Mavericks by Rebecca Grimes & David Farrell The backdrop contains advertising posters including one for the Alley Theatre’s production of A Waiting for Godot and another for Burger Queen. The only prop […]
Mavericks – Theatre Upstairs – Review
Mary Massacre – New Theatre – Review
Mary Massacre by Johnny McKnight – Review by Frank L. New Theatre – Oct 13th – Oct 18th @ 7.30pm – Tickets: €12 (€10 conc.) Johnny McKnight is a Scottish playwright, director […]
Patrick Kavanagh: A Life – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Review
Patrick Kavanagh: A Life created and performed by PJ Brady Patrick Kavanagh (1904 – 1967) made Monaghan, its stony grey soil and inhabitants, familiar to many who never glimpsed it or had […]
Our Few and Evil Days – Abbey Theatre – Review
Our Few and Evil Days | Abbey Theatre | Sept 26 – Oct 11 A young man arrives at a house and is met by an older couple. It becomes clear that […]
Book Burning – Dublin Theatre Festival Review
Book Burning | Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) | Oct 8 – 11 At the centre of the stage stands a trunk. It is a large imposing object in the middle of […]
Jack Charles V The Crown – Dublin Theatre Festival Review
Jack Charles V The Crown | Samuel Beckett Theatre | Oct 8 – 12 – Review by Emily Elphinstone One of the most exciting things about the Dublin Theatre Festival is the […]
Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner – Dublin Theatre Festival Review
Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner | Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock Stage | Oct 7 – 11 In the 1980s, Paul Bright was something of an enfant terrible in Scottish […]
Perhaps all the Dragons – Dublin Theatre Festival Review
Perhaps all the dragons | Smock Alley Theatre | Oct 7 – 11 As you enter the banquet hall in Smock Alley, the strange contraption is revealed. It is a series of […]
The Way Back Home: Review
The Way Back Home – Branar and Teater Refleksion Dublin Theatre Festival Family Season at The Ark Irish theatre company Branar team up with Danish Teater Refleksion to bring this adaptation of […]
Bailegangaire – Olympia Theatre – Dublin Theatre Festival Review
Bailegangaire runs until Oct 5th. Review by Helen O’Leary Bailegangaire opens with Mommo centre stage, sitting on her throne which is also her wrought iron bed. The same old farmhouse kitchen that […]
The Mariner – Gate Theatre – Review
The Mariner – Review by Emily Elphinstone Set in rural Cork, The Mariner tells the story of Royal Navy sailor Peter Shanley (Sam O’Mahony), as he returns home following the WWI Battle […]
Brigit – Olympia Theatre – Dublin Theatre Festival Review
Brigit – Dublin Theatre Festival – Until Oct 5th Seamus has had a turbulent relationship with the Catholic Church, in the past he feels he was swindled out of payment for his […]
Friendly Fire – New Theatre – Review
Friendly Fire – Review by Frances Winston 43 East Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Runs Septemer 29th – Octoer 11th @ 7.30pm nightly Tickets: €10-15 Acclaimed Irish poet Francis Ledwidge gets […]
Vardo – Dublin Theatre Festival – Review
Vardo runs at the Dublin Theatre Festival until October 12th. The final piece of the puzzle, this is the last part of the Monto cycle. The series of four immersive plays were […]
A Girl is A Half-formed Thing – Dublin Theatre Festival Review
A young woman walks to the centre of the stage in darkness. As the lights slowly rise, you realise she is wearing only pyjama bottoms and a t-shirt. She stands on the […]
My name is Alice Devine – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Review
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 […]
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 […]
No More Workhorse 