Reviews

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs by Mike Daisey

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 22 April 2013 15 - 27 April 2013 in the Viking Theatre, Clontarf

‘Documentary theatre’ can be a problematic term for describing a problematic mode of performance. The ‘documentary’ part of this term suggests fact-checked reportage that holds up to scrutiny when its veracity is questioned, while the ‘theatre’ part suggests the realm...

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Digging for Fire by Declan Hughes

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 22 April 2013 22 April - 4 May, 2013 in Project Arts Centre

Declan Hughes was right. It may not be a playwright’s duty to predict the course of a country via his own writing, but it doesn’t hurt a play’s vitality. When Rough Magic first produced Digging for Fire in the Project Arts Centre in 1991, audiences were given a glimpse of a convulsive...

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The Bridge Below the Town by Patrick McCabe

Reviewed by Miriam Haughton on 20 April 2013 in Roscommon Arts Centre

What are the colours of dreams, or, nightmares? Does one remember a colour, or, only a feeling? Patrick McCabe’s new play The Bridge Below the Town, directed by Padraic McIntyre for Livin' Dred, stages the disorientation and irrational fluidity that is most commonly associated with the narratives...

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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn (music & lyrics) and Rachel Sheinkin (book)

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 18 April 2013 18 April - 4 May, 2013 in The MAC, Belfast

Nobody seems too sure of its provenance, but the word 'bee' is widely used these days to describe almost any kind of get-together for a specific action – a sewing bee, a quilting bee, a spelling bee... the list is endless and ripe with mischievous suggestion. One possible – though somewhat...

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Click by Michael Collier

Reviewed by Ian R. Walsh on 13 April 2013 9 - 13 April 2013 in the Civic Theatre

Whilst on a fishing trip to Croatia, that serves to distract from their problems at home in Dublin, Pauly (Ciarán Kenny) and Jacko (Aidan Crowe) are strolling through a field, when Pauly hears a click. Fearing he has just tread on a defective land-mine, left over from the Croatian-Bosnian war, Pauly...

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Waiting for Elvis by Eileen Gibbons

Reviewed by Sheena Madden on 13 April 2013 02 - 13 April, 2013 in Axis: Ballymun

Elvis Presley died on the 16th of August 1977... didn’t he? Not according to countless tabloid tales, internet blogs and conspiracy theorists; and not according to true believer Lisa Marie (Anne Kent), who waits faithfully and doggedly for The King to show up and join her on a park bench in Dublin....

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For Love by Laoisa Sexton

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 11 April 2013 8 April – 8 May, 2013 (on tour) in the Playhouse Theatre, Derry

Val, Tina and Bee are three contemporary Dubliners, friends united by a common desperation: the men in their lives (where there are any) are generally fat, sweaty and feckless, they haven’t “had it” for a year or more, and thrills and spills are hard to come by in the clubs and bar-rooms...

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Drum Belly by Richard Dormer

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 10 April 2013 10 April - 11 May, 2013 in the Abbey Theatre

"We created the 'new' English," boasts a character in Drum Belly, Richard Dormer’s visceral new play about the Irish-American mob in 1960s New York. Example? Slán, we’re told, evolved into the colloquial ‘so long’ as the Irish worked to merge into, and then ultimately...

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Mrs Warren's Profession by G. B. Shaw

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 09 April 2013 9 April - 11 May, 2013 in the Gate Theatre

Vivie Warren (Rebecca O’Mara) is a person without sentiment or poetry, a woman with highly developed mathematical skills making her way in the world through hard mental labour. She feels independent of the expectations of her gender: a modern woman free even of the conventional ties of daughterhood....

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The Bockety World of Henry and Bucket by Sarah Argent, in collaboration with Barnstorm Theatre Company

Reviewed by Helen Cusack on 08 April 2013 8 – 26 April, 2013 (on tour) in Draíocht, Blanchardstown

“Do you know what 'bockety' means? It's something that's a little bit broken, a little bit wobbly, but it still kind of works.” Barnstorm Theatre Company presents a charming production for young audiences in which they explore the ups and downs of friendship, and what happens when something...

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