I have a wee reservation about the title. Neither the play nor the pub are a bit of a lark, in the sense of harmless fun. In my experience, pubs from the time depicted in the play were the pits. Continue reading
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MONTO: a search for the definite article
The wicked history of ‘Monto’ spreads itself accommodatingly from the 1860s up to the 1950s. ‘Monto’ was, at one time, so it is claimed, to be the largest redlight district in Europe. It is estimated that there were at times up to 1,600 prostitutes working there. Continue reading
Irish Film Festival Reviews: Tarrac & Dance First, That They May Face the Rising Sun, and more.
Tarrac, a heart-warming Irish language comedy drama set on the Kerry coast in Dingle… Joyce feels like someone we can know, though probably not like very much….The scaffolding and the bedrock of this visually sumptuous film is what it does with landscapes and cloudscapes and the imposition of the human impress on them. Continue reading
Raucous, Rambunctious and Riotous
The cast of Love’s Old Sweet Songs was led by the magnificent and maleficent MC, who, in true music hall style got us all wound up and raring to go for the opening of the show musical eisteddfod – a turning point / ‘tuning fork’ in the road in Joyce’s life. Continue reading
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ENDA MURRAY AND THE IRISH FILM FESTIVAL AUSTRALIAN CINEMA PROGRAMME
2022 Irish Film Festival programme has landed. Continue reading
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Struggling to Belong Anywhere
Austere minimalist staging that is also aesthetically pleasing and inventive. Continue reading
Theatrically Addressing Clerical Abuse
The star of Runaway Priest was Felix Meagher’s original music which in part accounted the upbeat quality of its treatment of the difficult topic of child abuse. Continue reading
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Socialist Countess
Meg McNena’s new play about Constance Markievicz constitutes an epic story of women’s engagement in politics. Continue reading
A Paean in Praise of Theatre
A Director in love with Oscar Wilde and his theatre of other possible futures…. Continue reading
It might be nonsense, but at least it’s clever nonsense
A novelist, a bolshevik, and a dadaist walked into a bar, is one way of getting the joke that is Travesties. Or it’s a demonstration of how The Importance of Being Earnest is a Marxist tract. Continue reading
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