The Arts Review​

Pretty Vacant written by Tom Swift, music by Daragh Dukes. Image Eoin Norton **** In the part of the city known as the Liberties, just off High Street, tucked behind a limestone entrance is a rather unassuming, easily passable building. It does not dominate the area, but reassuringly blends into its fabric, existing quite happily as Tailors' Hall — the oldest surviving guild hall in Dublin. A landmark of revolution, and now home to The Performance Corporation’s current produc

The Far Away Sun by KT Honan. Image Eivind Hansen *** A man crawls from twisted car wreckage in Deirdre Dwyer's compositionally unbalanced set. Slowly, he proceeds to undress down to his underwear. Meanwhile John Gunning's throbbing, orange lights echo the heartbeat from Carl Kennedy's haunting soundscape, reinforcing the connection between man and machine. You might think J.G. Ballard's Crash by way of Cronenberg's movie version. But KT Honan's exotic spectacle The Far Away

Amilia Keating in Ross and Rachel. Image uncredited. **** It's said not even a great actor can rescue a weak play. Amilia Keating might beg to differ. In James Fritz's curious character study, Ross and Rachel, a solid idea married to humorous turning points gets bogged down in too much vagueness and too many big asks. Keating's energised performance injecting Fritz's troubled script with bolts of lightning. The unsteady monster stumbling around in the dark; Keating ensuring i