Author: Holly Moore
Dublin Fringe Festival: Nate // Review How to be a hard man
●●●●○ Natalie Palamide’s Nate is about a ‘hard man’ called Nate. Palamides plays Nate and through the course of the show takes us through the motions and operations of her character’s life and worldview. This begins with Nate’s entry upon … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Nate // Review How to be a hard man
Dublin Fringe Festival: Sauce // Review
●●●●● Set in an unnamed South Dublin town, Sauce was a show about two of the town’s residents: Mella (Ciara Elizabeth Smith), a pathological liar and Maura (Camille Lucy Ross), a well-heeled kleptomaniac married to a personal finance lawyer … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Sauce // Review
Dublin Fringe Festival: Wishful Thinking // Review
●●●○○ Wishful Thinking by Shaunna Lee Lynch of Strive Theatre, was a show about contemporary obsession for ‘positive thinking’, played out through the delicate medium of a grieving family. Siobhán, aged 28 returns home to Cork from London, having failed … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Wishful Thinking // Review
Dublin Fringe Festival: Soup // Review
●●●●○ Soup by transdisciplinary group HEADONBODY was conceived as a “witch’s brew” of performances intended to serve as a “kinetic shrine to a lost parent and a frantic meditation on the process of grief, reaching for a shared catharsis with … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Soup // Review
Dublin Fringe Festival: Sorry Gold // Review
●●●●○ The press release for choreographer Emily Aoibheann’s Sorry Gold posed a question: “If aerial dance is the dance of industrial technology, what will the dance … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Sorry Gold // Review
Dublin Fringe Festival: Comfort Carnival // Review
●●●●● Can a critic review a club night? Is a club night ‘culture’? Isn’t “a night out” to be simply measured on a scale of one-to-oblivion? -Yes, YES, and no! Club Comfort was founded on New Year’s … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Comfort Carnival // Review
Dublin Fringe Festival: CIRCUS // Review CIRCUS asks whose body is acceptable?
Tara Brandel’s show CIRCUS in collaboration with Nigerian street dancer Nicholas Nwosu at Smock Alley Theatre aimed to probe its audience into asking questions of contemporary … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: CIRCUS // Review CIRCUS asks whose body is acceptable?
Dublin Fringe Festival: Birthright // Review
●●●●● Birthright (written by Nadine Flynn) promised to deconstruct power and privilege while challenging the representation of working class Dubliners on stage. It promised to ask “what happens when their catchy colloquialisms and unforgiving audacity are no longer funny?” Within … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Birthright // Review
Dublin Fringe Festival: Swim, Gym, Party // Review Meaning Lost in Myth
●●○○○ Too many cooks spoil the broth. A similar law may apply to the stage: too many ‘creatives’ ruin the show. Gym, Swim, Party, brought to life by a trio of co-directors Louise Lowe, Megan Kennedy, Eddie Kay and ‘creators’ … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Swim, Gym, Party // Review Meaning Lost in Myth
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The term ‘autofiction’ was first used on the backcover of Fils, a 1977 novel by the French writer Serge Doubrovsky. In defining the book as ‘a fiction of strictly real events’, he felt the need to improvise with a neologism … Continue reading Auto-question Originally Published in Print April 2019
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Supermarkets are depressing. The big ones I mean; repetitive isles of uninteresting products, hopelessly packaged in arctic jackets of polythene; lurid packets of cheap sweets; vegetables bland and uniform, too perfectly coloured; pre-prepared packets of dinner death; special offers that … Continue reading Grocery shopping alternatives There are ways to make the mundane things less so…Try Moldova Rathmines