Carthaginians’ ‘sense of hope and release’
Theatre Reviews Thu, Feb 23, 2012
FRANK MCGUINNESS’ powerful play Carthaginians, written as an elegy for the dead of Bloody Sunday, comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week in a new production from Derry’s Millennium Forum directed by one of Ireland’s best known actors, Adrian Dunbar.
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Thu, Sep 01, 2011
THE WAY in which memory shapes our identities and the way in which we in turn shape our memories, selecting this detail and altering that, have been recurrent themes in the work of Brian Friel and nowhere more so than in his great play Faith Healer, currently running at the Town Hall.
Read more ...Theatre review: The Silver Tassie
Thu, Sep 02, 2010
DRUID HAVE taken on some challenging productions in recent years, with works like the epic DruidSynge cycle and Eugene O’Neill’s searing classic Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
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Thu, Jul 22, 2010
UNCLE VANYA - Among the highlights of this year’s Galway Arts Festival so far was the visit of Bristol Old Vic and Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory with their wonderful co-production of Chekov’s Uncle Vanya.
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Thu, Jul 15, 2010
Penelope
From James Joyce to Derek Walcott and the Coen Brothers, Homer’s Odyssey has proved a rich source of inspiration to artists down the ages.
Theatre review: Burn The Bad Lamp and Yellow Moon
Thu, Apr 22, 2010
CÚIRT 2010’s event-packed programme features two plays, Burn the Bad Lamp and Yellow Moon both of which run throughout the week.
Read more ...Theatre review: The Mikado
Thu, Mar 18, 2010
THE PATRICIAN Musical Society’s production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado, held last week in the Town Hall Theatre, was a feast of colour, fun, and wonderful songs.
Read more ...Theatre reviews: Galway Arts Festival
Thu, Jul 23, 2009
WEEK ONE of the Galway Arts Festival delivered some memorable productions from both home-based and visiting companies in plays that dealt with such diverse themes as familial neuroses, under-age sex, the Iraq war, murderous teenagers, and a property tycoon who wants to sing like Beniamino Gigli.
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Thu, Jul 24, 2008
Farber Foundry: Molora
SOUTH AFRICA’S Farber Foundry provided an early highlight of this year’s festival with the first-week staging of Molora, director-author Yael Farber’s adaptation of The Oresteia.
Theatre review: New Electric Ballroom (Druid Theatre Co)
Thu, Jul 17, 2008
DRUID’S EXCITING Galway Arts Festival season of Enda Walsh work got off to a compelling start on Monday with the Irish premiere of his “coiled, dark, glitter-dusted fable”, The New Electric Ballroom, which Walsh also directed.
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