Reviews

The Early Bird by Leo Butler

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 14 June 2010 9 - 26 June, 2010 in Project Arts Centre

It’s a pleasant shock to walk into the Project Cube and find the actors already at work in Donnacadh O’Briain’s production of Leo Butler’s two-hander. Encased as they are in a clear Perspex box, primarily lit from below, and wedded with the rank smell from the fertiliser strewn...

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 08 June 2010 8 - 19 June, 2010 in Gaiety Theatre

There are many ways of delivering the most famous exasperation from Wilde’s last play, although most actors tend to go with robust indignation. Not so Stockard Channing who, as Lady Bracknell, responds to Jack Worthing’s (Keenan) tale of abandonment on the Brighton line with a barely audible...

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Not I by Samuel Beckett

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 04 June 2010 4 June 2010 (on tour) in Project Arts Centre

Not I (1972) is typical of Beckett’s late theatre in so far as it focuses on fragmented corporeality and affective force in a manner that tests theatre’s representational limit. The piece is written as an aestheticized logorrhea delivered by a carefully illuminated mouth. Although only 14...

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Bookworms by Bernard Farrell

Reviewed by Sara Keating on 01 June 2010 1 June - 10 July, 2010 in Abbey Theatre

“Let’s try to show everyone that, recession or no recession, we are contented and happy – and this evening is going to be fun!” Spoken by deluded book club hostess Ann, this optimistic manifesto might well be the motto for Bernard Farrell’s frothy comedy of manners, Bookworms,...

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The Parting Glass by Dermot Bolger

Reviewed by Emilie Pine on 01 June 2010 1 - 17 July, 2010, then transferring to New York in Axis Ballymun

With the play In High Germany, first staged in 1990, Dermot Bolger dramatised the decision of a group of three young Irish men to emigrate from Ireland. The three men – Eoin, Shane and Mick – went in different directions: Mick to America, Shane to Holland, while Eoin settled in Hamburg. Now,...

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The Miser by Molière, translated and adapted by David Johnston

Reviewed by Lisa Fitzpatrick on 29 May 2010 5 May - 29 May; touring 31 May - 9 July, 2010 in Lyric Theatre at Elmwood Hall

The phrase that comes irresistibly to mind when watching The Miser is ‘rollicking romp’. David Johnston’s new translation-adaptation of L’Avare is the Lyric’s latest production of Molière, directed by Dan Gordon with Andy Gray in the title role. The production manages to...

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Strike! by Tracy Ryan

Reviewed by Christina Hunt Mahony on 29 May 2010 25 - 29 May, 2010 in Samuel Beckett Theatre

Strike! is an ambitious dramatic rendering of the anti-apartheid strike by eleven Dunnes Stores workers which began in July of 1984 and ended in victory over two and a half years later. The playwright, Tracy Ryan, and producer Helen Ryan last worked together on 'Cracked Eggs' in reverse capacities at...

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Language UnBecoming a Lady by Myles Breen

Reviewed by Patrick Brennan on 27 May 2010 On tour. in Dunamaise Theatre, Dunamaise Arts Centre

James Joyce maintained, through the voice of Stephen Dedalus in Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, that theatre was the most public of art forms. It’s only fitting then that the stage should air stories that have been of the most private nature mainly because they were a part of an oppressed...

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Marathon by Edoardo Erba, translated by Colin Teevan

Reviewed by Patrick Brennan on 27 May 2010 25 - 29 May, 2010 in Players Theatre

In darkened surroundings, the set for Marathon consists only of a large rectangle of loose road chippings where our two protagonists Mark (Brian Hutton) and Steve (Matthew Ralli) jog. True to the title of the play, they do actually run for the majority of the 55 minute performance. As real as their running...

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Andy Warhol’s Nothing Special by James Hickson

Reviewed by Breda Shannon on 27 May 2010 27 - 29 May, 2010 in Belltable Arts Centre

Brimming with aphoristically laden dialogue wrapped in a stylistically produced piece, Spilt Gin’s Andy Warhol’s Nothing Special is truly reminiscent of the infamous Factory era. Warhol is all over this tight production where set, acting, directing and musical arrangement coalesce to bring...

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