What do you do during your average day off? Watch some TV or get the washing done? If you’re Mouth on Fire, you put on a play! Mouth on Fire are currently […]
World War 1 – The War of Words – Dublin Castle – Review
Waiting for Godot – Smock Alley – Review
Waiting for Godot – Review by Frances Winston Smock Alley Theatre 1662, Exchange Street Lower, Temple Bar, Dublin 8. Runs from July 29th– August 23rd at 7.30pm nightly Tickets €16/14 (includes a […]
Old Flames – New Theatre – Review
Old Flames – Review by Frances Winston The New Theatre, 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Runs 28th July – 9th August at 7.30pm nightly Tickets: €15/12 This new work […]
Sex, Drugs & Tinned Ravioli – Theatre Upstairs – Review
Sex, Drugs & Tinned Ravioli – by Andy Gallagher – Theatre Upstairs – until August 9th Rick and Chloe have just broken up. Rick was Chloe’s first boyfriend and she really didn’t […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Dublin Castle – Review
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Review by Frances Winston Dublin Castle Gardens, Dublin Castle, Dame Street, Dublin 2. July 23rd – August 3rd at 7.30pm nightly Tickets €6 from entertainment.ie Believe it […]
Nirbhaya – Pavilion Theatre – Review
Nirbhaya – Pavilion Theatre – Review by Helen O’Leary This play is based on an incident that took place in Delhi less than two years ago. A young woman boarded a bus […]
New Jersey Nights – Olympia Theatre – Review
New Jersey Nights – Review by Frances Winston The Olympia Theatre, Dame Street, Dublin 2. From Friday July 18th until Saturday August 2nd at 8pm nightly. Tickets €23-€39 from Ticketmaster and usual […]
Star of the Sea – An Taibhdhearc, Galway – Review
Star of the Sea is based on Joseph O’Connor’s book of the same name, and tells the story of a famine ship crossing the Atlantic ocean in 1847 from Cobh to New […]
Ballyturk – Black Box Theatre- Galway – Review
At the start of the play we are introduced to two men. We get to see their daily ritual, and the strange games they play with each other, acting out characters from […]
Oleanna – Dramsoc Theatre – Review
Oleanna by David Mamet Dramsoc Theatre UCD Student Centre, 17-19th July Oleanna, written in 1992, is an exploration of the power struggle between a college professor and his female student, who accuses […]
Low Level Panic – New Theatre – Review
Low Level Panic – New Theatre As you enter the theatre, you are confronted with the unusual sight of a woman in a bath tub. She is oblivious to the audience, clearly […]
A Picture Of Us – Theatre Upstairs – Review
A Picture of Us: A (sort of) Musical – Review by Frank L. The “Theatre Upstairs” has undergone a major reconfiguration of its space and the “new” auditorium is a vast improvement […]
Smock! – Smock Alley Theatre – Review
Smock! is a play based around the space in which it is performed. The play tells the history of Smock alley, and brings you through the various incarnations of the oldest stage […]
Hear me sing your song/ with raised Arms – Project Arts Centre – Review
Hear Me Sing Your Song/with Raised Arms – Review by Frances Winston Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. July 9th – 12th @ 8pm nightly Tickets: €12/10 […]
The Assassination of Brian Boru – New Theatre – Review
The Assassination of Brian Boru – Review by Helen O’Leary Runs at the New Theatre until July 12th. This plays tells a very personal tale about a brotherly bond but it also […]
Boyz of Harcourt Street – Smock Alley – Review
Boyz of Harcourt Street – Review by Frances Winston The Black Box, Smock Alley Theatre, Exchange Street, Lower, Temple Bar, Dublin 8 Runs from July 7th – 12th, 8.30pm nightly – Tickets: […]
Deeds of Deceit – Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle – Review
Deeds of Deceit – Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle – Review The Irish Crown Jewels were stolen in 1907 in what was assumed to be an insider job. The safe in which the […]
My Brilliant Divorce – Civic Theatre – Review
Angela has just parted company with her husband Max or round head as she calls him. After many years of marriage Max has moved on and found new love in the arms […]
The Price – Gate Theatre – Review
The Price tells the story of two brothers who haven’t spoken in 16 years. The reason for their long separation is slowly revealed over the course of the play. Victor is a […]
The Cardinals – Workman’s Club – Review
The Cardinals – Review by Helen O’Leary. The Cardinals are performing their improvised theatre at the Workman’s Club for the next three Wednesdays. You’ll find eight improvisers on stage; Peter Byrne, Niamh […]
Shur I’ll Be Alright Here On Me Own – Smock Alley – Review
This piece contains three short monologues dealing with people on the edges of society. It has a playful style, with a lot of humour contained in each one. In the first segment […]
The Last Five Years – Project Arts Centre – Review
The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown – Review by Frank L. Written in 2001, first performed in Chicago and then off-Broadway, New York in March 2002, The Last Five Years […]
Aristocrats – Abbey Theatre – Review
The town of Ballybeg has had the O’Donnell family at its forefront for generations. The family had a legal dynasty and their house was the centre of the community. This generation has […]
Dirty Laundry – Smock Alley – Review
Dirty Laundry written and directed by Chris Edmund – Review by Frank L. Last autumn Chris Edmund brought a production of ‘The Swell Party‘ from Western Australia which was performed by his […]
Mountain – Project Arts Centre – Review
‘You are restricted by bones, serving portions of hooker’s sex’ sings Derrick while playing the bass guitar. The two other members of the cast chant out words behind him, while dancing with […]
Losing the Plot – Teacher’s Club – Review
Losing the Plot – Review by Frances Winston Theatre@36, The Teacher’s Club, 36 Parnell Square West, Dublin 1 June 16th – 21st – at 8pm The Celtic Tiger claimed […]
Tactics – Theatre Upstairs – Review
Tactics- Theatre Upstairs – Review by Frank L. Written by Finbarr Doyle & Jeda de Brí Set somewhere in the Midlands in Ireland, Medbh (Nessa Matthews) is the daughter of a deceased […]
A Winter’s Tale – Teachers’ Club – Review
A Winters Tale – Review by Frances Winston Theatre@36, The Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 2 10th – 14th June. Tickets: €12/10 As one of Shakespeare’s least performed and least consistent […]
Téip Dheireanach Krapp – New Theatre – Review
Téip Dheireanach Krapp. An Amharclann Nua. Samuel Beckett- Traschruthaithe ag Gabriel Rosenstock Review by Helen O’Leary Gearrdhráma de chuid Samuel Beckett é seo faoi sheanduine, scríbhneoir. Tá an fear seo tar éis […]
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