Reviews

Translations by Brian Friel

Reviewed by Chris McAlinden on 15 March 2013 13 March – 27 April 2013 (on tour) in Millennium Forum

Brian Friel’s Translations is set in nineteenth-century Ireland. The action takes place in an Irish speaking hedge-school in Ballybeg, Co. Donegal–where English speaking soldiers have arrived, tasked with rewriting the map of Ireland, Anglicising the place-names as they go. The play raises...

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Endgame by Samuel Beckett

Reviewed by Patrick Lonergan on 14 March 2013 6-16 March 2013 in The Factory Performance Space

Half-way through the run of this fine Blue Raincoat production of Endgame, it was announced that this year’s Edinburgh International Festival would celebrate the works of Samuel Beckett – and that it would do so by including several productions by Dublin’s Gate Theatre, among others. That...

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Lifeboat by Nicola McCartney

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 12 March 2013 12 - 13 March (then on tour) in the MAC, Belfast

It's a good third of the way through Lifeboat, Replay Theatre Company's contribution to this year's Belfast Children's Festival, before I notice that the bottom layer of Niall Rea's compact, triple-tiered set is actually a large tray of water. It splashes frantically to life as the two young actors,...

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Broken Promise Land by Mirjana Rendulic

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 07 March 2013 7-16 March, 2013 in Theatre Upstairs @ Lanigan's

As an exercise in storytelling, Broken Promise Land is a very pleasant experience. Performer and writer Mirjana Rendulic is alone on stage, playing a Croatian girl residing in Dublin on August 3rd, 2003 (according to the tear-away calendar situated by the bed). Her flat is predominantly blue in colour,...

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Before Vanishing by Samuel Beckett

Reviewed by Ian R. Walsh on 07 March 2013 5 -16 March 2013 in The New Theatre

For Beckett the attraction of the theatre as a medium was that “It deals with a fixed space and with people in that fixed space”. He is not referring here to the fixed space of the naturalistic drawing room or the Irish peasant kitchen set, but the theatrical space itself. On stage the theatrical...

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The Sylvia by Philip St John

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 05 March 2013 25 Feb - 9 March, 2013 in Smock Alley

A struggling artist’s studio retreat is invaded by a high-powered couple intent on collecting what they view as artist’s most achieved work to date: his young wife and recovering heroin addict, Sylvia (Anna Sheils McNamee). Barry’s (John Delaney) series of paintings capturing Sylvia’s...

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Once: The Musical by Enda Walsh (Book), Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (Music and Lyrics)

Reviewed by Patrick Lonergan on 05 March 2013 22 Feb - 9 March, 2013 in Gaiety Theatre

As we enter the Gaiety, we discover that Once has already begun: the cast are gathered in what looks like an ordinary pub where a session is underway. They play music for about twenty minutes while members of the audience wander onstage – ordering pints from the barman, listening to the music,...

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Pageant by CoisCéim Dance Theatre

Reviewed by Seona Mac Réamoinn on 02 March 2013 23 Feb - 19 March 2013 (on tour) in Project Arts Centre

All the world’s a stage or so it seems in this new work from David Bolger and Muirne Bloomer for CoisCéim Dance Theatre exploring how we all put ourselves on show to celebrate, to remember, to honour or sometimes merely to observe the everyday and the ordinary. They do this with an effortless mix...

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Katie Mag by Jennifer Rogers

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 02 March 2013 28 Feb and 2 March, 2013 in Smock Alley Boys School

Katie Mag, a new play by Jennifer Rogers for Roundhouse Productions,is your age-old 'ugly, duckling' tale where a country girl, the titular Katie (Amy O'Dwyer), with her taste for books in bed and sugary tea, is transformed into a swanlike fashionista after meeting the capricious Mags (Kelly McAuley)...

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The Seafarer by Conor McPherson

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 28 February 2013 27 Feb - 23 March, 2013 in Lyric Theatre

“Why this is hell, nor am I out of it,” reflects Faustus, as the darkness closes in during his final moments on this earth. So it is with the derelict assortment of friends at the core of Conor McPherson’s Faustian-inspired tryst with the devil. The demon drink is the hell which engulfs...

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