Reviews

Small Box Psychosis by Barry McKinley

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 06 April 2013 2 - 13 April 2013 in Theatre Upstairs @ Lanigan's

In an issue of the New Yorker from 2008, journalist Nick Paumgarten details one of the most horrific elevator stories I’ve ever heard: that of Business Week journalist Nicholas White, whose lift stalled between floors in the 43-storey McGraw-Hill Building late one Friday evening in 1999 and did...

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The Last Crusader by Barry McKinley

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 06 April 2013 2 - 13 April 2013 in Theatre Upstairs @ Lanigan's

The programme for The Last Crusader, a play by Barry McKinley currently directed by Karl Shiels at Theatre Upstairs, contains a quote from the Gospel of Luke: “Keep on seeking, and you will find, for everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.” The door...

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The Man Jesus by Matthew Hurt

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 06 April 2013 30 March – 20 April, 2013 in The Lyric Theatre, Belfast

He changed history, but it’s astonishing, when you stop to think about it, how little we actually know about Jesus. Virtually nothing about how he spent the first thirty years of his life, with details of his ministry drawn mainly from four canonical gospels written a minimum of five decades after...

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The Edge of Our Bodies by Adam Rapp

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 04 April 2013 1 - 6 April 2013 in Smock Alley Theatre (Boys School)

Bernadette believes she can make herself smaller. With her journal in hand she (Lauren Farrell) boards a train to New York in her school uniform and raincoat and ponders the possibility of invisibility. We quickly learn from her journal recitation that there exists an adverse condition among the general...

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The Woolgatherer by William Mastrosimone

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 04 April 2013 1 - 13 April 2013 in The New Theatre

“You love something that ain't there and then you start hating what is there, and that’s hell.” So says the truck-driving Cliff, one of the irreparably broken characters of The Woolgatherer. While a good description of hell, Cliff’s sentiments also describe a painful inevitability...

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The Sweety Bottle by Joe and Gerard Brennan

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 30 March 2013 13 March – 20 April, 2013 (on tour) in Grand Opera House (Baby Grand), Belfast

When Joe Brennan was a boy growing up in Belfast, his grandfather took over a confectionery store in the Lower Falls area, and installed an illegal drinking club in it. Things that happened in the so-called 'Sweety Bottle', and the characters who drank there, swiftly became the stuff of family legend,...

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Mangan's Last Gasp by Gerard Lee

Reviewed by Christina Hunt Mahony on 28 March 2013 28 March - 27 April, 2013 in Bewley's Café Theatre

Gerard Lee’s Mangan’s Last Gasp, set in the final days of poet James Clarence Mangan, offers a glancing retrospective of a troubled life by making heavy use of both the poetry and autobiographical works. The play centres on the documented role that medic William Wilde played in this endgame....

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The Bear by William Walton

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 21 March 2013 21-26 March 2013 (on tour) in The Mill, Newtownabbey

Chekhov wrote his one-act farce The Bear in 1888, eight years before The Seagull initiated the run of mature masterpieces on which his reputation for greatness was subsequently founded. The Bear appears, in this context, to be something of a squib, lightly inconsequential and barely distinctive enough...

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Tiny Plays for Ireland 2 by Fishamble: The New Play Company

Reviewed by Sara Keating on 18 March 2013 12 - 30 March, 2013 in Project Arts Centre

Good things come in small packages, or, in the case of Tiny Plays for Ireland II, playlets. This is the second instalment of Fishamble: The New Play Company’s short-play venture, which invited established writers and members of the public to dramatise the state of the nation in theatrical form....

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Zoe's Play by John McArdle

Reviewed by Helen Cusack on 16 March 2013 7-30 March 2013 in the Ark

Originally commissioned by the Ark in 1999, Zoe's Play by John McArdle is here given a new production in celebration of the Ark's eighteenth birthday. Written as a prequel to the classic fairytale 'Little Red Riding Hood', Zoe's Play tells the story of twelve year-old Zoe, an imaginative, playful child...

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