Thursday, February 27, 2014

WillFredd Theatre, 'CARE': For More Than Just a Day

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WillFredd's mindful production is a sincere portrayal of palliative care and its mixing of medicine and mirth. Project Arts Centr...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Gate Theatre, 'The Vortex': The Hostess With the Mostess

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Noël Coward said that his plays should foremost entertain the audience. Can Annabelle Comyn get  The Vortex to sing a more provoking not...
Monday, February 17, 2014

Lyric Theatre, 'Molly Sweeney': Seeing the Light

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Abigail Graham makes a picturesque production out of Friel's lowly play. Lyric Theatre, Belfast Feb 8-Mar 8 My review of M...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Danú Theatre and ORion Productions, 'Breathless'

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John MacKenna's play about disappeared women is impressively revived by two headstrong producers. Smock Alley Theatre Feb 3-15 I...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Katie O'Kelly, 'Counter Culture': Money Makes the World Go Round

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A jaunty solo performance about workers in a fictional Clerys-type department store in Dublin resonates with the 1913 centenary.  The N...

MIRARI Productions, 'In Dog Years I'm Dead': Thirty Old Town

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In Kate Heffernan's brilliant comedy two unfulfilled individuals try to take control of their lives as they stand on the threshold of...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

Dragging and Derealising the World Onstage

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Miss Bunny (left) and Panti Bliss (right) in promotional art for The Panti Show. A nation tunes in to watch a drag queen on television ...
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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 ...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Painted Filly and Sugarglass, 'The Brothers Karamazov': Of Vice And Men

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An intimate adaptation by actor/director Nicholas Johnson locates the heartbeat of Dostoevsky's epic novel.  Samuel Beckett The...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Druid, 'The Colleen Bawn': Spake It, Don't Spray It

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Druid's revival of the Boucicault classic reminds us what is needed to pull out all the stops for the pronounced theatrical form: the...