Reviews

Joyced! by Donal O'Kelly

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 10 April 2012 3 - 28 April, 2012 in Bewley’s Café Theatre

It was a tall order for James Joyce to stuff the moment-to-moment significance of a single day into a novel, and it seems an even taller order to try to cram the nexus of persons and events that influenced Ulysses into an hour-long, one-person show. But Donal O’Kelly has made that his mission,...

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Titans by Jimmy McAleavey

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 08 April 2012 8 - 11 April, 2012 in Harland & Wolff Drawing Offices and Titanic Belfast

Since its inception in 1994, Kabosh has set out to challenge the notion of what theatre is and where it can be staged. In reinventing ways in which stories can be told, the company’s raison d’etre is to commission a steady flow of new writing and devise additional work for site-specific...

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The Fall by Ella Clarke

Reviewed by Michael Seaver on 06 April 2012 4-7 April, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

As a member of the Genesis Collective from 2003 until 2011, Ella Clarke spent many hours engaging with the conundrum-based works of the American choreographer Deborah Hay. Initial perceptions of her latest work, The Fall, might suggest a fracture with that practice, with Hay's rarified stripped-back...

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Alice in Funderland by Phillip McMahon and Raymond Scannell

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 05 April 2012 4 April-12 May, 2012 in The Abbey Theatre

Alice (Sarah Greene) is a nice Cork girl recently bereaved and facing the humiliation of her sister’s forthcoming wedding. While in Dublin on the hens’ night, she gets a little drunk, hooks up with a delivery boy (Ian Lloyd Anderson) in a club, and then goes on a hallucinatory journey through...

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Durang Durang by Christopher Durang

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 03 April 2012 3 - 7 April, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Absurd. Bizarre. Surreal. These adjectives are prerequisites for any review of the work of American playwright Christopher Durang, but they are ultimately inadequate at describing the full extent of his unusual sensibility. His plotlines, on the other hand, are far more revealing. Take Business Lunch...

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Monster/Clock by Eoghan Quinn

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 01 April 2012 26 March - 14 April, 2012 in Smock Alley (Boy’s School)

Towards the end of Monster/Clock, our hero Toby asks the titular villain, "What happens when you drink Mmbela Kolo Pop?" "Simple" he replies. "It leads to an increase of synapses firing and serotonin production, causing a brief but intense feeling of euphoria. It also leaves...

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A Spell of Cold Weather by Charles Way

Reviewed by Helen Cusack on 31 March 2012 15 - 31 March, 2012 in Pavilion Theatre (on tour)

“We used to enjoy the farm. We used to enjoy work. We used to be happy.” Charles Way’s A Spell of Cold Weather has been produced in Britain, Ireland and further afield many times in the last two decades. It tells the tale of a little girl, Holly, who brings happiness back into the...

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White Star of the North by Rosemary Jenkinson

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 28 March 2012 28 March - 14 April, 2012 in the Lyric Theatre

"This white heat in you for living, like a star in the sky". The line's addressed to Crawford Massey by his father Robert, and from it Rosemary Jenkinson's new Titanic play takes its title. The reference to White Star Line (Titanic's owners) is there, of course, but it's peripheral. The focus...

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Tiny Plays for Ireland by Fishamble

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 24 March 2012 15-31 March, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Many may presume that theatre critics hate theatre, in that, well, they are always criticising it, aren’t they? In fact, it might be that the opposite is true: those of us who are drawn to write about this aspect of our culture care about it to an almost painful degree. Even after many years of...

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The Beckett Trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) by Samuel Beckett

Reviewed by Ger FitzGibbon on 17 March 2012 in Cork Opera House

The St Patrick’s Bacchanalia was in full swing on the streets when the Beckett fans took shelter in the Cork Opera House where Gare St Lazare Players were staging a number of Beckett prose works, alongside Gaitkrash’s wonderful production of Play. Meanwhile, over at the Granary, the UCC Drama...

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