smock alley theatre

Arts & Culture
24 SEP

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 …

Arts & Culture
15 SEP

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 …