Reviews

Freud's Last Session by Mark St Germain

Reviewed by Rachael Finucane on 28 November 2012 28 and 29 Nov, 2012 in Belltable Arts Centre

If Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis were alone in a room for a few hours, what would they talk about? What would the father of psychoanalysis who thought religion “an illusion” say to the author and scholar who had turned his back on atheism? This is the premise behind the play, Freud’s...

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An Triail by Máiréad Ní Ghráda

Reviewed by Helen Cusack on 26 November 2012 in Axis Ballymun (touring)

“An léigh tú an bleedin' dráma?” Máiréad Ní Ghráda's 1964 drama has been on the Leaving Certificate Irish curriculum for the last sixteen years, but Fíbín Teo's production brings the seemingly outdated plot into the context of modern society, using puppets, masks, and music to appeal...

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The Poor Mouth by Flann O'Brien, adapted by Jocelyn Clarke

Reviewed by Seona Mac Réamoinn on 24 November 2012 12 - 24 November, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

The hilarious biting satire on Irish revivalists and romantics, The Poor Mouth, is given full vein in this highly attuned adaptation and performance by Blue Raincoat Theatre company. In his role as adaptor and co-conspirator with the ghost of Brian O'Nolan/Myles na gCopaleen/Flann O'Brien, Jocelyn Clarke...

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Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Reviewed by Wolfgang Marx on 24 November 2012 24 Nov, 2012 – 23 Feb, 2013 in Gleeson Theatre, Dublin (on tour)

Mozart’s Così fan tutte (“All women are like that”) has been denounced and praised by critics in equal measure. The Romantics condemned the amoral tale of two officers consciously leading their respective beloveds astray by seducing the other’s fiancée (not to mention the implausibility...

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A Bucket Full of Fire by Darren Donohue

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 23 November 2012 12 - 24 November, 2012 in Smock Alley Boys' School

"Day comes on a little more; night holds out a little less, a little more, a little less, a little more, a little less..." says Hag (Sinead O’Brien), a withered old crone standing sentinel at a decaying old well. So Darren Donohue’s fever dream of a play begins, itself careening...

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Quietly by Owen McCafferty

Reviewed by Emilie Pine on 23 November 2012 14 Nov -15 Dec, 2012 in the Peacock Theatre

Quietly is a well-written, powerfully performed, close-to-the-bone play about violence and forgiveness. The seventy-minute performance is compelling, from the moment that Jimmy (Patrick O’Kane) says to Robert (Robert Zawadzki), the Polish barman of his local pub, “There’s a man coming...

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Delta Phase by Radosław Paczocha

Reviewed by Miriam Haughton on 23 November 2012 19 - 24 Nov, 2012 (1pm and 7pm) in Theatre Upstairs at Lanigan’s

The title Delta Phase could be drawn from the three-phase electric power system used by electric grids to transfer power, or the river delta landforms which connect to oceans and seas. Both sources are apt. It is this fusion of the three young male protagonists that creates and sustains the powerful...

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That Night Follows Day by Tim Etchells

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 17 November 2012 7 - 10 Nov; 17 Nov, 2012 in Axis, Ballymun

“That night follows day” is just one of the many truths we might tell our children. We might tell them that the sound they are frightened of is only the wind in the trees, and that everything’s going to be okay; to count to ten. We might teach them that certain words must not be said...

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Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde, adapted by Patrick J. O'Reilly

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 13 November 2012 7 Nov - 8 Dec, 2012 (on tour) in the MAC, Belfast

This wasn’t exactly Lady Windermere: The Musical, but as, for the umpteenth time, the cast of Bruiser Theatre Company launched into yet another a cappella barber’s shop concoction linking one scene to another, it began to feel like one. The idea, presumably, was to pep up those staid vestiges...

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Ailliliú Fionnuala by Donal O’Kelly

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 08 November 2012 5 -17 November, 2012 in Theatre Upstairs at Lanigan’s

We Irish have a great knack of assigning and avoiding blame. We huff and puff about what state the country is in while sidestepping our role in it. We harangue across social and traditional media platforms about the games our politicians play, but rarely change our own tactics. And while our faces flush...

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