Three brothers live under the same roof with their brute of a father; Ephraim. There is no love lost between the various members of the family, and it is not the easiest […]
Desire Under the Elms – Smock Alley – Dublin Theatre Festival Review
62nd Wexford Festival Opera – 23 Oct – 3 Nov 2013
The Wexford Opera Festival is out for new blood! With the festival starting in just over two weeks time, they’re starting a campaign to make Opera ‘savage’, according to the video below. […]
Open House – Oct 4th – 6th
Open House is a three day feast of architecture running from October 4th to 6th, as many of the most interesting new and old buildings around the city throw their doors open […]
Dublin Theatre Festival – Free Events, Panel Discussions, In Development
There’s a lot more happening in the Dublin Theatre festival than the various plays, there’s also a world of free events, shows that are in development and other odd ball things for […]
South – 2013 Kilruddery Film Festival – Review
Southern Discomfort – South – 2013 Kilruddery Film Festival – Review “Presenting a wonderful and true story of British pluck, self-sacrifice and indomitable courage displayed by a small party of men” Ernest […]
The Threepenny Opera – Gate Theatre – Dublin Theatre Festival – Review
The Threepenny opera is a musical by writer Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill, and was adapted from John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera. It was first performed in 1928 in Berlin, and […]
Winners and Losers – Project Arts Centre – Dublin Theatre Festival Review
Do you have a ‘Frenemy’ or a friend with whom you have an intense rivalry and competitive friendship? Is there something about male companionship that encourages competition? Does envy, the need to […]
Germinal – Project Arts Centre – Dublin Theatre Festival Review
Take four people – three men, one woman – put them on a confined planet/strange world, have them uncover the rudiments of communication and the development of speech and music and you […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (30-09-13 to 6-10-13)
So, another busy week on the streets of Dublin, with some very special events on around the City. There’s Dublin Theatre Festival with all the fun things that involves, also Hard Working Class […]
Killruddery Film Festival – Kilruddery House – Sept 27th – 29th
What’s the nicest cinema you’ve ever been in? The Lighthouse? The IFI? Well, we’re moving up a gear this weekend, as the Killruddery Film Festival is being staged in the beautiful confines […]
Dublin Theatre Festival Highlights – Preview and Tips
What is starts today? Honest? Yes, after many months of expectation, the Theatre Festival is finally upon us! So, if you’re in a state of panic and completely disorganised, here’s what we […]
Amanda Coogan – 13 Women – Hugh Lane
Amanda Coogan is possibly Ireland’s best known performance artist, and her work is always interesting. When you combine her with the wonderful Anu productions, what do you get? Find out tomorrow. The […]
Maeve Higgins – Moving City – Smock Alley – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
What is the truth about why Maeve left Dublin, Is it because Ryan Tubridy blanked her in the IFI? Or is it simply that she had slept with all the men of […]
Animus – Lir – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
Two sisters, Anna and Rose Bettle, live together and share a shocking past that is clouded in mystery. They are tainted by their history and border on unhinged, with the doll of […]
The Late David Turpin – Smock Alley Theatre – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
I saw David Turpin‘s show in last year’s Fringe Festival so I had high expectations for this year’s performance. I was even happier at that the fact it was taking place in […]
Dublin Burlesque Festival – November 7th-9th
The Dublin Burlesque Festival returns this November, and promises to shock and surprise the curious and those on familiar ground. It runs from the 7th to the 9th of November, and full […]
David O’Doherty – Dublin Fringe Festival – Project Arts Centre – Review
In the early part of the show, David said he played his first ever comedy gig in the Norseman, only a hundred metres or so from the Project Arts Centre. He said […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (16-09-13 to 22-09-13)
So we’re a week and a bit into the Fringe Festival and already most of us are suffering from nervous exhaustion! There’s almost a complete change of events, so plenty of new […]
Beowulf: The Blockbuster! – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
This is the story of three generations of a family, one still inside the womb! The majority of the play is seen through the eyes of a young boy, growing up in […]
The Last Post – Dublin Fringe Festival – The Mart – Review
The Last Post is a free flowing show that lets you wander through the inner workings of an imaginary Post Office. We get to see the sorting offices and meet the well […]
Dolls – Project Arts Centre – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
From the red lighting to the provocative costumes to the suggestive Chubba Chubb sequence, everything in Sorcha Kenny’s Dolls asks to be noticed. As the audience takes their seats, the production is […]
Lippy – Lir – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
‘Nothing will come of nothing.’ Bush Moukarzel’s wry delivery of King Lear’s famous line may have gained a laugh from the audience at last night’s production of Lippy in The Lir, but […]
Flightfest – Dublin Quays – 15-09-13
What the hell is a Flightfest, I hear you scream. Just in case you’ve been living under a rock for the last week and have missed the wall to wall media coverage […]
Way Back Home – Project Arts Centre – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
A small boy is lost in the city, he encounters a number of strange individuals while trying to find his way back home, None of them are particularly sinister, but all have […]
Postscript – New Theatre – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review
Postscript was a very different animal from many of the others I’ve seen at the Fringe festival so far, there was no singing or dancing, no burlesque show, just a well acted […]
Rites of Passage: Evolving our Past | Peppercanister Church | Dublin Fringe Festival | Review
The idea is simple, to wrap up Ireland’s history in three hours of talk and music, should be easy enough to achieve, right? Or as Keith Molony said, to put Ireland on […]
Things to do in Dublin this week (09-09-13 to 15-09-13)
I think it’s fair to say that Fringe Fever is in the air, as this is the first full week of the Fringe. It makes the job here a little more difficult […]
Bunk – Project Arts Centre – Review – Dublin Fringe Festival
PaperDolls return to the Fringe Festival after a sell out run in last years show. This new performance has moved its focus to the bed, but not in the romantic notion, instead […]
Granby Park – Music and Cinema Happening – 07-09-13
Ireland seemed to have skipped a season and have gone straight from Summer to Winter, but this did little to dampen the enthusiasm of those that went to Granby Park at the […]
No More Workhorse 