Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Blue Raincoat, 'On Baile's Strand': Lending Names Upon the Harp

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An outdoor performance of Yeats' 1904 play about Cuchulain's madness feels like an old treasure washed ashore.  Cummeen Strand...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

Sugarglass Theatre and Gillen & Belling Productions, 'LAPSE'

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With almost sorcerous sensibility, Sugarglass realise magician Shane Gillen's performance about memory.  Smock Alley Theatre Ju...
Saturday, July 5, 2014

Abbey Theatre, 'Aristocrats': The Big House

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As the walls of Ballybeg Hall crumble in Patrick Mason's staging, you find yourself strangely unsympathetic.  Abbey Theatre Jun...

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...
Friday, July 4, 2014

Sickle Moon Productions, 'TACTICS'

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What starts as a believable examination on prejudices facing women in their professional lives becomes a disjointed murder cover up.   ...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Rough Magic and Opera Theatre Company, 'The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny': Show Me the Money

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An opera satirising opera goes to pained lengths in Lynne Parker's conflicted production. Photo: Ros Kavanagh Olympia Theatre Jun...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Bottom Dog, 'The Bachelor of Kilkish': Living on the Fringe

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Myles Breen's play confronts the lack of acknowledgement of homosexuality in small town Ireland. Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick Ju...
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 ...
Thursday, June 5, 2014

Make Theatre a Part of Your Holidays this Summer

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Ballyturk is looking quite the vacation spot this Summer.  Whether you're hiking the McGillycuddys, sailing off the Causeway or...
Saturday, May 31, 2014

Pan Pan and Irish Modern Dance Company, 'Quad': Crunching the Numbers

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According to Beckett,  Quad can't work onstage. Regardless, Pan Pan and Irish Modern Dance Company do the math on this mysterious s...