist mode. Ryder plays the eponymous hero and John Hickey provides a multitude of foils, through some deft telegrammatic characterisation.

The language rattles uneasily between the 1790s and the 1990s the presentation is minimalist and resourceful lots of business with hats and ventriloquist's heads. Tone comes across as a bungling idealist who finally lands a heroic role in history. The location for the performance, the Protestant chapel of the prison, is affectingly, chillingly apt.