Reviews

Romek and Julie by Rachel Yoder, inspired by Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'

Reviewed by Liam Heylin on 28 June 2010 28 June - 02 July, 2010 in Oriel House Hotel, Ballincollig, Cork

Romeo has left fair Verona far behind to become Romek, a Polish cigarette smuggler smitten by a Cork beauty for whom he writes sensitive love songs. His would-be father in law is a Cork businessman now busily losing his mind as a financial house of cards tumbles down around himself and his family. Roundhouse...

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**FML F*uck My Life** by the cast

Reviewed by Síle Ní Bhroin on 27 June 2010 25 June - 03 July, 2010 in Everyman Palace Theatre

In Fintan O’Toole’s perceptive article in last Saturday's Irish Times, he says of David McWilliam’s Outsiders, currently showing at the Peacock, “But it doesn’t feel like a piece of theatre, and it forces you to ask why not." Likewise FML raised questions about its...

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Buddy Buddy / Starman Fisher by You're Only Massive / Dee Roycroft

Reviewed by Rachel Andrews on 26 June 2010 26 and 27 June, 2010 in The Drama Lab, University College Cork

Despite a somewhat chaotic start – a late change of venue and time, a further delay in advance of the performances – these two workshop productions offered interesting, if not always fully realised, interrogations of the theatrical process. Of the two shows, Starman Fisher, which is a short,...

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The Trailer of Bridget Dinnigan by Catherine Joyce and Dylan Tighe

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 19 June 2010 17 - 19 June, 2010 in Project Arts Centre

Waiting for the show to begin, a man behind me quips back to his friends: “No haggling in the back row.” The joke ripples, before talk turns to who knows who in the production. The proud parents beside me are back for the second time, and their daughter has made it to the cover of the programme...

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The Letter Project by Meantime Theatre Company

Reviewed by Rachel Andrews on 19 June 2010 19 and 20 june, 2010 in Cork Arts Theatre

Young theatre company Meantime follows its assured debut production of The Good Father last year with a show structured around the idea of the letter as theatrical text. The production, which is performed at this stage as a work-in-progress, uses a series of anonymous letters, sought by and posted to...

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New Writing Week by Róisín Coyle (Chaos Theory) and Arthur Sheridan (Spider)

Reviewed by Emilie Pine on 17 June 2010 14 - 19 June, 2010 in The New Theatre

Two new plays by two new playwrights – this is the double-bill running at The New Theatre this week (14th-19th June). In a theatre world which is feeling the pinch more than ever, with small companies and spaces particularly under pressure, it is particularly welcome to see a great space like the...

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See No Evil by Patricia Byrne

Reviewed by Lisa Fitzpatrick on 17 June 2010 2 - 24 June, 2010; on tour. in Paschal McDonald House, Gransha Park, Derry

See No Evil is Sole Purpose’s most recent production, which has been touring periodically since last year. The company’s work plays in small community venues as well as in professional theatres across Ireland and in the UK, and aims to raise debate and awareness around specific social and...

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Outsiders by David McWilliams

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 17 June 2010 16 June - 03 July, 2010 in Peacock Theatre

Outsiders is a one-man-show by journalist and economics pundit David McWilliams, essentially a distillation of the views he has put forth in various forums including radio, television and print throughout the Recession. McWilliams stands alone on a set depicting the unfinished roof of a building under...

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Monsters and Things by Jay Ryan

Reviewed by Breda Shannon on 16 June 2010 On tour in Belltable, Limerick

You can’t argue with a child’s appreciation. A large group of school-going children aged between five and seven years old are PigNut Productions’ audience at the Belltable in Limerick for Monsters and Things. This bunch simply lap up the story of Jacko and his friend Podi who, in true...

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Plasticine by Vassily Sigarev

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 15 June 2010 14 - 26 June, 2010 in The Savoy Theatre, Patrick St, Cork

Set in rural Russia following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Vassily Sigarev’s Plasticine presents an ever-sickening series of disturbing scenarios that, to its inhabitants, are seemingly experienced as banal slices of a doomed life. That’s where the play’s punches land most effectively....

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Reviews

Romek and Julie by Rachel Yoder, inspired by Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'

FML F*uck My Life by the cast

Buddy Buddy / Starman Fisher by You're Only Massive / Dee Roycroft

The Trailer of Bridget Dinnigan by Catherine Joyce and Dylan Tighe

The Letter Project by Meantime Theatre Company

New Writing Week by Róisín Coyle (Chaos Theory) and Arthur Sheridan (Spider)

See No Evil by Patricia Byrne

Outsiders by David McWilliams

Monsters and Things by Jay Ryan

Plasticine by Vassily Sigarev

**FML F*uck My Life** by the cast