Reviews

A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 24 July 2012 24 July - 22 September, 2012 in the Gate Theatre

Oscar Wilde had not yet truly hit his stride as a master of form and pace by the time A Woman of No Importance was first staged in 1893. It is classic Wilde in many respects: a comic melodrama populated by a combination of stuffy society types and devil-may-care Wildean stand-ins whose quips and paradoxical...

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The Great Goat Bubble by Julian Gough

Reviewed by Matthew Harrison on 21 July 2012 16 - 29 July, 2012 in Druid Lane Theatre

‘Youtube’ has promulgated the concept of the family-friendly lecture: science, philosophy and economics are gracefully deconstructed in minutes by smiling Brian Coxes and Ken Robinsons for the benefit of TED, celebrity audiences, humankind, and other oiks. In fact, all that stuff you didn’t...

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Perfidia by Jimmy Murphy

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 14 July 2012 6 - 14 July, 2012 in Theatre Upstairs @ Lanigan's

Jimmy Murphy’s new play Perfidia is ostensibly a probing of the national psyche in the wake of the collapse of the Celtic Tiger - though there is little allusion to that in the opening moments of the production, bar a solitary Sherry Fitzgerald sign. Metallic, industrial sounds drone before turning...

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Sylvia’s Quest by Alice Coghlan

Reviewed by Christina Hunt Mahony on 14 July 2012 6 July - 23 Sept, 2012 (on tour) in Temple Bar

Wonderland’s latest offering continues in their tradition of ambitious and imaginative work. Sylvia’s Quest is the site-specific journey of Sylvia Sylvana, a young Bulgarian woman recently arrived in Ireland and working as a cleaner for the Mulhalls. Sylvia’s doubly redolent name,...

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The Dubliners Dilemma by Declan Gorman, adapted from 'Dubliners' by James Joyce

Reviewed by Christina Hunt Mahony on 14 July 2012 9 - 28 July, 2012 in CityArts

The Dubliners Dilemma, a one-man show devised and performed by Declan Gorman, delivers well in CityArts’ twenty-five seat theatre and would likely play to advantage in somewhat larger houses. It is Bachelors Walk Productions' aim to take the show “worldwide”, and to this effect they...

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Heroin(e) for Breakfast by Philip Stokes

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 06 July 2012 5 - 12 July, 2012 in Smock Alley Studio

One was thrown for a loop upon entering the Smock Alley Studio, where Pillowtalk Theatre Company recently mounted their version of Philip Stokes’ Heroin(e) for Breakfast as part of the '10 Days in Dublin' festival. With a radio recording of the Queen's English protruding from the pounding score...

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Record by Dylan Tighe

Reviewed by Rachel Andrews on 30 June 2012 25 - 30 June, 2012 in Half Moon Theatre

The drugs don’t work, suggests Dylan Tighe, in his compelling new production about depression and mental illness, mined from the depths of his own struggle with the black demon and his distrust of a dysfunctional psychiatric health service that, he intimates here, will likely only make the situation...

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Hungry Tea by Creative Connections

Reviewed by Rachel Andrews on 30 June 2012 26 June – 30 June, 2012 in 22 Watercourse Road, Blackpool, Cork

Inside a terraced house painted pink and clothed on the outside with tea cups, which hang from hooks driven into the wall, wander a group of women. Maybe there are ten of them, maybe there are more. After a while, it becomes difficult to count. They move from room to room, or between upstairs and downstairs,...

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The Sweet Shop by Maria Tivnan

Reviewed by Siobhán O'Gorman on 28 June 2012 27 – 29 June, 2012 in Town Hall Studio

Award-winning actress and director Maria Tivnan shows that her skills extend to writing with her new two-hander The Sweet Shop. Here, Tivnan offers a work akin to plays that Fregoli has successfully produced in the past, such as Raymond Scannell’s Breathing Water (2011) and Enda Walsh’s Disco...

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My Brilliant Divorce by Geraldine Aron

Reviewed by Sheena Madden on 28 June 2012 in Draíocht Theatre (on tour)

“My name is Angela Kennedy-Lipsky and I used to be one half of Angela and Max, the world’s happiest couple.” The opening lines of Geraldine Aron’s My Brilliant Divorce, brought to the Draíocht Theatre by Jasango Theatre Company, initially seem to combine with the title to bolster...

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