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Posted in Family, History, Reviews, Theatre on Oct 3rd, 2011
Juno and the Paycock – poster image Watching Seán O’Casey’s play Juno and the Paycock, about the Boyle family in Dublin, was often a little like watching my own family in full flight. The hilarious spats between Juno and her husband – known alternately as Jack, The Captain and The Paycock – are like the [...]
Posted in Art & Culture, Nightlife, Reviews, Theatre on Sep 27th, 2011
Back in 1997 actor Charlotte Jones, tired of sitting by a silent phone and frustrated by the lack of decent roles for women, took matters into her own hands and wrote her first play. The result was Airswimming, a dark yet heart-warming two-hander drama based on an historical snippet that she had once stumbled upon; “A Miss Kitson and [...]
Posted in Feminism, Guest Posters, Nightlife, Personal, Rants, Sex, Society, Theatre, Women, Work on Apr 1st, 2011
Feminism and the art of burlesque have traditionally had a complex relationship. It is empowering? Degrading? Subversive? Creative? Clichéd? Pandering to the male gaze? Subverting that gaze? Here feminist and burlesque fan and performer Ciara O’Connor gives her view. The word “burlesque” has cropped up in polite conversation quite a lot recently. Christina and Cher’s [...]
I have to admit I was sceptical when I heard singer Andrea Corr was to play Jane in The Gate’s dramatisation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre, adapted by Alan Stanford. Jane is the original Plain Jane and Andrea, as we know, is far from plain. However, I’m glad to say that she does a [...]
Last night, I was listening to Arena on RTE Radio and caught an interview with Nic Green, the director and writer of Trilogy which opens tonight as part of Absolut Fringe. Much has been made of the appearance of 50 naked women dancers (all volunteers) in the play, but it’s within the context of looking [...]
Posted in Anti Room Q&A, Film, Television, Theatre on Sep 22nd, 2010
Eileen Walsh is currently playing the lead role in Medea by Siren Productions, at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin (ABSOLUT Fringe, until 25th September). Her theatre work includes Macbeth, Terminus (Abbey Theatre); The Gigli Concert (Druid); Disco Pigs (Corcadorca/Bush/Arts Theatre); Crave (Royal Court), The Drowned World (Traverse Theatre) and Mary Stuart (National Theatre [...]
The word ‘fat’ has numerous connotations – and one group that’s performing at this year’s Absolut Fringe Festival is aiming to explore all things corpulent. FAT is a show brought to us by the members of Talking Shop Ensemble, Oonagh Murphy, Aisling Byrne and Lisa Walsh. The trio came together while studying Drama and Theatre [...]
Posted in Anti Room Q&A, Anti-Heroines, Film, Interviews, Television, Theatre, Women on Sep 8th, 2010
Actress Ruth Negga was born in Ethiopia and grew up between Limerick and London. Having trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre in Trinity College, she got her first major break in 2005, when she was cast in Neil Jordan’s Breakfast On Pluto. Since then, she has maintained a steady career in theatre, film and television [...]
Megan’s post about bygone Hollywood fashion reminded me of an upcoming theatre project called My Life in Dresses. Created by Sorcha Kenny (winner of Dubline Fringe Festival’s 2008 Spirit of the Fringe Award for The Woman Who Left Herself) who is both playwright and vintage zealot, MLID is about clothes and the potential stories they [...]
Rambling around town the other day, I picked up a brochure for a new initiative by The Abbey Theatre. Next month, they’re running a series of six 20 minute plays by women. Ask most people to name an Irish female playwright and if you’re lucky, they’ll say Marina Carr, so this is a brilliant idea [...]
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