Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Ulysses review: RTÉ’s staggering 29½-hour radio play of James Joyce’s wild gibberish novel

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In Joyce's story, Leopold Bloom navigates an unhappy marriage and Stephen Dedalus searches to elevate everyday heartache into epic po...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Exotic v. Baskin review: An operatic riff on a trashy pleasure struggles to tame its subjects

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Carlow Arts Festival's  Tiger King -inspired opera sees a showdown between zookeeper Joe Exotic and animal conservationist Carole Bas...
Thursday, June 4, 2020

Black Lives Matter protests: Irish theatre has blindfolded itself to race

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Boy Child , Felispeak's swooning spoken word drama about a man's coming of age in Nigeria, is one play that has felt like a drop ...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

Howie the Rookie review: A vivid poignant broadcast from Mark O’Rowe’s Dublin underworld

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Glass Mask's streamed theatre production, in conjunction with the Lock Inn, rediscovers the darkness and violence of Mark O'Rowe&...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

Coronavirus arts measures: The Culture Ministry is a carriage waiting to turn into a pumpkin

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Bewley's Café Theatre is the first venue to be seriously impacted by the pandemic. Photo: Bewley's
Thursday, April 30, 2020

We’re in Here review: A sly contemporary play about temporary disconnection and lasting gratitude

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The narratives of a drama facilitator, a counsellor, and a son remembering his mother intermingle in John Doran's consoling new play....
Friday, April 24, 2020

The Little Foxes: Can the flapper generation of the Gate’s plays become the theatre’s playwrights?

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Lillian Hellman in 1976. A revival of her 1939 drama The Little Foxes , now sadly postponed, could signal a new trend for how the Gate ...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Coronavirus arts measures: Politicians like talking art, just not the work involved in making it

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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar aimed for a piece of rhetoric by quoting Seamus Heaney, but when politicians talk about the work involved in makin...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Coronavirus arts measures: The government took an arts policy and made it into a branding strategy

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Last week, Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan launched new arts measures to cope with the pandemic, with €500,000 invested by the depar...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

Irish Times Theatre Awards: The political avant-garde leads the pack, as the sector feels the cold

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The Examination , a sly contemporary play exploring the Irish prison service, wins best production, in a year when the outwardly politica...