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Confidence and sure-footedness: Irish Contemporary Dance in 2011

by Michael Seaver on 30 January 2012

Much of what happened in dance during 2011 gave hope for the future. But some of what happened gave fear for the past. Emerging choreographers came of age, organisations celebrated anniversaries and new developments countered the bleakness caused by growing unemployment, emigration and general social...

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I try to get under the skin

by Fintan Walsh on 12 December 2011

Fintan Walsh interviews Nancy Harris, whose play No Romance premiered at the Peacock earlier this year and discusses her adaptation of Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata and her new play Our New Girl, both of which open in London in January. Fintan Walsh: Most readers of Irish Theatre Magazine will...

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NO MORE DRAMA - Rimini Protokoll: A Live Archive of the Everyday

by Christiane Kühl on 20 October 2011

In Germany, in 2002, the hitherto largely unknown group, Rimini Protokoll, gained instant national attention with a project that almost did not take place at all. Two men who played a significant role in this were Matthias Lilienthal — who would become director of the Berlin theatre, Hebbel am...

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Geography and community: Louise Lowe's four-part artistic vision

by Jesse Weaver on 21 September 2011

I’m standing inside at the glassed-in apex of one The LAB’s ground floor galleries, per the instructions of director Louise Lowe. Actor Dee Burke charges towards the glass and knocks on it. Hard. A group of neighborhood kids passing by joins in. She motions for me to come outside and I choose...

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Pan Pan : A theatre of ideas

by Fintan Walsh on 20 August 2011

Fintan Walsh: Gavin, could you tell us about your latest project, the general concept behind it, and the rehearsal process? Gavin Quinn: We’ve done a new recording of Beckett’s All That Fall, and we recorded it over two weeks, whereas a radio play is normally done over three days. Then...

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New playwriting: innovative programmes and vital initiatives

by Jesse Weaver on 04 August 2011

‘Absolute delight!’ This was Hanna Slattne’s reaction when she learned that playwrights David Ireland and Jimmy McAleavey, whose work was produced by Tinderbox Theatre Company in Belfast, had won two of the three awards presented by the Stewart Parker Trust in March of this year. The...

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Classic Stage Ireland's modus operandi

by Sara Keating on 17 June 2011

Watching Andy Hinds at work in the rehearsal room, it is clear he is an experienced teacher of classical drama. He stops the actors several times to question them about how the pace of a delivered verse can elucidate the meaning for the audience; to make them repeat and enunciate until the message of...

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Trading roots and rebuilding a reputation

by Peter Crawley on 26 May 2011

Earlier this week, an American left Washington for Ireland in order to trace his roots back to a small village in Offaly. (You may have heard something about it). At roughly the same time, a Kildare-based Irish theatre company found itself in Washington mining the cultural history of a historical Irish...

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Dance criticism in the online zone

by Michael Seaver on 24 May 2011

“Snark”, according to US film critic David Denby, is abuse of a particular kind: personal, low, teasing, rug-pulling, finger-pointing, snide, obvious and knowing. In his book, Snark, he writes that it has infected journalism and common discourse, largely through Web 2.0. Now everybody is...

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A new direction for Corcadorca?

by Rachel Andrews on 27 April 2011

The newly-refurbished Triskel Arts Centre in Cork city officially opened its doors last week. The venue, which now comprises Triskel’s original centre and, adjoining it, a restored twelfth-century church with the new name of Triskel Christchurch, will function as a multi-disciplinary hub, incorporating...

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