IN CONVERSATION WITH: Shaboom!
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REVIEW: Vuela
Reading Time: 2 minutesVuela, which means fly in Spanish, marks the 25th anniversary of the Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras, named for founder and lead performer Sara Baras.
REVIEW: Marriage Material
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn adaptation of the novel by Sathnam Sanghera of the same name, Marriage Material explores the complexities of moving to Britain for a better life, only to find that life may not want you in it.
REVIEW: Derry Boys
Reading Time: 2 minutesThough the title invites comparisons to Derry Girls, this is no light-hearted sibling. Instead, McCarthy’s debut full-length play delivers a bruising, tightly wound exploration of fractured ideals, friendship, and the long, uneasy legacy of Northern Ireland’s past.
REVIEW: Taming of the “Shrew”
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Taming of the Shrew is a widely polarising play, with Shakespeare’s original text often criticised for its overt misogyny.
REVIEW: Chop Chop
Reading Time: 2 minutesChop Chop, created, performed and written by Andrea Holland, uses the cooking materials as an accurate representation of who these two characters are: silly stereotypes of both the British and Spanish cultures.
REVIEW: House of Life
Reading Time: 2 minutesHitting the Soho Theatre with the confidence of a street preacher and the colour scheme of a drag queen, House of Life gets the clergy on their feet with their joyful brand of uplifting entertainment.
REVIEW: Love to Love
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Love to Love’, written by Flo Petrie and directed by Oli Bates, having just finished its run at the Golden Goose Theater, is a deep and vulnerable examination of love and relationships.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Jason Moore
Reading Time: 3 minutesOnBook Theatre presents “Red Peppers” by Noel Coward and “Aged in Wood” by Cian Griffin.
Set in a theatre dressing room in 1935, “Red Peppers” is one of Noel Coward’s most celebrated comic one act plays.
The play depicts a second-rate music hall double act, a husband and wife team, who perform two musical numbers, in between which they bicker in their dressing room and quarrel with colleagues.
IN CONVERSATION WITH:Toby Gordon
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe sat down with Toby who directs a new production of Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare in the Squares, opening 4th June at Leinster Square.