Posts Tagged ‘Dublin Theatre’
Rough is an original piece by the Dublin based theatre collective THEATREclub and fits perfectly into the Fringe Festival motif; it was first performed as part of Project Brand New at the Project Arts Centre in July 2008, the writing is young, fresh and comments on young life in Dublin.
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Confession time: I only went to see October because my Mum (who has an allergic reaction to online booking-charges) sent me down to the box office to buy tickets and in a reward for ‘beating the system’, she said she’d bring me along too. I had never been to the Olympia to see a play, it was definitely more of a live-music sort of venue for me, so I was really intrigued to see what it could offer as a theatre space. The theatre night in question was really bizarre for me. I was used to taking my comfortable seat in the Abbey or the Gate while listening to tinkling piano and discussing the set and ambience knowingly with a fellow drama student. Here I was squashed into (let’s be honest) a terribly painful seat in the Olympia while ushers were selling ice-cream and advertisements were being projected onto the fire safety curtain onstage.
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This January, The Pavillion Theatre hosts some exciting new adaptations. Here are a couple that might tickle your fancy.
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It takes a lot of courage to admit this but before visiting The Gate I never quite understood what need it was supposed to provide for. It seemed to me to be just like The Abbey, only a longer walk from the city centre – and what could be good about that? In retrospect, as a more cultured and well-rounded person, The Gate will always hold a special place in my heart for being the place I first enjoyed a musical.
The Project Arts Centre’s is perhaps the most innovative and dynamic of Dublin’s theatres. Price-wise it is also the most student friendly, with many of the exhibitions in the gallery space being free of charge.
The Project’s programme includes all contemporary art forms: theatre, dance, live art, video and film, jazz, electronic, classical and popular music. I shall stop before I start to forget that this is a theatre page but the list goes on.
Delirium is Enda Walsh’s extreme reinterpretation of Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’, a hybrid of obscene puppetry, surreal dance, provocative animation and sudden song that envelop the sensibilities of an audience and transport them to a horrorscape of a family dynamic that demands collapse. The overall projection of play is the destruction of that which is too far beyond us to attain- the persual of disinterested lovers, disinterested fathers, and disintegrating spirituality.
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“Ireland mustn’t be such a bad place so if the Yanks want to come to Ireland to do their filming”.
Set in 1934, the arrival of a Hollywood director to a nearby island is special news to the community of small rural Inishmaan. Not only more titillating than the reported news of a cat biting a goose’s tail, the promise of outside contact brings a particular sort of hope for Cripple Billy, an unloved boy whose chief form of amusement is gazing at cows to alleviate his endless boredom.
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