Reviews

Dublin Fringe Festival: Decision Problem [Good Time for Questions] by John Rogers

Reviewed by Chris McCormack on 10 September 2013 10-14 September, 2013 in The Lir Academy- Studio 2

Is it unprofessional to tweet during a performance that you’re reviewing? It’s encouraged in the new production by John Rogers, who himself is using a voice-speaking Macbook to throw a flirt at the ladies in the second row. In this meditation on the rapid rise of computers the laptop...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Postscript by Noelle Brown

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 10 September 2013 10-14 September, 2013 in The New Theatre

From a young age, Noelle Brown knew something was amiss. Her light skin and red hair stood out in a family with dark hair and sallow complexions. Told early on by loving parents that she was adopted, Brown decides as an adult to track down her birth mother and uncover the circumstances that prompted...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Pondling by Gúna Nua Theatre Company and Ramblinman

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 09 September 2013 9-13 September, 2013 in Smock Alley Theatre Boys School

The imagination of a lonely little girl is poignant thing — unless that lonely little girl is basically psychotic. You laugh, but it is actually quite sad. Madeleine has many of the normal things that little girls have: a My Pretty Pony bicycle, baby fat, a hatred for working on her grandfather’s...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Bunk by Paperdolls Performance Company

Reviewed by Rachel Donnelly on 08 September 2013 8-14 September, 2013 in Project Arts Centre

Sleep. People never tire of discussing it, and individual experiences of it vary drastically, running the gamut from an eagerly-anticipated space of escape to a dreaded tussle with an intractable sandman. Paperdolls newest work Bunk veers into the realm of the nightmarish with an aerial performance...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Confusion Boats by Gerard Kelly

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 08 September 2013 8-14 September, 2013 in Smock Alley Theatre Black Box

Gerard Kelly wanted to be a boxer. Knocked out in the first round of his first fight, he now plays guitar and makes theatre. He draws on all this in his exploration of masculinity and what it means today. Revealing his inner-self through poetry and song, he chats amiably about his past experiences and...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Of Rogues and Knaves by Rua (Paul Gleeson)

Reviewed by Donald Mahoney on 08 September 2013 8-21 September, 2013 in Whiskey Room at 37 Dawson Street

The first, and arguably most relevant, takeaway from Of Rogues and Knaves is this: Paul Gleeson is an incredible magician. The Dubliner’s one man show runs the entire gamut of illusion and trickery, from baffling sleight of hand card stunts to cracking the PIN codes of unwitting audience members...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Whelp by Come As Soon As You Hear

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 08 September 2013 8-13 September, 2013 in Smock Alley Theatre Boys School

‘When you’re eighteen, you’re out the door.’ Parents often make this threat, but a persistent economic downturn has rendered it an idle one. Empty nesters have found that their nests don’t remain empty for long, and the front door of many twenty-something’s childhood...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Break by HotForTheatre

Reviewed by Jesse Weaver on 07 September 2013 7-21 September, 2013 in Project Arts Centre

The death of a popular secondary school student throws into sharp relief the disappointments and desires of an overworked team of teachers. When music teacher Jeff (Tom Lane) makes a hash of the memorial mass held for the dead student, vice principal John (Damian Devaney) brings in a workshop facilitator...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: Distance From the Event by Collapsing Horse Theatre Company

Reviewed by Susan Conley on 07 September 2013 7-21 September 2013 in The Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin

Mysteries need to be sufficiently mysterious in order to be confounding, and a strange science fiction environment needs to be, paradoxically, familiar enough within our own ability to accept different forms and functions. In Collapsing Horse’s latest venture, the mystery allows two wise-cracking...

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Dublin Fringe Festival: The Birthday Man by The Gonzo Theatre Company

Reviewed by Caomhan Keane on 07 September 2013 5 -14 September, 2013 in Smock Alley Theatre Black Box

In this preachy, elliptical comic drama that spans the life of our centenarian protagonist, ability spurns ambition as Gonzo Theatre juggle too many balls and they all come crashing down. From Oisín's (McGuinness) birth during the Lockout to his death during the recession, the action jumps back and forth...

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