Tag: Smock Alley
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Review: Remember to Breathe at Smock Alley (Fringefest 2015)
Orla Murphy’s debut to playwriting brings to the stage a delicate yet emotive storytelling experience in which emigrant Maeve makes her final attempt to reconcile the tensions of her past and her complicated relationship with her father. A modernist piece, Murphy’s writing focuses on the little and the everyday things that bear a heavier significance…
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Review: Men Like Us at Smock Alley Theatre
The New Year brings a flurry of resolutions and optimism. It may seem counterintuitive then to begin my 2015 resolution to ‘write more reviews’ with a review of Beckett. The writer, known for his dark, depressive albeit humorous writing littered with bleak modernism and unrelenting helpings of ‘the world is shit along with everyone in it’, could…
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Review: Death Row Cowboy at Smock Alley
First time playwrights Andrew Lynch and Mark McCabe have just finished their run at Smock Alley with Death Row Cowboy, a dark tale of a young man stuck in a very difficult position. A lively, absorbing piece of work, the characters are brought to life by a line up including Clara Harte who makes a great…
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