Briefs are an impressive circus troop who are ‘a little bit butch with a whole lot of camp’! From humble beginnings in the back of a book store in Brisbane to touring […]
Briefs – Meeting House Square – Review
Pop – Smock Alley – Competition
Pop opens tonight in Smock Alley, at 9PM, and we have two tickets to give away! To be in with a chance of winning them, please mail us at nomoreworkhorse@gmail.com and tell […]
Things to do in Dublin – 10th – 16th Sept
Yeah, it’s another busy one, so I’ll get right down to it. Music – Leonard Cohen starts his residency in Kilmainham tomorrow, and there still seems to be tickets going for the […]
Solpadeine is my boyfriend – Project Arts Centre – Review
Solpadeine is my boyfriend is a one woman show, written and starring Stefanie Preissner. It deals with a young woman moving to Dublin, falling in and out of love and watching her […]
Elevator – Project Arts Centre – Review
Thisispopbaby’s new production ‘Elevator’ is a bright, fast production that dances the line between a pop concert and a Bret Easton Ellis novel. Six beautiful young things come to a secluded […]
White Rabbit, Red Rabbit – line up
One of the top picks in our Fringe Festival preview, White Rabbit, Red Rabbit is a show by Iranian Playwright Nassim Soleimanpour which is performed by a different actor each day, […]
Things to do in Dublin – 3rd – 9th Sept
After a brief quiet spell, we’ve hit festival season in Dublin, so prepare to to be busy! Well, you could just choose to ignore it all, but you’d be crazy, quite frankly. […]
Fringe Festival Preview – Highlights
Dublin’s very own Fringe Festival opens this week (Thursday 6th Sept) and as ever, the programme is somewhat daunting. It’s a mass names and none of them household! Here’s a few tips […]
Much Ado about Nothing – Project Arts Centre – Cube – Review
This is a bright, fast paced production of one of Shakespeare’s finest comedy. The large ensemble cast of 16 actors on the tiny stage, vary in age from the very young to […]
What to do in Dublin – 13th to 19th August
I hope everyone got out to see Cracked Lights production of ‘The Tempest’ in Iveagh Gardens. It was our top tip from last week, and thankfully the weather was generally to Prospero […]
Kilkenny Arts Fever
Yes, that’s right, it all kicks off tomorrow, and it should be banging! Definitely worth a road trip from the big smoke (and all other quarters). Here’s some of our top picks… […]
Free Shakespeare – The Tempest – Iveagh Gardens
Judging on the Irish summer, I think the Tempest is quite a fitting production for Fortune’s Fool to put on. Last summer it was Romeo and Juliet, but this time out, it’s […]
Things to do in Dublin – 16th July to 22nd
Well, the Nobel prize winners have all left the country and our collective I.Q’s have dropped considerably! They will be missed. So, what’s new this week then? 1. Dark Knight Rises – […]
10 days in Dublin
This is a multi-discipline event, that starts on the 5th of July (Thursday) and runs for how long? Yep, you guessed it, the clue was in the title. No big names in […]
Cork Midsummer Festival
The Cork Midsummer Festival runs from the 21st of June to the 1st of July, and I have to tip my hat to the organisers for bringing together some top class music! […]
Trinity College Shakespeare Festival – 6 -16th June
Trinity college is going all Shakey this summer, with a festival of his work that will include up to 500 performers and take place in 50 venues around the city. A lot […]
Things to do in Dublin – May 28th to June 3rd:
1. Forbidden Fruit – Kilmainham Hospital Grounds – it’s the biggest festival to hit the city so far this year, with bands such as Wilco, New Order and Beirut hitting our shores. […]
Word on the Street – Literature Night, Dublin- 16-05-12
What are you doing on Wednesday night? Spacing? Watching the box? No, you’re not, you’ll be out on the streets of Dublin hearing the great and the good reading! Well, maybe some […]
Workhorse on Tour – The Collaborators – National Theatre, London
What’s the most obvious way to play Stalin, the dictator and malevolent ruler of the USSR? Well, as a lovable rascal of course! It is a curious choice and starting point for […]
The House Keeper – Project Arts Centre
‘How far would you go to get what you want’ – The House Keeper – Rough Magic I’d no idea what to expect from this play, but the name had certainly pushed […]
A Doll House – Pan Pan – Smock Alley
Always bright and inventive, Pan Pan return with another adaption of a classic, this time Ibsen’s Doll House. Those familiar with the company will know that it’s unlikely to be a straight […]
Laundry – Dublin Theatre Festival
Laundry is a site specific piece which was in the Magdalene laundry in Sean McDermott street, Dublin. I made it to the play on Saturday afternoon, so very near the end of […]
Wild Bride – Gaiety Theatre
The Wild Bride is based on an old fairy tale about a deal with the devil, that goes horribly wrong. You’d have to question whether it’s ever worth your while doing deals […]
Slattery’s Sago Saga – Rathfarnham Castle
Where is the cultural centre of Ireland, a Mecca for the arts of all kinds and those that create them. Why Rathfarnham I hear you all roar at once! Ok, it’s not […]
She She Pop – Testament – Samuel Beckett Theatre
I think we have found this years version of the freaky Belgians – Ok, no noses were licked, so maybe they weren’t quite as odd but taking your parents on tour with […]
Fight Night – New Theatre
This is mostly about pay back. When I was about five years old, I won a Texaco art competition, and the amazing prize (I think it was a bag!) was presented by […]
The animals and children took to the streets
What point is a review when a show is over? Not much use, I guess, other than to let you know how good my Sunday was! 1927‘s production of ‘The animals and […]
Dublin Theatre Festival – Final Call
Two days into the theatre festival, and I’m two plays in! Enjoying it so far, but there’s always something of value to see in it, especially from the foreign productions. Something that […]
Fringe Festival – Pope Bededict: Bond Villain
I Fringed for the first time last night! I went to Pope Benedict: Bond Villain, mostly on the strength of the title, and as I hadn’t been to anything in the festival […]
No More Workhorse 