Image: Aisling Crabbe Lazarus is a show that has confounded any and all expectations since its debut in New York Theatre Workshop in the winter of 2015. Its initial announcement was met with equal amounts of incredulity and excitement: David … Continue reading Theatrical Weather: Bowie’s Musical
Dylan Coburn Gray graduated from Trinity with a Music degree in 2014, and is already one of Ireland’s most prolific young playwrights. His play Boys & Girls was performed during the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2013, where it was nominated … Continue reading Dylan Coburn Gray
Amelia McConville speaks to Jessica Aquila Cymerman, director of the Irish Premiere of Neil LaBute’s Reasons To Be Pretty, which runs in Smock Alley Theatre from 13th – 17th December. Tickets can be purchased here. What is Reasons To Be … Continue reading Interview with Jessica Aquila Cymerman, director of Reasons To Be Pretty
Featured image: “Often Onstage” by Figs in Wigs. Amelia McConville and Amyrose Forder speak to Cian O’Brien, Artistic Director of Project Arts Centre, about Project 50, a season of work celebrating the 50th anniversary of the stalwart Temple Bar cultural … Continue reading PROJECT 50: Interview with Cian O’Brien, Artistic Director of Project Arts Centre
The Remains of Maisie Duggan is currently showing at the Abbey Theatre. Theatre editors Amelia McConville and Amyrose Forder spoke to actress Rachel O’Byrne, who plays Kathleen, about the show. Can you tell us more about this show? The … Continue reading The Remains of Maisie Duggan: Interview with Rachel O’Byrne
Amelia McConville speaks with legendary performer Valda Setterfield and renowned director John Scott in advance of the three day run of ‘LEAR’ in the Samuel Beckett Theatre (22-24 October). Can you tell us a little about the show’s history? … Continue reading Lear: Interview with Valda Setterfield & John Scott
MADE UP, written by Aoife Leonard and produced by the Fast Food Collective, completed its most recent performance at Electric Picnic this summer, after being performed at a number of different festivals in Ireland over the past … Continue reading Jumble: TCD Graduate Spotlight, Aoife Leonard & The Fast Food Collective
★★★★★ ANU & Cois Céim *Extended run: 25th Oct – 13th Nov* Sept 27 – Oct 16th 85/86 Upper Dorset St Dublin Theatre Festival These Rooms, a collaborative endeavour of ANU Productions and Cois Céim, is an immersive theatrical … Continue reading These Rooms – review
●●●●● Dylan Coburn Gray Tiger Dublin Fringe The New Theatre At one point during the production of Briseis After The Black, Dylan Coburn Gray asks his volunteer actor (on the night I attended, the brilliant Amy Conroy) to play a … Continue reading Briseis After the Black- review
Amelia McConville speaks with Jane Deasy, director & composer of Kaperlak, a music theatre piece featuring texts from Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath. The show ran in the Pearse Centre as part of the Tiger … Continue reading Interview with Jane Deasy, director & composer of Kaperlak
These Rooms is a collaboration between ANU and Cois Céim Dance Theatre. It will run as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival throughout October and for select dates in November. Amelia McConville spoke to actor Craig Connolly about the show. … Continue reading DTF: Interview with Craig Connolly, actor in THESE ROOMS
●●●●○ Malaprop Theatre Tiger Dublin Fringe Studio One, The Lir Academy BlackCatfishMusketeer takes place in a strange space. Its two protagonists never meet face to face, yet develop a deep, possibly romantic, connection – all within the domain of a … Continue reading BlackCatfishMusketeer – review