The Arts Review​

Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty and Kate Gilmore in The Plough and the Stars. Image: Ros Kavanagh. *** In response to inquiries as to why I didn’t review The Abbey’s centenary opening of Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars , it’s a fascinating story, for another day perhaps. Today there’s more immediate matters. Including a powerful sense of déjà vu. Of another revival we have to ask did we really need given so many in recent years? The Abbey opting for another big cast, Irish

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