To critique or to comment – Larissa Brigatti Theatre criticism expands across a big spectrum of genres, about which theatre critics write in an analytical and intellectual way, observing what is, sometimes, unnoticeable for the audience members during performances. … Continue reading The Role of a Theatre Critic
Everything I Do is a show written and performed by Zoe Ní Riordáin with direction by Maud Lee as part of One Two, One Two performance company. The performance will be on the 26th-27th of July in the Project Arts … Continue reading Everything I Do// Interview with Zoe Ní Riordáin and Maud Lee
●●●●● La Natura Delle Cose was performed in the Abbey stage for a two-day run from May 14 to 15th as part of the Dublin Dance Festival. It was choreographed and directed by the Florentine artist Virgilio Sieni who was … Continue reading La Natura Delle Cose// Review Florentine artist Virgilio Sieni takes over the Abbey Theatre exploring the poetics of physicality.
Jimmy Murphy is an Irish playwright who is also a member of the Abbey Theatre’s Honorary Advisory Council. His stage plays include: Brothers of the Brush (The Peacock, DTF), The Muesli Belt (The Abbey Theatre), What’s Left of The Flag … Continue reading Jimmy Murphy’s The Seamster’s Daughter Larissa Brigatti catches up with Jimmy Murphy about his new play The Seamster’s Daughter and Aoife O’Sullivan who’s playing Megan.
Lynnette Moran, Festival Director of Live Collision International Festival Lynnette Moran is an independent Arts Producer & Festival Director specialising in Live Art, Theatre, Visual Art and Digital platforms and is bringing Live Collision to the Project Arts Centre, Dublin. … Continue reading Interview with some Live Collision artists
●●●●● Sure Look It, Fuck It was written and performed in the Project Arts Centre by Clare Dunne, who has worked in numerous films and stages such as Druid, Abbey Theatre, St Ann’s Warehouse NY, and The National Theatre London … Continue reading Sure Look It, Fuck It // review THISISPOPBABY returns to the stage with the story of Missy, returning to Dublin completely broke after trying to ‘make it’ in NYC.
●●○○○ I’m Not Here was written, directed, designed and performed by Doireann Coady. This meditative performance was mainly inspired by her brother, Donal, who committed suicide ten years ago. Coady reflected about the decade that passed by and she could … Continue reading I’m Not Here – Project Arts Centre Evoking rituals after the death of a loved one.
●●●●● Dark. Imagine! Alone. In the Dark! Company is a novella by Samuel Beckett published in 1979. The performance was alluringly directed by Sarah Jane Scaife, who is also a professor at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin. The … Continue reading Simply: Company // REVIEW
Every Day I Wake Up Hopeful was written by John Patrick Higgins and directed by Rhiann Jeffrey. The play is a monologue that tells the story of Malachy (performed by Simon O’Gorman), a man who has simply existed, following the … Continue reading Review: East Belfast Boy & Every Day I Wake Up Hopeful
Larissa Brigatti catches up with the playwrights Fintan Brady and John Patrick Higgins and the director Emma Jordan ahead of Project Arts Centre opening. Prime Cut Productions, under the artistic direction of Emma Jordan, has announced the one-man shows double … Continue reading Prime Cut Productions presents East Belfast Boy & Every Day I Wake Up Hopeful
●●●●○ WOMB is an experimental theatre performance which studies a multitude of human experiences such as the housing crisis, individual crisis, mental health, childbirth and women’s rights, as well as environmental issues through the lens of a semi-futuristic perspective– in … Continue reading WOMB: a futurist vision, a contemporary experience
●●●●● Double Cross was written by Thomas Kilroy and directed by Jimmy Fay. The play was premiered in 1986 by Field Day Theatre Company, and recently produced by the Abbey Theatre and Lyric Theatre, Belfast. This play is about the … Continue reading Double Cross // Reviewed