This one-woman show written and performed by Lowri Jenkins is very simply staged using translucent vertical blue drapes and quite a lot of lemons. Chronicling a young woman’s transition from rural to big city life – through a series of phone calls to her mum, visits to the shop, and attempts to find work (and […]

Writer and performer Sonya Kelly had a Dublin Fringe hit with The Wheelchair on my Face a few years ago, an autobiographical storytelling piece about her eyesight. A mix of stand-up and memoir, the show confirmed Kelly as a writer of wit, well able to connect to audiences’ hearts. How to Keep an Alien is […]

This show is rough but glorious puppetry and superb musicianship in a version of the classic Faust that is wonderfully easy to follow. Three men greet us and display proudly the playboard for the puppetry that is also a magnificently roughly hand-made musical instrument. The men are all excellent musicians and singers, which they make […]

Framing the large table in the middle of the stage are, on one side, a menu on a chalkboard and on the other a pot-bellied stove. A few buckets full of stones lie around in front and a shopping trolley of porridge packets is behind. The menu for today is a starter of Porridge, main […]

I’ve had a blindfold-filled time of it at this year’s Fringe. Over at the Filmhouse, I was whispered to by ten-year-olds through an ‘ear trumpet’ as they watched a film for the first time and described what they were seeing. Belgian artist Britt Hatzius’s piece Blind Cinema is a joy to experience – thoughtful, playful, […]