The Arts Review​

Ian Toner, Megan McDonnell, David Rawle, Ronan Leahy and Una Kavanagh in The Delirium Archive. Image, Ros Kavanagh ** No one is infallible. Not even the excellent Rough Magic Theatre Company. Whose latest offering by award winning playwright Shane Mac an Bhaird, proves even the best can go awry. The Delirium Project a dystopian tale revolving around environmental breakdown, prolonged lockdown and tech companies harvesting memories making for extremely hard going. So hard my d

Mr. Bergmann of Deadman's Point written and performed by Ronan Dempsey. Image uncredited **** It evokes a semi-lit spa. Stretched on a long table a body lies covered in a white sheet. New Age chill floats on the airwaves. But something’s off. Perhaps it’s the science paraphernalia and rubber gloves. Or the man in the white Kabuki mask sat silently at a second table. Wearing a dark, leather jacket, meticulously, meditatively, he tears strips of paper beneath the glow of a stai

Ryan Donaldson in Do You Come From Gomorrah? Image: Ros Kavanagh. **** The Peacock has a proud history as a development space for a new works by new writers. Something many would like to see reinstated on a year round basis. So why is a new play by one of Ireland’s pre-eminent playwrights, Frank McGuinness, premiering there and not in the Big House next door? Well, The Peacock is traditionally a space to experiment, and Do You Come From Gomorrah? finds McGuinness experimenti