The Arts Review​

Les Ballets Trocadero De Monte Carlo. Image, José Luis Marrero Medina. **** There’s a festive feel as large crowds converge on Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. Ready to enjoy a double celebration. The opening night of one of Ireland’s friendliest and artistically rich festivals, Dublin Dance Festival 2026. Which opens with another opening night, that of the fierce and fabulous Les Ballets Trocadero De Monte Carlo’s 50th Anniversary, 14 venue tour of Ireland and the UK. Presented by

Hannah Brady and Chloe O’Reilly in Sorry You Felt That Way. Photo, Michael Lowther *** Winner of the Fishamble New Writing Award 2024, Harry Butler's Sorry You Felt That Way is a polemic of genius undone by naive gender bias. A play doing the exact opposite of what it thinks it’s doing. Butler's study of Dubliner Adam, and his slightly younger Cork girlfriend Emma, more likely to confirm gender prejudice than challenge it. Emma, a student with dead Daddy issues, loves caring

Laura Brady and Jessica Dunne Perkins in Adelphi '63. Image, Jilly McGrath ***** When it comes to generational tales, one person's nostalgia is another person’s history. History marinated in lashings of nostalgia flavouring Laura Brady's heartfelt Adelphi ’63. A tale of two cousins and the only ever Irish gig the Beatles played at the Adelphi Cinema in Abbey Street in 1963. Adelphi ’63 serving up a love letter to friendship and the Fab Four, as well as to a Dublin of a rare,