The Arts Review​

Mary Murray, Sabah Qalo, Hannah von Peinen, Holger-Kraft in Refuge. Image, Andreas-Etter **** There's something disturbingly thrilling about Deirdre Kinahan's politically fused tragedy Refuge. A joint production between Ireland's Fishamble: The New Play Company and Germany's Staatstheater Mainz exploring the bloody feud that arose when 18th-century German Protestant settlers, at the behest of English colonisers, were given land in rural Limerick. Known as The Palatines, they

Cal O'Driscoll, Dearbhla Molloy, Fiona Bell and Niall Buggy in Meredith. Image, Ros Kavanagh *** Today, jobs exist, or at least viable income streams, that didn't exist thirty or forty years ago. Relationships have also been transformed, with modern families more likely to be broken and blended than forever and extended. Erica Murray's scrappy Meredith looking to repaint the family blame-game in current colours. Yet despite contemporary resonance, we still wind up with an ol

Marcus Amaglo and Adam Silver in Radio Bette. Photo Patricio Cassinoni *** “Fasten your seatbelts it’s going to be a bumpy ride” is one of Bette Davis’s famous lines as the glorious diva Margo Channing in the 1950s movie All About Eve. Dublin Theatre Festival’s big ticket offering Radio Bette produced by New York’s The Goat Exchange, based on the movie, promises the same dangerous unpredictability but unfortunately only partially delivers. This world premiere is a deliberatel