The Arts Review​

Andy Crook and Sean Doyle in Late Night Station. Image, Liadh Connolly ** Even the best have less than stellar days. Like the revived Corp Ensemble’s current production of Andy Crook’s Late Night Station. In which Kafka meets Beckett as two security guards wait for something to happen in an unnamed security room guarding an unknown place full of unknown people or things. Structured loosely around Waiting for Godot, two men talk to put in the time, weirder people arrive to br

Image uncredited Dance is often defined in terms of choreography. Speaking of form, shape, movement, even of body, discussion frequently refers to specific choreographers. Devised and collaborative works often described as collaborations with a choreographer. So you could reasonably assume we understand what a choreographer is and does. Balanchine, Graham, Cunningham, Bausch. Roche, Scott, Jessica and Megan Kennedy, Connaughton. Yet what about the dance theatre director? TikT

Jonathan White and Helen Norton in The Magic Glasses. Image, Al Craig *** There's a fad for reimagining theatrical museum pieces as contemporary plays. Works very much of their time framed in modern terms to supposedly speak to today. Thankfully director Conall Morrison resists the temptation, presenting George Fitzmaurice’s 1913 comedy The Magic Glasses exactly as intended. The production awash in period charm. Yet language makes for hard going, being embedded in old world d