reviews…
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 [...]
Darkroom by Gentle Giant Theatre Company is a strange beast. Brought to see it by a friend, I only knew what I read in the Fringe Festival programme:
DC and Marvel superheroes and supervillains face extinction. The Anarchic Invincibility Deficiency Syndrome unmasks masked idols and Supermen fade to grey. When the world falls darker than Joker’s [...]
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 [...]
Neil Bartlett first grabbed my attention in the Project Theatre nearly twenty years ago in his production of Sarrasine, a scintillating reworking of a Balzac story, a dangerous, haunting and inspirational piece of musical theatre. I saw it twice and the poster adorned the walls of several of my flats for years afterwards. Bartlett’s perspective [...]
Romeo and Juliet pitched at the bebo generation is a risky proposition. Ever since Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 film for the e generation, theatrical productions which aim to give this teen tragedy a contemporary feel, and reach new, younger audiences, have a hard act to follow. But, given the power of this play, it should survive [...]
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 [...]
Last night was my first time attending a full concert by Camille O’Sullivan and I feel as if I’ve just had amazing sex for the first time. I don’t mean anything furtive, adolescent or pimply. I mean the full no-holes-barred celebratory experience of bare bodies and souls entangling athletically and it all [...]
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 [...]
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