The Arts Review​

Kym Marsh and Lisa Faulkner in Single White Female. Image, uncredited **** A current trend in commercial theatre is the reimagined thriller. Screen to stage adaptations of much loved murder mysteries designed to excite and capitalise on an already successful story, often featuring a celebrity or two. Most are moderately enjoyable. The best, though, offer a cracking night’s entertainment. Like Single White Female. Rebecca Reid's mostly tight adaptation taking the psychologica

Trojans by Philip Connaughton, presented by Luail - Ireland's National Dance Company. Image, Luca Truffarelli **** One of the art’s immeasurable joys is discovering alternate readings of texts. Reading gender, feminism, Marxism, politics, post-colonialism, post-modernism whether consciously or unconsciously present. Discovering that in the Victorian audience for Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, heterosexuals were laughing at one thing whilst homosexuals were la

Ciaran Owens and Miscah Barton in Double Indemnity. Image, Manuel Harlan *** When it first hit the screens in 1944 James M. Cain’s classic thriller Double Indemnity appeared to break with cinema noir rules. But look closely and it just repositioned things. The genre’s hard edged, world weary, anti-hero detectives are now insurance investigators. Everything else remains intact. A sultry femme fatale, a self assured secretary, a good girl daughter, a self-made millionaire, a b