BWW Review: ULSTER AMERICAN at The Abbey Theatre
I was prepared for controversial and shocking, for colourful language and violence.
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BWW Review: DUBLIN WILL SHOW YOU HOW at The Complex, Smithfield
The Complex warehouse in Smithfield, frigid, starkly lit and rigged with tenement flats at opposing ends with the audience seated on the long axes sandwiching the stage.
BWW Review: THE COUNTRY GIRLS at The Abbey Theatre
Formerly banned by the Irish censorship board in 1950's Ireland, The Country Girls tells the tale of love in all its incarnations: unconditional, dutiful, compassionate, possessive, devoted, illicit, unrequited, first love.
BWW Review: BIG SHOT at The Helix
The comforting cacophony of blaring sirens.
BWW Review: THE GLASGOW GIRLS at The Abbey Theatre
Never underestimate the power of our youth.
BWW Review: THE RIDLEYS at The Abbey Theatre
Have you ever pondered over a shocking news story and thought: what possibly could have possessed that individual to behave in that erratic manner? Philip Ridley tackles that question not once but twice in his 2 plays: Tonight with Donny Stixx and Dark Vanilla Jungle.
BWW Review: THIRST (AND OTHER BITS OF FLANN) at The Abbey Theatre
Imagine your absolute favorite story.
BWW Review: COME FROM AWAY at The Abbey Theatre
On September 11th 2001, whilst unimaginable horrors were unfolding on one island, on another island 1500 miles NE, an entire village rallied together opening their hearts and homes to help 7000 strangers.
BWW Review: DOUBLE CROSS at The Abbey Theatre
A volatile cocktail: World War 2.
BWW Review: DRUIDSHAKESPEARE: RICHARD III at THE ABBEY THEATRE
Theater heaven.
BWW Review: THE PATIENT GLORIA at The Abbey Theatre
Writer and actress Gina Moxley stumbled upon the 1965 film Three Approaches to Psychotherapy (aka The Gloria Films) whilst residing in New York City.
BWW Review: BRENDAN GALILEO FOR EUROPE at Bewley's Café Theatre
Strap yourself in for a high octane ride from the mini metropolis of Prospect, Galway to the bright lights of the Eurovision Song Contest and back again with Fionn Foley's uproarious one-man farce.
BWW Review: FRNKNSTN at The Abbey Theatre
Writer Michael West artfully distills the dark essence of Mary Shelley's classic into a fateful 70 minutes, gratifying literary scholars and beguiling newcomers.
BWW Review: The Abbey Theatre is JIMMY'S HALL
Jimmy's Hall is based on the true story of a tin barn built on a farm in Leitrim by Jimmy Gralton in the 1920s.
BWW Review: COME ON HOME feels the pulse of Ireland at The Abbey Theatre
Come on Home is a quintessentially Irish tale exploring the fragile yet resilient bonds of family against a backdrop of sexual intolerance, rejection and regret.
BWW Review: Upholstering and Redecorating The FURNITURE
'Furniture is not sentimental,' offers George, despairing at his difficulty in bequeathing his beloved chaise longue to a willing beneficiary, near the close of Sonya Kelly's scintillating new play Furniture.
BWW Review: Searching for Sanctuary in SHELTER
Cristín Kehoe's Shelter attempts to negotiate the knotty relationship between Ireland's turbulent past and uneasy present.
BWW Review: ULYSSES Reincarnates at the Abbey Theatre
On Thursday, June 16th, 1904 a young man and his new belle spent their first day together wandering the streets of Dublin.
BWW Review: THE REHEARSAL, PLAYING THE DANE at The Abbey Theatre
Pan Pan Theatre Company presents the 10th incarnation of The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane since its premiere at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2010.
BWW Review: Stages of loss in GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS at The Black Box Theatre, Galway
“'Moving on' is for stupid people,” insists the haunted, just-bereaved Dad (Cillian Murphy) in the world premiere of Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Enda Walsh's ambitions, striking, but unsatisfactory stage adaptation of Max Porter's 2016 novel.
BWW Review: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN at THE ABBEY THEATRE
This much hyped and widely advertised production incorporated a lot of elements and took a lot of risks, while some worked not all panned out, leaving the play inconsistent in tone and style.
BWW Review: THE GRIMM TALE OF CINDERELLA at SMOCK ALLEY THEATRE
It's a tale as old as time, or certainly as old as any fairy tale, but Smock Alley Theatre's production The Grimm Tale of Cinderella manages to put a fresh spin on an old reliable, masterfully knowing where to pay homage to sanctified tradition and where to shake things up, so to speak.
BWW Review: Longing for an heir to the throne in KING OF THE CASTLE
A stark exploration of inheritance, home, and the legacy of Ireland's post-Famine mindset, Eugene McCabe's unsettling, overlooked King of the Castle is imaginatively revived in Druid Theatre's production.
BWW Review: Decadent Distills An Explosive PUMPGIRL
With sparkling assurance, Abbie Spallen's Pumpgirl splices comedy and tragedy.
BWW Review: Surviving The CRESTFALL
In a dystopian landscape charged with searing verbal aggression, sustained horror, and gratuitous violence, Crestfall unfolds on the day when the lives of Olive, Alison, and Tilly fatefully intersect.
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