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Eggsistentially Joanne Ryan - The Interview
"It's an autobiographical, comical narrative that charts my own journey to a decision about whether or not to have a child," Joanne Ryan, writer and performer, puts it when I ask what her play...
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Out on a Fringe....a chat with Kate Gilmore and Clare Maguire
Kate Gilmore and Clare MaguireIt’s that time of the year again and Dublin is buzzing with theatre festival fever. Rehearsal rooms are working overtime as the clock ticks down to the fringe festival...
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Bug, Viking Theatre
In the age of the internet and Donald Trump's presidential campaign, ideas such as paranoia, delusions and disillusion, along with a few conspiracy theories, do not seem out of place in 2016. This is...
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The Wickedness Of Oz, Bewley's Cafe Theatre @ Powerscourt - TigerDublinFringe...
Oz - the country and fictional place - features throughout: the ruby slipper prop, a green cape, and of course the double mention in the title of the original Garland film and the more recent hit...
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Breaks, Smock Alley Theatre; Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival
The floor is a sea of white, the gauze type fabric lit bright, and underneath it there are human forms moving. Centre to all this is an impressive black costume from designer Noami Faughnan, to one...
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Eggsistentialism, Smock Alley Theatre; Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival
"To baby, or not to baby" is the theme of Joanne Ryan's autobiographical one woman show. The question arises on her 35th birthday, with an enormous hangover, and realising that the window of...
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The Castle and The Rising, An Interview with Jennifer Laverty and Eilis...
Eilis O'Donnell & Jennifer Laverty“It’s not just about The Rising, it’s about Ireland during the war, which is not something that people really talk about,” Jennifer Laverty says during our...
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Tryst, The Lir Academy; Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival
Wanting to be in the right is something that moves from one character to the next. Sometimes it is slung, other times pulled out from under them like the proverbial rug, as positions are taken, with...
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Maeve Binchy's Minding Frankie, Viking Theatre
Maeve Binchy was, and still is, a household name; a writer who could take the everyday, and with wit and a light touch, delve deep into the lives and psyche of people all over the country through a...
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Hamlet, The Mill Theatre
Mill Productions continue their journey through the Shakespeare cannon with Hamlet in this dark, brooding and tough take, directed by Geoff O'Keefe, that draws you in, and for the main, is compelling....
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Revisiting Cirque de Rêves, Bewley's Cafe Theatre @ Powerscourt
Time does go by quickly. Taking my seat in Bewley's Cafe Theatre, under some traingular bunting, at a table with a candle in the middle and two small, metal goblets alongside, I reminded myself that a...
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Previewing Theatre Upstairs' New Season
"Look at our new box office, it's gorgeous. That's built out of love. That's built out of zero, bar the fact that we want to will it there. And it is there now." Karl Shiels tells me as we sit, with...
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Holding On: An Interview with Rory Hughes
Rory HughesAxis, Ballymun will play host to Hues Production’s Holding On, a dance piece about grief, inspired by Suse Lowenstein’s sculpture “The Dark Elegy”. Intrigued by the idea, I sat down and...
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Venom So Sweet, Theatre Upstairs
He calls himself Legion. After all, he has been a lot of things - Preacher, salesman, horn player, spouter of what he believes people want to hear, or whatever is necessary to make a fast buck. He...
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Test Dummy, Theatre Upstairs
The tonal, dissonant sound in the background remains constant throughout, so much so, that it becomes normal, even unheard. From beginning to end, it underscores the jagged, poetic, lyrical, and raw...
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The Snow Queen, Smock Alley Theatre
"This is how the season feels" is a statement sung by the cast of Ian Toner's adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's The Snow Queen. And by the end of Ian Toner's adaptation, the sentiment is spot on....
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A Christmas Carol, Viking Theatre
Being very familiar, even overly familiar, with a perennial work such as Charles Dickens'A Christmas Carol, makes it tricky to tell again and again. Naturally each time it is adapted to the stage will...
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Vagabonds - My Phil Lynott, Civic Theatre
The idea of a concept album is brought up during Vagabonds. It is an interesting, and here, an apt thought. In some ways, Vagabonds (the name inspired from the Thin Lizzy album Vagabonds of the Western...
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As Time Goes By: Stories and Songs With Susie Kennedy, Viking Theatre
January is such an appropriate time to comment on fad diets. Or a celebrity's line of Yoga clothes (and their pricetag!). Susie Kennedy does just this, from an older person's perspective, but there is...
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The Voice Factor [X], The New Theatre
Quincy wasn't meant to get that far. He only went along for the laugh. His friends brought him to the auditions without telling him. But he got his fifteen minutes on the roller coaster of fame called...
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