Woman on the Fringe Fringe Festival Director Ruth McGowan chats to TN2

Ruth McGowan is the new festival director of Dublin Fringe Festival, which takes over Dublin City from Sep 8 – 23, for 16 days and nights. Ruth talks to TN2 about this year’s festival, gender balance in the arts industry … Continue reading Woman on the Fringe Fringe Festival Director Ruth McGowan chats to TN2

Come To His Assistance: Philip Connaughton Interviewed Connaughton's Assisted Solo will be featured in the Dublin Fringe Festival

Amongst the throng of shows about to descend on the capital for the annual Dublin Fringe Festival is acclaimed choreographer-performer Philip Connaughton’s latest piece Assisted Solo. Alongside longtime collaborator Lucia Kickham and French punk dance artist Magali Caillet, the show … Continue reading Come To His Assistance: Philip Connaughton Interviewed Connaughton’s Assisted Solo will be featured in the Dublin Fringe Festival

Come On Home at the Peacock  // Review “Memory lane is a fucking dual carriageway” for Come on Home’s troubled family.

●●●●○ Set the scene: a Monday evening in grey, dreary Dublin. It’s lashing rain, your tummy is full post-Bunsen Burger. What better time could be afforded to watching a play set around a wake? In keeping with the Abbey’s prominence … Continue reading Come On Home at the Peacock  // Review “Memory lane is a fucking dual carriageway” for Come on Home’s troubled family.

March’s Dublin Theatre Co Pick: THISISPOPBABY THISISPOPBABY specialise in festival performance, and have featured at Electric Picnic Music and Arts Festival, and Queer Notions Festival at Project Arts Centre.

Who They Are: THISISPOPBABY are a formidable Dublin-based theatre and performance ensemble. Through their electric, colourful, and multi-disciplinary productions, they have toured the world, showcasing Dublin Theatre’s finest quality: brilliant storytelling. Their show RIOT smashed Dublin Fringe Festival records in … Continue reading March’s Dublin Theatre Co Pick: THISISPOPBABY THISISPOPBABY specialise in festival performance, and have featured at Electric Picnic Music and Arts Festival, and Queer Notions Festival at Project Arts Centre.

Look Back in Anger @ The Gate is anger at its finest Theatre Editor Amyrose Forder reviews The Gate's continuing foray into dark themes of misogyny and abuse.

Before the production of John Osborne’s seminal piece Look Back In Anger had even began, the anticipation in the Gate Theatre was rife with opening night anticipations. It is a play famed for coining the term “angry young man”, a … Continue reading Look Back in Anger @ The Gate is anger at its finest Theatre Editor Amyrose Forder reviews The Gate’s continuing foray into dark themes of misogyny and abuse.

Dublin’s Blue Raincoat Theatre Company Theatre Editor, Amyrose Forder, picks the Blue Raincoat Theatre Company for January's instalment of Dublin's Theatre Companies.

Who They Are: Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, founded in Sligo 27 years ago, are Ireland’s longest running Theatre Company. Alongside the upkeep of their performance space The Factory, the team produces several shows each year, interweaving new writing with adaptations … Continue reading Dublin’s Blue Raincoat Theatre Company Theatre Editor, Amyrose Forder, picks the Blue Raincoat Theatre Company for January’s instalment of Dublin’s Theatre Companies.

Project Pop Up – A theatre restaurant with a tasting menu of performances Theatre Editor Amyrose Forder previews an alternative to the Christmas pantomime.

After the hullabaloo of theatre festival season between August and October, the winter months can often see pantomimes and nineteenth century literary adaptations take refuge in Dublin theatres. This year’s cream of the crop include the Abbey’s Let The Right … Continue reading Project Pop Up – A theatre restaurant with a tasting menu of performances Theatre Editor Amyrose Forder previews an alternative to the Christmas pantomime.

Three great writers. Three great pieces of writing. Three one – man shows. Trilogy: The State of Us was a powerful collection of three shows by Peter Duffy in the Smock Alley Theatre this month.

The Great Hunger Amyrose Forder  On a cold, crisp November evening, Smock Alley’s wonderful setting of the Boys’ School theatre was my refuge of choice, here to see a production of Patrick Kavanagh’s The Great Hunger. It is the first … Continue reading Three great writers. Three great pieces of writing. Three one – man shows. Trilogy: The State of Us was a powerful collection of three shows by Peter Duffy in the Smock Alley Theatre this month.

Aeschylus’ “Suppliant Women” Flee to the Dublin Theatre Festival It is not war, poverty, or violence they are fleeing - they are seeking escape from men.

●●●○○   The Suppliant Women, Aeschylus’ 2500 year old play (reimagined by acclaimed playwright David Greig) tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaos fleeing Egypt for asylum in the Greek city-state of Argos. It is not war, poverty, … Continue reading Aeschylus’ “Suppliant Women” Flee to the Dublin Theatre Festival It is not war, poverty, or violence they are fleeing – they are seeking escape from men.

Dublin Fringe Festival: “The Friday Night Effect” at Smock Alley Three young housemates, Jamie, Sive and Collette, embark on a night out in Dublin. We know from the beginning that Colette will be dead by the end of the night.

●●●○○ Dublin’s Fringe Festival is a safe space to test the murky waters of audience participation in theatre. Towards the end of what has been a stellar festival of exploration, Smock Alley’s audience felt decidedly content and enthusiastic. The creators … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: “The Friday Night Effect” at Smock Alley Three young housemates, Jamie, Sive and Collette, embark on a night out in Dublin. We know from the beginning that Colette will be dead by the end of the night.