The Arts Review​

Ciara Molloy, Ghaliah Conroy, Pattie Maguire, Libby Conway Dunne, Eimear Hussey in The Good Luck Club. Photo: Patricio Cassinoni ***** Memory’s a living thing. We live memories, live in our memories, relive our memories. Our world, bodies and culture all psychosomatically shaped by the contractions and convulsions of memory. Memory denied, embraced, erased, suppressed, repressed, refashioned, romanticised. Otherwise known as history. A habit whose outcomes are often unquestio

Sean Fox and Lauren Larkin in The Kerrman. Image, Al Craig ***** Cait's a river dancing, loudmouth, performance artist from Dublin forever espousing liberal notions. Eoin’s a quiet, awkward, self-conscious Kerry bogger whose nine to five job involves insuring insurance. Cait's just back from a five year stint in Berlin living as an artist, this is Eoin’s first time living in Dublin as an adjuster. Cait lives at home with her Mum and has seven euro in her bank account, Eoin li

Jolyon Loy, Carolyn Holt in Don Giovanni. Image, Frances Marshall. **** The problem staging Mozart’s two act opera Don Giovanni (1787) is that Don Giovanni is a problem. An irredeemable lecher, an unrepentant rapist, an unapologetic murderer, even when punished with eternal damnation the manosphere’s poster boy remains defiant. The problem compounded by librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte ensuring every other character also poses problems. An unfaithful bride, a vengeful daughter, tw