Reviews

The Ones Who Kill Shooting Stars by Conall Quinn

Reviewed by Patrick Brennan on 07 May 2010 30 April - 08 May, 2010; on tour. in Riverbank Arts Centre

The Ones Who Kill Shooting Stars is set in the midst of The Emergency in Ireland during the Second World War. Since Drogheda-based Upstate Theatre’s mission statement promises to draw upon the culture and history of the town and its county, this absurdist and strangely romantic drama particularly...

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Fragile by Aaron Rogers

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 06 May 2010 4 - 8 May, 2010 in Cobalt Café, Dublin 1

As the Gay Theatre Festival goes, we’re in familiar territory with Fragile. Aaron Rogers’ play is essentially a tale of a young man coming out to his family and friends, and wrestling with the inevitable affairs of the heart. The action takes place on a raised, slightly staggered stage in...

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Tea Set and The Candidate by Gina Moxley

Reviewed by Breda Shannon on 05 May 2010 5 - 8 May, 2010 in Belltable Arts Centre

Sidhe is Limerick’s newest theatre company. It promises to produce new and emerging Irish writers and to focus particularly on women writers. For its debut outing it engaged Gina Moxley to direct two of her own plays, Tea Set and The Candidate. In Tea Set, Maeve McGrath - co-founder of Sidhe,...

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Henna Night by Amy Rosenthal

Reviewed by Pádraic Whyte on 03 May 2010 3 and 4 May, 2010 in Black Box Cafe, Belfast

The opening of Rawlife’s new production of Amy Rosenthal’s 1999 play Henna Night, immediately draws the audience’s attention to the act of listening. The play begins in darkness, forcing the audience to listen rather than merely hear. As the heartbroken Judith (Rachel Logan) leaves...

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Brighton by Jim Nolan

Reviewed by Úna Kealy on 03 May 2010 1 - 22 May, 2010 in Garter Lane Arts Centre

Brighton celebrates friendship, hope and the resilience of the human spirit and centres on the characters of Lily, an elderly Irish woman and Fulham supporter who has spent all her working life in England working in the Civil Service, and former actor Jack Dunhill, just turned sixty, who has recently...

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Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett

Reviewed by Patrick Lonergan on 29 April 2010 29 April – 15 May, 2010 in Gate Theatre

It took Samuel Beckett about three weeks to write Krapp’s Last Tape. During that time, the play went through seven distinct stages which, according to the scholarship, involved a gradual stripping away of sentimentality: the text retained some realistic qualities, but it also became more surreal...

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The Sanctuary Lamp by Tom Murphy

Reviewed by Patrick Brennan on 22 April 2010 20 - 24 April, 2010; and on tour in Civic Theatre, Tallaght

The furore around the first production of The Sanctuary Lamp at the Abbey Theatre in 1975 tells us more about the tyrannical and despotic hold the Catholic Church had over the minds and hearts of the nation than it does really about Tom Murphy’s brilliant drama itself. Granted, there are some glorious...

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Husbands & Hats: A Revival of Two Classic Plays by Ferenc Molnar & Lord Dunsany

Reviewed by Claire-Louise Bennett on 21 April 2010 19 - 21 April, 2010 in Lunchtime Theatre at Kelly’s Bar, Galway

After a long absence, lunchtime theatre makes a welcome return to Galway. Hosted by Kelly’s Bar and featuring contributions from Galway’s most dynamic theatre companies, the opening season proffered an exciting range of work. A combination of factors, including low overheads and cheap cover...

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The Good Thief by Conor McPherson

Reviewed by Patrick Brennan on 21 April 2010 14 - 24 April, 2010 in Theatre Upstairs @ the Plough

Conor McPherson’s The Good Thief is a monologue that features your common-or-garden Dublin hoodlum who, paradoxically, has a heart of gold -that is, when he’s not beating the crap out of all and sundry for a pittance on behalf of his criminal boss, Joe Murray. As recounted here, McPherson’s...

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Yellow Moon by Daid Greig

Reviewed by Siobhán O'Gorman on 21 April 2010 19 – 25 April, 2010 in Nun’s Island Theatre

Rife with poignant, imagistic narration – akin to the work of our own Sebastian Barry – David Greig’s Yellow Moon yields a poetic tale of teenage lovers on the run. Sparsely punctuated by dialogue, much of this work is a story told by its main characters: Lee, Leila, Frank, Billy and...

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