Yeats wondered, in the wake of the 1916 Rising, whether Dublin’s carnage had been in vain and concluded – with characteristic myopia – that it probably had been. Despite it all, it seemed to him, old England could ‘keep faith’ …
Dublin Fringe Festival
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 …
Birthright review: Dublin Fringe Festival’s most local masterpiece
Nadine Flynn’s play explores working-class tragedies exacerbated by the institutions around them, writes Henry Petrillo
Lir graduate Nadine Flynn’s Birthright began with the hushed sounds of a compact audience creaking on the wooden benches of Smock Alley Theatre, the small space and lowered stage facilitating an immediate sense of intimacy between the audience and the …
