Reviews

Set in Stone by John Sheehy

Reviewed by Breda Shannon on 31 August 2010 17 - 29 August, 2010 in Friars Gate Theatre, Killmallock

The road to the present in any Irish town is paved with colourful events, brave, tragic and notorious characters and the fight for freedom, whether personal or political. John Sheehy’s “world premiere”, Set in Stone is a condensed history of Kilmallock from its 1569 Fitzmaurice siege...

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TIC by Elizabeth Moynihan

Reviewed by Derek West on 30 August 2010 30 Aug - 18 Sept, 2010 in the Focus Theatre

The central motif in Elizabeth Moynihan’s “full length premiere” at the Focus Theatre is a syndrome, named after the French neurologist, Georges Gilles de la Tourette who, in 1885, identified the combination of involuntary tics – both motor and vocal – which, in this play,...

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Mouth to Mouth by Kevin Elyot

Reviewed by Patrick Brennan on 28 August 2010 24 Aug - 4 Sept, 2010 in Project Cube

Crooked House Theatre Company are developing a reputation for staging difficult and narratively layered and complex modern drama. Following last year’s very successful Breathing Corpses, they have now put their skilful hands to Kevin Elyot’s funny and tragic drama Mouth to Mouth, a play about...

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The Silver Tassie by Sean O'Casey

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 28 August 2010 28 Aug - 24 Oct, 2010 (on tour) in The Town Hall Theatre, Galway

One of the more memorable moments in Druid’s epic production of Sean O’Casey’s first World War lament The Silver Tassie, has nothing to do with battle. In the beginning of the final act, Sylvester Heegan (Eamon Morrissey) and Simon Norton (John Olohan) are enjoying some banter at a...

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Happy Days by Samuel Beckett

Reviewed by Derek West on 26 August 2010 23 August – 4 September, 2010 in Players Studio, Samuel Beckett Theatre

AC Productions brings commitment and dedication to Happy Days, even if it is a somewhat thankless task (there were eleven at the performance being reviewed). Happy Days can be a challenging work but, to echo Miller’s line in Death of a Salesman at the Gate, “attention must be paid.”...

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The Lily Lally Show by Hugh Leonard

Reviewed by Patrick Brennan on 25 August 2010 25 Aug to 11 Sept, 2010 in Bewleys Café Theatre

In the programme notes to the original production of Hugh Leonard’s The Lily Lally Show at the Abbey Theatre in 1994, the author proposed that there had only ever been one great comedienne in Irish entertainment. Typically, Leonard didn’t name her but it was understood that he was talking...

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A Dream Play by August Strindberg in a version by Caryl Churchill

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 25 August 2010 25-28 August, 2010 in Peaock Theatre

A few furry spectators mark their territory as the audience file in to watch the National Youth Theatre’s production in the Peacock theatre. The humanoid bunnies that fill a few seats, and eventually kick off the performance by eyeballing us from the gallery, are an obvious nod to Wonderland, or...

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Women In Power by Kenneth McLeish, translated from Aristophanes’ 'Women in Assembly'

Reviewed by Breda Shannon on 23 August 2010 23-27 August, 2010 in Belltable offsite space at 36 Cecil Street, Limerick

In a production committed to bringing the lessons of the drama to bear on our own times and circumstances, Limerick Youth Theatre lends a contemporary twist to Aristophanes’ Greek comedy, Women in Power. It is set in Athens “where something is rotten” - but not in ancient Athens, no...

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The Gingerbread House by John Chambers

Reviewed by Breda Shannon on 20 August 2010 17-21 August, 2010 in Nuns Island Theatre, Galway

If you’ve ever wondered how the parents of Hansel and Gretel coped after abandoning their children in the woods, before the wicked step-mother died and the children returned for the happy-ever after, John Chambers’ The Gingerbread House, takes you into their den of domestic hell and tries...

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Baglady by Frank McGuinness

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 09 August 2010 9 - 21 August, 2010 in Focus Theatre

The most remarkable aspect of Frank McGuinness’s monologue play is its ability to implicate an entire society while focusing on a lone soul torn asunder by an act of familial violation. While the centerpiece of Baglady’s fragmented narrative is the eponymous character’s rape at the...

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