Reviews

Freefall by Michael West, in collaboration with the company

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 09 October 2009 6 - 24 October, 2009 in Project Arts Centre, as part of Dublin Theatre Festival

This review is of the original run, in October 2009. For its November 2010 revival at the Abbey Theatre, Declan Conlon replaced Louis Lovett in the cast. Corn Exchange productions are almost always impressive and enthralling, foregrounding their immense dedication to physical precision through the stylised...

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The Blue Dragon by Robert Lepage and Marie Michaud

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 08 October 2009 Oct 7 - 11; 7.30pm in The O'Reilly Theatre

In Robert Lepage’s The Blue Dragon, the Quebec artist at the centre of The Dragons’ Trilogy (1985) is back on stage. While the latter production ended with Pierre Lamontagne (Henri Chassé) going off to study in China, this installment takes places 20 years later, and both Pierre and China...

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Tales of Ballycumber by Sebastian Barry

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 07 October 2009 Sep 30 - Nov 7; 7.30pm in The Abbey Theatre

The Abbey stage is bedecked with daffodils, framed with a cyclorama that reaches up to the flies. The set is almost something out of a fairytale, with the interior of a house suggested by a chimney that reaches up into the seemingly infinite space above our heads. The characters of Sebastian Barry’s...

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The Pitmen Painters by Lee Hall, inspired by the book by William Feaver

Reviewed by Harry Browne on 06 October 2009 6 - 10 October, 2009 in Gaiety Theatre, Dublin

“Men make their own history, but not under conditions of their own making.” It’s hard for me to not like a play where a handful of the punchlines have been scripted by Karl Marx. And for a reviewer who has spent several hours in recent weeks in the company of Pan Pan and the Performance...

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To Be Straight With You by Lloyd Newsom

Reviewed by Michael Seaver on 03 October 2009 30 September - 3 October 2009 in O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College

It has been twenty-one years since DV8 created Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men, a reaction to the UK’s Clause 28, which prohibited local councils from “promoting” homosexuality. Based on Dennis Nilsen, a serial killer who murdered and butchered fifteen gay men, it was the film version...

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No Worst There Is None by The Stomach Box

Reviewed by Helen Meany on 02 October 2009 1 October - 7 October 2009 in Newman House

A row of nooses, a blood-drenched flag, dead animals, and, what’s that dismembered organ, a heart? A sacred heart? With Gothic relish, The Stomach Box have turned the nooks and stairwells of Newman House into a site of hauntings and symbolic tableaux. By the time we’ve passed the seated horse-headed...

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The Crumb Trail by Pan Pan

Reviewed by Harry Browne on 30 September 2009 29 September - 4 October 2009 in Project Arts Centre

Talk about your Brechtian estrangement: in the opening minutes of The Crumb Trail, before the members of the cast have even got around to introducing themselves to the audience by their real names and by the characters they will play, one of them (Bush Moukarzel) is in our faces reading extracts from...

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The Birds by Conor McPherson

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 30 September 2009 29 September - 21 November 2009 in Gate Theatre

Based on Daphne du Maurier’s short story, The Birds (1952), which inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film of the same title, Conor McPherson’s new play is set in an isolated lakeside house, sometime, somewhere in the present. Relative strangers Nat (Hinds) and Diane (Cusack) have taken...

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The Manganiyar Seduction by Can & Abel Theatre

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 27 September 2009 24 - 27 September 2009 in Gaiety Theatre

The Manganiyar Seduction is a presentation of religious songs by a troupe of Indian Muslims. Elements of Hindu worship are featured in the songs, though only one of the forty-two performers is actually Hindu. The show was originally performed as a prelude to the 2006 Delhi film festival and has been...

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A Woman in Progress by Panti

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 26 September 2009 Sep 24 - 26; Oct 8 - 11; 10pm in Project Arts Centre, Dublin

The smoldering chandeliers and the strings of fire-red lights bath the Project Space Upstairs in an eerie glow. In a massive scrawl the name ‘Panti’ is spread before us on the stage floor, topped with a dainty heart, the kind of self-conscious signature one would find on the side of a celebrity’s...

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