●●●●○ Cuckoo which played in the project arts centre on the 14th and 15th of September as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival was an informative piece of theatre that was also aesthetically pleasing. The set itself, at first glance … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Cuckoo// Review An informative piece of theatre
●●●●● Can a critic review a club night? Is a club night ‘culture’? Isn’t “a night out” to be simply measured on a scale of one-to-oblivion? -Yes, YES, and no! Club Comfort was founded on New Year’s … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Comfort Carnival // Review
Tara Brandel’s show CIRCUS in collaboration with Nigerian street dancer Nicholas Nwosu at Smock Alley Theatre aimed to probe its audience into asking questions of contemporary … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: CIRCUS // Review CIRCUS asks whose body is acceptable?
●●●●● Birthright (written by Nadine Flynn) promised to deconstruct power and privilege while challenging the representation of working class Dubliners on stage. It promised to ask “what happens when their catchy colloquialisms and unforgiving audacity are no longer funny?” Within … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Birthright // Review
●●●●● Summertime (slip&sync) was a 15 minute, very intimate performance in Filmbase studio– as part of the Dublin Fringe Fest. The chosen location of the performance offered a live view of the outside world: the strange and curious eyes who … Continue reading Summertime // REVIEW
●●●●○ Viva Voce is an intimate, meta-theatrical interrogation of the modern concept of mental illness which offers its accessible reevaluation. By using a space and medium the audience is guaranteed to know and love – the very space around them, … Continue reading Viva Voce – with living voice – by word of mouth. // REVIEW
○○○○○ I Used to Feel is a site-specific theatre piece performed in a room in The Marker Hotel under the Dublin Fringe Fest, directed and composed by Ailís Ní Rían. The ideas that underpin the piece are extreme depression, the … Continue reading I Used to Feel // REVIEW
●●●●○ ‘He never does what he sets out to do’ remarks Bobby (Barry Kinsella) as he accompanies a gorilla (Cyle Conley) watching black and white footage of Evel Knieval falling during his iconic jump at Caesar’s palace. ‘Never does what … Continue reading Madhouse // REVIEW
●●●○○ Nineteen years ago Bewley’s Café Theatre opened and began putting on the traditional lunchtime plays that it is famed for. For many years (before it closed for renovation in February 2015) Dubliners flocked in at 12:50pm every day to … Continue reading Ireland’s Call Review – Not the Ireland We Hope For
●●●●○ Heading out of the theatre during the intermission to the Dublin Fringe Festival’s Peaches Christ Superstar, I overheard two women talking. “What? You’re leaving?” “Yeah. I forgot how much I hated these songs. I thought this would be something … Continue reading Don’t Get Me Wrong: Peaches Christ Superstar
●●●●○ Liam Heylin’s original play Lex Talionis is presented by Wandering Star Theatre Company. The play, subtitled “A Tale of Vengeance & Feathers”, follows four Cork-based birds (not women, actual birds, though each is played by a woman) as they … Continue reading Lex Talionis // REVIEW A Tale of Vengeance & Feathers
While Dublin Fringe Festival may be coming to a close, the quality of theatre in these final days remains as high as ever. Seahorse, written and performed by TCD alumna Christiane O’Mahony, is a new, razor-sharp comedy about the anxiety … Continue reading Christiane O’Mahony // TN2 Interview Meet the TCD alumna behind SEAHORSE at Project Arts Centre Cube