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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof – Reviews

Taken from Irish Independent – Click here for link Fiona O’Shaughnessy and Richard Flood in a scene from ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ at The Gate Theatre, Dublin. Photo: Patrick Redmond

By Colin Murphy

Thursday April 07 2011

FOR nearly two hours, I sat, restless, as this Gate cast flailed around in Tennessee Williams‘s Mississippi [...]

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Cat On a Hot Tin Roof – Reviewed

Taken from the Irish Times – Click for full link

Exhausted and commanding: Owen Roe as Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.Photograph: Pat Redmond

PETER CRAWLEY

Gate Theatre, Dublin

So many vivid and tormented characters reach out to us from the sweltering heat of Tennessee Williams’s 1955 classic that it is [...]

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Hamlet Review

Taken from Irish Times – click for link

PETER CRAWLEY

The Helix, Dublin

You read the paper and there he is. You glance at the Leaving Certificate syllabus for the next two years; you go to Second Age’s second schools-friendly production of the play in consecutive years; you go home to sleep, [...]

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Dear Frankie – Review

Taken from Irish Time – Click for full link

Sara Keating

Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire

In the programme note for Dear Frankie Five Lamps Theatre Company reveals that the starting point for its production was the 2004 Mint documentary about the life of Frankie Byrne, infamous host of The Women’s Hour on RTÉ Radio One and [...]

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The Passing Review

Taken from Irish Times – click for link

 

PETER CRAWLEY

Abbey Theatre, Dublin

After the death of their parents, three grown siblings make a sad discovery: as it goes up for sale, their family home has become just another house. In Paul Mercier’s new drama for the Abbey, that transition is no more [...]

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No Romance – Irish Independant

Taken from The Irish Independent

To get a startlingly good, well-made, intelligent play with wonderful flights of imaginative fancy from what is usually called, somewhat insultingly, an “emerging playwright” is unusual enough. But when that play actually incorporates three separate dramas with subtly artful-linking progressions reminiscent of La Ronde, it’s safe to say that [...]

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No Romance – Review

Taken from Irish Times:

PETER CRAWLEY

Peacock Theatre, Dublin

MIDWAY THROUGH the fretful making of an erotic photo collection for her boyfriend, while she is dressed in a fuchsia-coloured medieval-style dress that aims for “sexy Guinevere” but comes off as “Bunratty psychedelia”, Janet Moran’s effervescent Laura wonders if this is all a bit desperate. [...]

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When Jolie Meets Christie – Reviews

From Irish Times

Axis Arts Centre, Ballymun, Dublin

Al Jolson never actually met Christie Hennessy, who was just five years old when Jolson died. But would the steely showman whose now-notorious blackface routine made him an American star have found much in common with a shy Irish balladeer with a canny ear for jazz [...]

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B for Baby Video

In its last 2 weeks of shows Abbey Theatre have released this video for their production of B for Baby.

B for Baby at the Abbey Theatre from Abbey Theatre on Vimeo.

Totally Dublin have their review here. (Click for full link)

B For Baby@ The Peacock Theatre

October 20th, 2010

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Between Foxrock and a Hard Place – Reviews

Currently running at Olympia Theatre until14th Nov

Irish Times (Click for full link)

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly is all grown up. That is what a recession will do to you. It will claw away at your inheritance, close your favourite nightclub down and force you to realise new responsibilities. At a gathering in his family’s [...]

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