Reviews

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, who is gay is “Dad” to Tadgh a young school going kid. Stephen is a single parent. Tadgh is obsessed by numbers and musicals. He is what is called neurodiverse. […]

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 Club.  ‘In Vitro’ is a new Irish play by Aoife O’Connor dealing with a young lesbian couple considering starting a family via sperm donor. The information on the status of

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 and biting commentary on what ‘informs’ the toxic online transphobic campaigns and gives an insight into the people caught up in them. It makes for uncomfortable listening, but transphobia is more than

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 and performer Brent Thorpe (one of the aforementioned Fucking Queens) returns with his brand-new show ‘Daddy’, directed by former State Theatre Company of South Australia artistic director Adam Cook. The

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 us behind the scenes of the West End Sauna in Manchester. Covid forced many a starving actor to seek new employment and ‘Danny boy’ rapidly rises up the managerial chain in the run-down sauna

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 cheekiness! Under the stewardship of our handsome guide for the one-hour romp, is a scantily clad, muscle mad ‘Daddy’ (Brent Thorpe) whose eloquence defies the explicit subject matter. In fact,

‘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

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

“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 and death? Yes, and the main reason is Laura Lavelle.  Burlesque comedian Lavelle goes solo from her regular ‘Wild Geeze’ work in a one woman stand up theatrical piece. She

“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

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.

Written and performed by Joanne Powers Review by Kerric Harvey From a shocking opening that grabs both your attention and your nervous system from the moment the stage lights come up, “Miss Delta Township” locks on and never lets go, kicking off in the 1960’s and then moving at warp speed through several decades of

Written and performed by Les Kurdendall Review by Kerric Harvey It’s not easy, being Queen. It’s especially not easy if you’re a gay, Black, male born into slavery in the 19th century American South. And if you like to give parties for everyone you can find who might be, well, more than a little bit

Take Desire Away, Venue: Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street Dublin 2. Time: 7.30pm and Saturday matinee up to May 7th. AE Housman’s ‘The Shropshire Lad’ emotes in ‘Is My Team Ploughing?’ (a poem set to music by George Butterworth and Vaughan Williams), “Is my friend hearty, Now I am thin and pine, And has he

Written by Brian Merriman Starring Colin Malone and Jeremie Cyr-Cooke Review by Kerric Harvey   Veteran playwright Brian Merriman has done it again.   His new one act, “Straight Acting,” is thoughtful, engaging, articulate, funny, and exquisitely well-crafted in the tradition of “situational comic drama,” which brings to mind “comedies of manners” like “The Importance

‘Half of Nothing’ and ‘Porn’, at Pennylane Bar, free play reading May 1st. Ella Skolimowski is a Playwright worth watching. She likes to turn things on their head which makes us re-examine our norms and notions of ‘logic’. We were told in the introduction that she won the ‘Amy Dalton Bursary ‘ organised by the

“A Powerful Tribute To Queer Women’s Courage”: Obligatory Scene At International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival Carolyn Gage’s Obligatory Scene takes a hard look at the possibilities for women’s sexuality in today’s rape culture, and the result is not to be missed. Obligatory Scene opens with the construction of a bedroom – that is to say

FESTIVAL REVIEW: Little Pink Book of Masculinity/Measure of A Man, Ireland Institute A picnic of masculinity stories from the UK and Australia are a perfect matching treat in this double bill of story-telling. John Best kicks off the night with a high camp insight into being oneself. It’s warm, funny, gentle and liberating.The smooth narrative

FESTIVAL REVIEW: Bingo Bingo performed and written by Alan Flanagan introduces us to a character called Cormac who gets his test results one day to discover he has indeed got a ‘full house’. Its an emotional tale of sexual flashbacks, family fun and tragedy, a myriad of casual friendships that big cities produce, and an

FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Like Orpheus”, Teachers Club This Canadian visual treat from the pen of Brett Dahl, under the direction of Jay Whitehead is an all embracing multi-genre theatrical conversation witnessed by the audience. The highly visual presentation is quite a triumph for fringe theatre as the senses are teased, lulled and shocked by light, sound