Reviews

Mimic by Raymond Scannell

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 23 February 2011 23 - 26 February, 2011 in Project Arts Centre

Julian Neary joins a long line of Irish men at odds with their families, especially their fathers, and their nation. Like James Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus, Brian Friel’s Gar O’Donnell, and even Pat McCabe’s Francie Brady, Scannell’s Neary struggles to internalise and replicate...

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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Reviewed by Matthew Harrison on 19 February 2011 15-19 February, 2011; and on tour. in Town Hall Theatre

Poverty is a well-documented progenitor of fear, desperate dealings, and oppression. The emphasis on this aspect of The Glass Menagerie is one the most apt features of TheatreCorp’s competent production of Tennessee Williams’ drama of an impoverished family suffering in the “dissolving...

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Theatre Machine Turns You On: Vol II (2) by THEATREclub

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 19 February 2011 15-19 February, 2011 in Project Arts Centre

This is the second of two reviews by Jesse Weaver of theTheatre Machine Turns You On: Vol II festival of new work; read the first review here. Scanning the programme for THEATREclub’s festival of new work, the range of work presented in terms of styles, genres, and subjects suggests a sort of...

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Theatre Machine Turns You On: Vol. II (1) by THEATREclub

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 19 February 2011 15-19 February, 2011 in Project Arts Centre

This is the first of two reviews by Jesse Weaver of theTheatre Machine Turns You On: Vol II festival of new work; read the second review here. While a range of themes permeates THEATREclub’s second five-night festival of new work, none manifests itself more potently than that of disconnection,...

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Silent & Forgotten by Pat Kinevane

Reviewed by Breda Shannon on 18 February 2011 9 Feb - 26 March, 2011 in Glór, Ennis

The miscellanies of old age and poor mental health are not the easiest or most attractive subjects to entice audiences. Fishamble, a theatre company known for its uptake of novel and challenging work, takes these two subjects in two separate plays, back to back over two nights, and in two eighty minute...

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The Lost Prince by Ken Bourke

Reviewed by Patrick Brennan on 18 February 2011 in Cleere’s Theatre, Kilkenny

The Lost Prince beautifully and touchingly interweaves the narratives of storytelling, fairytales and acts of reading in a drama that mixes animation and multimedia with good old-fashioned on-the-knuckle acting to ultimately distil a gentle lesson about the importance of not forgetting to love what is...

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Pasquale by Gaëtano Donizetti

Reviewed by Wolfgang Marx on 18 February 2011 18 February - 12 March, 2011 (on tour) in Samuel Beckett Theatre

Opera Theatre Company enters its 25th year with a topical production of a modernised Don Pasqual€, Donizetti’s swan-song on the opera buffa from 1843, a genre soon after replaced by the operetta in the styles of Offenbach, Johann Strauss or Gilbert & Sullivan. The earliest masterpiece...

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According to Sydney by Gerry Lynch

Reviewed by Derek West on 18 February 2011 15 – 25 February, 2011 in Mill Theatre Studio

The studio at the Mill is an unprepossessing cuboid; the set for According to Sydney uninspiring (a garden bench and some scraps of ferns to denote a park) so there is little to prepare the lunchtime audience for the animation that Rose Henderson brings to the space. The energy derives from a number...

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Shoot the Crow by Owen McCafferty

Reviewed by Tom Maguire on 11 February 2011 11 - 19 February, 2011 in Waterfront Hall Studio

It is a delight to welcome Shoot the Crow to Belfast in its first production in McCafferty’s home town fourteen years after its first production by Druid and with plaudits from an extended West End run, including a nomination for an Olivier Award. While such success demonstrates that the play is...

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Connected by Karl Quinn and Will Irvine

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 09 February 2011 8 - 19 February, 2011 in Project Arts Centre

Project’s Space Upstairs was full of the buzz one normally finds at festival time. This makes sense, as Connected, written and performed by Karl Quinn and Will Irvine, started life as a ‘Show in a Bag’, via Fishamble and the Absolut Fringe Festival 2010. Said buzz was created by the...

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