Reviews

Grenades by Tara McKevitt

Reviewed by Siobhán O'Gorman on 29 October 2010 29 and 30 October, 2010 in Nuns Island Theatre

Originally produced as a radio play, Grenades is an award-winning one-hander that depends largely on narrative. As she waits in a prison, the play’s protagonist Nuala Kelly weaves together significant memories from her childhood, relaying them to the audience in an enthralling, heart-wrenching...

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The Shape of a Girl by Joan McLeod

Reviewed by Liam Heylin on 27 October 2010 27-28 October 2010; and touring to schools. in Graffiti Theatre

Graffiti’s latest production fulfils a number of criteria that makes it suitable for theatre in education but the most salient box it ticks is the capacity to generate post-match discussion. It’s a provocative play that should stir the teenagers who get into workshops after seeing it in their...

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Jumping the Sharks by Michael Lovett

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 26 October 2010 26 Oct - 13 November, 2010 in Smock Alley Theatre

There are a lot of things to enjoy about Jumping the Sharks, the new play from Blood in the Alley Theatre Company. There’s the competent central performance from Don Wycherley; the darkly comic script from Michael Lovett; and the subtle direction of Geoff Gould, former artistic director of the...

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Memory Palace by Jane Madden and creative team

Reviewed by Siobhán O'Gorman on 26 October 2010 26 – 27 October 2010 in Nuns Island Theatre, Galway

Bluepatch’s Memory Palace is an experimental, experiential meditation on the protective, encrypting functions of memory. Appropriating Greek mythology, the piece imagines the Amazonian queen Hippolyta’s posthumous meeting with Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory. Encouraged by Mnemosyne (here...

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Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel

Reviewed by Derek West on 22 October 2010 21 Oct - 11 Dec, 2010 (on tour) in An Grianán, Letterkenny

It’s twenty years since Friel’s play first astonished audiences and, to judge by this Second Age production, the passage of time has facilitated a further unearthing of its riches. If the first encounter with Maggie’s dance is like a first kiss (nothing ever quite as memorable; never...

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Leon and the Place Between by Angela McAllister, adapted by Paul Bosco McEneaney

Reviewed by Síle Ní Bhroin on 22 October 2010 29 Sept - 30 Oct, 2010 in Botanic Gardens, Belfast (on tour)

The Family Hoffman emerged one by one – magically – from a small barrel organ perched in the middle of the stage. The purple smoke and the smell of damp earth created the perfect atmosphere for Cahoots NI's riotous adaptation of Leon and the Place Between. Part theatre, mostly circus, all...

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Postcards from Dumbworld by Brian Irvine (music) and John McIlduff (libretto)

Reviewed by Lisa Fitzpatrick on 21 October 2010 21 - 23 October, 2010 in Grand Opera House, Belfast

The performance of this new opera begins with the procession of the Brian Irvine Ensemble into the orchestra pit where Irvine conducts them, and the audience, in the overture. The musicians play as they walk, creating an image of street performers or minstrels which sets the playful mood for the work;...

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Bulletproof by Gary Owen

Reviewed by Derek West on 21 October 2010 in Old Museum Building (former OMAC)

Bulletproof grew out of the determination of Replay to address issues of mental health through the medium of ‘verbatim theatre’. So the language of the ‘play’ is authentic, it draws exclusively on the spoken or written words of ‘real’ people. It is task of the writer,...

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A Date with Mercy by Jane Mulcahy

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 21 October 2010 20 - 30 Oct, 2010 in Smock Alley Boys' School

Jane Mulcahy’s new play for Plastic Theatre is a pseudo-Elizabethan mash-up that includes elements of The Duchess of Malfi, The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet. Set in a royal court, Queen Mercy (Mulcahy) falls in love with Fierce (O’Brien), a lowly Irish thief, enraging Duke Karmo...

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Between Foxrock and a Hard Place by Paul Howard

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 20 October 2010 20 Oct - 14 Nov, 2010 in Olympia Theatre

Ah, zeitgeist. There’s nothing like the snap of connection when time meets spirit, and we as a society/audience are given the opportunity to do what we love to do best: watch ourselves and our times unfold before us, whether on the silver screen or on the stage. When the Olympia’s big red...

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