Reviews

Absolut Fringe 2012: EMPTY ECHO and SOFTER SWELLS by DISH Dance

Reviewed by Rachel Donnelly on 16 September 2012 16-17 Sept 2012 in Samuel Beckett Theatre

There’s a fine (and sometimes indistinguishable) line between boundary-pushing and farce. Does something that strikes you forcibly as absurd and yet holds your attention count as the former or the latter? It’s undeniable that DISH Dance’s double bill Empty Echo/softer swells is defiantly...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: THE COCKROACH AND THE INVENTOR by Macnas

Reviewed by Sara Keating on 16 September 2012 16 Sept 2012 in Civic Amphitheatre

The Cockroach and the Inventor positions itself as outdoor theatre more than street spectacle. The story is a version of Pinocchio; a young cockroach grows beyond the expectations of his inventor-master and desires his independence. As expected of Macnas, the grand-scale puppetry is stunning. The...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: JUST IN TIME by Máiréad Ní Chróinín

Reviewed by Clara Kumagai on 15 September 2012 15-16 Sept 2012 in Meet ing Point ABSOLUT Fringe Box Office

The Playground strand of ABSOLUT Fringe is theatre that describes itself as immersive and interactive, and involves that most alarming of all phrases, audience participation. Just In Time, however, does not even come close to that particular form public torture. You don't have to studiedly avoid eye...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: HIPSTERS WE MET AND LIKED by The Company

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 15 September 2012 15-16 Sept & 22-23 Sept 2012 in Samuel Beckett Theatre

Hipsters are completely annoying, so the idea of a show about hipsters completely breaks the annoy-o-meter. What is even more annoying? When everybody in the audience are hipsters too, and they are all mates and are all taking and laughing — but then you see someone you know and you’re like,...

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Woman and Scarecrow by Marina Carr

Reviewed by Miriam Houghton on 14 September 2012 3 Sept - 5 Oct, 2012 (on tour) in Civic Theatre

“Ophelia now. She had a good death.” In Woman and Scarecrow, playwright Marina Carr has moved from dramatizing the tragic Irish family to the flawed and somewhat bitter individual, Woman, seeking to give her ‘a good death’. This good death boasts of all the rawness, spite and...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: HUNGRY TENDER by THEATREclub

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 14 September 2012 14-22 Sept, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Women’s distorted relationships with food have been documented to a degree that implies total ownership — fat being a feminist issue and all that. For a man to get up there, centre stage, and start telling a story about how he hates his body? That’s something. Or it almost is, in Hungry...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: GREEN STREET by Percolate

Reviewed by Siobhán Kane on 14 September 2012 14-22 Sept, 2012 in Courthouse on Green Street

As we watch Robert Emmet (Elliot Moriarty) deliver his historic speech, after being sentenced to death for treason, the idea of a rotting system leaps out, providing topical resonances for today, the fulcrum of the efforts of this brilliant company that have woken ghosts from their haunted slumber. These...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: RSVP by Coney, ABSOLUT Fringe and Dublin Youth Theatre

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 14 September 2012 14-16 Sept (see Fringe for times) in Meeting Point OReilly Theatre

RSVP begins with a greeting delivered over an MP3 player out in front of the OReilly Theatre on Great Denmark St. We’re not off to play, but a teenagers party and if anybody asks why we’re there, we’re supposed to tell them we know Enda. Our guide Rosa took us down the laneways...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: Constellations by PaperDolls

Reviewed by Rachel Donnelly on 14 September 2012 14-22 Sept 2012 in D-Light Studios

Still in their infancy as a company (formed in January 2011), PaperDolls are ferociously determined. This is nicely reflected in the Spartan monochrome costumes worn by the performers and the utilitarian surroundings of D-Light studios, giving the cast the air of a pack of hungry wolves, lean and hard. The...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: AN OUTSIDE UNDERSTANDING by Croí Glan Integrated Dance

Reviewed by Seona Mac Réamoinn on 14 September 2012 14-15 Sept 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Are you on the edge of the circle figuring out the inner action or standing inside the circle and musing about the external world? Ways of looking and perspective continued to fascinate choreographer Liz Roche and here she applies her customary reflective dance-making intelligence to that of physical...

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