Reviews

Fewer Emergencies by Martin Crimp

Reviewed by Liam Heylin on 14 June 2011 13 - 18 June, 2011 in Granary Theatre

The Granary Theatre has played its part in Cork in bringing the wonderfully warped world of Martin Crimp to the stage over recent years. And the artistic director of the Granary, Tony McLeane-Fay gives us a thoroughgoing engagement with a tough-minded piece of writing in his staging of what is described...

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Latch by John McCarthy and Sara-Jane Power

Reviewed by Rachel Andrews on 14 June 2011 13 - 26 June, 2011 in secret location (meet at Grand Parade)

As if in direct response to drama critic Fintan O'Toole's recent assertion that contemporary playwrights are no longer writing the “big, important plays” that interrogate Irish society, upstart company Hammergrin has set its latest work in that most representative feature of the disintegration...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream? by William Shakespeare

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 04 June 2011 2 - 18 June, 2011 in Project Arts Centre

Punctuation: what’s it good for? It’s much a bigger part of our communicating lives then ever before, actually: only consider all those colons and parentheses that are now doing heaving lifting as emoticons. The elegance of a semicolon, the incredulity of an interrobang1, the wistfulness...

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Perve by Stacey Gregg

Reviewed by Sara Keating on 01 June 2011 31 May - 25 June, 2011 in the Peacock Theatre

Stacey Gregg’s Perve, currently being staged at the Peacock Theatre as part of the Abbey’s 2011 new writing strand is an uneasy blend of Brechtian dramaturgy and soap-opera style. While the play seems to be striving towards the non-naturalistic strains of Epic theatre – several of the...

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Brendan at the Chelsea by Janet Behan

Reviewed by Lisa Fitzpatrick on 28 May 2011 26 May - 19 June, 2011 in the Lyric Theatre (Naughton Studio)

Brendan at the Chelsea is the opening production at the Naughton Studio, the second performance space at the newly refurbished Lyric Theatre. The space is intended to host productions of new writing, intimate classics, and work in development, so it is perhaps fitting that its first show should be a...

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Here We Are Again Still by Christian O'Reilly

Reviewed by Matthew Harrison on 23 May 2011 10 May - 4 June, 2011; on tour. in Town Hall Theatre

There is something iconic about a bench sitting centre-stage. One of theatre’s fail-safe emblems, it is a useful multi-purpose tool for an instant mise-en-scène: waiting, meeting, resting, watching; all are signified by this small, ubiquitous structure. Thus, as the lights go up on Christian O’Reilly’s...

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Iron by Rona Munro

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 15 May 2011 10 - 28 May, 2011 in The Complex, Smithfield

A moment of madness costs a mother her daughter, and a grown woman her childhood memories. Meeting sixteen years later in a prison visiting room, one tries to fill in what's missing in the other, trading real life experiences for lost recollections as they re-establish a relationship where physical contact...

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Bang Shoot Blast by Karl Watson

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 14 May 2011 14 - 19 May, 2011 in The Back Loft

Are movies heaping unrealistic expectations on real life romances? That is the question asked by Karl Watson's Bang Shoot Blast, which ran recently at the Back Loft. Interweaving scenes from classic movie romances with the first great dalliances of his young characters, it used choral work, party games...

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Walking Man by Jody O'Neill

Reviewed by Rachel Andrews on 14 May 2011 In repertory from May 2011. in the Graffiti Theatre

Jody O’Neill transforms a universal story into a morality tale for children in this captivating piece of theatre, which is told through the use of wooden puppets and live music. The play’s hero is Walking Man, destined from childhood to follow in the footsteps of his father, and to work at...

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Pineapple by Phillip McMahon

Reviewed by Pádraic Whyte on 11 May 2011 30 April - 14 May, 2011 in axis: Ballymun

Set in contemporary Ballymun, Phillip McMahon’s new play presents a range of themes from the joys and disappointments of first sex to the break-up and disintegration of communities. Most of the action takes place in a flat and in what seems to be a playground area nearby. Focusing on single mother...

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