The Arts Review​

Marcus Amaglo and Adam Silver in Radio Bette. Photo Patricio Cassinoni *** “Fasten your seatbelts it’s going to be a bumpy ride” is one of Bette Davis’s famous lines as the glorious diva Margo Channing in the 1950s movie All About Eve. Dublin Theatre Festival’s big ticket offering Radio Bette produced by New York’s The Goat Exchange, based on the movie, promises the same dangerous unpredictability but unfortunately only partially delivers. This world premiere is a deliberatel

Campbell Courage and Sheik Bah in Cyclone. Image, Patricio Cassinoni. ***** Today, Railway Street and its environs offer a gentrified reimagining of Dublin's north inner city. A place old yet new, unchanged and yet transformed. Traces of buildings and people devastated by heroin in the 1980s sitting next to shiny, hipster-designed feats of architectural engineering. The streets and businesses a heady mix of locals and new immigrant communities. Fainter traces of an erased his

Welcome to Traumatraum. Image Al Craig **** Shouldn't we be allowed speak of physical trauma without having to speak of psychological trauma? Emotional trauma? Global trauma? Historical trauma? Trauma trauma? Post-trauma trauma? Isn't a lot of trauma talk dangerously normalising the overstating of harm as brilliantly diagnosed by Sarah Schulman in Conflict Is Not Abuse? What is trauma anyway? In the multi-disciplinary Welcome To Traumatraum, three interwoven, biographical tal