-
5 days ago | 
irishtimes.com | Jane Coyle
Waiting for GodotOh My Godot! festival, Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh★★★★☆Never bet on the Irish weather. A week ago a site-specific performed reading of Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot was presented on a bleak plateau in the Fermanagh-Cavan borderlands. It powerfully captured the writer’s stark opening stage directions: “A country road. A tree.
-
1 week ago | 
irishtimes.com | Jane Coyle
Save-the-date cards have become quite the vogue in recent years. But few give quite as much notice of an event as the announcement of two productions of Krapp’s Last Tape that won’t be staged for more than a decade. On April 13th, Samuel Beckett’s birthday – he was born in 1906 – an (extremely) early-bird booking portal will open to allow far-sighted theatregoers to reserve places at two groundbreaking performances of the writer’s play that are scheduled for the second half of the 2030s.
-
1 month ago | 
thestage.co.uk | Jane Coyle
“Multi-layered cautionary tale”ReviewsLyric Theatre, BelfastTara Wilkes, Jack Watson and Rosie Barry in The Velveteen Rabbit at Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Photo: Carrie DavenportPithy, revisioned storyline and cleverly crafted songs frame a bright and breezy adaptation of a children’s classic Since it was founded in 1988, Replay Theatre Company’s mission has been to create for young audiences a variety of theatre adventures that are exciting, engaging and have something important to say.
-
1 month ago | 
thestage.co.uk | Jane Coyle
As if. Hot on the heels of Mrs Doubtfire, Pretty Woman, The Devil Wears Prada, Heathers, Mean Girls, Groundhog Day and Cruel Intentions, Clueless is the latest in an increasingly long line of much-loved American movies to get the musical makeover.
-
1 month ago | 
irishtimes.com | Jane Coyle
What happens when a Victorian children’s classic is put into the hands of an enigmatic musician and an award-winning author whose work is infused with dark imaginings and magical realism? The result is an updated, slightly subversive musical version of Margery Williams’s The Velveteen Rabbit, the story of a boy, his favourite toy and how love makes us real. It was published in 1922 and is, to this day, a favourite book for bedtime.
-
1 month ago | 
thestage.co.uk | Jane Coyle
“Uncluttered but strangely static”ReviewsGate Theatre, DublinMichael Glenn Murphy, Conleth Hill and Fiona Bell in King Lear at Gate Theatre, Dublin. Photo: Ros KavanaghGlossily presented, with a splendid central performance from Conleth Hill, but in need of a shot of artistic visionSupport The Stage by registering or subscribingTo continue reading this article you must be logged in. Register or login below to unlock 3 free articles every month.
-
Dec 9, 2024 | 
thestage.co.uk | Jane Coyle
“Spectacular ensemble pieces”ReviewsGrand Opera House, BelfastMembers of the cast in The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan at Grand Opera House, BelfastGlossy show with a cheerfully nonsensical narrativeSupport The Stage by registering or subscribingTo continue reading this article you must be logged in. Register or login below to unlock 3 free articles every month. OR Or subscribe today and get unlimited access to thestage.co.uk. Remember Login
-
Dec 5, 2024 | 
thestage.co.uk | Jane Coyle
“Humanity and emotional depth”ReviewsLyric Theatre, BelfastThe cast of A Christmas Carol at Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Photo: Carrie DavenportIntelligent, beautifully presented, version of the much-loved Christmas epiphany from adapter Marie Jones, set in BelfastSupport The Stage by registering or subscribingTo continue reading this article you must be logged in. Register or login below to unlock 3 free articles every month. OR Or subscribe today and get unlimited access to thestage.co.uk.
-
Dec 2, 2024 | 
thestage.co.uk | Jane Coyle
“Edgy and high-octane”ReviewsAbbey Theatre, DublinThe cast of Emma at Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Photo: Ros KavanaghKate Hamill’s Jane Austen adaptation is as pretty as a powder box, but ultimately falters on its own clevernessSupport The Stage by registering or subscribingTo continue reading this article you must be logged in. Register or login below to unlock 3 free articles every month. OR Or subscribe today and get unlimited access to thestage.co.uk. Remember Login
-
Nov 22, 2024 | 
irishtimes.com | Jane Coyle
Suspect DeviceBelfast Castle★★★☆☆“‘Call me Wilma’ says bus man Bill,” the front page of the Sunday World proclaimed in 1977. Wilma Creith, formerly William George Creith, a married electrician with two children, was one of the first trans women in Northern Ireland to undergo gender-reassignment surgery. Her brave decision was, however, in vain. Wilma died a mere three days after surgery, in Leeds in 1980, as the result of a blood clot caused by fatally high levels of oestrogen.
