Getting straight into it, I think this was a very good play and well worth seeing. Set in Mountjoy Prison, the production isn’t flashy or bold but slow and patient. There is a haunting emptiness to the space created on … Continue reading The Quare Fellow A Review of Brendan Behan’s play in the Abbey Theatre, Directed by Tom Creed.
●●○○○ Never before has the myth of Medea, and her reasons for killing her children, been so poignantly relevant. A brief overview of the Medea tragedy: a woman, Medea, is so angered by her husband Jason’s infidelity that she kills … Continue reading Medea // Review
●●●○○ The New Theatre, located through an archway at the back of socialist bookshop Connolly Books, harks back to speakeasys 1920s New York. But instead of … Continue reading B(l)oom // Review
●●●●○ During the Christmas period, sometimes theatre options in Dublin (that are not pantomime) can be slim. So, the Gate Theatre’s annual Christmas showing is highly anticipated by Christmas revellers and frequent theatre-goers alike. Usually an adaptation of a well-regarded … Continue reading Christmas Carol // Review
●●●●● ‘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
●●●○○ “Four of them are in this room” is a potent statement from Portugese performance artist and collector Raquel Andre, which causes us all to stir in our seats and swivel heads. Recently, Andre has been collecting lovers, 245 to … Continue reading Collection of Lovers// Review Originally Published in Print November 2019
●●●●○ 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
●●●○○ Decorated theatre company Fishamble return with a provocative vision of an Ireland united—with Britain. The Alternative, the latest play to come from the celebrated Irish Theatre company Fishamble, opens with its best gag. A Irish accent comes … Continue reading The Alternative // Review
●●●●○ 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
●●●●● 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