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Friday, August 15, 2014

Punk Rock , Lyric Theatre, Belfast by Jane Coyle

Lyric Theatre, Belfast: A burst of spontaneous applause ten minutes into Act II speaks volumes for audience engagement, as fearful, humiliated genius Chadwick Meade (Rory Corcoran) rounds on…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AM
Thursday, June 5, 2014

Tejas Verdes , The MAC, Belfast by Jane Coyle

The MAC, Belfast: In a bold, operatic presentation of Fermin Cabal's seven interlocking female monologues set in the darkness of Pinochet's Chile, director Sophie Motley shows ther…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AM
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Villa and Discurso, The MAC, Belfast by Jane Coyle

The MAC, Belfast: The first segment of this Chilean trilogy consists of two plays, four female voices and a multitude of searing backward glances into the dark corners of a once-troubled cou…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AM
Friday, February 7, 2014

Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Lyric Theatre, Belfast by Jane Coyle

Lyric Theatre, Belfast: To go or not to go? That is the question in <a href="http://www.lyrictheatre.co.uk/whats-on/specific/whats-on/philadelphia-here-i-come">Brian Friel�…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AM
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Little Red Riding Hood, Waterfront Hall, Belfast by Jane Coyle

Waterfront Hall, Belfast: Kids love a baddie, and in contrast to the usual saccharine Christmas fare, PJ O'Reilly's Christmas show for the Waterfront Hall contains a big bad wolf, …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AM
Monday, December 9, 2013

Hatch!, The MAC, Belfast by Jane Coyle

The MAC, Belfast: Hans Christian Andersen's sweetly moralistic story of the social outcast who blossoms into a thing of beauty has been given a major make-over by Patrick J O Reilly in …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AM
Monday, September 9, 2013

Meeting at Menin Gate, The MAC, Belfast by Jane Coyle

The MAC, Belfast: Peace and reconciliation, the scars of survival, truth commissions - these are the current political talking points in Northern Ireland, as society seeks to heal the pain o…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AM
Friday, September 6, 2013

Pride and Prejudice - The Musical, Author: Jane Austen (adapted by Richard Croxford, Mark Dougherty) by Jane Coyle

Author: Jane Austen (adapted by Richard Croxford, Mark Dougherty): "Aunt Jane began her day with music," wrote one of Jane Austen's nieces. Readers will acknowledge the writer…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AM
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Interviews: Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival 2013 preview by Jane Coyle

Sean Doran talks to Jane Coyle about what festival goers can expect from this year’s Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival The island town of Enniskillen in the heart o…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:11PM
Friday, June 14, 2013

Weddins, Weeins and Wakes, Lyric, Belfast by Jane Coyle

Lyric, Belfast: "A do's not a do unless it's a to-do." In this new production of a piece, first written in 1989 as a short one-act play, these words are spoken in charact…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AM
Friday, May 24, 2013

Can't Forget About You, Naughton Studio, Lyric Theatre, Belfast by Jane Coyle

Naughton Studio, Lyric Theatre, Belfast: One never approaches a play by David Ireland with the expectation of gingham and apple pie. Read the full review

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AM
Thursday, May 2, 2013

Love, Billy, Lyric Theatre, Belfast by Jane Coyle

Lyric Theatre, Belfast: He's back - 25 years after falling out with his sister Lorna, boarding a boat for England and disappearing, Billy Martin returns home to post-ceasefire Belfast. …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AM
Friday, February 1, 2013

Mixed Marriage, Lyric Theatre, Belfast by Jane Coyle

Lyric Theatre, Belfast: More than a century ago, socialist activist and Labour organiser James Larkin led a large-scale strike on the Belfast docks. This landmark event provides the framewor…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AM
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Cinderella, Grand Opera House, Belfast by Jane Coyle

Grand Opera House, Belfast: Just when it seemed that it could get no bigger or glitzier, the Grand Opera House has upped the ante on a Cinderella, which is all about glitter and sparkle and …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AM
Monday, December 10, 2012

