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DTF17’s “Radio Rosario” at the Axis Theatre, Ballymun “If love is losing what are you going to do? Start hating just so you can be on the winning side?”

●●●●○ “Tell me love is winning…” Valve Hegarty makes his living by recording radio advertisements, but he is a singer at heart. “If I don’t sing I get sick,” he tells us. Performed as a one-man show by Little John … Continue reading DTF17’s “Radio Rosario” at the Axis Theatre, Ballymun “If love is losing what are you going to do? Start hating just so you can be on the winning side?”

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Aeschylus’ “Suppliant Women” Flee to the Dublin Theatre Festival It is not war, poverty, or violence they are fleeing - they are seeking escape from men.

●●●○○   The Suppliant Women, Aeschylus’ 2500 year old play (reimagined by acclaimed playwright David Greig) tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaos fleeing Egypt for asylum in the Greek city-state of Argos. It is not war, poverty, … Continue reading Aeschylus’ “Suppliant Women” Flee to the Dublin Theatre Festival It is not war, poverty, or violence they are fleeing – they are seeking escape from men.

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DTF: The Mariner – 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