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Lourdes! The Musical: An impressively complex tale of shame (opens the original)
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In an ordinary household somewhere in the country, a mother concerned about her bewildered son attempts to calm him. She casually begins to sing, encouraging him to join in with something thatâs not a classic radio singalong but Agnus Dei. Xnthonyâs new musical has a sense of coping Irish citizens, even those long drifted from the weekly Mass, moving through the world with Christian prayer somewhere in the backs of their heads. The likes of Matthew, an actor auditioning abroad (played by a w
âThis is a big achievement for me, to see the audience crying and talking about their parentsâ (opens the original)
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Two decades ago, as a child playing with a puppet theatre at his grandmotherâs house, Mario Banushi made teasing plays about his family. He summoned relatives into the garden to watch his lighthearted impersonations of them. âThatâs the start, to be honest,â he says. The Albanian director, who is now in his mid-20s, has over the past four years made an extraordinarily personal trilogy about his family, called Romance Familiare, or Family Romance, which contains real, painfully complicate
Hard Mouth Show & Tell at Dublin Fringe: A world looking past women with endometriosis (opens the original)
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A good critic is hard to find. Delight in this man floating around a small Temple Bar gallery. Moving breezily between artworks, he teases the artistâs intentions while seizing opportunities for clever wordplays, drawing unlikely connections between 19th century rural genre painting and a Roxy Music song. Hard Mouth Show & Tell â a work conceived by visual artist Ella de Búrca, performer Hugh Hick and aerialist Elaine McCaugh â is clear on what the role of a critic should be. âContext i
Muster at Dublin Fringe is a swooning play about releasing locked-up male emotion (opens the original)
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On a porch having a cigarette, a man questions the closeness of his relationships. âWeâre friends,â his pal says, reassuringly. âLike âhelp you bury a body at 3amâ friends.â The man sullenly responds: âWhat if Iâm the body?â The calamities of locked-up male emotion are on peopleâs minds in Muster, Dagogo Hart and Dafe Pessu Orugboâs eloquent work. They appear as men at the funeral reception for their dead friend: Hart plays a big-picture thinker in a shirt and tie; Orugbo
Dead in Here at Dublin Fringe: Gen Z dread looms in admirably sly work (opens the original)
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Who remembers life before our current doomer era? When the twentysomethings of Dead in Here, a funkily sly work by playwright CN Smith and director Dominic OâBrien, are seen singing karaoke, someone looks back on the recent past as if it were already a separate, carefree age: âLetâs party like itâs 2019!â In a wealthy English familyâs estate, Millie (Allie OâNeill) cagily observes one of her Irish guests: Brian (Samuel Coyle), a brash partier who barely conceals his Anglophobia, an
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