The Arts Review​

Cal O'Driscoll, Dearbhla Molloy, Fiona Bell and Niall Buggy in Meredith. Image, Ros Kavanagh *** Today, jobs exist, or at least viable income streams, that didn't exist thirty or forty years ago. Relationships have also been transformed, with modern families more likely to be broken and blended than forever and extended. Erica Murray's scrappy Meredith looking to repaint the family drama blame-game in current colours. Yet despite contemporary resonance, we still wind up with

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