A vivid plane of toxic femininity: Chris McCormack reviews Druid’s revival of Mark O’Rowe controversial play.
Chris McCormack
Articles by Chris McCormack
19 July 2017
Reviews • Galway • National • Reviews
Review: Woyzeck in Winter at Galway International Arts Festival
July 13 - July 23
By Chris McCormack
“A blast of bitter wilderness”: Chris McCormack reviews Conall Morrison’s chilly musical adaptation of Georg Büchner’s unfinished classic.
17 July 2017
Reviews • Dublin
Review: The Great Gatsby at the Gate Theatre, Dublin.
12 July - 16 September 2017
By Chris McCormack
Heading towards the green light: Chris McCormack reviews an immersive staging of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel.
13 July 2017
Reviews • Dublin • National • Reviews
Review: Two Pints at The Foxhound Inn, Dublin
July 11 - August 5
By Chris McCormack
“A suburban Dublin equivalent of Sartre”: Chris McCormack reviews the Abbey Theatre’s staging of Roddy Doyle’s Facebook dialogues.
20 June 2017
Reviews • Cork
Review: Neon Western at Cork Midsummer Festival
16 - 24 June 2017
By Chris McCormack
Rave theatre: Chris McCormack reviews a dystopian western at Cork Midsummer Festival.
19 June 2017
Reviews • Cork • National • Reviews
Review: Futureproof at Cork Midsummer Festival
By Chris McCormack
Fascinatingly elegiac: Chris McCormack reflects on a revival of Lynda Radley’s 2011 play at Cork Midsummer Festival.
19 June 2017
Reviews • Cork • National • Reviews
Review: Toilers, as reconstructed by Painted Bird at Cork Midsummer Festival
June 15 - June 25
By Chris McCormack
As loaded as its title: Chris McCormack reviews Painted Bird’s Susanne R. Day resurrection job at Cork Midsummer Festival.
17 June 2017
Reviews • Dublin
Review: Postscript at Abbey Theatre, Dublin
14 - 24 June 2017
By Chris McCormack
Searching in the dark: Chris McCormack reviews an autobiographical play about a bid to discover the author’s birth parents.
14 June 2017
Features
#WakingTheFeminists: The Numbers are Out
By Chris McCormack
A new report, Gender Counts, reveals stark statistics about the under-representation of women in Irish Theatre. Chris McCormack asks: What next?
9 June 2017
Reviews • Dublin • National • Reviews
Review: I Am a Bird Now at the Theatre Upstairs, Dublin
By Chris McCormack
This bird is stuck in its nest: Ross Gaynor’s eclectic new one-man drama at Dublin’s Theatre Upstairs doesn’t quite deliver, says Chris McCormack.
30 May 2017
Reviews • Dublin
Review: Extraterrestrial Events at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin
27 - 28 May 2017
By Chris McCormack
Giving the unbelievable a fair hearing: Chris McCormack reviews Philip Conaughton’s new dance-opera about UFO sightings.
27 May 2017
Reviews • Dublin
Review: Deep Dish at the Abbey Theatre
26 - 27 May 2017
By Chris McCormack
Bacchanalia and broccoli: Chris McCormack reviews Chris Haring and Michel Blazy’s collaboration, performed as part of the Dublin Dance Festival.
25 May 2017
Reviews • Dance • Reviews
Review: merry.go.round at Dublin Dance Festival
May 23 - May 24
By Chris McCormack
The universe will deliver: Chris McCormack is mesmerised by Maria Nilsson Waller’s “absorbing” new work at Dublin Dance Festival.
13 May 2017
Reviews • Dublin
Review: Radamisto at the O’Reilly Theatre, Dublin
11 - 12 May 2017
By Chris McCormack
Reasons to be cheerful: Chris McCormack finds Northern Ireland Opera’s production of Radamisto too optimistic in outlook.
6 May 2017
Reviews • Dublin • National • Reviews
Review: The Faerie Thorn at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.
May 4 - May 6
By Chris McCormack
Faeries, changelings, merrows and hawthorn trees: Chris McCormack dives into Irish folklore in Big Telly Theatre’s adaptation of Jane Talbot’s story collection.