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Petals @ Theatre Upstairs
Waking up after a one night stand with a particular taste still in her mouth brings us into the world of this young girl, where she offers 'a blow for smokes'. Sex is a large part of her routine, as is...
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Profile: The Cup Theatre Company
Since forming in 2013 for their first production Gaslights, The Cup Theatre Company went on to write and produce three one act plays, including a musical, A Picture of Us. This show went on to perform...
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Duet For One @ Viking Theatre
An open buerau and a shelf packed with books and tapes adorn this old fashioned office, the feeling of it being of a time in the recent past, the turntable adding to this. It is the consultancy room of...
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What's On Now......What's On Next..... Dublin
2015! A new year and no doubt a lot to look forward to theatre wise. Here's a quick rundown of what's on right now and what's coming up next...The AbbeyWhat's On:Â She Stoops To Conquer continues until...
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The Puffin's Nest @ The New Theatre
Puffin's get a lot of airtime in Oliver McQuillan's new play, even a picture on the programme cover. The nest itself is Harold and Jane's cottage that overlooks the bay, the sound of the sea subtly...
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Men Like Us @ The Boys' School, Smock Alley
Mouth on Fire, who want to make Beckett accessible to those who may never have experienced it before, have pulled together three Beckett shorts into the Boys' School in Smock Alley: Matalang...
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Mary Massacre @ Viking Theatre
"The only thing constant is change" Jekyll sings in the ever changing musical Jekyll & Hyde. It is one the joys of theatre that it does. During it's original London run Sunset Boulevard closed for...
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Flann's Yer Only Man @ Theatre@36
At number 64 in The Guardian's list of 100 Best Novels is Flann O'Brien's 1939 book At Swim Two Birds (a Beckett novel lies at number 61). The article mentions that this 'exhilarating and...
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One Is Not Oneself @ The New Theatre
The idea that a white feather could be an angel's is debunked by the suggestion that it was a pidgeon's is the opening discussion of the married couple in Gerard Lee's new play, as they try to come to...
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God of Carnage @ Mill Theatre Dundrum
"Why are you choosing to show yourself in this horrible light?" Veronica asks her husband, Michael, after he has unleashed a racist side. On its own the question is deep, but at the point in the play...
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Hooked! Viking Theatre
Secrets are a strange thing. Being able to keep them in a close knit community is probably stranger still, which is exactly what Tom has done for quite some time. The arrival of someone from the...
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Cornerstones, Civic Theatre
Some stories make you uncomfortable, which is a word that came to mind while watching Runcible Spoon's production of Cornerstones, Bairbre Guilfoyle's play about four squatters doing what they can to...
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The Swing, Theatre Upstairs
Opening  a new season at Theatre Upstairs is The Swing, written and performed by Aislinn O'Byrne, and inspired by Hitchcock's Rear Window. In the film the action unfolds from the point of view of...
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Underneath, The Civic Theatre
The slow building, extremely atmospheric introduction music from Denis Clohessy fits in well with the gold curtain hanging from the flies, and the gold cloth draped over the large, rectangle box...
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Orphans, The New Theatre
Lou Reed and Tom Waits, we are told, are counted among the fans of Lyle Kessler's 1983 play about three men, two of them brothers - Treat and Phillip - who encounter Harold in Philly. (Of course, your...
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Run/Don't Run, The Civic Theatre
It's 1999: John Kennedy Jr's plane has gone missing and the Summer heat is on in New York. Into this comes Eoin, weighed down by his backpack, and running away from something in Dublin. After a day of...
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Slender, Theatre Upstairs
Hilary Bowen-Walsh, Stephen O'Leary, Shane O'ReganThe idea that 'whispers in the night' or those creepy stories told to us are actually true is the inspiration behind writer and actor Shane O'Regan's...
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Female of the Species, Mayfield
'The female of the species is more deadly than the male,' we are told at the beginning of Amy De Bhrun's one woman show contained inside a David Attenborough style programme, taking us on a tour of the...
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As Seen On Radio, Smock Alley
Angle Road Theatre Company's production As Seen on Radio is part of the Collaborations Festival 2015. The purpose of the festival is to give a platform for companies, new or established, to try out...
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The Good Father, Axis: Ballymun
It's New Years Eve when Tim and Jane meet at a friend's party. Jane is recently out of a long term relationship, wine glass in hand, not able to stand still. Tim on the other hand, is sitting down, a...
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