My name is Alice Devine by Shay Linehan Alice had a home, a husband, two sons and all seemed fine. But financial problems hit as the economy crashes and her family world […]
My name is Alice Devine – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Review
Borstal Boy – Gaiety Theatre – Review
Borstal Boy runs at the Gaiety Theatre until Oct 11th. A young Brendan Behan travels to Liverpool with the makings of a bomb in his case, complete with dynamite. He is working […]
Eeating Seals and Seagulls Eggs – Project Arts Centre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
Eating Seals and Seagulls Eggs – Project Arts Centre – until 20th Sept If you ask people of a certain age about their memories of secondary school, an often repeated topic is […]
B(r)itches – Project Arts Centre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival Review
B(r)itches – Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival – Review by Emily Elphinstone Following the success of last year’s hit ‘Boys and Girls’, Dylan Coburn Gray returns to the Fringe with a completely different […]
Rhubarb Crumble – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
Rhubarb Crumble runs at the Tiger Dublin Fringe until Saturday the 20th of Sept @ 8.30., Bewley’s Café Theatre. Rhubarb Crumble charts the rise and fall and rise and fall again of […]
Ajax and Little Iliad – Peacock Theatre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
Ajax and Little Iliad – Review by Emily Elphinstone One of the best things about the Fringe festival is the opportunity to go to more immersive shows, where you don’t just get […]
How to Build your First Robot – Smock Alley – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
How to Build your First Robot – Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival – until 20th Sept. It is the 1960’s and man has one dream, to step foot on the moon. An American […]
Charolais – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
Charolais – Review by Emily Elphinstone Telling the tale of a person and their nemesis, the protagonist and antagonist, has great precedent in theatrical history; but not often is that antagonist a […]
The Carved Soul – Smock Alley – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
The Carved Soul runs at Smock Alley until Wednesday the 17th. Ollie is quite a difficult old man. He still has a lot of life left in him though, he has a […]
Pilgrim – Smock Alley Theatre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
Pilgrim – Smock Alley Theatre – Review by Helen O’Leary Pilgrim is a one-man show but you don’t tire of the one man Rex Ryan because he presents himself in many guises. […]
Down and Out in Paris and London – Bewley’s Cafe – Review
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell – Review With only a table, two chairs, and a small glass of wine, the scene looks very much the same onstage, […]
Songs From A Car Park (Drury Street) – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
Songs from a Car Park (Drury Street) – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review You are met at the entrance to the Car Park by a Fringe representative in an orange t-shirt who directs […]
Bastard: A Family History – Project Arts Centre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
Bastard: A Family History – Review by Frank L. The stage contains a substantial vacant suspended picture frame with an open suitcase on the floor, a toaster of indeterminate age on a […]
Singlehood – Olympia Theatre – Review
Singlehood – Review by Frances Winston The Olympia theatre, Dame Street, Dublin 2 Runs September 11th -13th at 8pm nightly (doors 7.15pm). Tickets: €25/28 Given that this was one of the huge […]
Lurky! Lurky! – Beckett Theatre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
Lurky! Lurky! – Review by Frances Winston The Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin 2. Runs from September 11th – 14th @ 6.30pm nightly. Matinee Saturday 13th @ 1pm Tickets €15/13. Suitable […]
Fizzles – Beckett in the City – 14 Henrietta Street – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
Samuel Beckett’s Fizzles – Beckett in the City – Tiger Dublin Fringe This production takes place in 14 Henrietta street, which is one of the more impressive venues for the Fringe Festival. […]
Centre of the Universe – Bewleys Cafe Theatre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
The Centre of the Universe – Review by Emily Elphinstone John Doran wants to be your Best Friend, whether you really like your best friend, or are secretly jealous of them. He […]
Tardigrade – Beckett Theatre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
Tardigrade – Beckett Theatre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review As you enter the space, you are greeted with a large projection on the back wall of a small grub like creature scurrying. This […]
At Sea – New Theatre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
At Sea – New Theatre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review – Review by Helen O’Leary This play performed to a full house last night so it seems word has already spread that […]
Lords of Strut – Chaos – Peacock – Tiger Dubln Fringe Review
Lords of Strut present Chaos – Review by Frances Winston The Peacock Stage @ The Abbey Theatre, 26-27 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1 Runs 9-13 September nightly at 7pm. Saturday 13 September […]
The Rest is Action – Project Arts Centre – Review V2.0
The Rest is Action runs at the Tiger Dublin Fringe – Review by Frances Winston The Rest is Action – Upstairs @ Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin […]
Bernarda’s House – Project Arts Centre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
Bernarda’s House – Review by Frances Winston The Cube @ Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. 5-13 September @ 6.15pm nightly. Tickets €15/13. This retelling of Federico […]
Hitting the Mark – Smock Alley – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
Hitting the Mark – Tiger Dublin Fringe – Smock Alley – Review The premise is simple, if a little flaky. An Emmy award-winning TV producer descends on Ireland to reboot one of […]
How to Keep an Alien – Project Arts Centre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
How to Keep an Alien runs at the Tiger Dublin Fringe until Saturday 13th of September – Review by Frances Winston If the title of this leads you to expect a sci-fi […]
Advocacy – Project Arts Centre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
Advocacy runs at the Project Arts Centre until Saturday 13th of September. Advocacy is not a traditional play, it is a piece that aims to give a voice to people who are […]
The Rest is Action – Project Arts Centre – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
The Rest is Action runs at the Tiger Dublin Fringe until Saturday 13th of September. Review by Emily Elphinstone From the opening moments of The Rest is Action, as the cast gently […]
Wrapped – Smock Alley – Tiger Dublin Fringe Review
Wrapped runs at the Tiger Dublin Fringe until Saturday 13th of September. Ali and Lisa are two very different people. Ali has had a rough few years, spending the majority of her […]
Twelfth Night – Smock Alley Theatre – Review
Twelfth Night or What You Will – Review by Helen O’Leary Smock Alley Theatre After a spluttering start this play erupts with a beach party scene leaving the audience in no doubt […]
Steven Berkoff – The Actor’s Lament – Gaiety Theatre – Review
Steven Berkoff – The Actor’s Lament – Gaiety Theatre – September 1st – 6th. Two actors drift onto a barren stage, with a single throne like chair placed dead centre. They are […]
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