Tag Archives: Bewley’s Café Theatre

Writer: Caitríona Daly Director: Maisie Lee Reviewer: Ciarán Leinster Lunchtime theatre has made a welcome return to Bewley’s on Grafton Street with an intense, ambiguous production that allows actors Karen Ardiff (Phil) and Caoimhe O’Malley (Helen) to flourish in their respective roles as mother and girlfriend to an unseen man with autism, Gary. While the play does not quite live ...

Writer: Dermot Bolger Director: Mark O’Brien Reviewer: Saoirse Anton From Wyoming to Whitehall, the well known Dublin character Thomas “Bang Bang” Dudley kept the streets of Dublin safe with his “trusty, rusty key,” for decades. Travelling on the trams and buses of the city, Bang Bang would leap out, point his Colt ’45 key at passers-by and shoot them with ...

Writer: Liz FitzGibbon Director: Aongus Óg McAnally Reviewer: Tricia O’Beirne FitzGibbon has a mean kick boxing technique and a lean way of telling a story. There are many different narratives packed in here between bouts of weaving and ducking, all related to us by a young woman named Naoise. Naoise has just turned thirty and in her relative youth was ...

Writers: Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney Director: Oisín Kearney Reviewer: David Keane Belfast, 1998. The Troubles give way to Talks, which give way to Agreements. Not that it affects Michael too much. He and his friends have other things to worry about, such as who did what with which girl. The conversation never gets too heavy and Michael never really ...

Writer: Tennessee Williams Director: Bairbre Ni Chaoimh Reviewer: Sarah Hoover “I will lie here and listen”: Daniel Monaghan’s line in the second of the Tennessee Williams double-bill is an appropriate instruction to the audience as we peer into the sweltering intimacy of This Property is Condemned and Talk to me like the Rain and Let Me Listen…”. This is the ...

Writer: Cathal Quinn Director: Cathal Quinn Reviewer: Laura Marriott “Poets should never marry. The world should thank me for not marrying you.” William Butler Yeats is a man who in Ireland needs little introduction. Even decades after his death the slightest new titbit or revelation generates a buzz of media interest and his writing is taught to every Irish student. ...

Writer: Katie McCann Director: Jeda De Bri Reviewer: Rachel Rafferty Set in the gothic-horror backdrop of Victorian London, this energetic and fun-filled performance centres on a covert travelling show and a young woman’s broken dreams. Poppy Parker, ‘an ordinary girl’ who is bored with her life and seeking adventure, is intrigued when a mysterious circus comes to town and sets ...

Creator: Liz Peterson Reviewer: Clara Mallon Performance about A Woman comes to the Bewleys Café Theatre as part of this year’s Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival. As a favourite of Toronto’s SummerWorks Festival 2015, there is an air of anticipation attached to this international act. As we enter the quaint theatre, we take our places on cushions scattered throughout the performance ...