Gender, drama and ‘The Fairer Sex’
Rambling around town the other day, I picked up a brochure for a new initiative by The Abbey Theatre. Next month, they’re running a series of six 20 minute plays by women. Ask most people to name an...
View ArticleSorcha Kenny’s My Life in Dresses
Megan’s post about bygone Hollywood fashion reminded me of an upcoming theatre project called My Life in Dresses. Created by Sorcha Kenny (winner of Dubline Fringe Festival’s 2008 Spirit of the Fringe...
View ArticleThe Anti-Room Questionnaire #7: Ruth Negga
Actress Ruth Negga was born in Ethiopia and grew up between Limerick and London. Having trained at the Samuel Beckett Centre in Trinity College, she got her first major break in 2005, when she was...
View ArticleFAT at the Fringe
The word ‘fat’ has numerous connotations – and one group that’s performing at this year’s Absolut Fringe Festival is aiming to explore all things corpulent. FAT is a show brought to us by the members...
View ArticleThe Anti-Room Questionnaire #9: Eileen Walsh
Eileen Walsh is currently playing the lead role in Medea by Siren Productions, at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin (ABSOLUT Fringe, until 25th September). Her theatre work includes...
View ArticleNic Green, Trilogy and makeyourownherstory.org
Last night, I was listening to Arena on RTE Radio and caught an interview with Nic Green, the director and writer of Trilogy which opens tonight as part of Absolut Fringe. Much has been made of the...
View ArticleJane Eyre at The Gate – a review
I have to admit I was sceptical when I heard singer Andrea Corr was to play Jane in The Gate’s dramatisation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre, adapted by Alan Stanford. Jane is the original Plain...
View ArticleGuest Post: “The beauty of burlesque is that it can be anything and everything…”
Feminism and the art of burlesque have traditionally had a complex relationship. It is empowering? Degrading? Subversive? Creative? Clichéd? Pandering to the male gaze? Subverting that gaze? Here...
View ArticleAirswimming
Back in 1997 actor Charlotte Jones, tired of sitting by a silent phone and frustrated by the lack of decent roles for women, took matters into her own hands and wrote her first play. The result was...
View ArticleJuno and the Paycock at the Abbey
Juno and the Paycock – poster image Watching Seán O’Casey’s play Juno and the Paycock, about the Boyle family in Dublin, was often a little like watching my own family in full flight. The hilarious...
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