Reviews

The Titanic Boys by Martin Lynch, music and lyrics by JJ Gilmour

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 08 August 2012 8 - 25 August, 2012 in Grand Opera House, Belfast

And still they come: in this centenary year of the great, perished liner, a slew of Titanocentric artworks continues to be launched from the creative slipways of its native city. This latest offering focuses on the little-known story of “The Guarantee Group”, a team of nine Harland and Wolff...

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Jack Kairo and the Long Hard Kiss Goodbye by Simon Toal, with Patrick O’Donnell and Vincent A. Reilly

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 08 August 2012 30 July - 11 August, 2012 in Theatre Upstairs

This isn’t detective Jack Kairo’s first time on stage. Conceived and performed by Simon Toal, the character previously featured in the one-man show The Friends of Jack Kairo, which premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2005. In this latest instalment, Toal is joined on stage by Patrick...

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Basra Boy by Rosemary Jenkinson

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 06 August 2012 6 - 9 August, 2012 in Roddy McCorley Social Club, Belfast

Distressed brickwork on a grey-russet backdrop, tattered Union bunting draped slant-wise across it, and a battered city council wheelie-bin stage-centre: this is Rosemary Jenkinson’s East Belfast, and a Michelangelo fresco it decidedly isn’t. It spawns Speedy - teenage Orange fluter, smack-head,...

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Seo Robert / Here's Robert by Noel McGee

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 02 August 2012 1 - 3 August, 2012 in Culturlann McAdam Ó Fiaich, Belfast

Given the scope of his cultural and commercial influence, surprisingly little is known of Robert Shipboy McAdam, a member of a remarkable generation of Northern Presbyterians, who saw no contradiction between loyalty to the British Crown and devotion to the Irish language. Within the recently-designated...

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D.R.A.G. - Divided, Radical and Gorgeous by Niall Rea

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 31 July 2012 31 July and 1 Aug, 2012 (continues on tour) in The Belfast Barge

Love across the barricades. It’s a familiar and recurring plotline in stories and plays about Northern Ireland. But in Niall Rea's pithy, hour-long drama, the barricades are constructed upon sexual rather than sectarian politics. Still, social and cultural division provides the climate for an...

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Overtime by Jane McCarthy

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 28 July 2012 23 - 28 July, 2012 in The New Theatre

“It’s not how it is, it’s how it looks.” This is the common refrain in Jane McCarthy’s Overtime, a play that is both a deranged man’s conversation with himself, and a discussion between two businessmen on the ethics of the corporate world. Overtime begins far past...

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Galway Fringe Festival 2012 by various

Reviewed by Siobhán O'Gorman on 28 July 2012 12 - 30 July, 2012 in various venues

The inaugural Galway Fringe Festival boasted over thirty theatre performances (including ten student productions), twelve dance shows, an exhibition featuring the work of over fifty artists, as well as a selection of rehearsed readings, cabaret, comedy, music gigs and workshops. Conceived by festival...

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Frank Pig Says Hello by Patrick McCabe

Reviewed by Siobhán O'Gorman on 27 July 2012 16 – 28 July, 2012 in Nuns Island Theatre

Frank Pig Says Hello, Pat McCabe’s stage version of his acclaimed novel The Butcher Boy, first appeared as part of the 1992 Dublin Theatre Festival. Yet, overshadowed by Neil Jordan’s 1997 film adaptation of the novel, the play has rarely been revived since its premiere. This vibrant co-production...

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Oleanna by David Mamet

Reviewed by Síle Ní Bhroin on 26 July 2012 30 June - 1 Sept, 2012 (on tour) in Cork Arts Theatre

Under Ruth Calder-Potts' direction, Company D's simple, sleek production of Mamet's Oleanna captures the complex power play between the two characters intriguingly well. In the first of three scenes, the college professor, John (David Scott) arrogantly claims that it is his job to provoke Carol (Sinéad...

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Watt by Samuel Beckett, adapted for stage by Barry McGovern

Reviewed by Matthew Harrison on 24 July 2012 23 - 28 July, 2012 in Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway

What Watt play by Samuel Beckett? In this Gate Theatre production, Galway Arts Festival audiences discovered that even Beckett will school-boyishly pun in actor Barry McGovern’s engaging and quietly confident stage animation of the 1945 book. The ‘difficult’ original is purposely disjointed...

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