Reviews

True North by David Ireland, John McCann, Colin Bell

Reviewed by Kathy Clarke on 01 October 2010 29 Sept – 16 Oct, 2010 in Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast

As light rises on the cardboard set of David Ireland’s Everything Between Us, we are bombarded by a sea of expletives. Sandra (Tara Lynne O’Neill) has just taken her seat on the board of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee for Northern Ireland, when her long lost sister Teeni (Claire Lamont)...

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Burn The Bad Lamp by Kevin Barry

Reviewed by Matthew Harrison on 01 October 2010 20 - 25 April, 2010 in Town Hall Studio, Galway

This production was reviewed on 24th April, 2010; it is currently being revived for a short tour, October 2010 - see opposite for tour dates. If banks need the descent of a billionaire Nama to rescue them from the doldrums, then theatre audiences need the occasional light whimsy to jollify the bits...

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The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh

Reviewed by Breda Shannon on 30 September 2010 16, 23, 30 Sept 2010 in http://www.beehivetheatre.com/

How you serve the rural desperations of Martin McDonagh’s reimagining of a bygone Irish landscape largely defines what an audience takes away from it. From the early Leenane Trilogy to The Lieutenant of Inishmore, McDonagh’s riff is largely focused on tearing the heart out of his subjects...

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Scent of Chocolate by Radoslaw Paczocha

Reviewed by Seona Mac Réamoinn on 28 September 2010 28 Sept - 2 Oct, 2010 in Focus Theatre

Timing is often everything. Not only is there a Polish theatrical invasion into Dublin these weeks, but there is also activity from within - and Scent of Chocolate by Radoslaw Paczochka, the innovative debut from the newly founded Polish Theatre Ireland, sees more connections emerge by way of the emigrant...

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Dear Frankie by Niamh Gleeson

Reviewed by Derek West on 27 September 2010 20 Sept - 30 Oct, 2010 (on tour) in Liberty Hall Theatre

Dear Frankie follows the true story of the rise and decline of Ireland’s first on-air agony aunt. Unfortunately, one of the things that debilitates Niamh Gleeson’s new play, is the tyranny of fact. The work is circumscribed by the parameters of the biography of Frankie Byrne, a household...

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Low Pay? Don’t Pay! by Dario Fo

Reviewed by Lisa Fitzpatrick on 24 September 2010 24 Sept - 23 Oct, 2010 (on tour) in Waterfront Hall Studio

Bruiser Theatre Company’s new production, Low Pay? Don’t Pay is a translation of Dario Fo’s classic piece of political comedy, Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! Written in 1974, the play has been revised by Fo for the current economic crisis, and this translation by Joseph Farrell for...

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The Diary of Anne Frank by Grigory Frid (1915 - )

Reviewed by John White on 11 September 2010 10 and 11 Sept; and on tour until 9 Oct, 2010. in Peacock Theatre

Anne Frank (the subject of this opera) and Grigory Frid (the composer) have a lot in common. She, with her whole life ahead of her, is obliged to hide in a secret annex for two years; he, having studied composition intensively as a student, graduates from the Moscow Conservatory with gold medal in hand...

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Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens by Bill Russell and Janet Wood

Reviewed by Breda Shannon on 10 September 2010 7 - 11 Sept, 2010 in The Loft, Limerick

It’s twenty-one years since Bill Russell’s and Janet Wood’s Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens first opened in an off Broadway Theatre at a time when its theatrical musical thesis on the stories of the beautiful and the damned was all too contemporary; in a time when the execrating...

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Chicane by Anthony Brophy

Reviewed by Derek West on 08 September 2010 8-11 Sept; and on tour until 9 Oct, 2010. in Draíocht

When Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution played in the old Metropole Cinema, in the 1950s, latecomers were barred and the entire audience was sworn to secrecy about the final disclosures in the plot (by the way, Tyrone Power did it – I was a child at the time, exempt from...

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Boss Grady's Boys by Sebastian Barry

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 06 September 2010 2 - 11 Sept, 2010 in the Gaiety Theate, Dublin

Sebastian Barry’s Boss Grady’s Boys hearkens back to another time. No, not the time to which the elderly farming brothers Mick (Pat Shortt) and Josie (Tom Hickey) constantly look as they frame their present, dull and empty experience of life with reminiscences of their deceased mother and...

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