May 29th, 2011
Pygmalion is on the Abbey stage at the moment. Better known to some people as the story of “My Fair Lady”, it is the play upon which the 1964 Oscar-winning movie of the same name was based.
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May 13th, 2011
Since I’ve seen this, Le Café Des Irlandais have sadly announced their closure and thus, the closure of Matchbox Theatre there. Matchbox will continue to seek a new home but this is your last chance to see anything in this space for the time being. I recommend doing it, this weekend is your last chance! [...]
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April 10th, 2011
A mysterious man. A chance encounter. And a shocking secret that leads to the most important choice of her life. This was all I knew about Racoon when I went to see it on Friday evening after work. In the cosy Matchbox Theatre with a small audience, this one woman show made good use of [...]
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April 8th, 2011
Jean and Kevin knew each other way back when. You can tell. You just know that they knew each other at some point – but not any more. It takes a while to figure it out, for them to actually get through the small talk and get to the real reason that they know each [...]
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March 26th, 2011
The Matchbox Theatre is a brand new theatre venue on South Great George’s Street, Dublin 2 underneath what is now known as ‘Le Café Des Irlandais’ and formerly Café Bar Deli. Intrigued as much as ever by the place as well as the event taking place in it, I headed down to the basement of [...]
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March 13th, 2011
You might like to feast your eyes on the crazy new Jacob’s ad/music video being screened on tv tomorrow evening (Monday) for the first time. Jacob’s have snapped up the entire Coronation Street ad break tomorrow evening to show this full-length music video filmed in Capetown earlier this year. When I first saw it, I [...]
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February 9th, 2011
‘CONNECTED’ opened last night in Dublin’s Project Arts Centre. I had heard it was funny and that it had been nominated for Bewley’s Little Gem Award at Absolut Fringe last year…but beyond that I knew very little. Karl Quinn and Will Irvine play two best friends, Daz and Simon, who have grown up together and [...]
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December 7th, 2010
Queer Notions is back with a vengeance starting today, for 5 days with 24 events and 40 artists. Queer Notions involves plays, art, music, lecture, dance, film and politics, celebrating queer ideas and performance from Ireland further afield. There are some wonderful shows coming up for a very short run each so catch them while [...]
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November 27th, 2010
Story Spark is running in The Ark, a cultural centre for children, in Temple Bar, Dublin in from today and through December. It promises a season of tales, literature and imagination for kids and in fact will be made up of readings, workshops and story labs with various well known writers, illustrators and story tellers.
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November 13th, 2010
Since they were unceremoniously knocked out of X Factor recently, the girls band Belle Amie have not rested on their laurels. They all auditioned as single entrants for X Factor but when the judges suggested that they form a group rather than be dropped as individuals, they all jumped at the second chance given to [...]
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November 10th, 2010
When I was asked if I would like to go see ‘Big Ole Piece of Cake’ I immediately said yes. It sounded exactly like something I would enjoy. The blurb on it told me this much about it: Dublin lads Colin and Ray are out of work, out of luck, and nearly out of fags. [...]
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September 20th, 2010
The Cappuccino Culture – this was a fun show. On entering the Boys School in Smock Alley each audience member is handed a tourist map of Dublin with a colour (your team), a number, and a phrase, place or name written on it. The performance began with each performer welcoming the audience in their own [...]
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September 17th, 2010
Heroin. What did I expect to see in a show about heroin addicts? Some skangers banging up, robbing their grannies for a few quid, making a mess of things and coming to a nasty or sad or messy end. Did I get that? No. Heroin was very different to that. It was almost a play [...]
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September 17th, 2010
Shane Byrne left his SLEEPING BAG in the car again… I was unsure about this show before I went in. I knew that Shane had done a very successful show, Group Therapy For One both at last years Fringe and at this years Kilkenny Arts Festival but I had managed to miss it both times. [...]
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September 17th, 2010
MAXIMUM JOY (Can I lick the crumbs from your table?) This was the first of a trio of plays I saw on Wednesday night so forgive me if I can’t quite remember all the details. Though I did try my hand at scribbling in the dark – deciphering your own scribbly, overlapped writing is such [...]
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