Reviews

Absolut Fringe 2012: CIRCA STILL, RUPTURE NOW by Lithium

Reviewed by Sheena Madden on 08 September 2012 8-15 Sept, 2012 in Smock Alley Theatre

When fragments of our memories are scattered like particles of an atomic bomb, how do we begin to piece them back together? Lithium’s Circa Still, Rupture Now challenges us to explore concepts of memory and perception through a disjointed assembly of powerful iconic images of war and conflict;...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: SOLPADEINE IS MY BOYFRIEND by With An 'F' Productions

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 08 September 2012 8-15 Sept, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Over literature’s long history, great writers have eulogised the transcendent powers of opium, heroin and cocaine, to name but a few. In Solpadeine Is My Boyfriend, Stefanie Preissner documents one woman’s attachment to an accessible, over-the-counter fix, solpadeine (which we learn is three...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: A BLINDING GLIMPSE OF THE OBVIOUS by Fiona Sheil

Reviewed by Clara Kumagai on 08 September 2012 8-12 Sept, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Sitting at the end of a long table, Fiona Sheil speaks quietly into a microphone, occasionally sipping on a glass of water, glancing down at her script – or perhaps we should say, her lecture notes. Sheil provides first-hand material by dissecting her own major heartbreak, from reliving the daydreams...

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Absolut Fringe 2012: TROMLUÍ PHINOCCHIO / PINOCCHIO – A NIGHTMARE by Moonfish Theatre

Reviewed by Fíona Ní Chinnéide on 08 September 2012 8-15 sept, 2012 in Smock Alley Theatre

Teenage boys can be such blockheads. None more so than Pinocchio, of course, the original runaway ingrate whose rebellion against parental control leads him very far from the safety of home. Then again, Gepetto's parenting credentials are not quite established here: ordered by phone from a dubious...

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Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell

Reviewed by Wolfgang Marx on 06 September 2012 15 Aug - 6 Sept, 2012 in Mermaid Arts Centre

Cork Opera House’s production of Dido and Aeneas can teach the viewer a lot about Baroque opera and how it can be productively recreated in the twenty-first century. At a time dominated by the so-called 'historic performance practice', or the attempt to perform music from the Baroque and earlier...

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Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 25 August 2012 25 - 27 August, 2012 in Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen

Fifteen minutes into this production, with a single word yet to be spoken, I begin thinking that a better title for it might be Krapp's Last Tape: The Director's Cut. The director in question is Robert Wilson, legend of avant-garde and experimentalist theatre. He is acting Krapp in his own staging, the...

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Village Wooing by Bernard Shaw

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 21 August 2012 13 Aug – 8 Sept, 2012 in Bewley's Café Theatre

When a woman wearing a watch asks a man the time, perhaps he ought to be circumspect. Bernard Shaw’s one-act comedietta of an unlikely romance is a delightful little lunchtime treat of delicious wordplay and verbal wit. An aristocratic poet and occasional travel writer, A (Elliot Moriarty), sits...

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The Mai by Marina Carr

Reviewed by Breda Shannon on 17 August 2012 16 - 25 August, 2012 in Town Hall Theatre

The work of a talented playwright such as Marina Carr is always eagerly anticipated, whether it is a new play or a revival. Unfortunately, Mephisto Theatre Company’s production of The Mai disappoints. While there is much about this interpretation that is magical, it is Carr’s writing and...

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Moll by John B. Keane

Reviewed by Matthew Harrison on 16 August 2012 in Beehive Theatre, Cúilín, Dingle

It is not until well into the second half of John B. Keane’s Moll that a world without a priest’s wall is mentioned at all, and that is a brief reference to the poor in Peru. In Keane’s parodying of a rural presbytery in Kerry, the incumbent priests’ obsessive preoccupations are...

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Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 15 August 2012 14 - 25 August, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Although in existence as a professional, independent company since 2004, with a number of productions under its belt, it’s fair to say that AC Productions straddles the line between amateur and professional standards. This is worth bearing in mind when viewing the work, not least of all because,...

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