Reviews

Dublin Fringe Festival: Counter Culture by Katie O'Kelly

Reviewed by Jennifer Lee on 12 September 2013 11-14 and 21 Sept 2013 in Bewley's Cafe Theatre

“Visualise. Organise. Potentialise. And remember: Always fluff and fold.” This is just one of the ‘Top Tips’ given to the employees of Macken’s Department Store in Dublin by an overly articulate and sickeningly smiley woman (O’Kelly) whose voice is accompanied by the...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Fused by Dan Bergin

Reviewed by Lauren O'Toole on 11 September 2013 11-14 Sept 2013 in The Lir Academy, Studio 1

Dan Bergin’s Fused achieves that which seems almost impossible – a show that relies almost entirely on improvisation, audience participation and interactivity, but which is also completely non-intimidating to even the least initiated theatre goer. At the beginning of the performance we are...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: How to be a Lad(y) by ponybois

Reviewed by Seona Mac Reamoinn on 11 September 2013 11-15 Sept, 2013 in Smock Alley Theatre

It's Raining Men or is it? Maybe we’re looking at three boys and a girl or perhaps just four girls?. Ponybois, offshoot of the ever lively Ponydance company, play with genre and gender in this new show to create their own exuberant mix of cabaret and burlesque, night fever dance moves and roller...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: FAIR BALL T'YIS: A Football Opera by Het KIP presented by CAMPO

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 11 September 2013 11-15 September, 2013 in Samuel Beckett Theatre

The timing couldn't be more fortuitous. The week before Dublin take on Mayo in the All Ireland Senior Football Final in Croke Park, real life GAA fans take the starring role in Campo/Het Kip's football 'opera', immersing us in the atmosphere and antics of Hill 16 on match day. Placing the audience on...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: GRINDR/a love story by PETTYCASH

Reviewed by Chris McCormack on 11 September 2013 11-14 September, 2013 in Players Theatre

While waiting for the lights to rise on PETTYCASH’s new production, I whip out my phone and tap on an app that conjures a list of nearby suitors. The magical locating device is GRINDR: a networking app for gay, bi-sexual and bi-curious men looking for chat, love and fun of the string-less variety....

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Beowulf The Blockbuster! by Bryan Burroughs

Reviewed by Emma Creedon on 11 September 2013 11-20 September, 2013 in Bewley's Café Theatre

The title of Bryan Burroughs’ Beowulf: The Blockbuster! is slightly misleading; it is less a reworking of the Anglo-Saxon poem than a performance about how fantasy can help to absolve us from the hideousness of our present circumstances. “I’m about to be born,” Burroughs’...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: LIPPY by DEAD CENTRE

Reviewed by Christopher McCormack on 11 September 2013 11-14 September, 2013 in The Lir Academy- Studio 1

In our search for meaning in the world, theatre can deliver truth divinely from the unknown. But when it approaches the boarded-up dwelling of four Kildare women who entered a suicide pact thirteen years ago, the art form becomes compromised. It can’t find sense in the tragedy, and that releases...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: In Dog Years I'm Dead by Mirari Productions

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 11 September 2013 11-14 September, 2013 in The New Theatre

Turning thirty. For those about to, it can render them a quivering ball of existential neuroses. For those of us who have, we wonder what the hell everyone was on about. It would be easy to look at the indulgently nostalgic protagonists of Kate Heffernan’s new play and dismiss them cynically as...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: War of Attrition by The Devious Theatre Company

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 10 September 2013 10-14 September, 2013 in Players Theatre

One bad click deserves another, at least in this War of Attrition, an Easter Rising/Wikileaks mash up. Fought on the ground and in the ether, no one is safe, particularly in a city the size of Dublin, where you could quite plausibly do enough old fashioned stalking to supplement the cyber variety, to...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: MADONNA by Maedhbh Haicéid

Reviewed by Lauren O'Toole on 10 September 2013 10-14 September, 2013 in The International Bar

Modern society’s unhealthy fixation with celebrity has not necessarily been a novel theme in Irish theatre over the last few years. While the world has become increasingly obsessed with the rich and famous, playwrights have been set on interrogating the reasons why. Meadhbh Haicéid takes to the...

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