Musings In Intermissions
A blog about theatre.
Monday, September 7, 2020
Will I See You There review: Eavesdropping on a touching reunion in a city square
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In this slick play-installation, the audience peers down from above and listens to a chance encounter between friends through headphones.
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Sunday, September 6, 2020
Token Cis review: Some shakily constructed jokes but this comedy material is gold
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Alive to empty symbols of effort, the main parody by this comedy troupe is to give stage time to guest cisgender comics as if they're ...
Sunday, August 23, 2020
The First Pegeen review: Sad forbidden romance in the Celtic Twilight
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In this biographical drama about the Abbey Theatre star, Molly Allgood attends the funeral of her lover John Millington Synge from a distanc...
Monday, August 17, 2020
Solar Bones review: Experimental novel adapted into absurdly random ghost story
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Mike McCormack's novel sees the ghost of a man return to his home on All Soul's Day. Photo: Ste Murray
Sunday, August 9, 2020
The Happy Prince review: Alluring production of Oscar Wilde’s story without the decadent comedown
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The statue of a prince peers into the lives of a city's misfortunate inhabitants, in Oscar Wilde's story for ch ildren.
Thursday, July 9, 2020
Seraglio review: An opera from the lost season reimagined as a daringly modern miniseries
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In Irish National Opera's hands, Mozart's orientalist singspiel loses the arabesques and makes the move to lockdown Dublin.
Friday, July 3, 2020
Binge review: A gleeful performance installation on Zoom where treasured television shows hold life’s answers
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This interactive performance, presented by Cork Midsummer Festival, makes reassuring parallels between the audience's stories and the...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Ulysses review: RTÉ’s staggering 29½-hour radio play of James Joyce’s wild gibberish novel
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In Joyce's story, Leopold Bloom navigates an unhappy marriage and Stephen Dedalus searches to elevate everyday heartache into epic po...
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Exotic v. Baskin review: An operatic riff on a trashy pleasure struggles to tame its subjects
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Carlow Arts Festival's Tiger King -inspired opera sees a showdown between zookeeper Joe Exotic and animal conservationist Carole Bas...
Thursday, June 4, 2020
Black Lives Matter protests: Irish theatre has blindfolded itself to race
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Boy Child , Felispeak's swooning spoken word drama about a man's coming of age in Nigeria, is one play that has felt like a drop ...
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