Reviews

FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Gertrude Stein and Companion”, Teachers Club Win Wells has the wit and artistry of two strong iconic women to harvest in her play. Gottaluvit productions from South Africa with their well cast and directed production ensure a bountiful harvest. Set in Paris and remarkably not dealing with how these two Jewish lesbian artists […]

IDGTF Review: ‘Monastic’ and ‘Like Orpheus’ at the Teachers’ Club I found myself at the Teachers’ Club again last night. This time to watch some theatre from the week two programme of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. For my viewing pleasure I saw ‘Monastic’ from Ireland in my old stomping ground of the basement

FESTIVAL REVIEW: All I See Is You, Players Theatre, Trinity College It is a darker time. 1967. Britain is struggling with the issue of decriminalizing homosexuality but is dragging its feet. In the meantime, police harassment and gay cures thrive. The law is brutal, the Courts are brutal, the workplace and families follow suit. In

‘Velvet Reinterprets The #MeToo Movement Through A Fragmented Black Mirror-esque Lens’: Velvet At Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival Set against the backdrop of the 2017 #MeToo movement, VELVET explores the complex realities of harassment within the industry and how far a person is willing to go to achieve their dreams. Velvet is a one-man play

FESTIVAL REVIEW: SCHLONG SONG Players Theatre Trinity College Woody Schticks is a sex comedian. His high energyaction packed show packs a punch form the start. Woody has trained as a ballet dancer, is a stripper and knows how to tell a story from a yarn to a political point. This is not an inhibited show

There’s an old saying that goes: “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” It fails to specify, however, what the road OUT of Hell might be made of. Ty Autry might have a few ideas about that. As we see in “A Southern Fairy Tale,” Ty has been to Hell and back at

The Number (runs with A Southern Fairytale) Teachers Club until Saturday 11th. It’s nine p.m. in the Teachers Club studio theatre. A man walks out onto the stage, a man in casual pants and a flannel shirt, an ordinary man, someone you’d see walking down the street or waiting for a bus or trying to

Party Boy – Gay Theatre Festival – Review Patrick, a young gay Irish man, is the star of Brian Merriman’s play “Party Boy”. Presented in the small, intimate space of the Players Theatre in Trinity College, the play takes the audience on a riveting journey through Patrick’s young life: and it’s all based on a

A Southern Fairytale/The Number, Teachers Club Studio until Saturday May 11th. There is a synergy between these two plays. One (The Number) is set in Limerick in the 1990s and the other in rural Georgia two decades later. Similar issues, different journeys and better outcomes. Simon Murphy has a nice, evocative text about an emerging

‘A Sensitive And Timely Play’: The Baby Monitor At International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival ‘The Baby Monitor’ asks courageous questions about gay parenting, race and discrimination from loved ones – and it offers no easy answers. “Stallings’ writing combines with Jones’ performance to ensure we cannot empathise with one without understanding the other”. The Baby

In the absence of any mainstream media reviews of our innovative work – we continue our tradition of inviting independent theatrically qualified reviewers to appraise the plays in the Festival.We will not be erased or silenced. “I See You, Tom Kennedy” The Teachers Club,36 Parnell Square, nightly at 7.30pm “Endings are always hard, especially when

“I Remain A Rebel, Unconverted And Unconvertible”: Revolting Women At International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival Running every night at 9pm until Saturday, 11 May as part of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, Revolting Women is an honest look at Ireland’s rebel heroines. In the wake of what have been massive strides taken for Irish women,

‘True Integrity In The Exploration Of Love And Loss’: Borderline A**hole At International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival Julie Gieseke has brought her solo show Borderline A**hole to the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival from the “lesbian capital of the world”. After years of chasing unavailable women, Julie found her ideal girlfriend. She’s really into Julie. Miracle:

Love Trumps Everything *** How We Glow ***** (Review published in theoutmost.com.  Check out more Festival reviews at theoutmost.com here) The appearance of Trump in the title Love Trumps Everything, has nothing to do with the orange man in the Whitehouse. Instead, it’s the thread that loosely binds three short plays where love overcomes life’s unavoidable obstacles.

Review – Spool The Teachers’ Club 9pm until Sat May 13 (matinee: Sat 13 @ 4pm) Written and Directed by Otto Farrant & Finn Cooke Spool is an introspective analysis about what it’s like to be a young man.  Honest, candid and raw, it shows the inner-monologue that haunts every young man and the extreme

Review – Lines in the Sand By Jim Dalglish Directed by Jim Dalglish & Ian Ryan  The Pearse Centre 7:30pm until Sat May 13; €10 matinee @ 4pm Sat May 13 Without wanting to give anything away, Lines in the Sand achieves something unique.  The audience is left to wonder where the hell we are

Review reproduced from theoutmost.com.  See here for the original review, published 9 May 2017 Gypsy Queen ***** Now, I don’t know much about boxing but I do remember former Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury got into hot water last year over his comments on gay people, causing a flurry of news headlines on whether he was

Review reproduced from theoutmost.com.  See here for the original review, published 9 May 2017 The Elephant Girls Review Here’s a show that packs a punch with a diamond-clad fist! Masterfully written and performed by Margo MacDonald, The Elephant Girls recounts the escapades of a real-life, all-women gang, who roamed the London streets in the 1920s. We enter

FESTIVAL REVIEW: The Elephant Girls runs at Outhouse until Saturday at 9pm Saturday matinee at 2.30pm. Canadian Margo Mac Donald dons a mafia style pin strip suit to tells us the fascinating story of the East End of London’s notorious lesbian gang, which terrorised, lusted, controlled and rampaged through London for almost a century. Maggie Hale