The Arts Review​

Dressing Room: Image, Emilija Jefremova ** In Locations: The Landscapes of Fiction, literary critic Elizabeth Hardwick reveals how locations enrich our engagement with stories. The House of Usher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Wuthering Heights. Room. Places that become more than place names, often speaking to moral, social or cultural virtue signalling. In their evolving Rooms series, writer and director Enda Walsh and designer Paul Fahy aspire to sensoramic, immersive engagement with

Síofra Ní Éilí, Ciara Cox and Evanne Kilgallon in Saoirse. Image,Emilija Jefremova **** What to do when you’re the smartest person in the room? Find the room with smarter people. People whose skill, talent and experience you can learn from. With the delightful Shauna Carrick Wants A Dog, Shauna Carrick proved herself one of the smartest people in the Irish musical theatre room. With Saoirse, Carrick seeks out the smarter room. The insanely talented Juliette Crosbie, along wit

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