Reviews

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 04 February 2013 24 Jan - 8 Feb 2013 in the Helix

Second Age made something of a splash last year with their production of Macbeth that toured the country. It imagined the Scottish bloodbath as a sort of an on-stage action movie that included strobe lights, Radiohead and some excellent battle choreography. The final product was, as its typical teenage...

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Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens by Paul Godfrey

Reviewed by Breda Shannon on 02 February 2013 29 Jan - 2 Feb, 2013 in T36

Director David Scott’s interpretation of Paul Godfrey’s Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens, is worthy of two superlatives attributed by Godfrey to W.H. Auden’s description of Benjamin Britten’s music: "Mercurial and eloquent." Godfrey's narrative is not as gleaned...

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Mixed Marriage by St John Ervine

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 02 February 2013 30 Jan – 23 Feb, 2013 in the Lyric Theatre, Belfast

“Fenian”. “Taig”. “Papish”. They’re terms spat indiscriminately across the footlights by John Rainey, Protestant paterfamilias and central character of St. John Ervine’s Mixed Marriage, and they elicit sporadic bursts of laughter from the Lyric Theatre...

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Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn

Reviewed by Christina Hunt Mahony on 31 January 2013 in the Gate Theatre

Alan Ayckbourn’s Bedroom Farce has acquired the patina of more than 35 years, although this and others of the prolific playwright’s comedies (like Absurd Personal Singular and The Norman Conquests) became canonical on first outing. Bedroom Farce, succinctly described in promotional material...

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Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

Reviewed by Siobhán O'Gorman on 30 January 2013 29 Jan – 2 Feb, 2013 in The Black Box, Galway

Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure is set in Catholic Vienna and peopled by devout believers, nuns, friars, sinners, religious hypocrites and brothel-keepers. While it is a challenging work, considered one of Shakespeare’s ‘problem’ plays, many of its issues are pertinent to today’s...

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Love, Peace and Robbery by Liam Heylin

Reviewed by Rachel Andrews on 26 January 2013 15 -26 January, 2013 in Cork Arts Theatre

Liam Heylin’s play has weathered well in the five years since it was first produced in this country, its timeless tale of small-time criminals struggling to make good easily straddling the distance between boom and bust Ireland, indicating how little some people’s lives were actually changed...

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The Theatre Machine Turns You On: Vol. 3 by THEATREclub

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 20 January 2013 6 - 20 January, 2013 in Project Arts Centre

THEATREclub’s The Theatre Machine Turns You On: Vol. 3 returned to the Project Cube for a ballsy run comprising a chart-topping 24 new plays spread over just two weeks. The pieces, which were selected by curators Grace Dyas, Doireann Coady and Shane Byrne of THEATREclub, fell under four main strands...

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Over the Wire by Seamas Keenan

Reviewed by Lisa Fitzpatrick on 14 January 2013 14-19 January, 2012 in Playhouse Theatre, Derry

Sabine Dargent’s design for Over the Wire has the audience seated in a single row pressed against the four sides of a wire cage. Inside the cage, which is topped with barbed wire, we can see a small yard with rubble, some metal barrels, and a rough shelter of concrete blocks and plastic sheeting;...

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The Great Couch Rebellion by Philip Doherty

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 14 January 2013 14 - 26 January, 2013 in Theatre Upstairs @ Lanigan's

Part of the splendour of theatre is the healthy distance a performance provides an audience from their own lives and the world outside the theatre’s door. Playwright Philip Doherty has no interest in that distance. His new play, The Great Couch Rebellion, which he also directs, is a call to arms,...

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by Aaron Monaghan and Bryan Burroughs

Reviewed by Helen Cusack on 15 December 2012 1 - 22 December, 2012 in the Ark

And so we arrive at yet another Christmas, another retelling of the much loved festive favourite, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Aaron Monaghan and Bryan Burroughs' production celebrates Dickens' 200th birthday by adapting the classic tale for younger audience, playfully retelling the story with...

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