The Arts Review​

Teddy Moore and Peter McGann in The Whiteheaded Boy. Image: Patricio Cassinoni. *** Sometimes it’s better to let the dead rest in peace. Like Lennox Robinson's The Whitehead Boy. Director Annie Ryan taking Robinson's historical text and decorating it in the trappings of a nostalgic 70s sitcom. In which the class conscious Geoghegan family’s notions of middle class upperosity are focused around Mummy’s favourite boy child. A perpetual medical student siphoning off the family f

Ciara Molloy, Ghaliah Conroy, Pattie Maguire, Libby Conway Dunne, Eimear Hussey in The Good Luck Club. Photo: Patricio Cassinoni ***** Memory’s a living thing. We live memories, live in our memories, relive our memories. Our world, bodies and culture all psychosomatically shaped by the contractions and convulsions of memory. Memory denied, embraced, erased, suppressed, repressed, refashioned, romanticised. Otherwise known as history. A habit whose outcomes are often unquestio

Sean Fox and Lauren Larkin in The Kerrman. Image, Al Craig ***** Cait's a river dancing, loudmouth, performance artist from Dublin forever espousing liberal notions. Eoin’s a quiet, awkward, self-conscious Kerry bogger whose nine to five job involves insuring insurance. Cait's just back from a five year stint in Berlin living as an artist, this is Eoin’s first time living in Dublin as an adjuster. Cait lives at home with her Mum and has seven euro in her bank account, Eoin li