Reviews

Agamemnon by Aeschylus

Reviewed by Christina Hunt Mahony on 16 March 2012 20-31 March, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Classic Stage Ireland’s production of Agamemnon continues its series of Greek dramas staged in Dublin since 2010. It is the first offering of director Andy Hinds’ intended production of Aeschylus’ trilogy, The Oresteia.Hinds, who makes no claim to being a Greek scholar, takes the ambitious...

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King Alfred: A Mystery Play by Martin Sharry

Reviewed by Siobhán O'Gorman on 15 March 2012 14 – 16 March, 2012 in Town Hall Studio

What is it that marks and preserves history? What forces circumscribe and maintain meaning? Such questions, posed by Side-Show’s second production, are pertinent to the play’s inspiration: the filming of the MGM flop King Alfred the Great in Galway, 1968. A massive event at the time, employing...

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Improbable Frequency by Arthur Riordan and Bell Helicopter

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 15 March 2012 15- 24 March, 2012 in the Gaiety Theatre

Improbable Frequency is an inventive and witty Irish musical with book and lyrics by Arthur Riordan, who, since its first production in 2004, has become the master of this particular sub-genre. The Irish musical is not like the West End or Broadway blockbuster, or even like Riverdance. It is more like...

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Marianne Dreams by Moira Buffini, based on the novel by Catherine Storr

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 15 March 2012 13 March - 3 April, 2012 (on tour) in Lyric Theatre

Marianne is ten years old, and sick with a fever. Bed-ridden and constantly attended to by Mother and a crisply efficient doctor, she relieves the tedium by drawing pictures. At night, dreaming, Marianne finds herself outside the house that she has sketched earlier. There is a boy in it. But who is he?...

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The Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson

Reviewed by Úna Kealy on 12 March 2012 8 - 17 March, 2012 in Theatre Royal, Waterford

The Memory of Water tells the story of three sisters, Mary, Teresa and Catherine, who have returned to the family home to attend the funeral of their mother, Vi, who has died of Alzheimer’s disease. Teresa, the eldest sister, is played by Tina Kellegher as worn down by the sorrow and toil of being...

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Love Matters by Gary Mitchell

Reviewed by Ruth Kennedy on 08 March 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Gary Mitchell seems at first an unlikely playwright to have play produced in the Irish language. But such is the cultural dividend of the peace process that a Protestant from Rathcoole now sees his work translated expertly by Andrea Higgins and produced by Belfast-based theatre company Aisling Ghéar....

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Weight by Fluxusdance

Reviewed by Seona Mac Réamoinn on 07 March 2012 7-8 March, 2012 in AXIS: Ballymun

As I waited to enter the site specific performance space, at the AXIS theatre in Ballymun, various notions of ‘weight’ began to travel through the mind particular to dance performance; the physical and metaphorical weighting of bodies in stillness or at speed, the emotional freighting of...

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The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 02 March 2012 2 - 20 March, 2012 (on tour) in Theatre at the Mill, Newtownabbey

There are, as historian R.F. Foster puts it (in another context), "strange nullities" at the heart of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw. Is it an opera about child abuse? Probably, but it's unclear what form the abuse takes. Is it a ghost story? Possibly, though the word is not used...

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Doubt - A Parable by John Patrick Shanley

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 02 March 2012 21 Feb - 3 March, 2012 in Everyman Palace Theatre

“Truth makes for a bad sermon.” So says Father Flynn, the progressive and controversial priest at the heart of John Patrick Shanley’s 2004 parable play. Flynn is of course arguing that the power of a parable to succinctly teach a lesson far exceeds the illustrative potentials of the...

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Body Duet by Irish Modern Dance Theatre

Reviewed by Michael Seaver on 29 February 2012 27 Feb - 3 March, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

John Scott's Irish Modern Dance Theatre is twenty-one this year, although he choreographed previously with Dublin City Ballet, Irish Theatre Ballet and as an independent artist. It's an artistic career that has displayed consistent regard for disparate influences, going beneath the surface movement and...

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