Features

Contemporary Dance on the Move

by Christine Madden on 08 November 2012

When choreographer Fearghus Ó Conchúir was collaborating with conceptual artist Xiao Ke in China, he made an astonishing observation. While the two of them were on stage, he leapt and dashed into all corners of the stage, trying, in his Western way, to fill the space with his presence. He noticed, however,...

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The Talk of the Town: Emma Donoghue, Annabelle Comyn and Maeve Brennan

by Susan Conley on 03 October 2012

The previews were packed out, the run has been extended until 20 October, and it seems that The Talk of The Town has become, well, the talk of the town. Produced by Hatch Theatre Company, Landmark Productions and Dublin Theatre Festival, the play was quite lovingly developed by director Annabelle Comyn,...

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Keeping Everything Completely Alive: Corn Exchange's 'Dubliners'

by Fintan Walsh on 30 August 2012

‘You’re funny on Twitter,’ Annie Ryan tells me towards the end of our conversation, ‘and you wouldn’t have known.’ Having spied on her actors work up a sweat during high-energy rehearsals at Leinster Cricket Club, Rathmines, moments before we meet, I wonder if I too...

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A celebration of Risk, Creativity and Protest: ABSOLUT Fringe comes of age

by Susan Conley on 14 August 2012

From a journalistic perspective, having been around the Dublin Fringe Festival for 14 of its 18 years means having been in many an office space, either to collect reviewing tickets or to interview main players. These offices have run the gamut from gloomy to grotty, and all have had a temporary, don’t-toss-the-packing-boxes-in-the-bin...

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Academia and Professional Theatre: initiatives, partnerships and collaborations

by Jesse Weaver on 10 August 2012

There has arguably always been a connection, however tenuous, between academia and the professional realm of Irish theatre and performance. The university system in Ireland has served in one or another as a kind of rough hewn hatchery of theatre artists and companies, usually through loosely structured...

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The inaugural HAPPY DAYS Enniskillen International Beckett Festival

by Jane Coyle on 03 July 2012

Ask any inveterate arts lover in the north to pick out some of his or her best memories in the theatre over the past couple of decades and the chances are that on the list will be at least one of the following: the magical world of the Philippe Genty Company; Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg’s...

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To try for something extraordinary

by Fintan Walsh on 26 June 2012

Fintan: I first encountered your work in 2003 around the time Blue was performed at Project Arts Centre. There was great excitement about the writing itself, but also about the fact that you were a female writer with Irish and Indian heritage seemed to grab people’s attention. Do you recall how...

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Letting go the desire to express

by Michael Seaver on 02 May 2012

Choreographic primers used to be dull enough reads. Compulsory reading for unimaginatively titled courses, like Dance Composition, they rarely led aspiring choreographers to greatness (although their building-block approach helped many uninspired dancers to scrape through an obligatory course in choreography)....

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Singing Out Your Feelings

by Fintan Walsh on 30 March 2012

Fintan: Wayne, you’re coming straight from rehearsals for Alice in Funderland. How have they been going? Wayne: We’re at a stage now where things are starting to happen very quickly. There’s a lot of material to learn, and now that people know it, things can move more quickly, so that’s...

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It's time to walk the wire

by Phillip McMahon on 27 March 2012

"You get one chance to dance To stand in the fire One shot to explode It’s time to walk the wire" ...is just one set of lyrics to hit the Alice In Funderland rehearsal room floor in an epic culling of text and song this week. Cutting favourite scenes, lines, and in this case...

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