Lisa Wolfe reports from the Dublin Theatre Festival 2013 Ireland 2013 is branded by a concept called The Gathering. It calls for the international diaspora to come home to the old country for while. It encompasses sport, aviation, business and the arts. There is the Garda versus the NYPD Boxing Tournament, The Irish Global Pub […]

The lives of others, unknown and known, are filled with the perpetual motion of existence. Like them, you and I travel in our existence through time and space, hurtling towards an inevitable conclusion. For the most part this bond that unites us is seen yet unspoken – it’s analogous to an over-filled commuter train, where […]

Cheese is a rare thing in the theatrical world: a play that genuinely keeps you guessing, amuses throughout, and has an important message burning through its heart. Debut playwright Nikki Schreiber catapults us into a bizarre world where Joe and Freya live in an Emmental house and everyone expects the cheese to be forever plentiful… […]

Truth is in our dreams’ said Eugene Ionesco. Mr et Mme Reve (Mr and Mrs Dream) is a theatrical dance show by Compagnie Pietragalla-Derouault, made in collaboration with a large software company called Dassault Systemes – an unusual type of collaboration, crossing art/science and art/business boundaries. The project uses video and other digital technologies within […]

Shimmering into the room in a shivering, slithering mass of black material, Lucy Hopkins emerges from within her cocoon to announce that she is an ‘Artist’. Now draped in her black shawl and dressed in a black role neck and leggings Hopkins paints a perfect pastiche. This character, who is our host for the next […]