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Chris McCormack Chris McCormack is a theatre critic based in Dublin. He blogs on MusingsInIntermissions.blogspot.ie and writes for A Younger Theatre, Irish Theatre Magazine and the Arts Council of Ireland. He is also a PhD fellow at the National University of Ireland Galway where he is researching influential designers who worked at the Abbey Theatre.




BWW Review: THE NIGHT ALIVE - Sweeter than Heaven, Hotter than Hell
BWW Review: THE NIGHT ALIVE - Sweeter than Heaven, Hotter than Hell
September 25, 2015

A cluttered bedsit becomes a refuge in Conor McPherson's drama. You can't help but see it staged against the current homelessness crisis.

BWW Review: IT'S MY PARTY CONFERENCE (AND I'LL CRY IF I WANT TO) - Send In the Clowns
BWW Review: IT'S MY PARTY CONFERENCE (AND I'LL CRY IF I WANT TO) - Send In the Clowns
September 20, 2015

Stefanie Preissner's new play was already promised to Tiger Dublin Fringe when her funding application was unsuccessful. In this once off performance, she makes a case for the vindication of the artist.

BWW Review: SCORE - Pinot Noir, Mid-sized Car
BWW Review: SCORE - Pinot Noir, Mid-sized Car
September 20, 2015

The fictional has-beens of Alan Howley and Jack Cawley resemble anxious players returning to settle old scores.

BWW Review: YOUR OWN MAN/MAD NOTIONS - Finding the Beat of Your Own Drum
BWW Review: YOUR OWN MAN/MAD NOTIONS - Finding the Beat of Your Own Drum
September 18, 2015

Luke Murphy's svelte demeanour can instantly give way to warrior-like choreography. Why then is he struggling to break free from his cages?

BWW Review: GHOSTS - Failing to Disappear
BWW Review: GHOSTS - Failing to Disappear
September 18, 2015

Dancers Ruairí Donovan and Asaf Aharonson flit as gentle lovers in this showing up of archaic law.

BWW Review: YOU'RE NOT ALONE - Let Us Go, You and I
BWW Review: YOU'RE NOT ALONE - Let Us Go, You and I
September 17, 2015

Theatre etiquette is dashed in Kim Noble's epic search for companionship.

BWW Review: MX JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND ... And Things of THAT Nature!
BWW Review: MX JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND ... And Things of THAT Nature!
September 16, 2015

To Thomas Bartlett's possessed swoops on the piano, Mx Justin Vivian Bond powerfully sends hexes out into the universe.

BWW Review: BECKETT IN THE CITY - The Women Speak
BWW Review: BECKETT IN THE CITY - The Women Speak
September 15, 2015

The new chapter of Company SJ's Beckett in the City series articulates the ramshackle body of the woman in nationalist Ireland.

BWW Review: OBJECT PIGGY - I'm an Extraordinary Machine
BWW Review: OBJECT PIGGY - I'm an Extraordinary Machine
September 14, 2015

If fetishisation of machinery is part of aerial play, Emily Aoibheann's experiment cuts and fuses shapes that show the mechanical taking over.

BWW Review: DOUZE - A Most Rare Euro Vision
BWW Review: DOUZE - A Most Rare Euro Vision
September 12, 2015

Popstar-wannabe Xnthony makes his move for Eurovision 2016. Is he parodying celebrity rise to power or gunning for glory himself?

BWW Review: THE AULD FELLA - Faded Royalty of a Legendary Playhouse
BWW Review: THE AULD FELLA - Faded Royalty of a Legendary Playhouse
September 11, 2015

Michael Glen Murphy's play returns to the late days of Dublin's Theatre Royal.

BWW Review: OUR ISLAND - Meeting the Parents of Post-Referendum Ireland
BWW Review: OUR ISLAND - Meeting the Parents of Post-Referendum Ireland
September 11, 2015

Barry McStay's nail-bitingly good play asks timely questions in the wake of the Marriage Equality Referendum. However, politics aren't the extent of its reach.

BWW Review: MOTHER YOU - A Vision of Serenity From the Midlands
BWW Review: MOTHER YOU - A Vision of Serenity From the Midlands
September 11, 2015

Louise White's pastoral promenade inside a disused commercial building suggests the possibility of regrowth, drawing on the experiences of The Abbeyleix Bog Project.

BWW Review: GROUNDED - Worshipping the Sky
BWW Review: GROUNDED - Worshipping the Sky
September 10, 2015

Goerge Brant's unsettling play asks questions about the changing state of warfare.

BWW Review: THE WINDSTEALERS - The Bust in a Gust
BWW Review: THE WINDSTEALERS - The Bust in a Gust
September 10, 2015

A fictional Irish town becomes victim to a sinister wind-farm plot in Jane Madden's brilliant farce.

BWW Review: REBEL REBEL - Rising Actors On a Bigger Stage
BWW Review: REBEL REBEL - Rising Actors On a Bigger Stage
September 9, 2015

Aisling O'Mara and Robbie O'Connor summon two Abbey actors who fought in Easter week 1916.

BWW Review: IT FOLDS - Old Horse Town
BWW Review: IT FOLDS - Old Horse Town
September 9, 2015

In this beguiling co-production, junk ensemble and Brokentalkers place confidence in a cast of strangers.

BWW Review: JELLYFISH - Pulsating Through a Sea of Troubles
BWW Review: JELLYFISH - Pulsating Through a Sea of Troubles
September 7, 2015

Alice Malseed is exemplifiable of millennials burnt out by their late twenties, their hopes dashed in the bust. What can be made of this world stung into paralysis?

BWW Review: Millennial Malaise in THE PLEASURE GROUND
BWW Review: Millennial Malaise in THE PLEASURE GROUND
August 24, 2015

Jarlath Tivnan's debut play is written in the strokes of black comedy but points to darker truths under the surface in rural Ireland.

BWW Features: Tiger Dublin Fringe Brings Back Spiegeltent for 21st Celebrations
BWW Features: Tiger Dublin Fringe Brings Back Spiegeltent for 21st Celebrations
August 4, 2015

The return of the Spiegeltent lends greater diversity to the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival, and may usher in a new maturity in time for its 21st birthday.



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