projecttheatresA couple of things have caught my eye recently that have one thing in common – they are ridiculously cheap or free, brimful of creativity and enthusiasm, and staged by volunteers.
This weekend you can put the finishing touches to your piece of art, ready to submit on Monday to the collective show of peacock philanthropy [...]
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I haven’t seen a show by Pan Pan Theatre Company before. I am, I realise now, much the poorer for it. My recent doubts about the state of Irish theatre, its lack of edge and intelligence, are completely dispelled after seeing Oedipus Loves You at the Project.
There is one week left to see them in [...]
Love 2.0 produced by thisispopbaby at the Project is a little gem. Two slices of modern life, a showcase for the writing skills of two promising young writers. Both short plays emerged on the encouragement of the Abbey Theatre in March, and it is great to see them get a production so soon like this. [...]
Just a quick note to say that Hatch Theatre Company’s production of Further Than The Furthest Thing by Zinnie Morris at the Project is well worth seeing before it closes 6th September. An intriguing story, well told, efficiently directed. The acting all around is first-class: understated and authentic.
In particular, I want to pay tribute [...]
I’ve never seen or read Miss Julie, by August Strindberg, before. Having been surprised and impressed by his paintings in an exhibition a few years ago, however, I have a sense of how far ahead of his time Strindberg was, how close he was to the edge of sanity and/or genius, and so I was [...]
Written, composed and directed by New York-based Richard Maxwell, Ode To The Man Who Kneels is at the Project Theatre until Saturday 12th January. Originally commissioned for a Swiss theatre festival, the production also played in New York late last year. Performed by a committed cast of three men and two women, the [...]
Panti is back at the Project until Saturday and I urge you to go see this show if you possibly can. Book here now.
This is not the sort of show one would expect from a drag artist – or, perhaps, if one only associates drag artists with camp bints of nonsense. However, in exactly the [...]
All Over Town by Phillip McMahon, which finishes its run at the Project theatre tonight, is a thoroughly enjoyable one-man show. Billed oddly as a “mixed-media show” (does an offstage voice on a loudspeaker count?) this is a simple, lively, engaging account of a 20 year old Irish lad and his escape from the “shithole” [...]
It’s been quite a while* since I’ve been to a show like this: physical theatre, depending as much on the choreography of gesture and movement as much as the narrative. After an exciting start, I felt sad that the show was playing to a half-full house, given that it’s only on till Saturday 28th July, [...]
New Yorker Taylor Mac played on Sunday at the Project, a benefit for Belong2, in a wonderfully life-affirming performance art piece – or, as he would describe it, a play. This was entertainment using play in all its meanings: child’s play, theatrical play, sex play, wordplay. Highly intelligent and fluidly articulate, musically gifted and haunting, [...]
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