Reviews

Body and Forgetting | The Wake by Liz Roche Company | Sarah Dowling

Reviewed by Seona Mac Réamoinn on 11 May 2012 11 and 12 May, 2012 in Samuel Beckett Theatre

Down the half-lit corridor, the figure in a print frock walked backwards, moving slowly on screen into our view and that of the four dancers on stage. From that moment, we were watching two performances in parallel, on film and on stage, our attention drawn from one to the other in turn, the dancers...

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Dickens at the Ulster Hall by Sam McCready

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 11 May 2012 8 - 12 May, 2012 in Lyric Theatre (Naughton Studio)

When Charles Dickens visited Belfast a second time in 1867, he was 54 years old, but prematurely aged and careworn. A decade of public readings of his work had progressively drained him, as had the guilt and aftershock of separation from his wife Catherine, which he himself had initiated. Yet on he went:...

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The Baths by Prime Cut Productions

Reviewed by Lisa Fitzpatrick on 10 May 2012 7 - 12 May, 2012 in Templemore Baths, Belfast

The Baths is the third show in Louise Lowe's collaboration with Prime Cut Productions, the other two being Demeter: Still Life Still and Right Here Right Now. It is based in the Victorian Templemore Baths which opened in 1893 to serve the densely populated terraced streets of East Belfast, near Harland...

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The Civilisation Game by Tim Loane

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 10 May 2012 3 - 26 May, 2012 in Lyric Theatre

In Tim Loane’s previous stage plays, Northern politics loomed large with a capital P. In Caught Red Handed (2002) and To Be Sure (2007) – the so-called ‘comedies of terror’ – he gleefully lanced the bloated self-importance of, respectively, the unionist and republican camps,...

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A Galway Girl by Geraldine Aron

Reviewed by Emilie Pine on 03 May 2012 1 - 26 May, 2012 in Bewley’s Café Theatre

One of the remarkable things about the Bewley’s Café Theatre is that it is both un-theatrical and yet highly theatrical simultaneously. There is very little mystique as you sit in the room, eating (very good) soup and bread, listening to the noises from Grafton street, looking around at the fellow...

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The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh

Reviewed by Liam Heylin on 02 May 2012 1 - 5 May, 2012 in the Granary Theatre

The madness and magic of Tom MacIntyre’s response to The Great Hunger has become locked down tight with the theatrical history of the Patrick Kavanagh poem - Tom Hickey [in the 1983 Abbey Theatre production] creating a riot of manic energy as that play engaged in a highly physical and visual manner...

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Greener by Fiona Looney

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 01 May 2012 1 – 26 May, 2012 in the Gaiety Theatre

Money isn’t everything, as far as Greener is concerned, but it’s certainly enough to air the true colours of one’s dirty laundry in public. The conclusion of the Dandelions trilogy, this play has everything and the kitchen sink (two, in fact). A double lottery win, a dangerous affair,...

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Dubliners by James Joyce, adapted by Alice Coghlan

Reviewed by Derek West on 29 April 2012 31 March - 6 May, 2012 in various locations around Dublin city

Director Alice Coghlan has come up with an idea for Dublin One City One Book: to make Dubliners come to life in a site-specific audio-tour of the Joycean city, giving the responsibility to the listener to navigate the streets, broad and narrow, while being regaled with dramatized excerpts from the short...

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Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry, 1912) by Owen McCafferty

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 26 April 2012 in The MAC, Belfast

Over the past month or so, there have been enough Titanic-related events in and around Belfast to sink a ship. An impressive amount of new work has been commissioned, including two site specific pieces by Kabosh, a play for the Lyric Theatre, a musical and a requiem. But throughout the Titanic Belfast...

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Darwin: A Life in Poems by Ruth Padel

Reviewed by Siobhán O'Gorman on 24 April 2012 24 – 28 April, 2012 in Town Hall Studio

Darwin: A Life in Poems was published in 2009 amid a surge of cultural activities celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin’s birth. Its author, Ruth Padel—a nature writer, poet and literary critic—is Darwin’s great great grand-daughter. Fittingly, Padel demystifies the static...

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