Reviews

Rum and Vodka by Conor McPherson

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 07 April 2011 4 - 9 April, 2011 in International Bar, Dublin

Conor McPherson’s Rum and Vodka was first staged in 1992 when he was still a student at UCD, and in many ways it marks the beginning of a wave of Irish theatre to explore troubled men using the monologue form. Moreover, well before binge-drinking became a national concern, and we posted our hangovers...

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 05 April 2011 5 April - 11 June, 2011 in Gate Theatre, Dublin

A Southern US family gathers to celebrate the birthday of its patriarch, who is seriously ill but from whom the truth has been hidden. Though his elder son is keen to inherit his sprawling estate, it is his younger, less successful son for whom he holds true affection. As the story begins, this son is...

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A Time to Speak by Sam McCready, adapted from the Holocaust memoir of Helen Lewis

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 02 April 2011 2 - 16 April, 2011 (on tour) in Theatre at the Mill, Newtownabbey

She was a dancer to the very core of her being. It was the thing by which she defined herself. And why would it be otherwise? For it was dance that saved her from the gas chambers, rescued her from scheduled deportation on the dreaded lorry, which arrived into Auschwitz-Birkenau every week to collect...

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Tosca by Giacomo Puccini

Reviewed by Cormac Newark on 01 April 2011 31 March - 2 April, 2011 in St Columb’s Cathedral/the Guildhall/St Columb’s Hall, Derry

As her show-stopping aria ‘Vissi d’arte’ (‘I lived on art’) in Act 2 tells us, Tosca’s is a story of art being suddenly caught up in war. In an ITM feature the week before the run, director Oliver Mears was quoted as saying that Derry’s conflicted past, as expressed...

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Honest by DC Moore

Reviewed by Patrick Brennan on 31 March 2011 23 March - 3 April, 2011 in The Matchbox Theatre

The Matchbox Theatre, an excellent new venue in the heart of Dublin inside the Cafe des Irlandais, proved to be the ideal setting for DC Moore’s Edinburgh Fringe hit from 2010, Honest. Matchbox give a free beer with your ticket and since a good deal of Honest is taken up with a night-in-the-life...

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Sunday Morning Coming Down by Mick Donnellan

Reviewed by Siobhán O'Gorman on 29 March 2011 29 March – 2 April, 2011 in Town Hall Studio, Galway

It’s been a while since there has been such palpable excitement about a new play in Galway. Mick Donnellan worked with Druid to present Sunday Morning Coming Down as a public reading in 2009. Word of mouth regarding its production in Galway’s Town Hall Studio – Donnellan’s directorial...

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47 Roses by Peter Sheridan

Reviewed by Christina Hunt Mahony on 28 March 2011 15 March - 23 April, 2011 in Bewley’s Café Theatre

47 Roses, a one-man show devised from Peter Sheridan’s memoir of the same title and performed by the author, draws on Sheridan family inner-city Dublin life recognizable from the work of both Jim and Peter Sheridan in various media. This is the tale of a triangular stalemate forged by Sheridan’s...

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Not a Game for Boys by Simon Block

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 27 March 2011 3 - 27 March, 2011 (on tour) in Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast

Table tennis, ping-pong... call it what you will, one thing is certain: it would appear, on the surface, to be the most unpromising subject matter for a play. But Simon Block’s Not a Game for Boys, which was premiered at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1995, has since been performed all over...

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My Best Friend by Tamsin Oglesby

Reviewed by Patrick Brennan on 26 March 2011 15 - 26 March, 2011 in The New Theatre

My Best Friend opens up with a dialogue about time - in particular, the conundrums around whether or not you gain anything in terms of sleep by putting the clock forward for the summer. It’s a conversation most of us have had in one form or another. The two characters here, Bee and Em, end up very...

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The Song from the Sea by Mike Kenny

Reviewed by Derek West on 26 March 2011 in Samuel Beckett Theatre

Barnstorm is celebrating its twentieth year with its fifth production of work by Mike Kenny, a writer who brings positive vision, fresh inventiveness and provocative reflection to the stage for very young people. In The Song from the Sea, Josh is the child who hears the things that the adults miss....

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