Reviews

Absolut Fringe 2012: CODES by MIDASpaces

Reviewed by Rachel Donnelly on 19 September 2012 19-22 Sept 2012 in The Lir

With CODES, Dublin-based digital collective MIDASpaces have collaborated with dancers Emma O’Kane, Roisin Laffan and Rob O’Shea, to create a show based on ‘man’s evolving relationship with technology’. Unfortunately, any relationship between the dancers on-stage and the...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: (The Making of) The Frogs after Aristophanes by Equinox Theatre Company

Reviewed by Christina Hunt Mahony on 19 September 2012 19-22 Sept 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Equinox, a Kilkenny-based company, features artists with learning disabilities in collaboration with professional theatre practitioners and raises the bar for our understanding of the word ensemble, so tightly knit is this troupe. An ambitious project, Frogs interprets Aristophanes’ great comic...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: SAINT by Fíbín Teo

Reviewed by Lauren O'Toole on 19 September 2012 19-22 Sept 2012 in Project Arts Centre

The last few years have, quite rightly, borne witness to a deluge of theatre productions endeavouring to interrogate the state of the country. Yes there is a story to be told and an audience to listen, but there is also the fear of saturation with the same topics – corruption, austerity, unemployment...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: FUNK by Dylan Quinn Dance Theatre

Reviewed by Seona Mac Réamoinn on 19 September 2012 19-22 Sept 2012 in Samuel Beckett Theatre

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Absolut Fringe 2012: DEAD CAT BOUNCE... CLOWNS by Dead Cat Bounce

Reviewed by Lauren O'Toole on 18 September 2012 18-22 Sept 2012 in Smock Alley Theatre

Long before Bozo, Bobo and Binki, arrive on stage the tone is clearly laid out for the world’s most morose clowning troupe. With cardboard boxes and garbage strewn across a desolate room at the centre of which a half empty bottle of whisky sits waiting to be attended to, the scenography fits perfectly...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: I'M NOT A.D.H.D... I'M B.O.L.D by Wicked Angels

Reviewed by Sheena Madden on 18 September 2012 18-22 Sept 2012 in The New Theatre

The writers of Waiting for Ikea return for this year’s Fringe with I’m Not ADHD... I’m BOLD; a comic performance that holds a mirror up to society’s obsession with slapping a label on everything. School teacher Dana (Jacinta Sheerin) begrudgingly attends a therapy session with...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: SINGLEHOOD by Una McKevitt Productions

Reviewed by Fíona Ní Chinnéide on 18 September 2012 18-22 Sept 2012 in Project Arts Centre

“Alone again… naturally.” The Gilbert O'Sullivan line is delivered with an open smile, as eight performers and two musicians enter one by one and take their seats in the circle for Singlehood, a piece of documentary theatre woven from the personal stories of fifty singletons (well,...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: BRB (Be Right Back) by Waterdonkey

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 18 September 2012 18-22 Sept 2012 in Smock Alley Theatre

This brief play gets off to a promising start as the three characters begin to emulate a young woman in a YouTube clip as she demonstrates, in tutorial-like fashion on a big screen set against the back wall of the space, the self-application of multiple coatings of make-up. Layer after layer, her...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: DISCONNECTED by The Collective Theatre Company

Reviewed by Róisín Agnew on 17 September 2012 17-22 Sept 2012 in The Kitchen Nightclub

Audiences get a particular thrill from stories of commonplace situations; moments of recognition that offer them that narcissistic “aah” that generally leads to reminiscing about their own personal experiences. DISCOnnected is a mine rich with such moments. Invited down into night-club...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: Time Bomb by Liz Nilsson and Kay Scorah

Reviewed by Seona Mac Réamoinn on 17 September 2012 17-19, 2012 in Depart from coach stop on Castle Street

From recollections of a sunny afternoon in a garden in southern Sweden to a clever re-enactment of that childhood summer idyll, memories were on the move in this gentle, affectionate show. Combining film, dance, text and design like fragments of memories, seemingly unconnected, the show conceived by...

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