Reasons to be cheerful: Chris McCormack finds Northern Ireland Opera’s production of Radamisto too optimistic in outlook.
Dublin
6 May 2017
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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.
24 April 2017
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Review: Monster? at the Theatre Upstairs, Dublin
April 18 - April 29
By Chris McCormack
The ferocious fires of Ireland’s culture wars: Chris McCormack reviews Emily Gillmor Murphy’s dark new three-hander at Dublin’s Theatre Upstairs.
12 April 2017
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Review: The Passion Project in Ballyfermot and Cherry Orchard, Dublin
Various ⋄ April 8 - April 9
By Chris McCormack
Shaking heaven to be heard: Chris McCormack is swept up in Brokentalkers’ politically charged, modern-day reimagining of the Passion Play.
7 April 2017
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Review: Private Lives at the Gate Theatre, Dublin
Gate Theatre Dublin ⋄ March 31 - June 24 2017
By Chris McCormack
Cowardly nostalgia: Chris McCormack lingers in the halcyon bliss of Noël Coward’s 1930 comedy.
31 March 2017
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Review: The Eurydice Project at Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Project Arts Centre ⋄ 22 Mar - 1 Apr 2017
By Chris McCormack
How does epic love settle into lethargy? Chris McCormack reviews a radical retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth.
30 March 2017
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Review: The Effect at Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Project Arts Centre ⋄ 23 March - 1 April 2017
By Chris McCormack
Is it all just dopamine? Chris McCormack reviews a revival of Lucy Prebble’s play about love and drugs.
25 March 2017
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Review: Afterplay at the Gate Theatre, Dublin
The Gate ⋄ 21 - 26 March 2017
By Chris McCormack
Things haven’t changed greatly for Chekhov’s characters since last we saw them: Chris McCormack reviews Afterplay as part of the Beckett Friel Pinter festival.
24 March 2017
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Review: One for the Road at the Gate Theatre, Dublin
Gate Theatre Dublin ⋄ 22 - 26 March 2017
By Chris McCormack
A study of authoritarianism: Chris McCormack reviews the final play in the Gate Theatre’s Beckett Friel Pinter festival.
23 March 2017
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Review: Dublin by Lamplight at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Abbey Theatre ⋄ 21 March - 1 April 2017
By Chris McCormack
The National Theatre of Ireland goes self-reflexive: Chris McCormack reviews the homecoming of The Corn Exchange’s play about the founding of the Abbey Theatre.
17 March 2017
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Review: Collected Stories at the Viking Theatre, Dublin
Viking Theatre ⋄ 13 - 25 March 2017
By Chris McCormack
Criticism and debate: Chris McCormack reviews Donald Margulies’s play about a writer and her pupil.
1 March 2017
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Review: Jericho at Bewley’s Cafe Theatre @ Powerscourt, Dublin.
Bewley's Cafe Theatre ⋄ 22 February - 4 March 2017
By Chris McCormack
Realist and meta-realist: Chris McCormack reviews Malaprop Theatre’s new work about truth in the modern age.
17 February 2017
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Review: Cora, Leah and I at the New Theatre, Dublin
The New Theatre ⋄ 13 - 25 February 2017
By Chris McCormack
Mining private grief for public spectacle: Chris McCormack reviews Ellen Flynn’s new drama about trauma and surveillance.
10 February 2017
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Review: Autumn Royal at Project Arts Centre, Dublin
Project Arts Centre ⋄ 7 - 11 February 2017
By Chris McCormack
Stuck in a cycle: Chris McCormack reviews the debut play by novelist Kevin Barry.
8 February 2017
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Review: The Successful T.D. at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
Gaiety Theatre ⋄ 6 - 18 February 2017
By Chris McCormack
“Every man has the Dáil in his head”: Chris McCormack reviews a stage adaptation of John B. Keane’s novellas