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.
‘Fairytaleheart’ is the second of five plays in playwright Philip Ridley’s ‘Storyteller Sequence’, a series of one act dramas written for young people. The other four plays have similarly nauseating yet tantalising titles such as ‘Moonfleece’ and ‘Sparkleshrak’. The title combined with the heralding of the play as ‘by teens, for teens’ negated the need for a cynic to see it. Plot: teenagers being brought up by single parents on an inner city council estate but escaping the misery of their reality through the power of the imagination, thus liberating their ‘Fairytaleheart’.
