Review: The Match Box, Galway International Arts Festival
With every strike of a match, Sal, the mannerly mother in Frank McGuinness’s monologue, sniffs the sulphur and observes the incalculable time it takes for the l...
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Review: A Month In The Country, Gate Theatre
It’s clear early in the Gate’s new production that a band of Russian aristocrats’ card-playing and watercolour painting won’t relieve the terminally bored Natal...
Review: Blooming Ulysses, Bewley’s Café Theatre
Why adapt Ulysses – James Joyce’s towering, modernist tome – for the stage? The episodic adventures of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus set on mundane 16 June ...
Review: The Gigli Concert, Gate Theatre
The world of Tom Murphy’s 1983 play is filled with music: the chimes of the church bell signalling the hours, the rhythmic whacks of a telephone switch-hook to ...
Review: Spring Awakening, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
At this point, it seems as if everyone and their grandmother has seen Spring Awakening. The musical about repressed teens in 1890s Germany premiered on Broadway...
Review: Receptacle, Moving Bodies Festival 2015, MART Gallery
When Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo presented a performance at a Japanese dance festival in 1959 in which a young man copulated with a chicken and, debatably, ...