Reviews

Absolut Fringe 2012: MIRROR, MIRROR by Ether Productions

Reviewed by Caomhán Keane on 14 September 2012 14-16 Sept & 22-23 Sept 2012 in Filmbase: Roasted Brown Café

Ether Productions are competing against the elements in their stunning aerial bedtime story, Mirror, Mirror. Those distractions include a bustling box office downstairs and the functioning elevator that stops and opens onto the playing space every few minutes, constantly tempting us out of the world...

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The Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge

Reviewed by Tom Maguire on 13 September 2012 13 Sept - 7 Oct, 2012 in Lyric Theatre

Conall Morrison’s Playboy has all the ingredients of the triumphant Crucible with which he opened the revamped Lyric a year ago. He has brought together an ensemble cast of newcomers and veterans, a great design team and a commitment to a style of performance that emphasizes the physicality of...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: Sequin Dreams by Michele Moran

Reviewed by Siobhán Kane on 13 September 2012 Sept 13-22 (check Fringe timetable for details) in Bewley's Cafe Theatre

Written and performed by Michele Moran, and part of the Show in a Bag initiative, Sequin Dreams explores a number of stories based around the 1960s, taking us from the lanes of Meath, to The Gateways Club in London, and Club Tropicana in Beirut. Jackie is our guide, and we follow her journey as an...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: 'The Trick' and 'Burning Love' an evening of Grand Guignol by Mia Gallagher

Reviewed by Emma Creedon on 12 September 2012 12 - 15 September, 2012 in Smock Alley Theatre (Boys School)

As the audience takes their seats on multiple levels of scaffolding down long corridors that suggest a descent into the dissident world of hedonism, The Trick’s Shóna (Mary Cate Smith) is already gyrating in mock sexy moves on a lapdancer’s pole. Staged at the Boys School of Smock Alley Theatre,...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: DOGS by Emma Martin Dance

Reviewed by Michael Seaver on 12 September 2012 12-15 Sept 2012 in Project Arts Centre

“The moment of survival is a moment of power” is the paradoxical tagline to Dogs and it provides a neat encapsulation of the choreography’s revelation of individual human weakness as well as communal strength. A further subtext, reflected in the title, was the emergence of pack instinct...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: The Lehane Trilogy... A Theatre Show in Six Parts by Ruth Lehane

Reviewed by Sheena Madden on 12 September 2012 12-15 Sept 2012 in Players Theatre

Ruth Lehane has been watching the dust settle on her silver tea set for four years; waiting for her life to take a turn for the better. Standing at a literal and metaphorical crossroads in her Aran jumper, woollen bikini, and bright red nose, Lehane is as disorientated as a trilogy in six parts. Where...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: CAUGHT by Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre

Reviewed by Rachel Donnelly on 12 September 2012 12-15 Sept 2012 in The Lir

The term ‘physical theatre’ can describe a whole range of performance, the one defining factor being bodies moving in space. Billing themselves as ‘a pint-sized Cirque du Soleil’, Fidget Feet thoroughly embrace this premise with Caught, a mish-mash of mime, aerial acrobatics,...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: U-R-HAMLET by Conor Madden

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 12 September 2012 12, 16-19, 21 Sept 2012 (see Fringe for times) in Bewley's Cafe Theatre

The first impression that Show in A Bag’s U-R-Hamlet gives is that of tedious lo-fi blah blah blah: a detritus-strewn stage inhabited by a single actor disregarding the fourth wall talking about himself and apples and Brecht. We really don’t come to a show to see actors be their own selves...

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Absolut Fringe: BROADENING by Glass Doll Productions

Reviewed by Meadhbh McHugh on 12 September 2012 12-15 Sept 2012 in The Lir

How far could you be pushed away from who you think you are? Broadening brings together a group of people who have signed up for a secret social experiment. Some knowingly, for money or escape, have agreed to be participants. Others think they are in control of the process, but even they are manipulated...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: BANDIT by Brian O'Riordan

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 12 September 2012 12-21 Sept 2012 in Bewley's Cafe Theatre

Having run from his past, his responsibilities, and his memories, Peter (Brian O'Riordan) is ready to run for real. Sort of. Like, he is in fact going to run the Dublin Marathon. Except, he’s not registered. He is what is known in big race parlance as a bandit, and he’s out to prove he can...

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