It appears that those most affected by economic downturn are drama graduates- aren’t we a sorry lot? Jobs disappear, arts council funding dissolves and we are left holding our tails between our legs, having to listen to our fathers singing along to the ‘I told you so’ dance. Faced with the obvious option of working in Asda- now that they’re creating more jobs for people exactly like us- what do we do? Do we give up our theatrical ambitions and head down to the job centre, or do we face the music and make some ghetto theatre in whatever space we can get our grimy little mitts on? The latter, according to Dan Bergin, one of the founders of ‘Daguerreotype’, Trinity’s latest home grown theatre company.
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Powerfully in contention for the silliest comments made about art in the last year are Ian McEwan’s on opera. The thrust of his argument is that operas are not enough like Ian McEwan novels: “I don’t like fairies and dwarfs cavorting around the stage… and I’ve always had a bit of a problem with the lack of psychological realism in opera”. Thus McEwan does away with Mozart’s Magic Flute, perhaps in favour of a McEwan-style Realist Flute. But the questions for McEwan are: who said anybody was supposed to really believe it in the first place? And even more: is it nevertheless not actually truer than your “heritage London” reasonableness?
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The Irish Critic has noted that a few of you theatre lovers have been searching for information on The Irish Times Theatre Awards 2009. This has been noted and as usual the critic has accomodated your every need by providing you with a list of this years nominees- quite a line up. The Irish Critic’s vote goes for Tom Vaughan Lawlor in the best actor category.
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Sitting in the foyer of The Abbey Theatre moments before my interview with Wayne Jordan, the director of La Dispute, the show currently beginning its run at The Peacock, I suddenly realise I know nothing about him- this should be interesting. When I finally do meet him however, I find that despite my ignorance, I must have had expectations, because he defies all of them. Bounding through the entrance wearing a distinctly blue tracksuit, he is definitely the most excitable director I have ever met, rushing over to greet me, the ignorant stranger, with a hug.
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