Showing posts with label Dublin Theatre Festival 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dublin Theatre Festival 2014. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Fishamble, 'Spinning': Modern Family

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The truth of contemporary family life is on Deirdre Kinahan's mind. However, the line between rationality and irrationality feels pro...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Abbey Theatre, 'Our Few and Evil Days': Boy Who Cried Wolf

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The artful surface of Mark O'Rowe's play leaves us suspecting throughout. Things are not what they seem. Abbey Theatre, Dubli...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

Gate Theatre, 'The Mariner': Off a Duck's Back

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Can Hugo Hamilton's play plunge the depths of the great silence that Irish men brought home from WWI?  Gate Theatre, Dublin T...
Friday, October 3, 2014

Brokentalkers, 'Frequency 783': Future Forecasting

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Do you like to think about the future? In Brokentalkers' new production, an elderly performer envisions utopia while a younger perfor...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

Pan Pan, 'The Seagull and Other Birds': Avant Garde a Clue

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The artist in Chekov's  The Seagull desperately searches for new art forms. Pan Pan's strategy for success is a fray of colliding...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

The Corn Exchange, 'A Girl is a Half-formed Thing': Pieces of a Whole

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Eimear McBride's boldly original novel has become a literary phenomenon. How can The Corn Exchange adapt it for the stage? Sa...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

ANU Productions, 'Vardo': Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect €200

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The concluding chapter of ANU's Monto Cycle brings 100 years of history full circle. Photo: Patrick Redmond. Oonagh Young Gallery, ...
Friday, September 19, 2014

Druid, 'Bailegangaire': Drawing Wisdom From the Fire

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The 1984 premiere of Bailegangaire has been passed on like a folktale by those who saw it. Alongside the new prequel Brigit , will Garry ...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Druid, 'Brigit': What the Oak Meant

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30 years ago Tom Murphy conveyed the mythic timelessness of Irish storytelling in Bailegangaire . The new prequel Brigit   sees the playw...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

The Look of the Diamond

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Promotional art for Vardo . Having 'the look of the Diamond' has given Louise Lowe a sense of permission to make the Monto Cycle ...