Hansel and Grettel, Lyric, Belfast by Jane Coyle

Lyric, Belfast: 'Misshapen elf steals show!' Thus might well read the headline for the Lyric's Christmas musical, in which Christina Nelson's mutely glowering servant to …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AM
Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Sleeping Beauty, Belfast Waterfront by Jane Coyle

Belfast Waterfront: Turning away from its tried and tested and hugely popular format, the Waterfront has gone out on a limb with something a little bit different this Christmas. Read the fu…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PM
Monday, December 3, 2012

Sleeping Beauty, Market Place Theatre, Armagh by Jane Coyle

Market Place Theatre, Armagh: There is a rush of productivity in the court of His Bulginess King Cuthbert and Her Muddleheadedness Queen Amnesia. Four babies have been born - Fingers, Thumbs…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AM
Friday, November 30, 2012

The Incredible Book Eating Boy, The MAC, Belfast by Jane Coyle

The MAC, Belfast: It began life as a storybook by Belfast artist and writer Oliver Jeffers. Anarchic, off-the-wall yet gently persuasive, his tale of a young boy who loves books is the perfe…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AM
Friday, November 9, 2012

Lady Windermere's Fan, The MAC, Belfast by Jane Coyle

The MAC, Belfast: Midway through 1891, burdened with two failed tragedies and a censored play, Oscar Wilde decided it was time to change tack and try his hand at satirical comedy. Lady Wind…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AM
Friday, October 26, 2012

Macbeth, Lyric, Belfast by Jane Coyle

Lyric, Belfast: The haunting publicity image is of three faceless women, swathed in plastic raincoats, standing in a gloomy underpass. And now we understand why. Lynne Parker's fascinat…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AM
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival - Krapp's Last Tape, Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen by Jane Coyle

Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen: Thunder crashes and rain teems down outside the meticulously ordered living quarters of Krapp, an elderly man who exists alongside memories of the past 30 year…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AM
Friday, June 8, 2012

The Importance of Being Earnest, Lyric, Belfast by Jane Coyle

Lyric, Belfast: With its tongue lodged firmly in its cheek, Graham McLaren's effervescent new production plays fast and loose with Wilde's irony-laden subtitle, A Trivial Comedy fo…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AM
Friday, May 11, 2012

The Civilisation Game, Lyric, Belfast by Jane Coyle

Lyric, Belfast: Stage plays do not frequently feature on Tim Loane's writing agenda. They tend to surface, neatly spaced, at five year intervals. His previous political satires took on …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AM
Friday, April 27, 2012

Titanic (Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry, 1912), The MAC, Belfast by Jane Coyle

The MAC, Belfast: The scale of the disaster was epic for its time. In a chilling roll call, Ian McElhinney's urbane clerk of the court (the only fictional character onstage) reels off t…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:26PM
Thursday, March 29, 2012

White Star of the North, Lyric, Belfast by Jane Coyle

Lyric, Belfast: The centenary of the sinking of the Belfast-built ship of dreams is upon us and with it a raft of new writing about the iconic disaster that is Titanic. The year 1912 also sa…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AM
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Shoot the Crow, Grand Opera House, Belfast by Jane Coyle

Grand Opera House, Belfast: Prime Cut is celebrating its 20th year at the cutting edge of independent theatre production with its debut on the main stage of the Belfast Grand Opera House. It…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AM
Friday, February 10, 2012

Uncle Vanya, Lyric, Belfast by Jane Coyle

Lyric, Belfast : It's Russian and it's Irish. It's Chekov and it's Friel. The elision of two theatrical traditions, two national cultures, two masters of drama is so seam…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AM
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Brendan at the Chelsea, Naughton Studio, Lyric Theatre, Belfast by Jane Coyle

Naughton Studio, Lyric Theatre, Belfast: Over the years, the Chelsea Hotel in the heart of Manhattan has been both a retreat and a final destination for many famous artists and writers. Duri…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:09AM

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