Reviews

Diceman by Christopher Samuel Carroll

Reviewed by Christina Mahony on 08 October 2012 26 Sept - 13 October, 2012 in Bewley's Café Theatre

Anyone who has lived in Dublin in years past and is over 30 remembers Thom McGinty, aka The Diceman. He was one of those Dublin characters who materialises from time to time, each so different from the next - Zozimus, The Pope O'Mahony, Bang Bang - but similarly clasped to the collective heart of the...

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Face Licker Come Home by Rita Ann Higgins

Reviewed by Brendan Daly on 06 October 2012 5 - 7 October, 2012 in Nuns Island Theatre

Rita Ann Higgins’ poetry frequently tackles exclusion and survival in a voice characterised by irreverence and compassion. In both preoccupations and style, Face Licker Come Home – the first of Higgins’ six plays – is similarly imbued. Twenty-one years after its premiere, Mephisto...

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Dublin Theatre Festival: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, adapted by Neil Bartlett

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 06 October 2012 27 Sept-17 Nov 2012 in The Abbey Theatre

Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of the Dorian Gray (1890) is not just about one man’s narcissistic obsession with youth and beauty, let alone the twists and turns of socially policed homoerotic desire. It’s also a book that explores the difficulties and dangers of representation, such...

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Dublin Theatre Festival: The House That Jack Filled by Finegan Kruckemeyer

Reviewed by Fíona Ní Chinnéide on 05 October 2012 3-7 Oct 2012 in Project Arts Centre

“Whatcha gonna do about it?” One of the audience members puts it straight to Jack McNally, proprietor of McNally's-by-the-Sea, a rundown family hotel whose loyal patrons have finally abandoned its creaking walls. This hotel is the 'house' that Jack fills with imagined guests, in the latest...

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Dublin Theatre Festival: Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 04 October 2012 Oct 4-6, 2012 in OReilly Theatre

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in it” is a line spoken by Polonius in Act Two, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and is one of the most fitting utterances to come to mind in relation to The Wooster Group’s radical reimagining of the infamously dark and deeply pensive...

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The Long Road by Shelagh Stephenson

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 03 October 2012 3 - 21 October, 2012 in Lyric Theatre (Naughton Studio)

Seven summers ago, fifteen year-old Thomas Devlin died in an unprovoked knife attack, a few hundred yards from his home in the leafy suburbs of north Belfast. The teenager and some friends were returning from buying sweets in a local garage when they were pursued and set upon by two men from a nearby...

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Dublin Theatre Festival: Politik by The Company

Reviewed by Clara Kumagai on 03 October 2012 3-6 October 2012 in Samuel Beckett Theatre

The Company set out a year and a half ago to educate themselves about politics. Not unlike many young people, they had found themselves detached from politics. The only exception to this was every four years, when it was time to vote – in much the same way that unfit people take an interest in...

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Home by Fregoli

Reviewed by Siobhán O'Gorman on 01 October 2012 1 - 3 October, 2012 in Nuns Island Theatre

Fregoli’s latest work, as its title suggests, meditates on the meaning of home. Through a variety of monologues and vignettes, Home jumps between, and sometimes weaves together, the stories of six well-drawn characters. Ellie (Maria Tivnan) is an agoraphobic novelist living only through her work....

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Dublin Theatre Festival: Everyone is King Lear in his own Home by Pan Pan

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 01 October 2012 Oct 1-7 2012 in Smock Alley Theatre

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Dublin Theatre Festival: The Talk of the Town by Emma Donoghue

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 01 October 2012 1-20 October 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Almost two decades after the death of distinguished short story writer and journalist Maeve Brennan, the indelible marks this ‘long-winded lady’ left on the body of Irish literature and the hearts of her New York readers are judiciously revisited in this copious dramatisation of some of the...

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