The Arts Review​

Bláthnaid Daly in Connemarvellous. Image uncredited. *** There's likely three responses to Bláthnaid Daly’s English-Irish hybrid Connemarvellous. For those fluent as Gaeilge it’s a stroll down Ghaeltacht lane. For those with a smidgen of the native tongue, they can brag of how much more Irish they knew than they knew they knew. Daly’s clever sentence structures, frequently replacing key English words with their Irish equivalent, educating and flattering in equal measure. Fo

Kym Marsh and Lisa Faulkner in Single White Female. Image, uncredited **** A current trend in commercial theatre is the reimagined thriller. Screen to stage adaptations of much loved murder mysteries designed to excite and capitalise on an already successful story, often featuring a celebrity or two. Most are moderately enjoyable. The best, though, offer a cracking night’s entertainment. Like Single White Female. Rebecca Reid's mostly tight adaptation taking the psychologica

Trojans by Philip Connaughton, presented by Luail - Ireland's National Dance Company. Image, Luca Truffarelli **** One of the art’s immeasurable joys is discovering alternate readings of texts. Reading gender, feminism, Marxism, politics, post-colonialism, post-modernism whether consciously or unconsciously present. Discovering that in the Victorian audience for Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, heterosexuals were laughing at one thing whilst homosexuals were la