BWW Review: GOING SPARE, Theatre Upstairs, Oct 2015
In Siobhán Donnellan's new drama, a visit to a psychic exposes the ways - outlandish or otherwise - we manage the illogical circumstances of death,
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BWW Review: A Ceremonious Anniversary of DANCING AT LUGHNASA
In the wake of Brian Friel's death, director Annabelle Comyn's clear production is more than dutiful.
BWW Review: THE LAST HOTEL - We Hope You Enjoy Your Stay
Something strange is suppressed under a polite meeting inside a drab hotel.
BWW Review: I'M YOUR MAN - Lost in Music
THISISPOPBABY's decision to stage Mark Palmer's 12-part song cycle is difficult to fathom.
BWW Review: I'M YOUR MAN, Project Arts Centre, 26 September 2015
With music/lyrics by Mark Palmer and book/direction by Phillip McMahon, I'm Your Man aims, to quote Palmer's note in the programme, 'to lay bare the plurality of the human psyche'; as one might gather from that, it's not exactly a laugh riot.
BWW Review: THE NIGHT ALIVE - Sweeter than Heaven, Hotter than Hell
A cluttered bedsit becomes a refuge in Conor McPherson's drama.
BWW Review: IT'S MY PARTY CONFERENCE (AND I'LL CRY IF I WANT TO) - Send In the Clowns
Stefanie Preissner's new play was already promised to Tiger Dublin Fringe when her funding application was unsuccessful.
BWW Review: SCORE - Pinot Noir, Mid-sized Car
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
Luke Murphy's svelte demeanour can instantly give way to warrior-like choreography.
BWW Review: GHOSTS - Failing to Disappear
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
Theatre etiquette is dashed in Kim Noble's epic search for companionship.
BWW Review: MX JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND ... And Things of THAT Nature!
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
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
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
Popstar-wannabe Xnthony makes his move for Eurovision 2016.
BWW Review: THE AULD FELLA - Faded Royalty of a Legendary Playhouse
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
Barry McStay's nail-bitingly good play asks timely questions in the wake of the Marriage Equality Referendum.
BWW Review: MOTHER YOU - A Vision of Serenity From the Midlands
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
Goerge Brant's unsettling play asks questions about the changing state of warfare.
BWW Review: THE WINDSTEALERS - The Bust in a Gust
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
Aisling O'Mara and Robbie O'Connor summon two Abbey actors who fought in Easter week 1916.
BWW Review: IT FOLDS - Old Horse Town
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
Alice Malseed is exemplifiable of millennials burnt out by their late twenties, their hopes dashed in the bust.
BWW Review: Millennial Malaise in THE PLEASURE GROUND
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 Reviews: SPRING AWAKENING Brings Purple Summer to Dublin
Ill-Advised is a rare case in Ireland as a company dedicated to musical theatre.
