Good man Fagan. We can swap notes at the interval.
Bedroom Farce at The Gate.
Utter shite. 1/10.
I’ll wear a red carnation Scrunchie so you’ll know it’s me.
Just a carnation?
I’m starting to get excited about our date now Fagan.
I’ll have the blazer and the slacks and the yellow polo neck as well
I went to see a preview show of “Drum Belly” in the Abbey this evening. An enjoyable comic thriller about some Irish mobsters set in 1969 Brooklyn. It has a few cliched characters but the script and story overall works very well.
Written by Richard Dormer. who was excellent in the lead role of Terri Hooley in Good Vibrations (currently showing in cinemas nationwide).
I attended a performance of “the bockety world of henry and bucket” in Draìocht in blanchardstown last night. An evening of pure magic. A rolIercoaster ride through space, frienship and vagrancy. I thought beckett for children was impossible. I was very wrong.
Touring dublin and wexford amongst others. Don’t miss it.
In an effort to alleviate the mental anguish of watching the wanton destruction of my beloved Fingal yesterday, I attended Man of Valour in the project arts centre. Quite simply, it is one of the best performances from an actor I’ve ever seen. Corn Exchange tend to specialise in shows of a physical nature and this is no different. Fingal’s finest, Paul Reid gives a tour de force in presenting the world of an office gimp(most tfk posters will relate to this). He single handedly creates the life and trials of the hero and his world. It is funny, moving, surreal and above all, jaw-droppingly captivating. If you like theatre go and see this as it’s one of the best shows you’ll ever see. If you don’t like theatre, go and see this and you’ll get a taste of just how good it can be.
Every review of it has said it’s top class. When it finished last night, there was an immediate standing ovation.
10/10
Forum favourite Kev even appears in it.
[quote=“Juhniallio, post: 779884, member: 53”]In an effort to alleviate the mental anguish of watching the wanton destruction of my beloved Fingal yesterday, I attended Man of Valour in the project arts centre. Quite simply, it is one of the best performances from an actor I’ve ever seen. Corn Exchange tend to specialise in shows of a physical nature and this is no different. Fingal’s finest, Paul Reid gives a tour de force in presenting the world of an office gimp(most tfk posters will relate to this). He single handedly creates the life and trials of the hero and his world. It is funny, moving, surreal and above all, jaw-droppingly captivating. If you like theatre go and see this as it’s one of the best shows you’ll ever see. If you don’t like theatre, go and see this and you’ll get a taste of just how good it can be.
Every review of it has said it’s top class. When it finished last night, there was an immediate standing ovation.
10/10
Forum favourite Kev even appears in it.[/quote]
Was going to this the other night but my illness intervened. Going to book it for some time next week now. It looks super.
Any time you put the 118 guy in with the production team that did Dubliners you have a sure fire success.
I attended Major Barbera in the Abbey last night. It’s a GB Shaw play written in 1904 about the family of a munitions tycoon and the moral quandaries they find themselves in. Has many contemporary resonances particularly as to the power of the military industrial complex and the morality of war. It is long - running for three hours, but it never dragged at all. As one would expect from Shaw the dialogue sparkled with wit. There were some lovely performances from the actors, in particular a lovely comic turn from Aenghus Og McNally as Lomax. The lead was played by Paul McGann who many will remember from Withnail and I. He very nearly forgot his lines once - which was interesting.
Informative, thank you. Have been reading Shaw’s Back to Methuselah, just love his ideas about the long lived
Went to see Wicked in the BGE tonight. Top class musical.
Went to another musical in the BGE Monday. This time my second favourite musical, the wonderful Singin in the Rain (Westside Story is my favourite musical). Lovely show, very faithful to the film version, which I love. Great performances. Beautiful sets, which are a feature of the BGE. And some utterly beautiful women.
But…on the debit side. Monday night must be the night they empty the mental hospitals into the BGE. At one stage the cast were competing with an individual who was howling like a wolf. At another they were competing with an oul wan roaring out Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Fair enough, I’m as tolerant as the next man, but if you pay full price for a ticket, you might expect to be able to hear the show.
[QUOTE=“Fagan ODowd, post: 952122, member: 706”]Went to another musical in the BGE Monday. This time my second favourite musical, the wonderful Singin in the Rain (Westside Story is my favourite musical). Lovely show, very faithful to the film version, which I love. Great performances. Beautiful sets, which are a feature of the BGE. And some utterly beautiful women.
But…on the debit side. Monday night must be the night they empty the mental hospitals into the BGE. At one stage the cast were competing with an individual who was howling like a wolf. At another they were competing with an oul wan roaring out Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Fair enough, I’m as tolerant as the next man, but if you pay full price for a ticket, you might expect to be able to hear the show.[/QUOTE]
Probably an over-enthusiastic member of this forum’s BDO darts social group.
Went to see the Lion King in the West End tonight. Superb production of a slightly overrated musical ( there’s scarcely a decent song wedged in between all the drumming and yelping and whistling). Occasion slightly marred by being sat beside a thirty stone Scotsman, on a fairly hot night in London. I suspect it was a long time since this chap found a shower large enough to wedge himself into. That and the young lady behind me tucking into the sour cream Pringles rendered it a fairly pungent evening.
BO off a fat man & the ghastly pong off those pringles! 
You poor misfortunate fucker.
went to see The Boroimhe Suite in Glór last month. Music and dance production celebrating the life of Brian Ború
http://www.brianborumillennium.ie/cashel/2014/04/boroimhe-suite-3/
Micheal Rooney produced it, its unbelievable, 20 fiddles, 6 harps, 4 banjo players and also various flute and stringed instruments all on stage at same time. Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann commission so all the musicians were young and talented. I thought I was incredible.
My little one was with me and she was blown away, she;s practicing her music since every night without having to be asked…
Went to see Ballyturk tonight. Fucking mental. Shit-in-my-hat craziness. But fucking genius. I’m a man for physical theatre and love Mikel Murfi anyway. Was surprised to see just how good physically Cillian murphy was too and the pair of them are dynamic, hurricanes of intensity as they present the world of Ballyturk. There’s batshit crazyness that belies just how lyrical Walshe can be and it’s an amazing skill to have an audience laughing their holes off at the physical representations and then immediately hushed for the existential musings on life and philosophy. It may sound like bollox but the world makes weird sense before Rea arrives to rip it apart.
Like any good theatre it makes you think and leaves you reliving bits all the way home. See this if you can!
[QUOTE=“Juhniallio, post: 999340, member: 53”]Went to see Ballyturk tonight. Fucking mental. Shit-in-my-hat craziness. But fucking genius. I’m a man for physical theatre and love Mikel Murfi anyway. Was surprised to see just how good physically Cillian murphy was too and the pair of them are dynamic, hurricanes of intensity as they present the world of Ballyturk. There’s batshit crazyness that belies just how lyrical Walshe can be and it’s an amazing skill to have an audience laughing their holes off at the physical representations and then immediately hushed for the existential musings on life and philosophy. It may sound like bollox but the world makes weird sense before Rea arrives to rip it apart.
Like any good theatre it makes you think and leaves you reliving bits all the way home. See this if you can![/QUOTE]
I was at this last night too and would echo all that. Very good and at 90 mins in total is just the perfect length IMHO
An Actors Lament, by Steven Berkoff in the Gaeity last night. Different, I’ll give it that. Short, I’ll give it that too. Good, I’m not sure. Wouldn’t rush back to it. Berkoff is a larger than life character, in fairness. Had a couple of scoops with him in the Green Room after (it’s actually red).