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Creepy Jimmy, Chancery Lane, Dublin
There were creepers growing outside Jimmy's house, that's how he got the name 'Creepy Jimmy'. Â He isn't creepy at all, only an oddness fueled by innocence and wanting not to be different. Armed with a...
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A Simple Twist of Fate, Viking Theatre, Dublin
The joke goes that if you remember the sixties then you weren't really there, or some variation on it anyway. For Ruth, it is the seventies, eighties and nineties that are hazy, while the sixties were...
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Equus, The Teachers Club, Dublin
Peter Shaffer's Equus took theatre by storm when it first arrived, and did so again recently in a revival. At the core of the play are the confrontations between Psychiatrist Martin Dysart and...
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Zelda, Theatre Upstairs, Dublin
The roaring twenties, where 'anything goes', excess and wild parties were the norm, before the decade itself crashed down around everything, and one of those figures that looms large in those...
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Veronica, Chancery Lane, Dublin
On their second date, Gemma and Brian are approached by a couple, Fred and Rose, wanting them to come back to the house they take care of and look at a photo of a deceased member of the household,...
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Method Man, The Teachers Club, Dublin
Like Hitchcock did in the past before another slice of his Alfred Hitchcock Presents..., it all starts with a short introduction, the themes being art, beauty, truth, love and ambition, before being...
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The Winter's Tale, The Teachers' Club, Dublin
It is great to see a new company taking on one of the classics. This does have it's own practicalities, but when that classic is one of the lesser performed, and known, plays from the cannon of the...
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In Conversation.... Amy O'Dwyer talking about The Last 5 Years and Trees Rd...
When I saw that Jason Robert Brown's wonderful one act musical, The Last 5 Years, was going to play in The Cube at Project Arts, I thought great. Then something else struck me; in looking at the Dublin...
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Tactics, Theatre Upstairs, Dublin
Politics, they say, is the art of the possible. In Tactics, a new play by Finbarr Doyle and Jeda de Bri, it becomes more about the art of 'what has to be done', no matter what comes up; the end...
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The Last Five Years, Project Arts Centre
"I won't do anything just half assed," says Jamie, during Jason Robert Brown's small, two handed musical perfection, The Last Five Years. Thankfully, Trees Rd Productions haven't done anything half...
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My Brilliant Divorce, The Civic Theatre, Dublin
From the first line, we know this is going to be more of a conversation than a play as Angela begins with a bright 'hello', before introducing herself to us, breaking down the wall. This is the...
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Deeds of Deceit, Dublin Castle, Dublin
Beautifully carved wood, black and white tiled floors, a large, stained glass window are some of the features you see on entering the Chapel Royal in Dublin Castle. It has an old world feel, the kind...
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The Cardinals, The Workman's Club, Dublin
All that was asked of the audience at The Workman's Club was to come up with one suggestion. Armed with that the four performers for the night, Dany Kehoe, Sharon Mannion, Charlie Kranz and Graeme...
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Boyz of Harcourt Street, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin
D'Arce, Fosterson and Gav are the 'Boyz' in question, spelt with a 'z' so from the start you should have an idea as to who they are: working together, living together and more importantly going out...
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With Raised Arms/Hear Me Sing Your Song, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
With Raised ArmsHear Me Sing Your Song first featured during the Dublin Dance Festival as a work-in-progress, is now placed alongside another short piece, With Raised Arms, creating a double bill of...
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Low Level Panic, The New Theatre, Dublin
Eimear Kilmartin (Jo) & Sarah O'Toole (Mary)A number of ads are projected onto a screen above the stage, from Hunky Dory crisps to BMW cars. All have one thing in common: scantily-clad women to...
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Not a Game For Boys, Vikings Theatre, Dublin
For Eric, ping-pong isn't about life and death, it's far more important than that. Avoiding relegation into the dreaded second division is of paramount importance; failure is not an option. That's why...
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A Picture of Us: A (Sort of) Musical, Theatre Upstairs, Dublin
The Cup Theatre Company are the first to try out the newly renovated Theatre Upstairs which has been totally transformed for the better, with a wider stage, slightly tiered seating, but retaining the...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dublin Castle
Colm O'Brien, Melanie Phillips & Matthew O'BrienA beautiful, balmy summer evening is a bit of a dream itself, but perfect conditions for Mouth on Fire's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream,...
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Tuesdays With Morrie, Viking Theatre, Dublin
Mitch Albon's book Tuesdays With Morrie was a huge international hit. Perhaps now is a good time to admit that I haven't read the book, despite many people suggesting I do, and so come to this...
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