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‘The West Awakes’: Encouraging Conversation in West Belfast

Review by Kathy Clarke on 19 August 2010

Sitting in Taxi Trax, the West Belfast taxi depot, waiting for the performance of The West Awakes to begin, my eyes are drawn to an impressive mural splattered on the back wall of the building. It’s an image of the city, or rather the west side of the city, encompassing the Shankhill and Falls...

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A Portrait of the Artist as a young Entrepreneur? I wouldn't bank on it

Review by Patrick Brennan on 06 July 2010

Near the end of David McWilliams’s lecture, Outsiders, at the Peacock Theatre, the media-savvy economist declares that James Joyce was an entrepreneur. It is delivered as something of a coup de grâce in his take on the recession and how best to get out of it. McWilliams jokes that Joyce’s...

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Documentary theatre: beyond information

Review by Fintan Walsh on 14 April 2010

While documentary theatre is typically concerned with staging events that have actually happened, it usually seeks to mediate those events rather than to re-present them. In other words, the performance-as-document acts as a conduit through which a creative construction of reality is presented to an...

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Let's stand firm and hold our nerve

Review by Orla Flanagan on 05 March 2010

It has been a disconcerting couple of weeks for everyone in the industry, as theatre makers have grappled with and digested the recent funding decisions made in Merrion Square. Some would say the cuts made were presented like a virtual bombshell through the post, and others would argue that we had...

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What do the Irish Theatre Awards nominations tell us?

Review by Patrick Lonergan on 24 January 2010

The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards always give rise to surprises – that, after all, is part of the fun. But it’s probably fair to say that this year’s shortlist is in some ways unprecedented, due to the surprisingly low number of nominations for the Abbey and the Gate. This represents...

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The Theatre Machine lures me back

Review by Fintan Walsh on 10 December 2009

I returned to The Theatre Machine at Project on Saturday to see if our chemistry had improved. Although the last three shows were a bit more polished than those staged on the opening night, there was plenty of room for improvement when it came to the art of seduction. Oh! How Very Ordinary is built...

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When should critics reserve judgment?

Review by Fintan Walsh on 05 November 2009

On occasion, new companies and emerging artists with little experience request that their work be reviewed. During the Dublin Fringe Festival this is often par for the course, but outside of thiscontext, it raises more problems. Obviously, publicity is useful,especially when the reaction is positive....

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Are we agreed, then?

Review by Fíona Ní Chinnéide on 14 October 2009

I seem to be alone in this: I had a few issues with Hotel Modern's Kamp. The audience was moved the night I saw Kamp; the panellists on RTÉ's 'The View' agreed they had been deeply moved; the DTF programme itself had promised we would be moved. I harassed anyone who would listen to me at ITM's (excellent,...

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Welcome to ITM

Review by Helen Meany on 28 September 2009

There has been some discussion here about terminology: this space that we’re opening up for conversation – is it a blog? Has the form already reified into something conventional that comes with a set of expectations, e.g. that it will be a mixture of comment and opinion, in a chatty style,...

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