The Arts Review​

Niamh McAllister in The Last Moth. Image, Ste Murray **** From its Children's Council to children co-curating its programs, children have always enjoyed equal involvement in fashioning policies and processes at The Ark. So it should come as no surprise that The Ark is now commissioning young artists to co-create new works alongside experienced artists. A meeting of innocence and experience in which young artists learn the language of design, dance, movement, text and music in

Morgan C Jones in The Quiet Men. Image uncredited. *** There are those who maintain you should never put pineapple on pizza. One suspects Morgan C Jones would disagree. His charming The Quiet Men clearly in favour of combining disparate flavours. Jones’s loving homage to his famous granduncles, brothers Barry Fitzgerald and Arthur Shields, at once a nostalgic trip down memory lane and real world, revisionist history. Exaggerated, offstage, American pie accents, set alongsid

Siofrá Ní Eilí in Muicín. Image, Jilly McGrath When it comes to art, everyone has a different experience. Especially when a work is performed in one language whilst being read in another. Like Ultan Pringle’s Muicín . Pringle’s reimagining of his 2023 play Piglet in an Irish language translation by HK Ní Shioradáin . Performed in Irish with subtitles you read off your phone, courtesy of a scan code at entry. A painfully bad idea whose practice ensures you either read your pho