Showing posts with label Beckett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beckett. Show all posts
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Landmark Productions, 'The Walworth Farce': What Are We, If Not Our Stories?

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A father and his sons perform a ramshackle play about their departure from Ireland in Enda Walsh's grotesque drama. Photo: Patrick Re...
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Monday, January 5, 2015

Irish Theatre to See in 2015

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ANU Productions present PALS , an installation based on events surrounding the Irish who fought at Gallipoli in WWI.  Some plays for y...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Company SJ, 'Fizzles': Standing at Western Window

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Beckett's short prose are adapted for performance within a crumbling townhouse. From Sarah Jane Scaife's scrupulous installation,...
Saturday, August 2, 2014

City Bridge Transforms Into Harp as Fringe Festival Invokes Classical Myths

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Dublin Fringe opens with Ulysses Opera Company's HARP | A River Cantata - an outdoor performance about the Harp of Dagda. Paint...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Landmark Productions, 'Ballyturk': Everything We Thought We Knew

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The affect of watching Enda Walsh's play is to feel certainty of time and place constantly slip away. Will we ever find our way bac...
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Saturday, July 5, 2014

BrokenCrow, 'Enter Juliet': If Our Minds Be So

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Abandoned psychiatric patients must mount their own Shakespeare-type play for survival in Ronan Fitzgibbon's dark thriller. Everym...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Emma Martin Dance, 'Tundra': Left Out In the Cold

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Like the Arctic tundra, Emma Martin's dance is mostly shrouded in darkness. Will it shed enough light to lead us anywhere?  Samu...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Dublin Dance Festival Puts Beckett Through His Paces

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Dublin Dance Festival heralds the return of Emma Martin, whose new production  Tundra opens the festival. "Dance first. Think l...
Friday, January 3, 2014

More Irish Theatre Highlights of 2013

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Wayne Jordan's kinetic production of The Threepenny Opera brought movement that is rarely seen on the Gate stage. I already made...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Irish Theatre Top 10 of 2013

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Lloyd Cooney tearing it up in No. 14 Henrietta Street during ANU Productions' marking of the 1913 Lockout centenary. As per the y...
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Monday, December 9, 2013

Souvenirs for the Swindled

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Actor Marcus Lamb and cellist Kim V Porcelli in Men Like Us - an arrangement of three Samuel Beckett plays by  Mouth on Fire Last Fr...
Friday, October 4, 2013

Gare St Lazare Players, 'Waiting for Godot': In This Twilight

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Gaiety Theatre, Dublin Theatre Festival Oct 3-6 My review of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett coming up after the jump ...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Company SJ and Barabbas, 'Rough For Theatre One' & 'Act Without Words II': In Dublin's Fair City

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Meet at the Screen Cinema, Dublin Fringe Festival Sept 14-17 My review of Rough For Theatre One and Act Without Words II by Samue...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Dead Centre, 'LIPPY': Heaven Faced

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LIPPY by DEAD CENTRE is perhaps the most polarising and extraordinary production to premiere at the Dublin Fringe Festival, and (at the l...
Sunday, September 1, 2013

In Beckett the Body is the Thing so Act Without Words

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Promotional art for Company SJ and Barabbas's joint productions of Beckett's Act Without Words II and Rough for Theatre One S...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Pan Pan, 'Embers': The Old Man and the Sea

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Photo: Ros Kavanagh Samuel Beckett Theatre Aug 8-17 My review of Embers by Samuel Beckett coming up just as soon as I carry a...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Theatre Festival Reminds Us of Ireland's International Standing

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Estragon, Vladimir, Pozzo, Lucky and the Boy are back. The Dublin Theatre Festival (Sept 26-Oct 13) line-up was revealed yesterday. ...
Friday, December 2, 2011

Pan Pan, ‘The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane’: Revisited

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Black Box Theatre, Galway Nov 30-Dec 1 I had forgotten how jam-packed The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane is before I went to see it ...