Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Rave theatre: Chris McCormack reviews a dystopian western at Cork Midsummer Festival.
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Fascinatingly elegiac: Chris McCormack reflects on a revival of Lynda Radley's 2011 play at Cork Midsummer Festival.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:52AMAs loaded as its title: Chris McCormack reviews Painted Bird's Susanne R. Day resurrection job at Cork Midsummer Festival.
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Searching in the dark: Chris McCormack reviews an autobiographical play about a bid to discover the author's birth parents.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 11:18AMWednesday, June 14, 2017
A new report, Gender Counts, reveals stark statistics about the under-representation of women in Irish Theatre. Chris McCormack asks: What next?
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 03:43AMFriday, June 9, 2017
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.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:36AMTuesday, May 30, 2017
Giving the unbelievable a fair hearing: Chris McCormack reviews Philip Conaughton’s new dance-opera about UFO sightings.
The post Review: Extraterrestrial Events at the Samuel Beckett Thea…
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Bacchanalia and broccoli: Chris McCormack reviews Chris Haring and Michel Blazy's collaboration, performed as part of the Dublin Dance Festival.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 11:00AMWednesday, May 24, 2017
The universe will deliver: Chris McCormack is mesmerised by Maria Nilsson Waller's "absorbing" new work at Dublin Dance Festival.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:33PMSaturday, May 13, 2017
Reasons to be cheerful: Chris McCormack finds Northern Ireland Opera's production of Radamisto too optimistic in outlook.
The post Review: Radamisto at the O’Reilly Theatre, Dublin ap…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:38AMFriday, May 5, 2017
Faeries, changelings, merrows and hawthorn trees: Chris McCormack dives into Irish folklore in Big Telly Theatre's adaptation of Jane Talbot's story collection.
The post Review: The Faerie T…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:25PMA state of unbridled fury: Chris McCormack reviews Eva O'Connor's new play about bitter enemies and unlikely friends.
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The ferocious fires of Ireland's culture wars: Chris McCormack reviews Emily Gillmor Murphy's dark new three-hander at Dublin's Theatre Upstairs.
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Virtuosity hidden in the most allusive places: Chris McCormack is at Galway Theatre Festival to review Emma O'Grady's unique solo show.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:07AMThursday, April 20, 2017
A body squirming in the gallows: Chris McCormack heads to Galway Theatre Festival to review Brick Wall Theatre's production of Pierre Brault's 1999 play.
The post Review: Blood on the Moon a…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:43AMTuesday, April 18, 2017
Lessons woven from art history: Chris McCormack emerges, paint-splattered and perceptive, from Emma Jordan's revival of John Logan's 2009 play.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 07:06PMWednesday, April 12, 2017
Shaking heaven to be heard: Chris McCormack is swept up in Brokentalkers' politically charged, modern-day reimagining of the Passion Play.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 03:49AMFriday, April 7, 2017
Cowardly nostalgia: Chris McCormack lingers in the halcyon bliss of Noël Coward's 1930 comedy.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 11:41AMTuesday, December 20, 2016
With 26 scenes and 40-plus characters, Marina Carr’s tremendously ambitious adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina feels rather crowded. It’s probably best
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMThursday, November 24, 2016
An oil painting dominates the stage. The graceful woman it portrays, with her controlled smile and fashionable curls, is the accomplished mother
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:28AMFriday, September 23, 2016
History hasn’t been kind to Irish women playwrights. Most of their work fell out of repertory long ago. A turning point may
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThursday, April 7, 2016
David Ireland hasn’t slept. In a Dublin cafe, the morning after the opening night of his new play Cyprus Avenue, the Northern
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMFriday, March 11, 2016
Campaign group Waking the Feminists has claimed that gender equality can be achieved in Irish theatre in five years. It made the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AMThursday, February 18, 2016
The air is heavy inside the studio where Aoife Duffin has just finished a rehearsal for A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMWednesday, November 18, 2015
Last week, the Abbey Theatre – Ireland’s national theatre – hosted the first meeting of #WakingTheFeminists, a gender equality initiative born out
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, October 5, 2015
You might think they’re buzzing little villains but the fact is they’re integral to our planet. According to Albert Einstein: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:44PMMonday, September 28, 2015
It could easily be interpreted as an act of narcissism. Quarantine, one of the UK’s most terraforming companies, has arrived at such self-regard as to roll out scenery from its past produc…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:21AMMonday, August 31, 2015
When Jack cut down the beanstalk that brought a dead Giant crashing down on his provincial town, everyone was arms up in arms. Blind Summit, the UK’s premier puppet theatre company, tell t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:57AMOn a pastel stage of dressing screens and make-up mirrors, blues and pinks interweave and combine in illustrations of Pablo Picasso’s peace sign and the international drag queen RuPaul. Th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:57AMThere’s certainly enthusiasm in Patch of Blue, the London-based theatre troupe who have adapted Irish novelist Sarah Moore Fitzgerald’s Back to Blackbrick. In their effort to put the sto…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:57AMThe downside of bringing a student production to the Fringe is that it faces going up against experienced acts, with the contrast between professional and amateur disciplines brought more t…
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