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Dublin Theatre Festival: Dusk Ahead by junk ensemble

Reviewed by Seona Mac Réamoinn on 01 October 2013 1 - 6 October 2013 in Project Arts Centre

Our eyes follow the three blindfolded figures tentatively moving onto the stage, seduced, as they are, into the foggy half-lit world of the approaching night which junk ensemble dance company create in this new work. It is a meditative journey into the blurred terrain between the familiar and the strange,...

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Dublin Theatre Festival: The Events by David Greig

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 01 October 2013 01-05 October 2013 in Abbey Theatre, The Paecock Stage

‘What if bad things just happen?’ This is one resigning deliberation offered to Claire (McIntosh) by her partner Caitriona a year on from the massacre that saw a gunman claim the lives of members of her community choir. Claire hasn’t slept; she’s started collapsing during rehearsals...

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Dublin Theatre Festival: Germinal by Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort 

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 28 September 2013 26-28 September, 2013 in Project Arts Centre

Light cuts through an otherwise blacked out set, fading in and out slowly. Given the deliberation, it’s clear we’re not just waiting for a show to start; we’re being invited to reflect upon the technology of beginnings – of theatre productions, of worlds. When the lights finally...

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Dublin Theatre Festival: Tom and Vera by Desperate Optimists

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 26 September 2013 26-29 September 2013 in Samuel Beckett Theatre

Tom (Howley) and Vera (Ní Mhurchú) are one man’s everyman, another’s Adam and Eve. In Desperate Optimists performance about the fallout of Ireland’s financial crisis, the stage is set for them to hatch a plan to take back the money they think they deserve. As they state explicitly at...

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Man in the Moon by Pearse Elliott

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 23 September 2013 20 Sept – 26 Oct 2013 (on tour) in Grand Opera House, Belfast

Half Moon Lake is a natural lagoon located in the unlikely setting of the Lenadoon housing estate in West Belfast. A favoured dumping ground for supermarket trolleys, it witnessed numerous knee-cappings and punishment beatings during the Troubles. By day it doubled as a place to fish, scramble, and climb...

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The Conquest of Happiness by Prime Cut Productions

Reviewed by Lisa Fitzpatrick on 21 September 2013 20 and 21 September 2013, and on tour. in Ebrington Barracks, Derry~Londonderry

The Conquest of Happiness is an ambitious piece of theatre both in the scale of its collaboration and in the scope of its source material. Based upon the philosophical writings of Bertrand Russell, the work takes as its central argument Russell’s “three passions... the longing for love, the...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Dive/What's the Matter (Double Bill) by Keren Rosenberg and Aoife McAtamney

Reviewed by Rachel Donnelly on 19 September 2013 19-21 September 2013 in Project Arts Centre Cube

Purely and gloriously abstract, Dive/What’s The Matter? (a solo double bill) provides an interesting departure from the heavily-politicised work that has dominated much of the Fringe festival this year. Choreographer Keren Rosenberg’s Dive mixes elements of shame, exaltation, and revulsion....

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Moving City by Maeve Higgins

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 18 September 2013 18-21 September 2013 in Smock Alley Theatre

“I feel so sorry for stand-up comedians,” the bare-footed stand up-comedian Maeve Higgins announces to us from a cluttered stage strewn with flags and clothes. It is extremely hard, however, to feel in any way sorry for this sharp and self-assured woman, despite the fact that her own personal...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Finding Sympathy by Ella Daly / Amalgamotion

Reviewed by Emma Creedon on 18 September 2013 18-21 September 2013 in The New Theatre

Ella Daly’s story is a fascinating one. “Borrowed” from her family at the age of three by her childless aunt Grace, Daly spent the next nine years of her life under her aunt’s roof. Now, in her early thirties, Daly is trying to reconcile with the feelings of displacement and transience...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: The Churching of Happy Cullen by Louise Lewis and Simon Manahan

Reviewed by Emma Creedon on 18 September 2013 18-21 September 2013 in Project Arts Centre Cube

The term “churching,” the accompanying programme to The Churching of Happy Cullen informs us, “refers to a blessing that mothers were given following recovery from childbirth” since “[m]any people considered that childbirth made a woman unholy or unclean because it resulted...

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