As you enter the theatre, twelve empty chairs fill the back of the stage. They are in a line and several of them have instruments beside them. As the piece begins, the […]
Neutral Hero – Porject Arts Centre – Dublin Theatre Festival – Review
The Bruising of Clouds – Civic Theatre – Dublin Theatre Festival – Review
Kelly lives across the hall from Martin in a bedsit in a Victorian house in Fairview. One night she sees him in hall, to drunk to open his front door. She helps […]
Lockout – New Theatre – Review
Jim Larkin and James Connolly are monumental figures in the Irish Trade Union Movement and were central figures in the great struggle between Labour and Capital in Ireland, the 1913 ‘Lockout’. ‘Strumpet […]
The Hanging Gardens – Abbey Theatre – Dublin Theatre Festival – Review
The eternal quest for meaning is at the heart of many a story. The whys and wherefores of human behaviour are a perennial source of inspiration, as culture at its best seeks […]
Desire Under the Elms – Smock Alley – Dublin Theatre Festival Review
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 […]
Pageant – Project Arts Centre – Review
“Inspired by life and the extra-ordinary of the everyday, Pageant celebrates the performer in us all.” The opening scene involves a single dancer on stage with no music, whirling a massive flag […]
No More Workhorse 