Reviews

The Importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 07 June 2012 7 June - 7 July, 2012 in the Lyric Theatre

Some curious decisions are made in this new staging of The Importance of Being Earnest, one being the casting of two male actors in the parts of Lady Bracknell and Miss Prism. Why do that? What’s wrong with casting women? Are there serious artistic reasons for the decision? Or is it just a rather...

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Plants and Hopes by Suzannah McCreight and Brian Irvine

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 06 June 2012 24 May - 8 June, 2012 (on tour) in Island Arts Centre

Gardening, it is said, represents the ultimate form of hope. A tiny seed lies dormant in the cold, dark ground, entirely at the mercy of the elements, its ultimate survival a hair’s breadth removed its withering away on the vine. And so it is with an unborn child, waiting patiently in the womb...

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Sweet Charity by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 31 May 2012 29 May - 17 June, 2012 in The MAC, Belfast

Broadway, Bruiser and Brecht... it’s a tantalising, tricky combination, offering exactly the kind of creative challenge that Belfast-based Bruiser has thrived on during the fifteen busy years of its life. Inspired by its founder and artistic director Lisa May and managed from the onset by actor/comedy...

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The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 29 May 2012 29 May – 02 June, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Never have the members of an audience wreaked as much havoc in the theatre - pushing and shoving their way to their seats, trotting on the toes of the elderly, even going as far as calling the lady selling programmes and Eskimo pies a cow. Invisible they may be, but the gathering of society’s...

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Macklin: Method and Madness by Gary Jermyn and Michael James Ford

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 29 May 2012 28 May - 2 June, 2012 in Viking Theatre at the Sheds

A clever telescoping of history is one of the more intriguing features of Gary Jermyn's and Michael James Ford’s two-man show about Charles Macklin, a Donegal native who took the eighteenth-century London stage by storm. From the seats of the cosy Viking Theatre in twenty-first century Clontarf,...

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Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 29 May 2012 29 May – July 14, 2012 in the Gate Theatre

Automobile magnate and paragon of American wealth in the 1980s Lee Iacocca once said that “The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity to come.” A poster of Iococca hangs on the back wall in the real estate company where the salesmen in the Gate’s production...

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Straight to DVD by Ponydance

Reviewed by Tom Maguire on 25 May 2012 22-26 May 2012, and on tour in the MAC, Belfast

Ponydance Theatre Company have come a long way since their first performances back in 2005. Following on the success of their award for Best Dance Show at the Adelaide Fringeearlier this year, they opened their latest show, Straight to DVD in the Upstairs space of Belfast’s spanking new Metropolitan...

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Pigeon by Ciarán Taylor and the Company

Reviewed by Derek West on 23 May 2012 22 May – 2 June, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Pigeon is a play with masks, without words, but with a clear, satirical narrative for the times we live in. Ciarán Taylor and the members of Carpet Theatre evoke a recession in the suburbs through a form of physical theatre, close to dance, in which the movement and expression are orchestrated and syncopated....

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Blátha Bána (White Blossoms) by Graffiti Theatre Company

Reviewed by Rachel Andrews on 19 May 2012 16 - 26 May, 2012 in Graffiti Theatre

Three years ago, Graffiti Theatre Company, the educational theatre company based in Cork, began work on a play for young children aged eighteen months to three years. The process of creating a piece of work with which tiny children would engage in non-interactive fashion – Blátha Bána is meant...

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The Falling Song by junk ensemble

Reviewed by Seona Mac Réamoinn on 18 May 2012 May 18-20, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

A young man perched atop a ladder, from which trails a hanging looped rope, begins to peel an apple. It happens towards the end of this adrenalin pumping and unsettling new work from junk ensemble and we watch the curling skin of the fruit winding down to the core in a seamless loop. Is it luscious fruit...

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