Tag Archives: Peacock theatre

Terminus: review

  By Niamh | November 12, 2009 - 11:33 pm | Featured Post, The Arts, The Culch, Theatre
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Last night I was very lucky to be able to attend the opening night of Terminus, written and directed by Mark O’Rowe, in the Peacock Theatre. Thank you to David McCadden of The Abbey Theatre for arranging the tickets Darren and Lottie were also able to attend so I look forward to their reviews, but for now here’s mine Terminus is a vivid, imaginative, fast-paced, heart-breaking, inspiring, award-winning piece of theatre. I know that’s a lot of adjectives but if you can’t keep up with those few you’d never be able to keep up with the, at times, break-neck speed of monologues in Terminus.

The Virgin Mary, Sponge Cake & Dancing Shoes

  By Lottie | October 1, 2009 - 4:42 pm | Site News, The Culch, Theatre
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The Peacock Theatre currently hosts Enda Walsh’s The New Electric Ballroom as part of The Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival. The Druid production has received much critical acclaim and accolades including The Irish Time Theatre Awards for Best New Play and Best Supporting Actor and it’s easy to see why. A story of three middle-aged sisters living in a remote fishing village in rural Ireland, the women having taken to a life of near hermitage after a tragic night many years ago. The story of the fateful night at “The New Electric Ballroom” has haunted the sisters throughout their adult lives so much so that the story is replayed in vivid detail each and every day. Walsh portrays a frighteningly grim scenario of how life can become so warped if you allow yourself to become isolated from the world at large. Despite the sad undertones of the play it manages … There’s more →

Special Culture Night offer at The Abbey theatre

  By Niamh | September 24, 2009 - 3:42 pm | The Arts, The Culch, Theatre
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One of the wonderful things to happen on Culture Night tomorrow - one of the many, many things, is that our national theatre, The Abbey, is giving away some free tickets. The Abbey is a building full of history, excitement, drama, comedy and fun, originally founded by W.B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory in 1903 and opened in 1904. It was given a State subsidy in 1925 and became the first ever State-subsidised theatre in the English speaking world. To celebrate Culture Night, the Abbey Theatre are very kindly setting aside 25 FREE tickets for two events on the Peacock stage tomorrow night. 6.00 - 6.45pm The Abbey Talks with Enda Walsh: Enda Walsh is writer and director of the award-winning play The New Electric Ballroom. 8pm The New Electric Ballroom The Druid production of The New Electric Ballroom. This performance is actually part of the 2009 Ulster Bank Dublin … There’s more →