Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Friday, March 27, 2015

That 'Marry' Is the Very Theme

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Production image of  I ♥ Alice ♥ I  by Amy Conroy (photo: Ruby Washington).  As the nation approaches a referendum on same-sex marriage...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Druid Announces Details of DruidShakespeare

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Two out of three kings have been cast as women: one of several innovative decisions made in Druid's presentation of Shakespeare's...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Abbey Theatre, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream': A Most Rare Vision

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A newly politicised, dreamy and gauzy imagining of Shakespeare's comedy at the Abbey Theatre. Photo: Ros Kavanagh.  Abbey Theatre...
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...
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, 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...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Fay Brings Northern Soul to Lyric, Abbey Premieres New Mark O'Rowe Play

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The Lyric Theatre's new Executive Producer Jimmy Fay to direct Judith Roddy and Carol Moore in a production of Pentecost . The ...
Monday, May 5, 2014

Abbey Theatre, 'Twelfth Night': By the Roses of the Spring

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A modern telling of Shakespeare's comedy might just break new ground. Photo: Ros Kavanagh. Abbey Theatre Apr 30-May 24 ...
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Saturday, February 1, 2014

Siren Productions, 'A Tender Thing': Defying the Stars

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Romeo and Juliet are given the gift of time in Ben Power's reimagining of the Shakespeare classic but will their tragic fates remain ...
Saturday, January 4, 2014

Irish Theatre to See in 2014

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Some plays for your diary ...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

New Tom Murphy Play and Mark O'Rowe's Adaptations of Shakespeare Make Up New Druid Line-Up

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Details yet to surface on the new Tom Murphy play Brigit . Exciting news from  Druid Theatre Company after announcing their next line...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Joss Whedon's 'Much Ado About Nothing': There Was a Star Danced

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After having just described my on-again-off-again relationship with Shakespeare , I find myself discussing the Bard again, this time in J...
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 ...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Corcadorca, ‘The Winter’s Tale’: Godsend

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Cork Opera House Oct 11-22 I managed to catch Corcadorca’s production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale but I don’t have time to ...
Friday, June 3, 2011

Loose Canon, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream?’: Making An Ass of You and Me

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Project Arts Centre, Dublin May 31-Jun 18                 My review of Loose Canon’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream? coming up just as ...
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Second Age, ‘Hamlet’: The Tale of the Two Princes

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Town Hall Theatre, Galway Mar 29-Apr 1 My review of Hamlet coming up just as soon as I beseech you instantly to visit my too much ...
Friday, December 31, 2010

Best of Irish Theatre 2010 #1: Pan Pan, ‘The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane’

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Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin Oct 1-10 Again, if you look through my archive you will find a post on The Rehearsal, Playing the...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Pan Pan, 'The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane': Bins & Arrows

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 The Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival has arrived, and now one must choose from what’s on offer. On one hand you may be lured ...
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