Saturday, August 30, 2014

The Look of the Diamond

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Promotional art for Vardo . Having 'the look of the Diamond' has given Louise Lowe a sense of permission to make the Monto Cycle ...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Sugarglass Theatre, 'Five Minutes Later': Disconnect Four

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Temporal relationships are the focus of Ellen Flynn's debut play. Can four individuals connect in a hyper-connected world?  The Lir...
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Saturday, August 23, 2014

Abbey Theatre, 'Heartbreak House': Christened After Tennyson

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100 years after the outbreak of the Great War, do we still live in the world of Shaw's play -  where society drifts towards destructi...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

Lyric Theatre, Punk Rock: Teenage Kicks

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Under Selina Cartmell's moshing and incisive direction, it slowly becomes a question of who is the loose trigger in Simon Stephens...
Saturday, August 2, 2014

City Bridge Transforms Into Harp as Fringe Festival Invokes Classical Myths

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Dublin Fringe opens with Ulysses Opera Company's HARP | A River Cantata - an outdoor performance about the Harp of Dagda. Paint...
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...