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Good Behaviour, The New Theatre
There is poise and control as the well dressed woman walks in rolling an office chair in front of her. In the beginning it feels like she is conversing with us. As her story emerges, piece by piece, we...
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Hollow Ground, Theatre Upstairs
"The sky is full of ghosts." Many places can be, including our dreams. But Katie McCann's new play is not a ghost story. It is a story about a brother and sister, Graham (Rex Ryan) and Hazel (Katie...
View ArticleThe Anti-Social Network, The Workmans Club
A version of the Ted Talks' backdrop is projected onto the back wall of the stage in The Workmans Club, the arch itself surrounded by the traditional red curtain material. Onto it leaps Mick Connor,...
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Morning, Afternoon and Evening, Viking Theatre
Each movement of the day in the title is a monologue that seperately tells an individual story, but together they become an interconnecting one told from the view point of three characters: Niall,...
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The Baltimore Waltz, The New Theatre
Hope is such a strong thing. It has a large part in Paula Vogel's play set in 1988. Because of it, Anna, a school teacher, who has been diagnosed with a terminal illness - ATD, caught from the toilet...
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In Search of Mr B, The Civic Theatre
Mr. B, Samuel Beckett himself, does know how to make an entrance. Accompanied by lighting flashes, creaking doors, fog drifting slowly and dramatically across the stage, and of course the classic...
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Mother, May I?, Theatre Upstairs
A small pyramid of custard creams sit on one of the four symmetrically placed shelves, others hang from the ceiling nearer the front of the stage. This caught my eye before the many pint glasses did,...
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Intentions, Civic Theatre
What do you do when you find someone sleeping in your tent at a music festival? It's this moment that sets off writer and director Alice Lynch's play, Intentions. The word play of the title, against...
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Are You Havin' A Laugh?! Bewley's Cafe Theatre @ Powerscourt
The sun was shining out in Dublin today, and Peter Sheridan's new one man show made sure the rays of laughter were indoors as well. In his easy, laid back style, Sheridan looks at the idea of humour,...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream, Smock Alley
Following on from their last visit to Dublin with Twelfth Night, Purplecoat have returned, this time with a double bill in store. Last night was A Midsummer's Night Dream, transferring the action to...
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The Man In Two Pieces, Theatre Upstairs
It's 1921 and Kerrigan's Vaudeville Troupe is still touring the country, setting up their tent in a field outside towns. On show is the Adonis, lifting the weights to the eager crowd, although he keeps...
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Mojo Mickybo, Civic Theatre
It's Belfast, 1970, with two boys at play:Â Mojo and Mickybo. They live on different streets, and following a visit to the cinema to see Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, their imaginations are caught...
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The Games People Play, Civic Theatre
A foosball table bought at Argos that includes a number of other games, is the centre piece around which Niamh and Oisin's lives, feelings and finances, are laid bare. It's been bought for their son's...
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Madame de Markievicz on Trial, The New Theatre
Ann Matthews returns to the same decade as Lockout 1913. This time it's 1917, and Constance Markievicz is on trial for allegedly shooting unarmed Police Constable Lahiff on the Easter Monday of 1916,...
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In On It, Smock Alley
A lone jacket is lying, a little crumpled, in the middle of the space as the audience take their seats. Apart from two chairs there is nothing else on view in Good Dog Theatre's Irish Premiere of...
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The Kiss, Theatre Upstairs
Eddie is the only person in the bar. Even the barman can't be seen, more interested in the horses 'that are still running', Eddie tells us. Eddie could turn the place into a goldmine, but then himself...
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Village Wooing, The Dolmen Theatre
We never learn the names of the two characters who meet on the upper class deck of the Empress of Patagonia cruise ship. The man is a travel writer for the 'Marco Polo Series of Chatty Guide books';...
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Lucinda Sly, Civic Theatre
Being greeted outside the door of the theatre by a man in a grandfather shirt asking about horses was a little bit different and unexpected. As it turned out, there were other characters pottering...
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What's On....What's Next.....May 2015, Dublin
'Being Norwegian', 'Castrati', 'The Further Adventures of....'& 'Stella Full of Storms' all playing this May in DublinIt's May and there is a lot of theatre coming up this month, including the...
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His Fair Ladies, Viking Theatre
When Des Keogh's George Bernard Shaw enters it is the iconic version of this playwright, journalist and critic, amongst other things, that we see: the immaculate brown, tweed suit, the white beard, and...
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