Reviews

House of Crossed Destinies by Deborah Hay

Reviewed by Seona Mac Réamoinn on 03 February 2010 2 - 6 February, 2010 in Project Arts Centre

Take five dancers, one choreographer, five solos, one director, no soundscape, and make of it an evening of engaging dance theatre. This unusual show was a masterclass in how intense, focused work, driven from within the artist, can enhance in every way the concept of performance – especially,...

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Jo Bangles by Dave Lordan

Reviewed by Derek West on 02 February 2010 2 - 6 February, 2010 in The Mill Theatre

David Lordan has been garnering awards as a poet (The Boy in the Ring, 2007) and this is reflected in the language of his first play, Jo Bangles. Lordan is in love with words and the sounds of words, emerging from a fuzzy soundtrack at the start into a textured and variegated verbal tapestry –...

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Limerick Unfringed Performance Festival by Various

Reviewed by Breda Shannon on 30 January 2010 27 - 31 January, 2010 in Belltable Arts Centre

Memory Deleted presented by Anu Productions Directed by Louise Lowe Designed by Sarah Jane Shiels With: Deirdre Burke, Dave O’Sullivan, Niamh Shaw, Brenda Meaney, Stephen Murray, Robbie O’Connor, Zara Starr, Cathy Walsh, Annette Treacey and Roisin Connelly Boutique Hotel, Denmark Street,...

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10 Dates with Mad Mary by Yasmine Akram

Reviewed by John White on 30 January 2010 27 - 30 January, 2010 in Project Arts Centre

This play is a result of Calipo's 'page2stage' programme for emerging young writers who are given workshops and dramaturgical support from this well established company based in Drogheda. Yasmine Akram, writer and performer, has a created a monologue piece about a foul mouthed and aggressive girl who...

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Decked by Paul Walker

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 27 January 2010 From 19th Jan 2010 in Theatre Upstairs @ the Plough

There’s something both mind-boggling and encouraging about the idea of opening a new theatre in the middle of the country’s worst economic crisis on record, not to mention in light of already effected and anticipated funding cutbacks within the arts. Located just above Lanigan’s Plough...

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Faun / As You Are by David Bolger / Muirne Bloomer

Reviewed by Michael Seaver on 15 January 2010 14 January - 13 February, 2010 in Project Arts Centre, and on tour.

It's a long shadow. Almost a century after his choreography redefined dance and its relationship to the other arts, Vaslav Nijinsky still holds a fascination for choreographers. The attraction isn't just his mould-breaking movement vocabulary, but also the personal tragedy of his descent into madness...

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Greta Garbo Came to Donegal by Frank McGuinness

Reviewed by Karen Fricker on 11 January 2010 7 January – 20 February, 2010 in Tricycle Theatre, London

In his latest play, Frank McGuinness brings together many of his favoured techniques, themes, and dramatic influences. As in Mary and Lizzie, Mutabilitie, and Gates of Gold, he fictionalises around real-life figures, here the eponymous film star, who in the 1970s really did visit a wealthy English artist...

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The Bacchae by Euripides

Reviewed by Harvey O'Brien on 11 January 2010 11 - 23 January, 2009 in Project Arts Centre, Dublin

Flipping through the programme for The Bacchae, you get the sense that Classic Stage Ireland is desperate to be taken seriously. Endorsements from Sir Michael Gambon and Seamus Heaney; extracts from ecstatic reviews of previous productions; a full and detailed outline of the company’s ethos; and...

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City of Mirrors by Real Illusions Theatre Company

Reviewed by Patrick Brennan on 17 December 2009 15-19 December 2009 in Smock Alley Theatre

City of Mirrors by Real Illusions deserves our admiration in the first instance because it attempts quite a difficult theatrical feat, namely, the staging of a production without words that is neither mime nor modern dance. The company describe it as a visual performance, which of course it is, but it’s...

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Turning Turtles by Daragh Bradshaw, Emma Fisher and Mags O’Donoghue

Reviewed by Breda Shannon on 16 December 2009 14 - 18 December, 2009 in 36 Cecil Street, Limerick

Beyond the Bark’s Christmas offering transports its young audience into a world of nautical nature adventure that is neither twee nor old fashioned but rather mesmerising and enlightening. Turning Turtles is the story of the altruistic Trevor who sets out on his boat every day to Turtle Island...

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