Tag Archives: Paul Keogan

Writer: Mike Poulton Director: James Dacre Reviewer: Dawn Smallwood Royal &Derngate Northampton Theatre and Touring Consortium Theatre Company brings Mike Poulton’s 2014 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities to Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre. The historical novel, published in 1859, is set both in London and Paris before, and at the height of the French Revolution. Both cities went ...

Writer: Frank McGuinness Director: Jeremy Herrin Reviewer: Ciara L Murphy Frank McGuinness’s seminal play Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme returns to the Abbey Theatre thirty one years after its 1985 premiere. Written in the middle of the 1980s and in the dark shadow of the 1981 Hunger Strikes, this play has always been imbibed with a ...

Director: Tamara Rojo Music: Franz Liszt, Andy Cowton, Jocelyn Pook Choreographers: Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant, Liam Scarlett Reviewer: Maggie Constable   A much acclaimed and ground-breaking dance event comes to Milton Keynes this week in the form of English National Ballet’s revival of Lest We Forget. This haunting reflection of the horrors of The Great War includes works by three ...

Director: Tamara Rojo Music: Franz Liszt, Andy Cowton, Jocelyn Pook Choreographers: Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant, Liam Scarlett Reviewer: Maggie Constable   A much acclaimed and groundbreaking dance event comes to Milton Keynes this week in the form of English National Ballet’s revival of Lest We Forget. This haunting reflection of the horrors of The Great War includes works by three ...

Writer: Stacey Gregg Director: Hamish Pirie Music: James Fortune Reviewer: Saoirse Anton Stacey Gregg’s Shibboleth is an energetic and sharp look at the lives of people working in Belfast. Set around the construction of an extension to the Peace Wall, this production uses classic character types to explore the post-troubles state of Belfast. Packed full of interesting ideas, Shibboleth holds ...

Writer: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Sam Raimi Adaptor: Simon Dormandy Director: Simon Dormandy and Toby Sedgwick Reviewer: Jo Beggs Translating a Hollywood film script to the stage is hardly unknown – it’s a great way to bring familiarity to your theatrical season – and judging by Kneehigh’s recent Rebecca, it might well bring lots of folks out who don’t ...

Writer: Marie Jones Director: Dan Gordon Reviewer: Kevin McCluskey When it comes to Christmas, television has renewed prominence in the public imagination. Aside from watching the 5000th broadcast of The Wizard of Oz in a semi-daze or observing the oddly macabre tradition of soap opera’s killing of a beloved character on Christmas Day, there are also the special Christmas episodes ...

Writer: Samuel Beckett Director: Sarah Jane Scaife Reviewer: Ciara Murphy Samuel Beckett’s lesser known prose piece Fizzles takes the stage at the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival. Directed by Sarah Jane Scaife and presented by Company SJ as part of the wider series, ‘Beckett in the City’, Fizzles merges prose, theatre and multimedia in an enthralling performance. Scaife states that Company ...