Reviews

Orphans by Dennis Kelly

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 15 December 2012 11 - 15 Dec 2012 in Theatre@36

Dennis Kelly's play Orphans is many things. It's a look at the magnetic pull of family ties on one's moral compass. It's an examination of the class and race war raging within Britain today. It questions what dark lengths we are all capable of going to and what would push us to them. And it’s an...

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The Dead by James Joyce, in a dramatisation by Frank McGuinness

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 13 December 2012 11 Dec, 2012 - 19 Jan, 2013 in the Abbey Theatre

Frank McGuinness’ dramatisation of James Joyce’s short story presents the one thing Joyce could not: music. The presence of so many musical people in the story The Dead, and the vital role of the haunting but unheard (by the reader) 'The Lass of Aughrim' attest to the importance of evoking...

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Curious Tales for Christmas by Stewart Roche, adapted for stage

Reviewed by Christina Mahony on 12 December 2012 11 - 22 December, 2012 in Theatre Upstairs @ Lanigan's

These tales, adapted from short works by Ambrose Bierce, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker, are offered as antidotes to Christmas excess, and wouldn’t be out of place on a Hallowe’en programme. Martin Cahill’s set design, festooned with skulls, shards of broken mirror, a noose...

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Jezebel by Mark Cantan

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 11 December 2012 10 - 22 Dec, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Developed under Rough Magic’s SEEDS programme, Jezebel is a first professional production for writer Mark Cantan, under the direction of fellow SEEDS alum José Miguel Jiménez. It features Peter Daly and Niamh McCann as a couple that after six months of hot and heavy sexual energy find themselves...

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Outsider by John Scott Dance

Reviewed by Rachel Donnelly on 11 December 2012 10-15 December 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Kyle Abraham has ridden into Dublin on a huge wave of anticipation. The rising star, originally from Pittsburgh, is the talk of the New York dance scene at present, having received a prestigious Bessie award for his piece The Radio Show and been recently commissioned to create work for the well-known...

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Farewell / Half a Glass of Water by Clare Dwyer Hogg / David Ireland

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 03 December 2012 3 - 8 December, 2012 in The Playhouse, Derry

How thrilling is it, fourteen years after Field Day’s last theatre production, to be handed a programme illustrated by the distinguished painter Basil Blackshaw, image-maker to the company since its inception in 1980; to look inside and spy among the creative team the names of such internationally...

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The Dead Woman’s Son by Rua O’Donnachu

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 30 November 2012 26 Nov - 1 Dec, 2012 in Smock Alley Boys School

Smock Alley Boys School is, perhaps, the most atmospheric theatre in the city. With its exposed brick, declining gangway and multi-storey viewpoints it brings to mind one of those Victorian Asylums where the public used to come to observe the mentally ill. Hence, it lends itself to plays that delve into...

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The Juggler by Bernard Field

Reviewed by Breda Shannon on 30 November 2012 26 Nov - 1 Dec, 2012 in Town Hall Studio

Bernard Field’s new play has a very interesting proposition: suicide with witness, accomplice and voyeur on the viral internet level. The Juggler is set in the flat of a middle-aged academic teacher (played by Field). He is kidnapped by a woman who terrifies and enchants him as he bears witness,...

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Tender Napalm by Philip Ridley

Reviewed by Ian R. Walsh on 30 November 2012 27 Nov - 8 Dec, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

For Philip Ridley couples are not so much at sea when they are apart as they are stranded on a desert island unable to ever escape one another. Such is the driving metaphor in Tender Napalm, Ridley’s imaginative exploration of love, where we are presented with a nameless man and woman who are bent...

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The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers, adapted for the stage by Conor Mitchell

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 29 November 2012 29 Nov, 2012 - 1 Jan, 2013 in The MAC, Belfast

The cover illustration of Oliver Jeffers’ best-selling storybook shows a stick-like child with an anxious face and a huge gaping mouth into which he is tossing a hefty hard-back book. He is Henry, a troubled boy with low self-esteem and an apparently low intellect. He is bullied to distraction...

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