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Review | beat. – Nominee for the 2019 Stewart Parker Trust Award
After a sell-out run with positive reviews at the Dublin Fringe Festival last year, Beat. got a reprieve this May in Trinity College Dublin’s Samuel Beckett Theatre to packed crowds. Larney's exploration of toxic masculinity has now been…
Review | The Last Corner Shop on Misery Hill – From Facebook to the O’Reilly’s
The O'Reilly's Corner Shop on Misery Hill might be struggling but they're not going down without a fight.
Review | The Belly Button Girl – Bringing Ulysses to Dingle
First performed three years ago, The Belly Button Girl returns to the Dublin stage at the New Theatre. This is one of the most personal and enjoyable theatre experiences in Dublin. (Contains some spoilers)
The play is written and performed…
Review | Arachnophilia – Entering the World of a Man and his Spider
It is important to state at the outset that the Arachnophilia is perfectly safe for any Arachnophobes. Contains spoilers.
It is difficult to do justice to Arachnophilia. At times, It is laugh out loud funny, it has a serious spine…
Review | Personal Space Volume 2 – A Trilogy of Dark Comedy
They’re at it again. Stephen Colfer, Hannah Mamalis and Peter McGann reunite to bring a trio of plays to the Smock Alley stage. With a mix of tongue-in-cheek, social commentary and dark humour, Personal Space Volume 2 guides us through the…
Theatre Review | Cloud Study By John Scott
‘This is a dance inspired by running, it’s not political, it’s not about war, it’s just about running’.
In Cloud Study, we track two lives as they race though time and memory to represent a journey home.
This acclaimed modern dance…
Trial Of The Centurys | A Totally Unbiased Review
I am probably not the right person to review this show, I should say that first and foremost. I am very friendly with not only the director and co-writer but also the two stars of the show Kevin McGahern and Tony Cantwell who are heavily…
Theatre Review | Down The Drain at Dublin Fringe Festival
‘I think all art is political, whether it's meant to be or not.’
The Dublin Fringe Festival has returned this year to a country which has recently repealed the eighth amendment and is experiencing one of the worst housing crises in its…
A Dublin Bloom | An Interview with Dermot Bolger
Dermot Bolger is a stalwart of the Irish literary scene, having written numerous novels and plays since the mid-1980s. These include his recent successes Tanglewood, a microscopic look at the Irish property boom of 00s, and The Lonely Sea…
Theatre Review | The Boys In The Band
Smokey jazz music welcomes you to 1968 Manhattan so vividly that you reach for a phantom cigarette to follow a non-existent sip of a martini. To intensify your desire for a drink, there’s a fully stocked bar adjacent to the front door of a…