Sunday, July 27, 2014

Landmark Productions, 'Ballyturk': Everything We Thought We Knew

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The affect of watching Enda Walsh's play is to feel certainty of time and place constantly slip away. Will we ever find our way bac...
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Friday, July 25, 2014

Druid, 'Be Infants in Evil'

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Playwright Brian Martin's professional debut is an ambitious approach to a heavily stigmatised subject.  Mick Lally Theatre, Galw...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Moonfish Theatre, 'Star of the Sea': While the World Was Quietly Dying

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Moonfish mast the sail with invention to spare in this reimagining of Joseph O'Connor's famine ship novel. Photo: Marta Barciko...

Anam Theatre, 'Low Level Panic': Everyday Sexism

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Claire McIntyre's Low Level Panic debuted in 1988. Anam's production has us consider how sexism has changed since. The New Th...
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...