The Arts Review​

Laura Brady and Jessica Dunne Perkins in Adelphi '63. Image, Jilly McGrath ***** When it comes to generational tales, one person's nostalgia is another person’s history. History marinated in lashings of nostalgia flavouring Laura Brady's heartfelt Adelphi ’63. A tale of two cousins and the only ever Irish gig the Beatles played at the Adelphi Cinema in Abbey Street in 1963. Adelphi ’63 serving up a love letter to friendship and the Fab Four, as well as to a Dublin of a rare,

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