2024 Reviews

Week 2

Week Two Reviews – The Copla Cabaret

The Copla Cabaret, Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street at 7.30pm until Saturday May 18th with Saturday matinee at 2.30pm.  The Copla Cabaret is delicious. It is a feast of music, comedy and ...

Week Two Reviews – Double Bill: The Caoining and Was I Not A Girl

Double Bill: ‘The Caoining’ and ‘Was I Not A Girl’, Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street, until Saturday May 18th at 9pm with Saturday matinee at 4pm.  ‘The Caoining’ is a panto like comic romp ...

Week Two Reviews – And They Were Roommates

Continuing a night of theatrical contrast, Yannis Didaskalou’s ‘And They Were Roommates’ is a wonderful fast-moving blend of mythology and contemporary lives in a clever ...

Week Two Reviews – DV8 Double Bill

Double Bill, DV8 Until Saturday at 7.30pm. Saturday matinee 2.30pm   Pebbles On A Beach & To The Bone – A Radio Play A double Bill ...

Week Two Reviews – The Pride

 ‘The Pride’ – actor-turned-playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2008 debut – explores two sets of triangular relationships, ebbing and flowing between 1958 and 2008. It shimmers ...

Week Two Reviews – Remember That Time? – A Musical

‘Remember That Time? – A Musical’ Outhouse 9pm, Saturday matinee 2.30pm Written and composed by Anne Marie Cullen.  ‘Remember That Time?’ is a musical biopic ...

Week Two Reviews – Sketches Invented and Drawn

Sketches Invented and Drawn Teater Dictat, Sweden Outhouse at 7.30pm, Saturday matinee 4pm  Johan Svensson has a lot of parts to play, a lots of countries to visit, lots ...

Week Two Reviews – Darling Boy

Theatre@36, Teachers Club  Time: 7.30pm, Saturday matinee 2.30pm  Duration 60 minutes  Written and performed by Rupert Bevan  Directed by Lucy Rossen.   Rupert Bevan is energy ...

Week Two Reviews – Baklâ

Baklâ Theatre@36, Teachers Club Time 7.30pm, Saturday matinee 4pm Duration: 60 minutes Written and Performed by Max Perry.  Baklâ is quite a story. We meet ‘Max’ ...

Week 1

Week One Reviews – Unguarded

Unguarded, Theatre@36, Teachers Club, runs until Saturday, 7.30pm and matinee Saturday 2.30pm. Unguarded – Written and performed by Anthony Kinahan Review by Frank L Stephen, ...

Week One Reviews – In Vitro and Babies and Bathwater

FESTIVAL REVIEW; ‘In Vitro’ and ‘’Babies and Bathwater, runs until Saturday May 11th at 9pm as a Double Bill (one ticket) in Theatre at 36, Teachers ...

Week One Reviews – GC…AF

GC…AF Teachers Club, Main Hall, 9pm until Saturday May 11th with Saturday matinee at 4pm This latest satire by Garret Baker on transphobia is a brave ...

Week One Reviews – Daddy

Following his success as part of last year’s smash-hit ‘The Importance of Being Ernest as Performed by Three Fucking Queens and a Duck’, Australian writer ...

Week One Reviews – Sauna Boy

DV8 Until Saturday May 11th at 9.00pm.  Matinee saturday only at 4.pm Dan Ireland Reeves storms back into Dublin with his charm and storytelling gifts that bring ...

Week One Reviews – Daddy

Daddy (and his boys) DV8 runs until Saturday at 7.30pm.  Matinee saturday only 2.30pm This high energy Australian romp is full of bare cheeks and bare ...

Week One Reviews – Pre-Ops

‘Pre-Ops’ at The Ireland Institute until Saturday May 11th at 9pm, and 4pm matinee on Saturday.  The Festival brochure states that ‘Pre-Ops’ was awarded an IDGTF Bursary for new irish LGBT writing. If ...

Week One Reviews – The Kinghtly Quest

The Kinghtly Quest, Outhouse, until May 11th. Gore Vidal once wrote that “The Knightly Quest” (1966) was one of the finest stories ever written by ...

Week One Reviews – Oh, Good Grief!

“Oh, Good Grief!” The Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street at 7.30pm. Is there any reason to want to go to see a show about suicide ...

Week One Reviews – Christian Support Group

“Christian Support Group” is the latest offering from Derry playwright Rosalind Patton. There are no cast credits in the brochure. Patton takes on the thorny ...

Week One Reviews -The Rotting Hart

Nomoreworkhorse Review reproduced here, ‘The Rotting Hart’ Produced by Crested Fools in collaboration with Fronteiras Theatre Lab Written and performed by Daniel Orejon Directed by ...