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The Irish Critic’s Guide to Dublin Theatres: The Abbey

January 5, 09 //
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The Abbey- it’s the posh one. If you were going to take your granny to a show, it would be at The Abbey (unless she’s one of those grannies, like mine, that shouts at the actors). More importantly however, The Abbey is our national theatre, representing us as a nation on stage, though that has always been debatable.  

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‘Waves’: Overlooking minor Gripes

October 8, 08 //
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Katie Mitchell’s foray into multi-media theatrical performance seems a far call from her meticulous treatments of Chekhov and Ancient Greece. Yet it is such minute attention to detail that lies at the foundation of this production, saturating the theatrical experience as Woolf herself does to the text. The Waves, the inaugural piece of Mitchell’s technophilia premiering at the National Theatre in late 2006, is a particularly apt guinea-pig with a narrative that is notoriously elusive, deliberately discarding linearity in favour of layers. The novel is thus sufficiently malleable to be devised into theatre whilst calling for different media to capture the spirit of the writing.

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