Reviews

Molly Bloom by James Joyce, from 'Ulysses'

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 13 July 2013 11 - 13 July, 2013 in The New Theatre

She struts out on stage as the lights come up, affecting a smooth, liquid gait while absently kicking aside a stray bit of clothing from her path. Leaning like a cabaret singer on an iron bedpost, a gold scarf wrapped loosely around her neck, she presents us with a warbling love song, accompanied by...

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Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 09 July 2013 8 - 13 July 2013 in Smock Alley Theatre

Pig and Runt are born into mediocrity, moments apart in 'Pork' City. Cocooning themselves against the averageness of the everyday, their babified almost animalistic talk imbues them with a sense of being apart, of escaping the ordinary and humdrum, the threat that they are just more flies buzzing around...

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Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 08 July 2013 4 - 20 July 2013 in Project Arts Centre

Famed director and critic Harold Clurman once said that clarity of speech is not a matter of technical proficiency alone. It results from a definiteness of dramatic impulse. Neither are on display in AC Productions' reading of Twelfth Night, presented at Project Arts Centre in July. While the company...

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Human Child by Collapsing Horse

Reviewed by Helen Cusack on 05 July 2013 25 June – 6 July 2013 in Smock Alley Theatre (Boys School)

“You need to be a big girl now, and don't be away with the fairies.” Collapsing Horse presents an enchanting, aesthetically beautiful and highly entertaining exploration of one child's determination to cling tight to her childlike sense of fun while everyone around her is playing “taxes”...

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The Tallest Man in the World by Ailís Ní Ríain

Reviewed by Rachel Andrews on 28 June 2013 27 - 30 june, 2013 in Triskel Arts Centre

Although she is best known as an established classical composer, Cork native Ailís Ní Ríain is also a writer and a playwright who has been writing texts for performance for over a decade and who often works across disciplines: her latest work, a collaborative installation piece comprising music, poetry...

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100% Cork by Una McKevitt / Rimini Protokoll

Reviewed by Rachel Andrews on 28 June 2013 28 - 30 June 2013 in Cork Opera House

The German theatre collective Rimini Protokoll defines the work it makes as ‘reality theatre’, dramatic work that finds a place in the interzone between reality and fiction. Rimini Protokoll has been to Cork before, with Best Before, a collaborative, staged, multi-player video game produced...

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Exit Strategy by Makeshift Ensemble

Reviewed by Laura O’Mahony on 28 June 2013 28-29 June 2013 in Cork Arts Theatre

Exit Strategy, Makeshift Ensemble’s new theatre offering, though flawed, is a surprising and often compelling piece of new writing. At the heart of the piece are two semi-fictional characters Eszter and Leah, best friends, who are at a crucial point in their lives. Having both lived and worked...

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Guaranteed! by Colin Murphy

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 27 June 2013 24 June - 2 July 2013 (on tour) in Draíocht, Blanchardstown

The timing of playwright and journalist Colin Murphy’s piece of ‘pop up’ political theatre, produced by Fishamble, is impeccable. Guaranteed!, Murphy’s well-blended mix of documentary and dramatisation exploring the events leading up the Irish bank guarantee in 2008, is touring...

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Best Man by Carmel Winters

Reviewed by Síle Ní Bhroin on 24 June 2013 21-29 June in Cork, 16-27 July in Dublin in The Everyman, Cork

It is curiously compelling to watch the complete implosion of a family. Alan, the husband and father in the Carmel Winters' new play, Best Man, recounts that he turned on the spluttering coffee machine "because the kettle seemed too meek." This passionate, punchy play steers clear of meekness...

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The Night Alive by Conor McPherson

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 22 June 2013 13 June - 27 July 2013 in the Donmar Warehouse, London

Conor McPherson’s new play is set in the ground-floor bedsit of a Dublin house, owned by Maurice (Norton), who crankily polices it from upstairs. In the intimate Donmar space, where actors enter from all sides, it feels like we are in the house too. The high ceiling and stained-glass French doors...

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