Daily Archives: June 16, 2009

Anything For Reluctant Rent

  By Rick | June 16, 2009 - 4:54 pm | Movies & TV, The Arts, The Culch, Theatre
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I’m a shit blogger. Feel free to agree in comments. I’ve had so much to do here and writing anything of substance seems like an impossible hill of keys to climb. Youtubes? Links? I’m yer man. Anything proper and more than 100 words? Maybe not. It’s not like I don’t have things to talk about, so in the time I have available to me now I’m going to throw some words together about things I’ve seen recently… The Last Days Of A Reluctant Tyrant at The Abbey Theatre Lots of other bloggers have already written about this so I’ll keep this one particularly brief. I was thoroughly taken in by the play, the world it’s set in and the principal performances. The cast are sharp all round, the set design is epic, the lighting really adds to the atmosphere and Marie Mullen’s performance is a force of nature at times. Yes, it’s … There’s more →

Midsummer Festival, Temple Bar

  By Niamh | June 16, 2009 - 1:14 pm | Events, Featured Post, The Culch
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The longest day of the year is almost upon us - shocking really! To celebrate the summer solstice, the Temple Bar Cultural Trust are having their annual Midsummer Festival in Meeting House Square this weekend. Over the course of Saturday and Sunday, 20 and 21 June, Meeting House Square will be transformed into an urban meadow with a carpet of grass (wooo!) for people to get cosy on picnic blankets and be entertained for the day. Unusual place for a picnic, sounds like fun! Some fire performers will mark the start of the Summer Solstice festivities with a breathtaking visual display of fire dancing and juggling at 4pm on Saturday evening, followed later at 10pm by an outdoor screening of Dead Poets Society. On Sunday 11am til 5pm there will be the Midsummer Fair which will feature Temple Bar’s usual three outdoor markets – the Food Market, the Book Market … There’s more →

Evicted

  By Maxi Cane | June 16, 2009 - 1:35 am | Theatre
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“Those who can’t do it, review it” I need you to keep that in mind. I starred in a show about 5 years ago which took 8 months to rehearse and involved numerous re-writes and choreography changes. There was a lot of tension on and off the stage between the production team and the musical society that had hired them. The society had won The John Player Tops a few years ago and thought they were the shit. The production team had various awards and successful shows under their collective belts and so thought they were the shit. There were people in the cast who shouldn’t have been singing in the chorus, never mind solo work, but they got what they wanted because they had financed the show. Music arrangements were off and scenes were adapted from other productions that took the entire show in a strange direction. As a … There’s more →