Julius Caesar once said, “no one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected”, and indeed I found this to be true of Smock Alley Theatre’s production of A Surprise. The writer, Patrick O’Sullivan, manages to compact …
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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 …