Tag Archives: Ipswich

Reviewer: Paul Couch Potty-mouthed puppets are big business at the moment on the theatre circuit. Hand To God, Avenue Q, and, for Irish readers, Podge and Rodge, have been turning theatres’ air blue with a string of politically incorrect and sometimes breathtakingly smutty patter. Now, the uncrowned kings of the genre, Boris and Sergey, are back and off the leash ...

Writers: Eva O'Connor and Hildegard Ryan Director: Jonathon Corr Reviewer: Paul Couch It's a fascinating concept - a play that stops at several points throughout the story so the audience can decide how to proceed; the ultimate in "turn right/turn left" scenarios. In Eva O'Connor and Hildegard Ryan's Nuclear Family, the cast of two (Director Jonathon Corr himself appears as ...

Writer and Performer: Kieran Hurley Directors: Alex Swift and Julia Taudevin Sound/music: Michael John McCarthy Reviewer: Paul Couch What pillar would you lean on if the world as you knew it came to an abrupt end? Reflection? Hedonism? Denial? Faith? In Kieran Hurley’s blistering one-man show, Heads Up, he offers perspectives from four very different, ordinary individuals who face the Apocalypse ...

Writers: Simon Day and Martin Bonger Director: Simon Day Reviewer: Glen Pearce Afghanistan - a complex land full of different tribes, a rich history now scarred by conflict. It is this mix that has a huge impact on Richie, whose childhood experiences in the country still haunt him well into adulthood back in his native America. Based on true stories, ...

Writer, Director and Performer: Shôn Dale-Jones Reviewer: Glen Pearce   There’s always a bit of a grey area in Shôn Dale-Jones shows. Is it Dale-Jones or his alter ego Hugh Hughes performing. Here it’s Dale-Jones himself credited but as he points out in the opening minutes the names of real people are interchangeable. Like much of Dale-Jones/Hughes previous work, The ...

Writer and Performer: Jack Rooke Director: Gabriel Bisset-Smith Reviewer: Paul Couch Grief affects us all in different ways. Of course, many people follow the traditional linear path of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance, but these stages are by no means set in stone. Many, like Jack Rooke, jump straight to the end two. When he was 15 and in ...

  Writers and performers: Jon Spooner and Chris Thorpe Director: Amy Hodge Reviewer: Glen Pearce There’s a thin line between life and death as explained by Chris Thorpe and Jon Spooner in Am I Dead Yet? And there’s also a thin line between engaging theatre and pretension. It's a line the duo come perilously close to crossing in this one-hour ...

Writer and Co-director: Lucy Grace Co-director: Dan Hutton Reviewer: Glen Pearce Even as adults, anyone who read CS Lewis’ Narnia books as a child can’t help but wonder where their own magical kingdom lies. We all now there is a time when we have to stop believing in magical realms but in the stress of everyday life, we can still ...