Reviews

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Reviewed by Sara Keating on 12 February 2013 12 Feb - 23 March, 2013 in the Abbey Theatre

Despite its relentless descent into madness and misery, King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s most accessible tragedies. Its hero is a remote and regal old man, a fearsome flawed fool but one made fond to us by his vulnerability. More importantly, the true conflict of the play is domestic. In its perfectly...

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Herons by Simon Stephens

Reviewed by Tom Maguire on 12 February 2013 12 – 16 February, 2013 in Lyric Theatre (Naughton Studio)

PintSized Productions has set itself the aim to showcase emerging professional talent in Northern Ireland. In electing to stage Simon Stephens’s Herons, the company has chosen material that serves this purpose fantastically. Stephens is one of the leading voices in contemporary playwriting not...

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Fred and Alice by John Sheehy

Reviewed by Seona Mac Réamoinn on 07 February 2013 6 - 23 February, 2013 in Bewleys Café Theatre

Waiting for the latest lunchtime offering at Bewleys Café Theatre to begin I idly speculated about Fred and Alice. There was a small clue in the staging: there was a muddled heap of lamps and light fixtures resting on the stage, from the small tasselled lampshade models to full beamers. Did someone...

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Manifesto by Maiden Voyage Dance

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 07 February 2013 7 - 16 February, 2013 (on tour) in The MAC, Belfast (on tour)

Boys dance, more often than not, when nobody is looking or when they have a few drinks inside them. Through its new triple-bill, Manifesto, Maiden Voyage Dance has declared its mission, to break down barriers of self-consciousness, embarrassment or alcohol-induced kicks and encourage more young men to...

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Focal Point by Manchán Magan

Reviewed by Helen Cusack on 07 February 2013 5 - 9 February, 2013 in Project Arts Centre (and on tour)

“Tuigeann sibh go léir, yeah? You all speak Irish? Oh, some of you don't.” TEAM Educational Theatre Company presents a bilingual play for older teenagers in which the Irish language is on life support. So, too, is its greatest scholar. His son, Anraí, is thus left with the task of presenting...

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Let Me Be by Maria Tivnan

Reviewed by Matthew Harrison on 06 February 2013 4th Feb - 1st March, 2013 (on tour) in Town Hall Theatre Studio

A one-act play exploring the deprivations of an unhappy childhood might well be spartan. On a bare Town Hall Studio floor, Fregoli’s latest offering and writer Maria Tivnan’s second play Let Me Be, is a 45-minute journey through the minds of two damaged children. Almost a form of psychodrama,...

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Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 06 February 2013 1 - 9 February, 2013 in the Mill Theatre

How mad are the Macbeths? One of the defining characteristics of this text is its relative brevity, in terms of the Shakespearean oeuvre. It makes it an appealing choice for Leaving Certificate essay fodder, but presents something of a challenge to the practitioners who are undertaking to present it....

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Talk Radio by Eric Bogosian

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 05 February 2013 5 - 16 February, 2013 in The New Theatre

Eric Bogosian's 1987 text, Talk Radio, has much to say to an Irish audience. Its anti-hero, a late night radio talk show host called Barry Champlain, is a mixture of how RTÉ's Joe Duffy sees himself – a man of the people, and how comedian David McSavage sees him – a self-anointed demi god...

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Clear_the_Air by Hugh Travers

Reviewed by Miriam Haughton on 05 February 2013 5 - 16 Feb, 2013 in Theatre Upstairs @ Lanigan's

The skies were closed. They were stuck in Dublin watching the skies. An ash cloud hung over the island, and like generations of their forefathers, no one was getting off the island. Containment inevitably leads to plans for escape. Standing still for one more moment will result in implosion. Thus, a...

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A Skull in Connemara by Martin McDonagh

Reviewed by Brendan Daly on 04 February 2013 4 - 9 February, 2013 (continues on tour) in Town Hall Theatre

Martin McDonagh’s A Skull in Connemara is the forgotten sister in The Leenane Trilogy. Premiered by Druid in 1997, A Skull chronicles the dismal trade of Mick Dowd, a gravedigger charged each autumn with disinterring bones from his local cemetery to make space for new tenants. When Mick has to...

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