Reviews

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 27 July 2013 23 July - 21 Sept 2013 in the Gate Theatre

If your experience of Tennessee Williams’ 1947 play is the foregrounding of Stanley Kowalski’s sweaty singlet, as per Elia Kazan's 1951 film, then you’re in for an awakening. The fetishisation of the youthful Brando began on Broadway in the play's maiden run, and has become a defining...

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A Chip in the Sugar by Alan Bennett

Reviewed by Rachael Finucane on 25 July 2013 in the Savoy, Limerick

Human frailty and the wildly differing effects of personal change are to the forefront in Alan Bennett’s bittersweet monologue, A Chip in the Sugar. Middle-aged narrator, Graham Whittaker (Myles Breen) lives with and cares for his elderly mother, Vera. This staid companionship is turned upside...

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Foreign Bodies by Julia Holewinska

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 23 July 2013 23 July - 3 Aug 2013 in Project Arts Centre

Displacement is a primary theme of Polish Theatre Ireland’s production of Julia Holewińska’s Foreign Bodies, an unsettling contemplation of identity politics during and after the fall of communism in Poland. Time is the first victim of this displacement. Anthony Kinahan’s overtly theatrical...

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riverrun by Olwen Fouéré (‘through the voice of the river in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake’)

Reviewed by Brendan Daly on 22 July 2013 22 – 27 July 2013, and on tour in Druid Lane Theatre, Galway

Since the expiry of copyright on James Joyce’s works at the tail-end of 2011, adaptations of Dubliners, Ulysses, The Dead, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man have vied for the attention of Irish theatre audiences. Finnegans Wake, Joyce’s notoriously impenetrable novel, has been conspicuously...

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All Dolled Up: Restitched by Panti

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 20 July 2013 10 - 20 July 2013 in the Abbey Theatre (Peacock stage)

Somewhere in the middle of her latest theatrical outing All Dolled Up: Restitched, Panti casually refers to a memoir she intends to one day write: "High Heels and Low Places". It was an easy joke in a night full of hilarity, but it was intriguing nonetheless. While the book would of course...

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Petrushka by Igor Stravinsky (music) and Michael Keegan-Dolan (choreography)

Reviewed by Matthew Harrison on 18 July 2013 14 - 20 July 2013 in Black Box, Galway

In Fabulous Beast’s dance double-bill for the Galway Arts Festival, Stravinsky’s Petrushka is the follow-up to the more controversial The Rite of Spring: it’s a sort of sensible sister smoothing the troubled waters stirred up by the nudity, humping, hares and hounds of Michael Keegan-Dolan’s...

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Bonfire Night/Arsehammers by Claire Dowie

Reviewed by Sarah England on 17 July 2013 17-19 July 2013 in Cork Arts Theatre

Theatre practitioner Claire Dowie is a leading proponent (some would say creator) of a genre known as 'stand-up theatre.' Consisting of monologues that engender direct address storytelling, thus fostering the performer's engagement with the audience, Dowie's work proves a judicious choice for CallBack...

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The Adventures of Shay Mouse by Patrick McCabe

Reviewed by Matthew Harrison on 17 July 2013 15 - 28 July 2013 in Nuns Island Theatre

A recent bit of sleuthing by a Sunday paper uncovers a ‘first-time’ crime writer as billionaire children’s writer J.K. Rowling. From initial sales of 1,500 to rocketing to the top of best-seller lists on this revelation, clearly one’s name helps in shifting copies. On a Galway...

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Till Death We Part by Amy de Bhrún

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 16 July 2013 16 - 27 July, 2013 in Theatre Upstairs @ Lanigan's

There is something quite fascinating about death (once it’s not happening to us, of course). It comes to us all (as the saying goes), it is the “one and only certainty in life,” as Amy de Bhrún reminds us, and we never really know when it will happen, what it will feel like, and what,...

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An Tíorganách Drogallach/The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant by Tom Murphy, translated by Macdara Ó Fatharta

Reviewed by Brendan Daly on 16 July 2013 16 - 20 July 2013 in An Taibhdhearc

When Tom Murphy’s The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant premiered at the Abbey Theatre in June 2009, it was difficult to divorce the play from its immediate context. Exploring greed, corruption, and religious hypocrisy, the script seemed to offer devastating parallels with Ireland’s sudden...

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