Reviews

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, abridged by Gary Wilson

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 28 February 2013 21 Feb to 12 March, 2013 (on tour) in Baby Grand at the Grand Opera House, Belfast

Proceedings begin as expected: "Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene ..." and conclude with the familar lament: "For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." Prologue and epilogue are delivered, as written, by the six-strong...

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Noteworthy by Roísín Coyle

Reviewed by Sara Keating on 23 February 2013 19 Feb – 2 March, 2013 in Theatre Upstairs @ Lanigan's

Roísín Coyle’s short play Noteworthy takes one of the oldest theatrical devices as its chief dramaturgical device: a letter. In the opening moments of Janet Moran’s production at Theatre Upstairs, Louise (Janice Byrne) holds a lighter to a piece of paper, which smoulders uncertainly before...

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The Sand Park by Seamus O'Rourke

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 23 February 2013 12 Jan - 21 June, 2013 (on tour) in Civic Theatre

In 1995, John McGahern wrote of religion in his native Leitrim: “The ordinary farming people had to conform to the strict observances and to pay their dues to the Church from small resources, but outside that they paid it little attention. They went about their sensible pagan lives as they had...

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Pinter x 4 by Harold Pinter

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 22 February 2013 20 Feb - 2 March, 2013 in Pearse Centre, Dublin

It seems almost credible that Number 27 Pearse Street was built to house this handful of Pinter’s short political plays. Needless to say, in a production as erudite and sophisticated as AC Productions' Pinter x 4, there wasn’t a stage or a curtain in sight. When we were (for the evening’s...

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Planet Belfast by Rosemary Jenkinson

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 21 February 2013 19 Feb - 2 March, 2013 in The MAC, Belfast

In Rosemary Jenkinson's vision of her native city, Belfast is a place apart, poised between war and peace, struggling uncertainly to find its place in the wider world while remaining stranded in the wasteland of a long drawn-out conflict, whose victims have become pawns in a lucrative, internationally...

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On the Subject of Love by Ken McCormack

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 20 February 2013 20 – 23 February, 2013 in The Playhouse, Derry-Londonderry

A rake, a dandy, a boulevardier, a bon viveur, a collector of expensive artworks, a womaniser. Oh, and a Church of Ireland prelate: that was Frederick Hervey, Fourth Earl of Bristol, and Bishop of Derry for the last three decades of the eighteenth century. Derry writer Ken McCormack has researched Hervey’s...

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Performances by Brian Friel

Reviewed by Lisa Fitzpatrick on 15 February 2013 14 - 16 and 19 - 23 February, 2013 in Great Hall, University of Ulster at Magee

Performances is a brief, haunting exploration of Leoš Janáček's love for a young married woman, Kamila Stösslová, told through excerpts from his letters to her and the performance of his String Quartet no 2, ‘Intimate Letters’. The conceit is that young doctoral student Anezka Ungrova (Masha...

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Love in a Glass Jar | Ribbons by Nancy Harris | Elaine Murphy

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 13 February 2013 13 - 23 February, 2013 in the Peacock Theatre

Plays in their short form can be tricky — tricky to write, and tricky for an audience to engage with. The key issue is time, and not as regards the length of the play: it’s more to do with ‘when’ we are brought into the story, than with ‘how long’ is this play going...

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Morning and Afternoon by Andy Hinds

Reviewed by Ian R. Walsh on 13 February 2013 13-23 February, 2013 in Project Arts Centre

Morning and Afternoon consists of two interconnected monologues written and performed by Andy Hinds. Both pieces involve men at a moment of personal crisis where they begin to reflect on their lives and to meditate on existence. In its form and subject matter the piece thus invites comparison with the...

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American Buffalo by David Mamet

Reviewed by Rachael Finucane on 13 February 2013 in The Loft venue, Limerick

The components of what makes us civilised rather than savages “sitting around some vicious campfire” are under debate in this play by David Mamet, the self-proclaimed ‘profane poet’of the theatre world. The dreary setting for this exposition of morality is Don’s Resale...

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