Reviews

Dublin Fringe Festival: Way Back Home by Louise White

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 07 September 2013 7-14 September, 2013 in Project Arts Centre Cube

A small boy called Cuán White has lost his way, and his red boots. Against a backdrop of Henderson’s subtly changing watercolour paintings of pastel blues and reds and creams, he begins his journey home with nothing but the trust, guidance and promises of strangers. “Follow the markings and...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: You Remember the Stories You Wish Were True by Making Strange Theatre Company

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 07 September 2013 7-10, 12-13 September, 2013 in Project Arts Centre Cube

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Dublin Fringe Festival: WAGE by Fitzgerald and Stapleton Dance Theatre

Reviewed by Rachel Donnelly on 07 September 2013 7-10 Sept in Project Arts Centre Cube

‘Tickets are offered for female and female identified audience members at a discounted rate in respect of the 13.9% gender pay gap in Ireland.’ So says the blurb for WAGE, the latest offering from provocative choreographers Fitzgerald and Stapleton. The audience pile in to the theatre, wage-paid-for...

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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, adapted for stage by Conall Morrison

Reviewed by Sara Keating on 28 August 2013 28 - 31 August 2013 in Abbey Theatre (Peacock stage)

A group of unruly teens are disrupting a performance before it has even had a chance to begin. They are laughing, talking loudly, checking their mobile phones, and teasing the be-wigged compère (Conor Lenihan) with sniggers and the breaking of wind. As he takes a seat at the piano stool for a recital...

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Eclipsed by Patricia Burke Brogan

Reviewed by Miriam Haughton on 23 August 2013 21-31 August 2013 in Town Hall Theatre

“Eve started it all,” spits Mother Victoria (Caroline Lynch). No, she did not, and oh what a tiring tune that is. Eclipsed shows an audience, in a haunting way, the drastic consequences of blind faith in laws which discriminate and punish, and how absolute power corrupts absolutely. Mephisto...

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Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 13 August 2013 31 July - 21 Sept 2013 in the Abbey Theatre

On the surface, Major Barbara does tick a lot of the ‘summer show’ boxes. The determined criteria meant to lure in the tourists are there. There are gorgeous period costumes (beautifully designed by Joan O’Clery). The language is intelligent, ‘posh’ and seemingly inoffensive...

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Embers by Samuel Beckett

Reviewed by Ian R. Walsh on 12 August 2013 5 - 17 August, 2013 in the Samuel Beckett Theatre

Beckett in a note on his radio play All That Fall warned against adapting it for the stage insisting that "to act it is to kill it," ruining his desired effect that the piece would be "coming out of the dark." No such note is attached to his 1959 BBC produced radio text Embers but...

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Extinct by Tiernan Kearns

Reviewed by Ian R. Walsh on 01 August 2013 30 July - 10 August 2013 in Theatre Upstairs @ Lanigan's

This new play by Tiernan Kearns follows not the writing of the Irish canon but that of contemporary British playwrights like Martin Crimp and Philip Ridley in its indirect style of address and by its dissolution of character, dramatic structure and plot. Its deliberate rough and garish aesthetic was...

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Galway Fringe Festival 2013 by Various

Reviewed by Siobhán O'Gorman, Brendan Daly on 31 July 2013 12 - 31 July 2013 in various venues

ITM critics Siobhán O'Gorman and Brendan Daly attended Galway Fringe Festival 2013. Ballykilldowna ThereisBear! The Townhouse Bar Reviewed 20 July Bean Uí Hynes is a recognisable character from any Irish village. The lifeblood of the local GAA club, she is unfailingly at the side-line for every...

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Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots by Friedrich Schiller

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 30 July 2013 30 July – 10 August in the Freemasons’ Hall, Dublin

England, Fotheringhay Castle, 1587. Mary Stuart (Christiane O’Mahony), deposed Catholic Queen of Scotland, has been in prison for 19 years under the rule of her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England (Aenne Barr). A series of Catholic plots to release her and overthrow the Protestant regime has threatened...

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