Reviews

Dublin Fringe Festival: Boys and Girls by Dylan Coburn Gray

Reviewed by Lauren O'Toole on 18 September 2013 18-21 September 2013 in The Pearse Centre

In Boys and Girls, Dylan Coburn Gray introduces us to four young college kids – two of whom are struggling with the brave new world of sexuality and two of whom are grabbing it by the horns (no pun intended). We meet them on a night of drugs, clubs, bodies and booze, and are treated to a series...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: SPEEDTRAP- Confessions of a Speed Junkie by Storm in a Teacup Productions

Reviewed by Lauren O'Toole on 18 September 2013 18-21 September 2013 in Smock Alley Theatre Black Box

At the age of nine Yvonne O’Reilly became a local legend by winning three 100 metre races in one day. The young O’Reilly triumphed over her competitors in the under ten, under twelve and under fourteen categories, securing three gold medals and a trophy. All this after merely stumbling upon...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Mice Will Play by Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Nic Gareiss

Reviewed by Siobhán Kane on 18 September 2013 18-21 September 2013 in Project Arts Centre

Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Nic Gareiss want to talk to you about mice;big ones, little ones, black ones, hairless ones. We find out that mice are a huge part of a billion dollar scientific research industry, and that we share 95% similarity in our immune systems; some mice cost more than others, and...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: The Games People Play by Rise Productions

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 18 September 2013 18-20 September, 2013 in The New Theatre

Meet Oisin and Niamh: married in their early thirties, parents of a young son and daughter, struggling to pay for groceries and knee deep in negative equity for their Drumcondra abode. Gavin Kostick’s The Games People Play is both a timeless story about two people lost inside a marriage, and a...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: The Curious Case of the Stoneybatter Strangler by Maylin Productions

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 17 September 2013 17-21 September 2013 in Meet at Christophe's Cafe, Jameson Yard

In the late 18th century, a killer haunted the area around Stoneybatter, his prey young women who worked long hours for the gentry up the Manor in Grangegorman. It was discovered that the culprit was a crippled beggar known as Billy in the Bowl: born without legs, he did his rounds by dragging himself...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: LAMBO by Underscore_Productions

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 17 September 2013 17-21 September 2013 in The New Theatre

Long before Miley Cyrus twerked the lines between tween star and pop tart, and before Justin Timberlake flashed Ms Jackson's boob at the Super Bowl (then hanging her out to dry in the uproar after), Gerry Ryan leapt from late night DJ to infamous broadcast legend by harnessing his machismo, killing and...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Some Baffling Monster by Dick Walsh

Reviewed by Lauren O'Toole on 17 September 2013 17-21 September 2013 in The International Bar

At the root of Some Baffling Monster is the story of a family feud, one so common it verges on cliché; the old man, the family farm and the offspring – one man worthy, the other to be viewed with suspicion. Writer Dick Walsh embraces the cliché and runs with it in an extremely stylised black comedy...

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Eden by Eugene O'Brien

Reviewed by Brendan Daly on 16 September 2013 16 Sept - 19 Oct, 2013 (on tour) in Town Hall Theatre

As Eden approaches its denouement at a post-nightclub house party, Billy grabs the arm of his friend and lodestar, Tony. Billy chides Tony, better known as ‘James Galway: The Man with the Golden Flute’ due to his sexual prowess, for wasting time at this party with his new girlfriend when...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: The Secret Art of Murder by Five Gallants

Reviewed by Chris McCormack on 16 September 2013 16-21 September,2013 in Smock Alley Theatre Boys School

What is the full truth behind Christopher Marlowe’s death? The actor playing him, Rob McDermott, would like to know but it can’t be easy when the director is slating him from the rafters. It’s one of the instances in this production by Five Gallants where the self awareness of postdramatic...

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Meeting at Menin Gate by Martin Lynch

Reviewed by Terence Blain on 14 September 2013 4 - 21 September 2013 in the MAC, Belfast

When the killing's finally over, what do you write about? It's a question confronted by dramatists in any post-conflict society, but one that's particularly raw and relevant in Northern Ireland, where ‘The Troubles’ continue to emit their potent aftershocks on a virtually daily basis. Green...

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