To the tune of Roy Orbison’s In Dreams our three performers enter the space – there’s Feidlim Cannon (actor, director and co-founder of Brokentalkers theatre company) playing himself, his mother Ann playing herself, and an actor (introduced as Alan) playing their psychotherapist Eric Keller and other roles. The absent character at the heart of the […]
Writings
Macbeth in the Mountains
August 26th, 2013 by John BrittonWhen Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko set up the Moscow Art Theatre – intending to rescue Russian theatre from commercialised, celebrity-obsessed mediocrity – one of their first acts was to leave Moscow and take their new ensemble on a rural retreat. Away from the routines of daily life, they sought to create a new theatre. A few […]
Tron Theatre Company: Ulysses
August 26th, 2013 by Lisa WolfeIt was all a dream! Dermot Bolger’s effective adaptation of James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses reconstructs the novel as if it is being dreamed by Leopold Bloom. Doing so means it can start and finish with Molly Bloom’s famous soliloquy and make that evocative speech the narrative thread. The opening scene has Molly (Muireann Kelly) in […]
Let’s Talk About Rape! Taboo or not taboo at Ed Fringe
August 26th, 2013 by Dorothy Max PriorHello Edinburgh! Everyone alright? Having a good time? So hey – here we are seeing a few shows, and what do you know? People just won’t shut up about rape. It’s out there. We all know it’s out there in the big bad world. But I mean it’s really out there at the Edinburgh Festival […]
Mamoru Iriguchi: Projector/Conjector
August 26th, 2013 by Edward WrenProjector/Conjector states in the programme that it is a dance piece as well as a piece of theatre. This production pushes the definition of both those terms. The two performers, Mamoru Iriguchi and Selina Papoutseli move slowly about the small stage; Iriguchi has a TV screen on his head, Papoutseli has a projector on hers. […]
