Review: BEES!, The Ark
You might think they’re buzzing little villains but the fact is they’re integral to our planet. According to Albert Einstein: “If the bee disappears from the su...
Chris McCormack
Review: Wallflower, Project Arts Centre
It could easily be interpreted as an act of narcissism. Quarantine, one of the UK’s most terraforming companies, has arrived at such self-regard as to roll out ...
Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Portrait, Pleasance Dome
In today’s world, where black people witness the Ferguson shootings on their televisions, how can the feeling not be of being under systematic attack? In her pl...
Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Strawberries in January, C nova
The downside of bringing a student production to the Fringe is that it faces going up against experienced acts, with the contrast between professional and amate...
Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Trans Scripts, Pleasance Courtyard
On a pastel stage of dressing screens and make-up mirrors, blues and pinks interweave and combine in illustrations of Pablo Picasso’s peace sign and the interna...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Back to Blackbrick, Pleasance Courtyard
There’s certainly enthusiasm in Patch of Blue, the London-based theatre troupe who have adapted Irish novelist Sarah Moore Fitzgerald’s Back to Blackbrick. In t...
Chris McCormack
Chris McCormack is a theatre critic based in Dublin. He blogs on MusingsInIntermissions.blogspot.ie and contributes to *Irish Theatre Magazine *and the Arts Council of Ireland. He is also a PhD fellow at the National University of Ireland Galway where he is researching influential designers who worked at the Abbey Theatre.