Reviews

The Housekeeper by Morna Regan

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 24 April 2012 24 April - 12 May, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

It’s rare nowadays to see a playwright weave together a plot using the classical unities as assuredly as Morna Regan does in The Housekeeper, her tale of post-recession desperation. No brief and choppy scenes or sudden blackouts here. The Aristotelian virtue of the unification of time, place and...

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Tic Teac, Tic Teac by Niamh Lawlor

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 21 April 2012 in Charleville Mall Library

She stands there on the bare stage as we enter, resplendent in a dress shaped like a sliced pizza. You can’t help but laugh, and the ice has been broken. Curious as to whom this strange person is, the children, aged 3-6, turn to their parental units, point, question and quarrel amongst themselves...

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Danny and Chantelle (Still Here) by Phillip McMahon

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 21 April 2012 17 – 28 April, 2012 in The Globe/Rí Rá

A lot can change in six years. Booming businesses can run aground. Economies can crash and burn. National moods can switch from ebullience to despair. A lot has changed, one assumes, for playwright Phillip McMahon since his first play Danny and Chantelle (Still Here) was produced in 2006. McMahon has...

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My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, adapted by Joseph O'Connor

Reviewed by Victoria White on 18 April 2012 18 April - 19 May, 2012 in Gate Theatre

Daphne du Maurier's best novels are like multi-faceted diamonds: different lights transform them. The light of the reader's perspective, that is. I was pretty much marked for life when I saw Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940) as a child, particularly when my mother intoned the opening line: “Last night...

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The Chastitute by John B. Keane

Reviewed by Liam Heylin on 17 April 2012 17 - 28 April, 2012 in Cork Arts Theatre

The Cork Arts Theatre has a long history as a tiny venue in the heart of Cork city. Beloved of many an actor and stage hand over the decades, the CAT Club, as it was affectionately known, provided a late night jar for theatre people from the city’s theatres. It also had a tiny stage with about...

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Velvet Revolution by Mick Donnellan

Reviewed by Siobhán O'Gorman on 14 April 2012 10 – 14 April, 2012 in Town Hall Studio

Mick Donnellan has proved himself a highly prolific writer since the premiere of his first play, Sunday Morning Coming Down, in March 2011. Since then, he has added Shortcut to Hallelujah and Gun Metal Grey to his dramatic repertoire, as well publishing his novel, El Niño. While his first three plays...

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The Spinner by DISH Dance Collective

Reviewed by Rachel Donnelly on 13 April 2012 13, 17, 28 April 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Who believes in fate anymore? There’s really no room for such a fanciful notion in this enlightened day and age, but it was a concept the ancient Greeks set a lot of store by. In DISH Dance Collective’s The Spinner, choreographer Aoife McAtamney takes the Greek legend of the three Fates,...

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Tea Chests and Dreams by Dermot Bolger

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 11 April 2012 11 - 14 April (Axis); 20 and 21 April (Civic) in Axis: Ballymun

As Dermot Bolger says in the programme notes to his new play, one would be hard pressed nowadays to find tea chests to use for packing up house in order to move. Regardless of packing methods, the event of moving house, as Bolger’s play effectively expresses, calls up a spectrum of anxieties and...

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A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 11 April 2012 10 April – 28 April, 2012 in Smock Alley Theatre

No, it’s not a typo. Adaptor/director Gavin Quinn explains in the programme notes for Pan Pan Theatre’s production that he purposely omitted the customary possessive in this translation of the title of Ibsen’s 1879 humanist drama. The doll doesn’t own the house, after all. No:...

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A Better Boy by John Wilson Foster

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 10 April 2012 9- 15 April, 2012 in Barge 'MV Confiance'

“There is not a better boy in heaven ...” These words were written not by a close relative of Thomas Andrews, chief designer of RMS Titanic, but by one of the hundreds of people, who were moved to send messages of condolence to the family after he went down with his ship in the North Atlantic...

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