May 7, 2024

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 this is the standard produced by these bursaries, then it was money well spent. Writer/Director Ezra Maloney creates a clever and engaging mechanism to tackle a controversial subject about women […]

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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 Tennessee Williams. The Kafkaesque tale showcases Williams’s awareness of the potency of the sexual Other as the symbol of political resistance in a world verging on totalitarianism. Fred Abrahamse and

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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 subject of “Christian” beliefs that condemn human love. Here Patton uses the contrast of the local LGBT centre where everyone is welcome and the Christian Support Group who will “help you find

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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 Flavia D’Avila Outhouse, until Saturday May 11th Time: 9.00pm Duration: 60 minutes The Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh not only has enviable facilities but during the Fringe, it programmes diverse storytelling theatre.

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