The Arts Review​

Neill Fleming in Stuart Roche's Shard. Image, uncredited ***** Perhaps he's homeless, this barefoot man in threadbare clothes stalking the round. Perhaps he belongs to a cult. Ferocious intensity, excessive nervousness and outbursts of Renfield cackles give weight to the possibility of mental health issues. The air around him vibrating with violence, like a war veteran with PTSD. Skin covered in dirt, Elizabeth Boykewich’s costume of worn waistcoat, camouflage trousers and Ke

Patrick O'Kane and Anna Healy in Denouement. Image, Ciaran Bagnall **** If Millennials aren’t aging well, in John Morton’s dystopian Denouement , Gen Alpha doesn't get to age at all. Doomed to die in the not so distant future as the world is destroyed during their watch. Married Millennial's Liam and Edel wiling away their final hours in the societal wilderness that is The Sticks. Liam typing a hard copy of his memoirs which no one will likely read, Edel attempting to contac

Deidamia. Image, Pádraig Grant **** When it comes to spectacle, conductor and director George Petrou knows a thing or two. Petrou’s revival of Handel ’s oft forgotten opera seria, Deidamia , announcing itself with the visual excitement of a theme park simulator ride. Dark billowing clouds, bodies arising from the dead, all gob smackingly gorgeous to behold. Petrou’s production a Grecian theme park in which myth marries modern. Homer colliding with Shirley Valentine’s tourists