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Old Flames, The New Theatre, Dublin
Eddie, a painter, arrives for his new job. Expecting Pete, he winds up with Jamie, Pete's younger brother, who seems more eager to have a cuppa and chat up the ladies than get down to some work. Its...
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Sex, Drugs & Tinned Ravioli, Theatre Upstairs, Dublin
Summer is music festival time, and for Rick, Stoney and Chloe there is no shortage of sex, drugs or ravioli it seems and not a wellie in sight either in Andy Gallagher's new play. For Rick the festival...
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So We Beat On, Smock Alley, Dublin
Alone, in a pool of fractured light, seated on the ground is a young man, who stands and records thoughts into a small handheld recorder. Eoin, as he turns out to be, couldn't make it the night before...
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Alice Devine Not For Sale, Vikings Theatre, Dublin
Alice Devine is able to know which shopper is more likely to be a Tesco Finest or Value person, an interesting lens to look at Tiger and trouble days, something her husband responds to by noting you...
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Tales From Briar Hall, Theatre Upstairs, Dublin
Daisy holds the book close, telling us of how she lives with her Aunt following the death of her father. Her Aunt believes that children should be rarely seen and never heard, so Daisy keeps to...
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What's On Now....What's On Next, Dublin
Here's another quick roundup of the Dublin scene of What's on Now....What's NextThe AbbeyWhat's On: Heartbreak House by Bernard Shaw from 14 August -13 September, with Maeve's House by Eamonn Morrissey...
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Collected Stories, Teachers' Club, Dublin
Ruth Steiner, writer and college tutor, is expecting a serious student, based solely on the serious nature of the student's story she has read. Lisa is not what she expected. "So I am not a serious...
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Out Of Print, Theatre Upstairs, Dublin
Colin returns home, wanting to get the asking price for his mother's house, a place he left as soon as he could. In trying to clean up he finds himself lost in stories his mother read to him, or those...
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Stones In His Pockets, Civic Theatre, Dublin
Hollywood has invaded a rural town in Kerry, employing the locals as extras in the film, including the oldest surviving extra from The Quiet Man. Charlie is a bit of a blow-in, wandering about after...
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Twelfth Night or What You Will, Smock Alley, Dublin
"If music be the food of love, play on." Theatre is of course another food of love, and with Purplecoat Productions, like so many others, it is, but for them, they will play on in another sphere. After...
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Tracer, The New Theatre, Dublin
Times are hard, even for Warhammer documentary film maker Richard. In an attempt to get some cash together he takes on a job as a coder in a market research company. This is only temporary, of course,...
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Sweet Dreams Mr Heroin, Civic Theatre, Dublin
Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now peppers Sean Ronan's play about the ravages of heroin addiction. It is apt as this one act play takes us into this whirlpool of a world from two separate viewpoints: of a...
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How To Build Your First Robot, Smock Alley, Dublin
A snippet of a JFK speech about doing things not because they are easy, but because they are hard is projected against the exposed brick wall of The Boys' School, the visual giving way to Apollo taking...
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The Matchmaker, Civic Theatre, Dublin
Dicky Mick Dicky O'Connor is the local matchmaker. It works a little bit like internet dating sites only you write handwritten letters to him, he sees what the requirements are, finds a match, all for...
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B(r)itches, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Who would have thought that a simple flipchart could hold so much power? What looks like a plain setting, a few chairs, a phone book, a table, a bag of munchies and a large bottle of water, set between...
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After Sarah Miles, Civic Theatre, Dublin
Fishing nets are hanging across the back of the stage that is littered with a few lobster pots and plastic fish crates. Onto this walks Bobeen, a card in hand, looking at it, contemplating it, before...
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Friendly Fire, The New Theatre, Dublin
Gerard Humphreys'Friendly Fire takes a look at the life of Francis Ledwidge, farm labourer, poet and soldier. It is as a poet that he is best remembered, and his work peppers the play itself, starting...
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The Mariner, Gate Theatre, Dublin
"Everybody wanted war and nobody got the war they wanted...Nobody wants the war they bring home." This is uttered by Sally in the world premiere of Hugo Hamilton's The Mariner and in a way it is the...
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The Night Season, Civic Theatre, Dublin
There was a comfort in seeing the stage hidden behind the closed red curtains, a friendliness to it, not discovering the set on stage, or allowing us time to mull over it, until the lights dim and the...
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44 Seville Place, Viking Theatre, Dublin
There is really only one word to sum up Peter Sheridan's new work: brillant. But its not really enough. Pure joy comes to mind as well in his recounting of life at number 44 Seville Place in the heart...
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