Tag Archives: Irish Repertory Theatre

Matthew Broderick leads a fine cast in David Ireland's play about Irish identity politics, feminism and theater power.

When two off-duty British soldiers meet two pretty Irish women in a pub, things go swimmingly until they don't in Leo McGann's 'The Honey Trap.'

In Conor McPherson's 'The Weir' locals in a remote pub in Ireland swap ghost stories and achieve empathy and community, in a nod to the past.

What makes a play Irish? In 'Irishtown' the acting company struggles to find out when the playwright ditches them days before their Broadway debut.

How director Conor Begley fashions and melds the two plays together just takes one's breath away. The acting ensemble is extraordinary. Bagley's economically staged direction enhances their creation of life and ineffable soulfulness, and he does his hero Brian Friel justice in these superlative renderings.

Irwin gets inside Beckett as an actor, and also explores his work from the perspective of clown theatrics.

As the Irish Repertory Theatre's revival of 'On a Clear Day You Can See Forever' explores past-life regression, it beautifully, seamlessly renders the illusive with authenticity.

Even one as horrific as the seafaring Devil may deserve a bit of sympathy. His job to separate mankind from God so the Christmas Child can bring them together is a bitter, noxious one. This and the play's other messages shine in the fullness of glory in this production.

How does one discover the meaning of life at sixteen? Seventeen?

Watching and hearing this "live radio play" adaptation, we process a confluence of the past (1940s) and present (2017). The two run simultaneously, a visual and aural parallel which adds to the fun. I felt strangely part of an absurdist time warp as observer and participant.