Reviews

Pits and Perverts by Micheál Kerrigan

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 09 October 2013 3 – 11 October 2013 (on tour) in the Lyric Theatre, Belfast

Lesbians, gay men and Welsh coal miners. They aren't, if you'll pardon the expression, the likeliest of bedfellows. And yet at one extraordinary moment of social and political history they came together, united by a common detestation of state authoritarianism in Thatcher's Britain, and a basic human...

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The Big Yum Yum by Patrick McCabe

Reviewed by Rachel Andrews on 09 October 2013 9 - 19 October 2013 in Half Moon Theatre

“Put any two people in a room and they have a story to tell,” said writer Patrick McCabe in an interview given in advance of his most recent play, produced by Corcadorca theatre company and staged in the small, intimate space of the Half Moon Theatre in Cork. If this play is about anything,...

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Bunny's Vendetta by Darren Murphy

Reviewed by Chris McAlinden on 08 October 2013 3 - 8 October 2013 in The Glassworks, Great James Street

Set in a recording studio in 1950s Soho, Bunny’s Vendetta is a gorgeously noir-ish piece of black comedy written by Darren Murphy. Part of the George Farquhar Theatre Festival in Derry~Londonderry, this new play is inspired by Farquhar’s own Adventures of Covent Garden, and transplants the...

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Galway Theatre Festival: Blackbird by David Harrower

Reviewed by Matthew Harrison on 05 October 2013 4/5 October 2013 in An Taibhdhearc, Galway

Mephisto Theatre Company treads carefully the gangplank that is the fine line dividing the taboo from the disputable in their efficient production for Galway Theatre Festival of David Harrower’s hypnotic and gothic little one-act horror, Blackbird. Una is twenty-six years old and she has just...

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Galway Theatre Festival: Low Level Panic by Clare McIntyre

Reviewed by Brendan Daly on 04 October 2013 4 & 5 October 2013 in Nuns Island Theatre

“If you're going to tell people the truth,” George Bernard Shaw is alleged to have said, “you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you.” These sentiments set the tone of Anam Theatre’s intuitive production of Clare McIntyre’s challenging and provocative Low...

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Dublin Theatre Festival: The Critic by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Reviewed by Emma Creedon on 04 October 2013 4-13 October 2013 in The Culture Box and The Ark

Rough Magic’s interpretation of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Critic sets up a dialectical debate concerning the moral obligation of theatre versus its entertainment value. The first act of the performance suggests, albeit in a satirical manner, that theatre and politics have an antonymic...

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Dublin Theatre Festival: Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 04 October 2013 4-13 October 2013 in Smock Alley Theatre

As Greek as it is — what with its themes of incest and of infanticide — Eugene O’Neill’s 1924 play is pure Old Testament, at least in the hands of Corn Exchange. As brutal and vengeful as any Bible story in which the centrepoint is a vindictive God, these themes seem to present...

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Galway Theatre Festival: Dorset Street Toys by Rory O’Sullivan

Reviewed by Brendan Daly on 03 October 2013 2 & 3 October, 2013 in Nuns Island Theatre

Fregoli Theatre’s premiere of Rory O’Sullivan’s kinetic script is underwritten by counterpoint. As we take our seats, Joe (Aron Hegarty) lies flat on his back, his head cradled in the lap of a kneeling Anna (Kate Murray), her head bowed towards his. The meticulous stillness maintained...

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Dublin Theatre Festival: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 03 October 2013 3-6 October 2013 in The Gaiety Theatre

There is a satisfying congruence that occurs with Gare St. Lazare’s production of Waiting for Godot being staged at the Gaiety Theatre. The play’s constant textual and performative quotations of the circus, music hall, pantomime and clowning find a useful resonance with a performance space...

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Ponies Don’t Play Football by Ponydance

Reviewed by Miriam Haughton on 02 October 2013 1 - 5 October, 2013 in the Mac, Belfast

The self-proclaimed champions of comedy dance theatre, Ponydance’s latest offering Ponies Don’t Play Football at the MAC, is not so much a tongue-in-cheek jest from beginning to end, as an ass-in-cheek one. A startling opener presents three knicker-clad bums aggressively twerking the audience...

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