●●●●● ‘Not to die. And above all not to die.’ Sopro, written and directed by Tiago Rodrigues, was a performance from Lisbon, Portugal which took place at the Dublin Theatre Festival, O’Reilly Theatre. It portrayed the deconstruction of theatre on … Continue reading Dublin Theatre Festival: Sopro//Review
●●●●○ Hecuba was performed in the Project Arts Centre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival and directed by Lynne Parker, who had directed The Trojan Women many years ago. Hecuba was the wife of King Priam during the Trojan … Continue reading Hecuba // Review
●●●●● How do you picture your burger? Sandwiched between two buns? Perhaps it will be served in a neat cardboard box for leisurely consumption elsewhere. Or maybe it will not be consumed at all, but thrown. This is what Travis … Continue reading BURGERZ// Review Originally Published in Print November 2019
●●●●● Beckett’s Room was an experimental high art co-production work by Dead Centre and The Gate Theatre. The audience members go to their seats and are asked to put headphones on, while there is an immense projection of an eye … Continue reading Beckett’s Room// Review Reimagining Beckett’s room and restoring the meaning of magic in theatre.
●●●●● Richard III is a play written by William Shakespeare in 1593 about Richard III, who was King of England for just two years, from 1483 until the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, where he died. He had usurped … Continue reading Richard III // reviewed Richard III returns in Druid Shakespeare’s latest production
●●●○○ ELIZA’s Adventures in the Uncanny Valley was written by Eugene O’Brien and Gavin Quinn, and was performed in the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin and produced by Pan Pan Theatre. The play explores the combination of technology and … Continue reading Eliza’s Adventures in the Uncanny Valley // REVIEW
●●●●○ The Misfits is a novella written by Arthur Miller and was an adapted movie directed by John Huston, starring Montgomery Clift, Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, in 1961. Corn Exchange’s annual Dublin Theatre Festival version was successfully directed by … Continue reading The Misfits // REVIEW
●●●○○ Gina Moxley’s Dublin Theatre Festival 2018 outing is about as newfangled as DTF gets. The Patient Gloria takes heed from The Gloria Tapes, three different approaches to psychotherapy filmed in 1960s California. These three films involve one patient, Gloria, … Continue reading The Patient Gloria // review There are certainly worse ways to spend an evening than laughing about male genitals in an audience full of (mainly) women.
●●●●○ Rough Magic’s new production of Joyce’s seminal novel teeters on triumph. After the success of Joyce adaptations on stage in recent years – including the Abbey’s productions of The Dead and Ulysses – it is no surprise that the … Continue reading Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man // REVIEWED Amyrose Forder looks at Rough Magic’s recent staging of a James Joyce classic.
Oscar-nominated actress Ruth Negga returns to the Irish stage this autumn to tackle the title role in a gender-bending production of Hamlet for the Gate Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Negga has come a long way from … Continue reading The play’s the thing Trinity alumna Ruth Negga heads to the Gate Theatre in time for Michaelmas Term
Another day, another dawn in Dublin city. The evening’s fog has dissipated under the sun’s warmth, residual puddles are trampled under busy feet en route to work, school, and most importantly, to the Box Office Opening of the first ever … Continue reading 60th Anniversary Dublin Theatre Festival Thinkpiece
●●●●○ Druid’s King of the Castle highlights geographical, historical and psychological boundaries. The playwright, Eugene McCabe, lived around the geographical boundaries of Fermanagh and Monaghan; he naturally represented their society on stage – scenery, clothes, accent, traditions, drinks and economy. … Continue reading King of the Castle conquers the Gaiety Theatre Eugene McCabe’s modern Irish take on classic Greek tragedies is utterly “captivating”, writes Larissa Brigatti.