Features

Falling in love with acetate, audio-loops and live action

by Rachael Finucane on 03 February 2011

Limerick’s annual performance festival, the Belltable Unfringed, took audiences on a geographical and emotional journey this year. Over five days, it navigated a path through wild woods and teenage crushes, suburban shopping centres and mix-tapes of the heart. Now in its fourteenth year, the eclectic...

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Underground in the mainstream

by Grace Dyas on 27 January 2011

The walls are drenched in gold, subversion and sub-text, we’re underground in the mainstream... We’ve boiled over and you can’t see through the crowd for all the steam. Welcome to the revolution. WERK,Issue One: We Buy Gold.The sky has fallen in. The city above our heads is a dirtier...

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Lofty ambition on a shoestring

by Ciara Peters on 27 January 2011

It was either bravery or foolishness, but whatever it took, Bottom Dog theatre company was established in Limerick city in November 2008, and in April last year it found a home in the Loft Venue, above the Locke Bar on George’s Quay. Co-founders of Bottom Dog, Mike Finn, Myles Breen, Mike Burke...

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The world on their own terms

by Thomas Conway on 20 December 2010

Irish theatre-makers are increasingly directing their attention to theatre as an instrument – one little to be trusted at that – and in 2010, there is no longer a question about whether Irish audiences are up for it. You have only to look to a moment where the performers in Theatreclub Stole...

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The year of living differently

by Peter Crawley on 15 December 2010

Nothing shakes you up like a near death experience. That may be an extreme characterisation of Irish theatre at the beginning of 2010 – but only just. When eleven companies lost funding in February, the outlook for productions, even survival, seemed bleak. In its wake, theatre gradually rallied,...

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A dance into the unknown

by Patrick Lonergan on 14 December 2010

The day after the EU-IMF bailout was announced, I went to see Performance Corporation’s Slattery’s Sago Saga, which was playing for one night only at the Town Hall Theatre in Galway. It’s an adaptation by Arthur Riordan of an unfinished Flann O’Brien novel and, as you’d...

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This is about everything that ever happened

by Grace Dyas on 07 December 2010

This article was meant to be a post-mortem. My reflection on what happened and what that means now. As I write and think about the process, all I want to talk about are the flashes of memories. The moments that shook me. The reasons I had to make this piece. Before we began the actual devising process...

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Bring on the apocalypse – with laughs

by Rachel Andrews on 25 November 2010

Inside University College Cork’s Aula Maxima, on a grey and rainy Saturday, ‘the Priest’ is rehearsing his lines for the forthcoming production of Cork’s World Theatre, an apocalyptic parable about man, nature and the end of the world. “You shitheads,” he tells his...

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A new beginning for Limerick’s cultural landmark

by Rachael Finucane on 25 November 2010

Limerick's Belltable Arts Centre has played as many parts as the performers treading its boards over the years. The former Georgian terraced house at number 69 O’Connell Street has been a shirt factory, a make-shift opera house, Amharclann na Féile, a community hall and a cinema. But after two...

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From bite-sized theatre to international co-production

by Caomhan Keane on 18 November 2010

Every venue on the Irish theatrical horizon has a remit, whether officially acknowledged or not. Bewley's Café Theatre in Dublin is home to the lunchtime show, where the one-act matinee comes with soup and brown bread, filling one’s stomach as well as satisfying a thirst for drama. For the past...

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