The Gaiety Theatre, Ulster Bank Dublin
Theatre Festival
Oct 13-15
Unfortunately I’m
again pressed for time and can’t write in detail on The Wild Bride. All I’ll
say is that amongst the postmodern back-flips of the German companies and the
social histories that our homegrown artists are illuminating, The Wild Bride sits triumphantly as the
festival’s international visitor and king of folk theatre. The virtuosic performances of Kneehigh give us
a blues-infused fairytale that is funny, inventive, beautiful and disturbing. Highly
recommended.
Other
commitments are limiting my writing time (I’ll explain once I get the chance)
but expect a thorough piece on Laundry by the end of the week and
also something on She She Pop and Gob Squad.
Meanwhile,
conversation is dry at the Festival Water Cooler (!). Let me know what you’ve
seen, what you thought, etc. Was Peer Gynt too chaotic for its own good? Did anyone find out where Camille O’Sullivan
disappeared to at the end of The Lulu House? Were critics too easy on Testament?
Is Marina Carr in trouble? What can we do with the truths Trade, The Blue Boy and Laundry have given us? Did you cry at
She She Pop? Tell me all.
What did
everybody else think of The Wild Bride?
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