Saturday, November 22, 2014

Maiden Voyage Dance and Liz Roche Company, 'Neither Either': In Two Places at Once

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Seamus Heaney's 'strain of being in two places at once' inspires this North-South co-production.  Project Arts Centre ...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Amalgamotion Theatre, 'The Lighthouse Keeper': Full Circle

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A daughter becomes her mother's home carer in Ella Daly's new play. But a healthcare system under strain poses challenges. ...

Wildebeest, 'On the Wire': The Sons of Munster March Towards the Somme

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A Limerick soldier returns home from fighting in WWI. Following him inside a crumbling Victorian house to face his psychological trauma...
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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Guna Nua, 'The Unlucky Cabin Boy': Three Sails

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A ship from 1830s Limerick, The Francis Spaight, sails again in Guna Nua's new musical. The demise of an unlucky cabin boy is part of...
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Sunday, November 9, 2014

Abbey Theatre, 'The Waste Ground Party': Community Outreach

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In Shaun Dunne's drama an inner-city Dublin community prepares to celebrate the paving of a waste ground. But in the face of regenera...
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...