Sinéad Gleeson’s blog
The Dublin Fringe Festival are holding a FREE workshop for anyone interesting in theatre production. It takes place at 6pm on Thursday June 26th at the Dublin Fringe Festival Offices, Sackville House, Sackville Place, Dublin 1. Anyone interested can participate, just RSVP by June 14th to jennyATfringefestDOTcom or give them a call on 01 817 […]
Still can’t access anything at all on my laptop so tonight I’ll be distracting myself by watching Boy A on Channel 4 at 9pm. It tells the story of 24-year-old Jack who, when he was 11, was imprisoned for killing a young girl. The drama follows his life and new identity post-release and has obvious […]
What I thought was pregnancy-related Carpel Tunnel Syndrome in my wrist has turned out to be something far fancier: De Quervain’s Disease (June Caldwell, a fellow facebooker, thinks it sounds like a Medieval French village) and an operation is required to fix it. Luckily, I have nabbed a cancellation for tomorrow, but will be out […]
Shakespeare’s finest dramaturgical device is perhaps the play within a play, and while Radio Macbeth sticks textually to the Bard’s every word, there is much more than “The Scottish playâ€? unfolding on stage. A cast of radio-era actors, clad in 1930s costumes, gather to rehearse Macbeth. What begins as an informal run-through, quickly becomes an […]
Somewhere in the middle of Charles M. Lee’s energetic play, a character reflects: “Art is made in the freedom of the imaginationâ€?. The imagination in question, is Robert Rauschenberg, monolith of modern art whose work Lee uses to examine American life in the 20th century. From popular culture to political allusion, bobrauschenbergamerica, presented by New […]