Monday, September 7, 2020

Will I See You There review: Eavesdropping on a touching reunion in a city square

 
In this slick play-installation, the audience peers down from above and listens to a chance encounter between friends through headphones. 

Sunday, September 6, 2020

Token Cis review: Some shakily constructed jokes but this comedy material is gold

 
Alive to empty symbols of effort, the main parody by this comedy troupe is to give stage time to guest cisgender comics as if they're doing them a favour. Photo: Shubhangi Karmakar

Sunday, August 23, 2020

The First Pegeen review: Sad forbidden romance in the Celtic Twilight

In this biographical drama about the Abbey Theatre star, Molly Allgood attends the funeral of her lover John Millington Synge from a distance. Photo: Futoshi Sakauchi

Monday, August 17, 2020

Sunday, August 9, 2020

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Friday, July 3, 2020

Binge review: A gleeful performance installation on Zoom where treasured television shows hold life’s answers

This interactive performance, presented by Cork Midsummer Festival, makes reassuring parallels between the audience's stories and the lives of fictional television characters. Photo: Christa Holka

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

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

In Joyce's story, Leopold Bloom navigates an unhappy marriage and Stephen Dedalus searches to elevate everyday heartache into epic poetry

Thursday, June 11, 2020

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

Carlow Arts Festival's Tiger King-inspired opera sees a showdown between zookeeper Joe Exotic and animal conservationist Carole Baskin. 

Thursday, June 4, 2020

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

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 in the ocean in recent years.