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Once Again..another look at Once The Musical
On its journey from New York to the West End two years ago, Once dropped into Dublin's Gaiety Theatre for a short run, where I took my first look at the show. It was a great, and smart thing, for the...
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Chaos Theory, International Bar
I was meant to go and see Dreamgun's Chaos Theory earlier in the year. Flu struck and I missed out With the company joining the Irish Contingent heading over to the Edinbugh Fringe Festival, they have...
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In Conversation: Stuart Roche
Stuart RocheThe first time I encountered the work of Stuart Roche was seeing his modern day adaptation of Bram Stoker's The Judge's House that was running in Bewley's Cafe Theatre one Halloween. The...
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Bob & Judy, Theatre Upstairs
A retro-radio plays as we enter, giving off that wonderful old style crackle, underscoring the music that is very warming and encouraging. Judy is onstage and is soon dancing to the music. Throughout,...
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Spring Awakening, Smock Alley
Spring Awakening is an example of a musical, like many in recent times, that started Off-Broadway, before stepping out onto the larger stage and scooping up a number of Tony Awards. Duncan Sheik and...
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The Quiet Land, Bewley's Cafe Theatre @ Powerscourt
A transfer from one medium to another can bring its own troubles. Malachy McKenna's play has already picked up the P. J. O'Connor Radio Drama Award in 2014, and now it makes its move to the stage. Not...
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Fried Eggs, Theatre Upstairs
It is a tale of two sisters, and the guy who works in the chipper. The production has another tale: the wonderfully assured performance from Karen Connell, bringing an aloofness to Eloise, yet embueing...
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Terri K Harrison's play is based on her own book, No More Secrets, No More Lies (Letters of My Life). Not only has she adapted the book for the stage in what is best described as three acts (the first...
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Waiting For Godot, Smock Alley Theatre
Patrick Sutton's production of Beckett's play returns for a week before going to Brazil. On the open main space of Smock Alley, there is a dramatic, cinema letterbox type painting on the back, a line...
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Missing Football, Viking Theatre
The idea of everything you want just beyond your finger tips but being suddenly ripped away is told very well, without any gimmicks other than telling a good, honest story. In this case Stephen Wright,...
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Remember To Breathe, Smock Alley Theatre, Tiger Dublin Fringe
Fringe festivals can throw up something that you are not expecting. It can be wild, crazy, a little different. In this case, Orla Murphy's play writing debut Remember to Breath, it has given up...
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(Not) Belonging, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Tiger Dublin Fringe
The three stand in the dim light as we take our seats. Discovering characters on stage is not a new thing. But when Sorcha starts talking there is the realisation that she herself is talking to us....
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Musicals, Concept Albums And a Trio Of Songs
I've always enjoyed buying the concept album of a new musical. There's something about hearing new songs from a new show before any word of staging is out. It's how we first heard songs from Chess when...
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Lockdown, The New Theatre, Dublin
A soldier, a PR man and the Justice Minister's advisor are on the roof of the GPO together in Gearoid Humphrey's new play Lockdown, a reference to the style of control used when the Queen visited;...
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Going Spare, Theatre Upstairs
Death isn't picky, an idea spoken about by Maisie, the narrator of this new play written and performed by Siobhan Donnellan. Age, time, healthy or not, it makes no distinction, as we all know too well....
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King Lear, The Mill Theatre
The first time I saw King Lear was in school. The Shakespeare play was on the leaving certificate exam, and as was tradition the sixth year pupils, along with the school close by, put on a production...
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When The Circus Comes To Town.... An Interview with Katie McCann and Jeda deBrí
Jeda deBrí & Katie McCannStories of the circus are dotted around novels, films and musicals. A circus coming to town, or running off with one, has, for whatever reason, a romantic, exciting leaning...
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Cirque Des Rêves, Smock Alley
A young girl, stick over her shoulder, a small bundle tied to the end of it Huck Finn style, rushes down the Boys' School gangway. She bumps into two men, Mr Sparrow and Mr Nightingale, having already...
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Tales From The Woods, Theatre Upstairs
In a few days time it's Halloween, a good enough reason for Theatre Upstairs and Gumption Theatre Company to put on some seasonal scares in Tales From The Woods, a trio of 'sinister tales for...
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Temptress, The New Theatre Dublin
The decayed room of an old house, wall paper peeling, the grand fireplace stuffed and blocked with paper and wood, bits of lino on the floor, it is the kind of place Scrooge might live in, or where...
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