Reviews

Dublin Fringe Festival: Samuel Beckett's Rough for Theatre One by Company SJ and Barabbas

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 14 September 2013 14-17th September, 2013 in Meet at the Screen Cinema

Rough for Theatre I depicts an unsighted man (Trevor Knight) and a wheelchair user (Raymond Keane), both seemingly homeless, locked in a struggle to fulfill their needs. Human touch is one, and other types of ‘contact’ – visual, aural, contact with history via memory. Their relationship...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words II by Company SJ and Barabbas

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 14 September 2013 14-17 Sept 2013 in Meet at Screen Cinema

Act Without Words II presents two individuals emerging in turn from sacks when a poking device goads them into action. They never meet, but are mutually engaged insofar as one’s most important task is to move the other, cocooned inside sack, a little further away from the ‘goad’ in...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Figure It Out by 50% Male Experimental Theatre

Reviewed by Rachel Donnelly on 14 September 2013 14th September, 2013 in D-Light Studios

D-Light Studios, situated on a small residential back street on the north side of the city, is one of the more far-flung Fringe venues. It’s also one that always builds expectation through the feeling of secrecy surrounding its location and the raw edges of the warehouse space. 50% Male Experimental...

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Perfidia by Jimmy Murphy

Reviewed by Úna Kealy on 13 September 2013 12 - 28 Sept 2013 (on tour) in Central Hall, Waterford

Perfidia dramatises how the reckless economic and social policies of recent decades in Ireland have equated to a treacherous betrayal of Irish citizens leaving them vulnerable and forsaken. In the play’s title Jimmy Murphy has renamed Ireland and created a play that is bleak and uncompromising...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Fit/Misfit by Iseli-Chiodi Dance Company & Lux Boreal

Reviewed by Rachel Donnelly on 13 September 2013 13-15 September, 2013 in Smock Alley Banquet Hall

Born of an exchange between Ireland-based Iseli-Chiodi dance company and Mexican company Lux Boreal, Fit/Misfit is a quietly witty study of individual identity and belonging. Housed in the expansive upstairs space of Smock Alley Theatre, the piece tears through a diverse range of tones and attitudes,...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Small Plastic Wars by Pat McGrath

Reviewed by Seona Mac Réamoinn on 12 September 2013 12 - 18 September 2013 in Bewleys Café Theatre

It turns out that ‘olive drab’ is the shade Joe should have selected to paint his prize model panzer tank to achieve full authenticity. But there is nothing drab and everything authentic about this diamond of a show and the cast of characters who inhabit it, terrifically realised by Pat McGrath...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: The Last Post by Just the Lads

Reviewed by Chris McCormack on 12 September 2013 12 - 14 September 2013 in The Mart, Rathmines

Hardly anybody writes letters anymore. So what does this mean for the blue-shirted men and women whose job it is to stamp, sort and send? Having assembled at The Mart in Rathmines, we are led by a bucko with a keen eye for fire exits (working in a building full of paper will do that to you) into a centre...

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Bubble Revolution by Julia Holewinska

Reviewed by Helen Cusack on 12 September 2013 10 - 21 September 2013 in Theatre Upstairs

“I am thirty years old and I dream of going back to fairytales.” Polish Theatre Ireland presents a nostalgic portrayal of communist Poland in its one-woman show, Bubble Revolution. Written by Julia Holewińska and translated into English by Artur Zapałowski, it explores the dramatic effects...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Swing by Janet Moran and Steve Blount

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 12 September 2013 Sept 12, 16, 17 and 19, 2013 in Bewley's Cafe Theatre

What happens when you keep repeating the same pattern, over and over? You either get stuck, or you dance. It may be a truism that people tend to seek out new interests when they are faced with, or have experienced a change in life so monumental that they choose to do something outside of their own...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Dolls by Sorcha Kenny

Reviewed by Rachel Donnelly on 12 September 2013 12-16 Sept, 2013 in Project Arts Centre

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