Yeats wondered, in the wake of the 1916 Rising, whether Dublin’s carnage had been in vain and concluded – with characteristic myopia – that it probably had been. Despite it all, it seemed to him, old England could ‘keep faith’ …
Dublin Fringe Festival
Afloat review: Drowning in denial
Amidst mass strikes against climate change, Lauren Boland reviews Afloat in Smock Alley Theatre
Hildegard Ryan and Eva O’Connor’s Afloat does not pull any punches. Instead, it pulls up a proverbial mirror which forces the audience to confront the most insidious barrier to action against climate change: denial.
Best friends Bláthnaid (Eva O’Connor) and …
Birthright review: Dublin Fringe Festival’s most local masterpiece
Nadine Flynn’s play explores working-class tragedies exacerbated by the institutions around them, writes Henry Petrillo
Lir graduate Nadine Flynn’s Birthright began with the hushed sounds of a compact audience creaking on the wooden benches of Smock Alley Theatre, the small space and lowered stage facilitating an immediate sense of intimacy between the audience and the …
Working on the Fringe
Martin O’Donnell sits down with Oisin McKenna and Colm Summers to discuss their current show Gays Against the Free State, the challenges of bringing a show to Fringe and the difficulties of students and graduates who pursue careers in the theatre.
“It’s important that people employ both revolution and reform and I think, in fact, the tension between those methods is what brings about change.”
Throughout history, people have worked consistently to effect political and social changes in societies throughout the …