Tag: 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: 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
Auto-question Originally Published in Print April 2019
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
Fish: Four Forms Fish is fast. We all live very fast. Here are four flash formulas for fleeting eating.
Fish in a curl Use Dublin Bay prawns. Not the ones flown in from the Pacific. That would be treason. Buying them frozen is fine — when fresh they go smelly very quickly. Decide how many you can afford, and … Continue reading Fish: Four Forms Fish is fast. We all live very fast. Here are four flash formulas for fleeting eating.
“The Road to Mandalay” is Long The title of the film is borrowed from Rudyard Kipling’s 1890 eponymous love poem, an apt reference as both works tell the story of men and women braced against a still-standing societal fallacy: one of female dependency. The film, however, makes for a blood-red counter narrative.
●●●●○ The Road to Mandalay is a film that reminds us of the project of life; what it is to build one, what the necessary elements are. It documents the struggle to pick up and hold these pieces of a … Continue reading “The Road to Mandalay” is Long The title of the film is borrowed from Rudyard Kipling’s 1890 eponymous love poem, an apt reference as both works tell the story of men and women braced against a still-standing societal fallacy: one of female dependency. The film, however, makes for a blood-red counter narrative.