Reviews

Dublin Theatre Festival: The Boys of Foley Street by ANU Productions

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 29 September 2012 28 Sept-13 Oct 2012 in Meeting point: The LAB, Foley Street

There are only two sets of headphones on the security desk in The LAB. Part of me had known that this show was probably not going to be in one of the well-appointed but decidedly untheatrical rehearsal spaces in the building, and yet, I had had hopes. I was my usual punctual self, and as the clock ticked...

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Dublin Theatre Festival: Have I No Mouth by Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keegan

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 29 September 2012 Sept-28-30; Oct 4-6 in Project Arts Centre

We can teach our children the ‘Safe Cross Code’ until they know it word for word. We can tell them never to get into a car with a stranger, and not to accept sweets from people they do not know, even if those people happen to be disguised as their Mammy and Daddy. But there are several things...

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Dublin Theatre Festival: DUBLINERS by The Corn Exchange

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 27 September 2012 27-30 Sept 2012 in Gaiety Theatre

If ever there was a literary masterpiece ripe and ready for theatrical adaptation by The Corn Exchange, it’s James Joyce’s Dubliners. Joyce’s collection of short stories, capturing intimate portraits of Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century, is richly populated with characters...

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Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling

Reviewed by Rachel Andrews on 24 September 2012 11 Sept - 19 Oct, 2012 in Cork Opera House (on tour)

Hollywood star Mischa Barton plays it low-key in the central role of Shelby Eatenton in director Ben Barnes' production of Steel Magnolias for Solar Theatre. Robert Harling's play, which inspired a hit film starring Julia Roberts in the 1980s, is a crowd-pleaser, incorporating the emotional tugs of humour,...

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Down by the River by Paul Kennedy

Reviewed by Emma Creedon on 22 September 2012 17 - 22 September, 2012 in The Viking Theatre

As contemporary theatre becomes increasingly interactive, sensually stimulating, and collaborative, it is gradually less common to attend a performance which features a solo actor onstage with only a chair as a prop. Every so often a one-man show is produced that reconfirms our faith in the monologue...

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I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright

Reviewed by Lisa Fitzpatrick on 20 September 2012 20 Sept - 6 Oct, 2012 in The MAC

I Am My Own Wife is a one-man show about Lothar Berfelde, who lived his life from his early manhood as Charlotte von Mahlsdorf. Though the play is based on a real person, Doug Wright dramatises his writing and research process rather than simply telling Charlotte’s story. The play follows his first...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: THE LAST TEN YEARS by Sean Millar/RADE

Reviewed by Siobhán Kane on 20 September 2012 19-22 Sept 2012 in St Patrick's Cathedral

"People are nothing without the land" - one of the ensemble cast of RADE (Recovery through Art, Drama & Education) says - and throughout this humbling, interesting experience, this thesis is explored through the mapping out of the connections between the pharmaceutical industry, Afghani...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: DRENCHED by Luke Murphy

Reviewed by Seona Mac Réamoinn on 20 September 2012 20-22 Sept 2012 in Samuel Beckett Theatre

The rollercoaster of romance, real and imagined, provided the literal and metaphorical backdrop for a new work, from choreographer Luke Murphy. His very physical duet piece with Carleye Decker seeks to ride the see-saw rhythm of love and rejection to a constant video projection of Hollywood images and...

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Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom and Jeffrey Hatcher

Reviewed by Breda Shannon on 19 September 2012 30 July - 16 Oct, 2012 (on tour) in Town Hall Theatre

Little did Morrie Schwartz realise during his lifetime that his wisdom would touch millions; a book, a movie and then a play and their cumulative impact on readers, movie lovers and theatre goers certainly proves the adage that one good teacher’s influence on just one good student can affect positively...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: Souvenir by Bush Moukarzel

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 19 September 2012 19-22 Sept 2012 in The New Theatre

It’s difficult not to watch Bush Moukarzel madcap homage to Proust’s A la recherché du temps perdu without wondering what the writer and hypochondriac would have made of it all if he could watch it from his bedside, nibbling his madeleine cakes. One assumes it would have triggered some sort...

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