Reviews

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted by John Mortimer

Reviewed by Victoria White on 16 December 2009 1 Dec 2009 to 23 Jan 2010 in Gate Theatre

If you’re not close to bursting into tears every time Tiny Tim says “God bless us every one”, you might not be a fit reviewer of an adaptation of A Christmas Carol. But Dickens is my favourite novelist, Christmas, my favourite time of the year, and I can be relied on to bawl for Tiny...

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Motions of the Heart by Eric Fraad and Louisa Young

Reviewed by John White on 06 December 2009 30 Nov and 6 Dec, 2009 in National Gallery of Ireland

To the accompaniment of a slow sixteenth-century piece for viols and continuo ('Sit Fast' by Christopher Tye), a young female corpse in white is slowly wheeled on to the main performance area of the chandeliered and elegant Shaw Room of the National Gallery. Ina pool of warm amber, three masked and gowned...

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Skin and Blisters by Audrey O’Reilly

Reviewed by Sara Keating on 05 December 2009 On tour. in Smock Alley Theatre

It is the special remit of theatre-in-education to explore an educational topic through the lens of drama. Working as a live-simulation of an unfolding challenge or context, theatre stimulates active participation rather than passive absorption, and complementary drama workshops allow students to work...

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We Carried Your Secrets by Theatre of Witness

Reviewed by David Grant on 04 December 2009 in Brian Friel Theatre, Queen’s University, Belfast

The Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ have prompted countless theatrical responses over the decades, from community-based performances to full-scale conventional plays, but We Carried Your Secrets, which is currently being performed in a variety of venues across the region, is unlike any other...

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The Theatre Machine Turns You On by Theatre Club

Reviewed by Fintan Walsh on 01 December 2009 1 - 5 December, 2009 in Project Cube

What are the chances that two out of three plays should include choreographed umbrella sequences, quasi-Dionysian alcohol spewing, and the comparison of a little heartache to the bombing of Hiroshima? Maybe it’s just a coincidence, or maybe the cast of Bang Shoot Blast and In Touch were sharing...

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Moment by Deirdre Kinahan

Reviewed by Brian Singleton on 28 November 2009 17-28 November, 2009 in Project Cube

How would you react if your teenage son killed your daughter’s best friend? How would you react if your brother served his time for murder and went on to have a successful career and a relationship? These are the core questions facing a mother and her two daughters in Kinahan’s excoriating...

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The Human Voice by Jean Cocteau

Reviewed by Claire-Louise Bennett on 27 November 2009 26 - 29 November, 2009 in Nuns Island Theatre, Galway

Written in 1932 The Human Voice is a monologue play which consists entirely of a woman speaking with her former lover on the telephone. He has left her for another woman and is calling to request that his belongings be returned. The ex is not seen or heard and so, in his absence, the telephone as an...

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The Weein by Patrick J. O’Reilly

Reviewed by Lisa Fitzpatrick on 25 November 2009 24 Nov - 04 Dec, 2009 in Old Museum Arts Centre

The Weein will be the last production staged at the Old Museum Arts Centre, which will reopen in its new purpose built space, the MAC, in 2011. Though many of Northern Ireland’s theatre companies could stake their claim on the OMAC’s studio, The Weein seems like a fitting finale since, with...

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Strandline by Abbie Spallen

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 20 November 2009 17 November - 5 December, 2009 in Project Arts Centre

Jim Culleton’s production of Abbie Spallen’s newest play Strandline has all the outward shows of a murder mystery in full tilt. Taking place, for the most part, in a modern gothic mansion during a dark and stormy night, unlikely suspects are expertly grilled by a self-appointed inspector...

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Sleep Eat Party by Damian Gorman

Reviewed by Pádraic Whyte on 18 November 2009 10-19 November 2009, then on tour. in Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast

What does it mean to be a young man in contemporary Northern Ireland? Or more to the point, what does ‘being a man’ actually mean? In this new piece of verbatim theatre, Tinderbox presents a range of masculinities and diverse experiences of manhood in an attempt to answer such complex questions....

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