Author: Heather Keane
Bears in Space – review
Collapsing Horse Theatre Company at Project Arts Centre
The DU Players heavy collective are bringing their puppetry magic back to Project Arts Centre this July. Continue reading Collapsing Horse Theatre Company at Project Arts Centre
Plays for Days
Heather Keane gives theatre buffs a few ideas as to how to spend their summer despite the absence of 10 Days in Dublin. Continue reading Plays for Days
Review: Sive // Abbey Theatre
WORDS Heather Keane The Abbey Theatre’s new season shall be under fierce scrutiny following reports that have shaken the country’s faith in the recipient of over half of all Ireland’s Arts Council funding. The national theatre has opened this Spring with … Continue reading Review: Sive // Abbey Theatre
Dil-do’s and Don’ts
WORDS Heather Keane ILLUSTRATION Graham Haught You’re kissing in the taxi. Giggling as he fumbles with the keys. Making sure you’ve got his name right as he races you up the stairs. The room is bare, there’s a chest … Continue reading Dil-do’s and Don’ts
Review: A Skull In Connemara // Gaeity Theatre
WORDS Heather Keane With a playbill that boasts “the acclaimed writer & director of In Bruges & Seven Psychopaths”, the Gaeity’s audience is assumed to have an already fond relationship with A Skull in Connemara’s author. Decadent Theatre’s production of … Continue reading Review: A Skull In Connemara // Gaeity Theatre
Review: Time’s Laughingstocks
WORDS: Heather Keane and Benedict Shegog Time’s Laughingstocks takes its epigraphs from both the Victorian realist Thomas Hardy and the wise-cracking comedian Groucho Marx. This dichotomy will prepare the reader well for Steve Gronert Ellerhoff’s debut novel, one which deals … Continue reading Review: Time’s Laughingstocks
Review: The Hanging Gardens
WORDS: Heather Keane Frank McGuinness’s heartbreaking new play is a beautiful, honest, and deeply entertaining story about the reluctant passing on of a generational torch. It is a literary triumph. Sam Grant (Niall Buggy) is a storyteller. Jane (Barbara Brennan) … Continue reading Review: The Hanging Gardens