In a review of Samuel Beckett’s Lessness (performed at the Barbican last year) for the Guardian newspaper, the influential London theatre critic, Lyn Gardner described Olwen Fouéré as someone who “would be compelling if she sat doing absolutely nothing at … Continue reading Falling for Fouéré – An Interview with Olwen Fouéré
●●●●○ Patrick Marber’s After Miss Julie reimagines Strindberg’s 1888 play, Miss Julie – arguably his best known work – and transposes its Swedish characters into an English country house on the night of the Labour Party’s landslide 1945 election victory … Continue reading After Miss Julie – Review
●●●●● Devised by Breandán de Gallaí of Riverdance fame, Linger is an emotionally-charged exploration of gay masculinity, identity and ageing. In a story communicated through a combination of traditional Irish and contemporary dance, de Gallaί, alongside dance partner Nick O’Connell, … Continue reading Linger – Review
●●●●● For those unfamiliar with Samuel Beckett’s tumultuous relationship with his homeland, it is easy to imagine him as one of Ireland’s most-loved and respected writers. The Samuel Beckett Bridge, which looms over the Liffey is cast as an homage … Continue reading Lessness – Review
●●●●● From the moment PurpleCoat’s production of Hamlet opened at Smock Alley, it quickly became clear that it was going to be an entirely different take on Shakespeare’s Danish tragedy. Set on a Liverpudlian council estate in the 1980s, projected … Continue reading PurpleCoat’s Hamlet – review
A boy called Leper meets a girl called Chip in a modern inner-city tale of star crossed lovers, house parties and cougars in leopard print fur coats. Continue reading Leper + Chip – review
Set in 1916, Hugo Hamilton’s The Mariner, which is currently running at The Gate Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival, tells the story of Cork man, Peter Shanley – a disgraced and heavily bandaged seafarer who returns home from the Royal Navy after the Battle of Jutland in a play filled with is filled with heart-breaking laments and tragic elegy – ●●●●○ Continue reading DTF: The Mariner – review
Shay Linehan’s one woman play My Name is Alice Devine is an exhaustive Post-Boom exercise in emotion, as Hilda Fay’s portrayal of the grief-stricken Alice is incredibly uncomfortable and morose to watch, while at the same time belly-achingly funny and candid. ●●●●●
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Druid’s haunting production of Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire shows at the Dublin Theatre Festival alongside its newly-written prequel, Brigit, set thirty years previously. Continue reading DTF: Brigit & Bailegangaire review