The Arts Review​

Mercurial by Rosaleen Cox. Image Julia Salkin **** It could be a sexual role-play. It could be a Tinder date. It could be a Tinder sexual role-play date. Whatever it is, this one-night stand looks like it’s been stood up. Two anxious people arguing about sex whilst not actually having any. Meanwhile, an apocalyptic din regularly crashes from outside the bedroom. In Rosaleen Cox's sexually charged Mercurial, the charge might be weak, but a flurry of comic complications proves

Kafka's Doll by Theatre Lovett. Image Alisa Iakimanskaia **** They say never let truth get in the way of a good story. The same might be said of theatre. The story in question claiming that in 1924, seeing a young girl crying in a park having lost her doll, Franz Kafka wrote her a series of letters purportedly from the missing doll. Letters recounting adventures from the doll who had decided to travel the world. Kafka, approaching death, presented the young girl with a new do

A Recurrence by Sophie O’Toole and Trudy Nolan. Image ucredited ***** In A Recurrence, D'Girlos Theatre Company returns to the Dublin Fringe Festival with a gripping new three-hander following three working-class Dublin women across a 1930s tenement, a 1990s flat, and a modern council house. Co-written by D’Girlos co-founders Trudy Nolan and Sophie O'Toole, this rich and tender play traces their lives through the sudden realisation and struggle of unplanned pregnancy to an ul