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All Thumbs, International Bar Theatre
Lena likes to talk about body parts as if they are real people, with feelings, imaginations, like ears getting pissed off when you dye your hair, after all, they have no say in it at all. With this...
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The Great Hunger, Smock Alley
It is the scarecrow that catches the eye. The small brown head, eyes drawn on it, the arms spread out under the white shirt. It serves a purpose and a functionality stuck into the clay of the potato...
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In Conversation: David Gilna
David GilnaDavid Gilna is an actor and playwright who's new play about The O'Rahilly is opening in Theatre Upstairs on March 21st, coinciding with the centenary remembrances of the Dublin 1916 Easter...
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The Unsung Hero, Theatre Upstairs
The set is not one you might expect for a play about the founder of the Irish Volunteers and a participant in the Easter Rising. As we take our seats, the first image is of two people, male and female,...
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The Wise Wound, Smock Alley
Bonkers. Absolutly bonkers, is what comes to mind having stepped out of the odd comic world of Teri Fitzgerald, writer of last years Lesson's In When To Quit. Obviously she didn't take any of those...
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Vessel, The New Theatre
A guiding light of Quintessance Theatre is to 'explore the human condition through the most theatrical means'. In Vessel, a work devised by the whole company that was originally presented as a...
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Hamlet, The New Theatre
Messing around with the text of Shakespeare isn't new. For purists it is no doubt distressing, and if done badly it comes close to, if not quite, blasphemy. AC Productions and director Peter Reid label...
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Aisling's Seven, Theatre Upstairs
The perils of the temporary job. Both Dan and Aisling took theirs until something better came along. Three years have past and nothing better has come along. Dan works in a city centre casino on the...
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Father, Tinker, Soldier, The New Theatre
It's not usual for a blue beret of a UN Peacekeeper to read a poem as the prologue. In Michael Collins play, this is the case. It serves as setting the theme of the evening, and from the darkness...
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Preview: 'The Birthday Party' Irish Summer 2016 Tour
Declan Rodgers as McCann & Jonathon Ashleet as GoldbergThere is something about the title that makes it feel familiar. As well as the writer's name: Harold Pinter, a writer, director and actor who...
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The Ref, The Pearse Centre
This time last year the Marriage Referendum, The Ref of the title - and at times an actual ref might have been needed as well - was in full swing. What the result would be was unclear. The ups and...
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Interview: The Langauge of Jack Harte
"What struck me, and what drove me to write the play, was the consideration of communication. In Ireland we love language, we just relish good stories, it's entertainment for us, but when it comes down...
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Meet the Quare Fellow, Viking Theatre
A rainy day in Dublin and the traffic was awful. For a while I thought I wasn't going to make it to the Viking Theatre on time for Peter and Jim Sheridan's new play based on the life of famed Dublin...
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Good Evening Mr Collins, The Mill Theatre
The opening line is an interesting one. De Valera pulls back a curtain, and it is obvious straight away that it is De Valera, and delivers the line: 'The will of the majority will be ignored. Ponder...
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In Conversation with Pat Nolan...
Pat Nolan & Ann Russell in Risk Everything"The characters are fascinating. The characters grow on you, so to speak, and you do get to know them, and they all have their troubles, and then they have...
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Revolver, Theatre Upstairs
The idea of being able to hit a button and go back to a pre-determined starting point is something we could all do with at some stage in time. Couple that idea with a first date (timely as well with...
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God Bless The Child: First Confessions are The Hardest, Gaiety Theatre
My first taste of Cork born Frank O'Connor's writing was the story First Confession when studying for the Leaving Certificate, contained in the pages of Exploring English, a compilation of short...
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Tender Napalm, Smock Alley
'Do not cross the red tape' is an additional instruction given on entering the Boys' School. I was curious to wonder if the napalm might go off if we did, but sadly never asked. Within this square of...
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King Lear, Smock Alley
'Welcome To A Divided Britain' is a heading in the programme, something that many commentators might say about today, as members of political parties vie for leadership, some dropping out, others...
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This Old Man, Viking Theatre
The nursery rhyme came to mind on seeing the title of Gerard Lee's new play, the one about giving the dog a bone. The old man of Gerard Lee's play, Eamonn (John Olohan), growls like a dog whose bone is...
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