Specky doesn’t say much, but is eloquent in movement. Faith Prendergast makes him a pawky little body, squirming with loss and finding release in lurch-and-twitch dance – wild dabbing, air ...

Doherty looks to her family history – Specky Clark was her great-great grandfather, shipped off to Belfast after his mum’s death. In this telling, the grieving mite is taken in by Hinge and Bracket ...

On the night of Samhain, or Celtic Halloween, when the veil between the realms of the living and dead is thinnest, a pig that Specky shot at the abattoir comes back to life.

Specky Clark Abbey Theatre, Dublin ★★★★☆ Words can speak untruths, Oona Doherty believes, but the body never lies. That’s certainly the case in Specky Clark, which the choreographer ...