Considering its brief run, from the 21st to the 24th of June, I was delighted to have been able to catch Happy Days in the 3Olympia. Not only to see a Beckett play live, but also to see Siobhán McSweeney … Continue reading Happy Days: A Review of Samuel Beckett’s play in the 3Olympia Theatre Directed by Caitríona McLaughlin
Photography by Ruth Medjber. Haunted by Tara Flynn Haunted is an endearing and honest show. Tara Flynn shows herself to be not only a competent and agile solo performer, but also a wonderful storyteller. From her smooth transitions from … Continue reading A Double Bill Review of Tara Flynn and Pantibliss in the Abbey Theatre Tara Flynn shows herself to be a competent and agile solo performer, Panti Bliss is iconic as ever
●●●●○ Before is the latest installment from Pat Kinevane and Fishamble Theatre Company, the team that brought us Forgotten, Underneath and the Olivier Award-winning Silent. Before tells the story of Pontius, “after the Pilot fella,” a middle-aged man from the … Continue reading Before – Fishamble Company – Civic Theatre // review
OXBO is brought to you by TCD alumni Lisa Nally and Jennifer Aust. They’re making shows they want to make with people they want to work with. They want you to enjoy yourself. It’s a little sexy, a little weird, … Continue reading Scene + Heard – OXBO Interview Amyrose Forder interviews the Trinity alums behind OXBO Theatre
Larissa Brigatti catches up with the playwrights Fintan Brady and John Patrick Higgins and the director Emma Jordan ahead of Project Arts Centre opening. Prime Cut Productions, under the artistic direction of Emma Jordan, has announced the one-man shows double … Continue reading Prime Cut Productions presents East Belfast Boy & Every Day I Wake Up Hopeful
●●●○○ The Bear by Anton Chekhov, presented by Judder Theatre Company and directed by Shaun Elbert, ran in Doyle’s Bar from 30th January to 2nd February. The famous short-story writer and influential modernist playwright wrote several short “farce-vaudevilles”, including this … Continue reading The Bear // REVIEW
●●●●● Waiting in the Abbey’s lobby before the show, I am struck by the diversity of this audience. While still a female majority attending, there are far more than a few ‘token’ men, and the age range spans from the … Continue reading The Abbey’s Asking For It // REVIEW
●●●● The Lost O’Casey takes its inspiration from a forgotten Sean O’Casey play, Nannie’s Night Out, performed at the Abbey Theatre only once in 1924. O’Casey’s subject matter is forcefully thrust onto the streets of contemporary inner city Dublin with … Continue reading The Lost O’Casey // REVIEW This stunning production, inspired by a forgotten O’Casey play and leaning into contemporary social issues should not be missed.
●●●●○ The Playboy of the Western World, written by John Millington Synge, was first performed in the Abbey Theatre in 1907. Ireland was still under English rule, thoughts of rebellion were beginning to rumble, and many felt that Synge’s choice … Continue reading The Playboy of the Western World // REVIEW Dlr Mill Theatre | Directed by Kate Canning
●●●○○ Martin McDonagh’s The Lonesome West ran until the 25th of August in the Everyman Theatre, Cork. Directed by Julie Kelleher, it is the final play in McDonagh’s debut Leenane trilogy, but can be enjoyed without having seen the preceding … Continue reading The Lonesome West // review
●●●●○ 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.
●●●○○ To say that director Bisi Adigun loves JM Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World would be an understatement. Ten years after premiering his version of The Playboy of the Western World in the Abbey Theatre, he has released … Continue reading Adigun Offers “An Other Playboy…???” To say that director Bisi Adigun loves JM Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World” would be an understatement.