Reviews

Love All by CheeryWild

Reviewed by Miriam Haughton on 24 February 2012 14 Feb- 3 March, 2012 in Bewley’s Café Theatre

“Screw your courage to the sticking-place” cries not Lady Macbeth but French native Marie Violet Giordin (Aideen Wylde), wife to Irish tennis champion and Waterford boyo Vere St Ledger Goold (1853 – 1909). Following his defeat by a man of the cloth at Wimbledon in 1789, Vere Goold (Tadhg...

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Carthaginians by Frank McGuinness

Reviewed by Lisa Fitzpatrick on 23 February 2012 22 Feb - 14 April, 2012 (on tour) in Millennium Forum, Derry

Stuart Marshall’s set for Millennium Forum's new production of Carthaginians is a minimalist pair of raked platforms set before a blazing blue trapezium of sky. The white stone facings on the platforms evoke Derry’s famous walls, a graveyard, and a bleak, sun-bleached space of classical tragedy....

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TAN by Ann Blake and Marie Boylan

Reviewed by Rachael Finucane on 23 February 2012 23-26 February, 2012 in The Loft, George’s Quay, Limerick

The rituals of young women getting ready for a wild night out are laid bare in Wildebeest Theatre Company's boisterous new comedy, TAN. Limerick girls, Aisling and Siobhán, are preparing for a typical Saturday night. Not only is there a lot of preening to be done but there is an equal amount of drinking,...

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Purple by Jon Fosse

Reviewed by Emilie Pine on 22 February 2012 22 Feb - 3 March, 2012 in Project Arts Centre

Are you nostalgic for the days when you stood around, bashfully staring at your shoes, while desperately wanting to say “I kind of like you” to the boy/girl you really, actually, if you admitted it, liked a lot? Seeing Jon Fosse’s Purple, in a translation by David Harrower, gives you...

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Sweet Dreams, Mr Heroin by Sean Ronan

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 21 February 2012 20 - 25 February, 2012 in The New Theatre

Originally commissioned by the Drugs Awareness Board, Sean Ronan’s Sweet Dreams, Mr Heroin serves as a potent reminder, if one were needed in Dublin where the ghosts of heroin roam the streets daily, of the ruination that the drug causes in lives and communities. Sweet Dreams, Mr Heroin is a two-scene,...

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Touch Me by CoisCéim Dance Theatre

Reviewed by Rachel Donnelly on 18 February 2012 On tour, see panel in Civic Theatre, Tallaght

What makes you happy? What makes you sad? Questions that seem simple enough, yet which stumped members of the Irish population when choreographer David Bolger posed them as part of his research for CoisCéim’s current work, Touch Me. The responses, featuring much ‘eh-ing’ and ‘ah-ing’,...

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Melmoth the Wanderer by Nicola McCartney, adapted from the novel by Charles Maturin

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 16 February 2012 10 Feb - 25 March, 2012 in Riverside Theatre, Coleraine

Task: take one clunking 700-page Gothic novel, and distil it to a 100-minute drama for the theatre. Impossible? It is, especially if you're aiming to faithfully trace the narrative intricacies (and occasional opacities) of Charles Maturin's glowering 1820 fable Melmoth the Wanderer, whose brooding, darkly...

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Uncle Vanya by Brian Friel, after Chekhov

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 10 February 2012 10 Feb - 11 March, 2012 in Lyric Theatre, Belfast

Chekhov and Friel, Friel and Chekhov... over the years, the names of these two master playwrights have become almost inextricably linked. Their finest plays focus on resignation in the face of seismic social change, on papering over deeply suppressed personal turmoil with ceaseless chat, on facing into...

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The Goddess of Liberty by Karen Ardiff

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 10 February 2012 in Project Arts Centre

There’s a quote from Carl G Jung that goes like this: "Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking." In The Goddess of Liberty, this power struggle is centred around the physical and mental disability of the central character, Frankie (Geraldine...

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Breathing Water by Raymond Scannell

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 10 February 2012 9-11 February, 2012 in Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast

"Fear death by water" is one of the most chilling of the 434 lines in TS Eliot’s 'The Waste Land', among whose gallery of colourful characters is the clairvoyante Madame Sosostris, the wisest woman in Europe. She pulls from her tarot pack the card of the drowned Phoenician Sailor and...

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