Tag Archives: Political satire

Accidental Death of an Anarchist: review

  By Niamh | December 7, 2009 - 3:15 pm | The Arts, The Culch, Theatre
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Devious Theatre put on a run of Dario Fo’s ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’ this past weekend in Kilkenny’s new Set Theatre. It was my first time to be inside the Set Theatre so I was looking forward to seeing that as much as seeing the play. And I wasn’t disappointed with either one The stage was small and intimate, the set an office environment which was the office of Inspector Bertozzo (played by John Morton) on the second floor of the police headquarters in Milan, Italy and later transformed into the office of Inspector Pisani (Alan Butler) in the same building on the fourth floor.

It’s The Emergency CD of the year, just in time for Christmas.

  By darraghdoyle | November 27, 2009 - 4:32 pm | Comedy, Politics, The Culch, The Internet
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EDIT: Feck, I really should read this site from time to time. If I did, I’d have seen that Anto has already blogged about this CD this week. Sorry! It’s over on mine so I thought I’d share the video of Brain Cowen being kidnapped that has landed in my inbox with you as well. Shocking what some people will do to push their new CD - Use Democracy Sensibly - featuring two topical, politically satirical but above all hilarious tracks of them doing funny stuff. Erm, yes. Anyhow, in The Emergency’s Christmas Carol, we’re treated to After collapsing into a customary deep sleep in Leinster House, acting Taoiseach Brian Cowen receives a chilling visitation from the ghost of Eamon deValera who sends three spirits; The Ghost of Governments Past, the Ghost of Governments Present and the Ghost of Governments Yet To Come, to visit and make him repent for … There’s more →