Musings In Intermissions

A blog about theatre.

Sunday, September 29, 2019

Pasolini’s Salò Redubbed review: A notorious film becomes an overwhelming mirror up to Ireland’s past

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Dylan Tighe's bold adaptation transposes  Salò from Italy to the early decades of the Irish state, an era when alliances were hatched...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

Mám review: A dance through Ireland’s subconscious without any coherent point

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Michael Keegan-Dolan's new dance resembles scenes from a dramatic community gathering, but its nostalgia doesn't make it complete...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Beckett’s Room review: Samuel Beckett and Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil’s touching story of survival

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This miraculous play without performers takes us to Nazi-occupied Paris, and the source of Samuel Beckett's storytelling. Photo: Kyle...
Saturday, September 21, 2019

Incantation review: Misty performance art about intergenerational trauma

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Maïa Nunes, an artist of Irish-Trinidadian descent, connects to her forebears in this performance art. Photo: Alan Gilsenan

Sorry Gold review: An intoxicating and profound aerial epic

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  Emily Aoibheann's extraordinary aerial dance brings us from the heights of civilisation to its wreckage.  Photo: Eoin Kirwan  ...
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Thursday, September 19, 2019

Some Names Were Changed review: Fiction brings us closer to the truth in this cluttered documentary play

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In Ross Dungan and Ronan Phelan's new interactive play, the audience help tell the story of a married couple. Photo:  Patricio Cassin...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Fetch review: Superb art-horror installation about impending disaster

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Two strangers meet onboard a flight in this installation, presented inside a shipping container. Photo: Paula Trojner
Saturday, September 14, 2019

Pretty Feelings review: A magnificent surreal comedy about the art of love

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The goddess Venus is the director of a match-making agency in this ebullient production. 
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Sink review: A play excavating two women's lives and discovering too little

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An archaeologist digs up a bog body in John O'Donovan's new play, but ends up uncovering the trauma of another woman. Photo: Ke...
Monday, September 9, 2019

Bodies of Water review: An arty play-installation but a shallow exploration of grief

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A curator holds a retrospective of her missing partner's artwork in this new play-installation.
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