Friday, October 31, 2014

Ether Productions, 'The Locked Room': Flown Away With the Circus

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Two circus performers wake up with amnesia inside a locked room. For Ether Productions, the only way is up. Project Arts Centre Oct...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Celebrating Stoker by Interrupting the Ordinary

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Macnas return to Dublin for the Bram Stoker Festival  and the scale of the performance is epic.  You'd think it was an ordinary da...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Blue Raincoat, 'The Playboy of the Western World': Going to the Dogs

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The stifling realism of Synge's play prompted riots at its 1907 premiere. What happens when Blue Raincoat take The  Playboy of the We...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Lyric Theatre, 'Pentecost': Historical Days in Lilliput

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Director Jimmy Fay lays the symbolism a bit thick in his staging of Stewart Parker's play but its final scene is transcendent. Ly...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Fishamble, 'Spinning': Modern Family

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The truth of contemporary family life is on Deirdre Kinahan's mind. However, the line between rationality and irrationality feels pro...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Abbey Theatre, 'Our Few and Evil Days': Boy Who Cried Wolf

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The artful surface of Mark O'Rowe's play leaves us suspecting throughout. Things are not what they seem. Abbey Theatre, Dubli...
Saturday, October 4, 2014

Gate Theatre, 'The Mariner': Off a Duck's Back

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Can Hugo Hamilton's play plunge the depths of the great silence that Irish men brought home from WWI?  Gate Theatre, Dublin T...
Friday, October 3, 2014

Brokentalkers, 'Frequency 783': Future Forecasting

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Do you like to think about the future? In Brokentalkers' new production, an elderly performer envisions utopia while a younger perfor...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

Pan Pan, 'The Seagull and Other Birds': Avant Garde a Clue

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The artist in Chekov's  The Seagull desperately searches for new art forms. Pan Pan's strategy for success is a fray of colliding...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

The Corn Exchange, 'A Girl is a Half-formed Thing': Pieces of a Whole

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Eimear McBride's boldly original novel has become a literary phenomenon. How can The Corn Exchange adapt it for the stage? Sa...