Reviews

The Head of Red O'Brien by Mark O'Halloran

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 11 January 2011 11-29 January, 2011 in Bewley's Café Theatre

Red O’Brien is in hospital. He is lying in a bed and is dreaming. A projector throws scenes of water, submarines, oranges onto the wall above his head. The significance of these images is eventually revealed in a monologue, and explained in terms of his trauma following an incident of domestic...

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Arrah-na-Pogue by Dion Boucicault

Reviewed by Derek West on 21 December 2010 21 Dec, 2010 - 5 Feb, 2011 in Abbey Theatre

The Abbey has offered Christmas ‘craic’ in Dion Boucicault’s “rollicking good tale of romance and misadventure” and by and large director Mikel Murfi’s production delivers exactly that. It’s relentlessly exuberant, both vocally and in physical movement. Aided...

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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, adapted by Alice Coghlan

Reviewed by Derek West on 16 December 2010 15 - 18 December, 2010 in Mermaid Arts Centre

Bravo Alice Coghlan and Wonderland for taking on Jonathan Swift! Gulliver’s Travels holds, as ‘twere, a highly distorted, yet revealing, mirror up to human nature, as the hero confronts his image in miniature, in magnification, in bestiality and noble rationality. Coghlan joins a growing...

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The Year of Magical Wanking by Neil Watkins

Reviewed by Peter Crawley on 11 December 2010 10/11 December, 2010 in Project Arts Centre

“Don’t knock masturbation,” goes the old Woody Allen line. “It’s sex with someone I love.” That doesn’t seem to be Neil Watkins’ credo in The Year of Magical Wanking, or the version of Neil Watkins that he presents to us. A monologue of torment, shame,...

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Grooming Veronica by David Scott

Reviewed by Patrick Brennan on 09 December 2010 30 Nov - 11 Dec, 2010 in Teachers' Club (T36)

The plot of Grooming Veronica is pretty convoluted, but here is an attempt to summarise it.The Taoiseach of Ireland (not Brian Cowen but an entirely fictional one!) has had a stroke and sits paralysed in a chair tended by a nurse who revels in not doing her duty and being as negligent as she is cheeky...

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Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 07 December 2010 7 & 8 December 2010 in Crescent Arts Centre

We live in an era of soul selling. Whether in return for a taste of dubious celebrity, bulging property portfolios, ludicrously lavish lifestyles or vast sums of cash, an astonishing number of individuals are queuing up to enter into perilous faustian pacts, destined to change their lives beyond recognition. What...

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Richard III by William Shakespeare

Reviewed by Sara Keating on 07 December 2010 6 - 11 December, 2010 in the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle

It is the evening before the government’s draconian budget is about to be revealed and itis snowing heavily outside. The opening lines of Shakespeare’s Richard III have never seemed so resonant: “Now is the winter of our discontent” indeed. However, Fast + Loose Theatre Company’s...

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The Great Carmo! by Paul Bosco McEneaney

Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 04 December 2010 29 November -18 December, 2010 (on tour) in Island Arts Centre, Lisburn

Harry Cameron - aka The Great Carmo - was a highly regarded man of the theatre and the circus. The legendary Bertram Mills turned to him for advice and teamed up with him for a season prior to setting up what would become arguably the world’s most famous tenting circus. Cameron had an eye for the...

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Ellamenope Jones by Wayne Jordan

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 30 November 2010 30 Nov – 11 Dec, 2010 in Project Arts Centre

Ellamenope Jones doesn’t take no for an answer. Attractive, determined, ruthless, she’s a ‘yes’ woman who’ll do anything to get what she wants. "If life gives you shit, polish it" is just one of her many mantras. This sassy Dublin lady knows what it’s like...

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Bed Among the Lentils by Alan Bennett

Reviewed by Seona Mac Réamoinn on 26 November 2010 15 - 27 November, 2010 in the International Bar

Susan introduces herself to us, in homely cardigan and handbag, as the hapless wife of Geoffrey, a vicar on the outskirts of Leeds. She switches on a table lamp (in Peter Reid’s simple sitting room design) and begins to sip enthusiastically from her sherry glass while sharing her story of a bleached...

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