So, we've had a change of pace! Rather than posting each review individually, we're going to keep them all together here - just look for the title of the show you want to know about and click on through!
Happy reading.
A Feast of Bones
Beastie
★
★
★ (The Irish Times)
★
★
★
★ “Sinister
yet superbly silly” (Entertainment.ie)
Beastie
★
★
★ “[Transformed] from storytelling exercise
into something more special...[Children] got lost in the action” (The Irish Times)
The
Critic
Desire
Under the Elms
★
★
★
★ “Artful, austerely beautiful and
appropriately severe” (The Irish Times)
★★★★★ “Fresh and new” (Irish TheatreMagazine)
A “most powerful Corn Exchange production” (The Independent)
“Filled with impressive performances” (No More Workhorse)
“Filled with impressive performances” (No More Workhorse)
Dusk Ahead
★
★
★
★ “an
ever imaginative company” (Irish Theatre Magazine) “Perfection” (The Independent)
The Events
★
★
★
★ “An attempt to embody the effects
wreaked upon an entire community rather than individuals” (The Irish Times)
★
★
★
★ “The
struggle to comprehend the things that are utterly incomprehensible” (IrishTheatre Magazine)
★
★
★
★ “Almost
unfathomably good” (Entertainment.ie)
Germinal
Ground
and Floor
I’ve
to Mind Her
★
★
★
★ “An emotionally
affecting portrait of the self-sacrifice of a teenage carer” (The Irish Times)
Margarete
★
★
★
★ “An
empathic experiment in narrative and artifice” (The Irish Times)
The
Rape of Lucrece
★
★
★
★ “Camille
O’Sullivan’s solo performance is a triumph” (The Times) riverrun
★★★★★ “Alien, but Irish; serious, but profoundly funny; innocent, yet seductive” (Entertainment.ie)
Taramandal
★
★
★ “A sentimental depiction of the big dreams of
a small fry” (The Irish Times)
Three
Fingers Below the Knee
★
★
★ The Irish Times
The Threepenny Opera
Winners and Losers
“A dose of wry humour and a raw perspective (NoMore Workhorse)
Some further news and general festival reviews can be found at the links below:
Totally Dublin: An interview with Richard Maxwell on Neutral Hero