The Shape Of Things

The Shape Of Things

Women were created so that men would take showers. 

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

To trim a Shakespearean romantic comedy into a playable one hour takes skill, to stage it in the very compact C Cubed theatre takes that, some very slim actors – and I think, coff… 

The Infant

The Infant

What would it take for a parent to sacrifice their own child? In Infant, parents Cooper and Lilly give up their four year old for an unnamed crime to the authorities, ostensibly to… 

Time Out Of Joint

Time Out Of Joint

Hamlet is such a murky, obstinate text that so refuses definitive interpretation that a point is sometimes made that Shakespeare probably created a play greater than himself. 

Last Night Things Happened ...

Last Night Things Happened ...

The surreal, imaginative landscape of Chris Harrison’s Last Night Things Happened is a journey to the implausible, back-flipping through the nonsensical, spiraling into the whims… 

a moment of suitable silence

a moment of suitable silence

Three women are outside on the subterranean patio. 

Cigarettes And Chocolate

Cigarettes And Chocolate

Gemma swims in the same sea of pettiness that often engulfs our lives. 

Rough

Rough

Rough is a tone poem riff of a play by Grace Dyas, dipping, dodging, repeating phrases, swimming in the same stream of consciousness sea as Frisco beatnik poets, ripped up Cosmo p… 

The Play About Charlotte

The Play About Charlotte

What would you do if your partner began to spend a lot of time with someone you never met? There’d be trouble. 

Beggars Belief

Beggars Belief

Looking for a break from the more filthy, vulgar, invective-laced offerings of the fringe? Feel like something, say, divine? Clean? Well, have I got the show for you. 

Point Blank

Point Blank

Someone is stalking you. 

The Noise Next Door: Otherworld

The Noise Next Door: Otherworld

The world is being run over by fat children. 

Bedtime Stories

Bedtime Stories

Just what else can you do with a bed? Bedtime Stories brings nine short vignettes that aim to explore just that. 

Who is Fergus Kilpatrick?

Who is Fergus Kilpatrick?

Who is Fergus Kilpatrick, by Jose Miguel Jimenez, is a Russian Doll of a story. 

The Lover

The Lover

If you’ve been in a relationship for a few years, you’ll know that sex is at risk of becoming well. 

The Pitchfork Disney

The Pitchfork Disney

It feels like falling. 

Red Lola

Red Lola

What if you found out that the same young girl/boy you see at the bus stop everyday fantasized about having sex with you? It’s a very uncomfortable thought. 

The Girls Of Slender Means

The Girls Of Slender Means

The key to the ‘The Girls of Slender Means’ is a poem. 

Freefall

Freefall

Freefall is a stylish, sophisticated drama about the prejudice of loss. 

Anatomy of a Seagull

Anatomy of a Seagull

“Don’t tell me about Chekhov”, said my South American companion, declining an invitation to Anatomy of a Seagull. 

The Dandelion's Story

The Dandelion's Story

It’s not often you would describe a story about shit as one of life-affirming transcendent beauty, but the moral fable ‘The Dandelion Story’ is all that and more. 

Tales of Ballycumber

Tales of Ballycumber

I once heard about a man who, minutes from planning to end his life, went into a shop to get whatever last-second things the destitute buy; pen and pad, a Bounty bar, twenty Major … 

Suckerville

Suckerville

It takes a woman 5. 

Last Train From Holyhead

Last Train From Holyhead

There’s a point in the torpid Last Train From Holyhead when the actor, Mick Lally, is left alone on stage waiting, it appears, for a light cue. 

Zoo Lodge

Zoo Lodge

At King’s Cross station once, I witnessed the mugging of an elderly lady. 

Searching For Eden:The Diaries Of Adam And Eve

Searching For Eden:The Diaries Of Adam And Eve

I promised I wouldn’t ogle. 

Little Gem

Little Gem

Three women, a triptych of three generations, sit apart, facing you on the stage. 

Ward No 6

Ward No 6

‘The people who are fond of visiting lunatic asylums are few in this world’ says Chekov in his famous anti-intellectual story, ‘Ward No. 

Only Water Between

Only Water Between

Jack is in France, staying in a tent with the lads. 

Four Last Things

Four Last Things

Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s Four Last Things is an evocative, but turbid, journey through the Irish country landscape and all unspoken things. 

Unit 46

Unit 46

I had a crazy neighbor once in New York who used to leave his rubbish in a shared hall despite written objections slipped under his door.