Arts & Culture, Life

The Sound of the Dublin Underground

Emma Lueders chats with Lara Fitzsimons about her emergence onto Dublin’s music scene

Selling out a headliner show only 24 hours after her debut single dropped, emerging artist Lara Fitzsimons is making a splash onto the Dublin music scene. A current BIMM Music Institute Dublin student, Fitzsimons took to the stage with her

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Television

Libby Marchant reviews SexyTadgh’s production Television as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival 2024

The very first thing that I notice as I settle myself in a darkened room of Project Arts Centre is that there is a very new baby sleeping in their mother’s arms right in front of me. Classical music is

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Fermented Dreams

Charlie Hastings reviews Fermented Dreams as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2024

Jess Kav’s Fringe production of Fermented Dreams, while being forced to do it through a lacklustre title, exhibits itself primarily through the meta. Kav’s character reconciles with a life of stardom just out of reach with revealing anecdotes, dramatic performance

Arts & Culture

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