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Chris McCormack Chris McCormack is a theatre critic based in Dublin. He blogs on MusingsInIntermissions.blogspot.ie and writes for A Younger Theatre, Irish Theatre Magazine and the Arts Council of Ireland. He is also a PhD fellow at the National University of Ireland Galway where he is researching influential designers who worked at the Abbey Theatre.




BWW Review: THE AULD FELLA - Faded Royalty of a Legendary Playhouse
BWW Review: THE AULD FELLA - Faded Royalty of a Legendary Playhouse
September 11, 2015

Michael Glen Murphy's play returns to the late days of Dublin's Theatre Royal.

BWW Review: OUR ISLAND - Meeting the Parents of Post-Referendum Ireland
BWW Review: OUR ISLAND - Meeting the Parents of Post-Referendum Ireland
September 11, 2015

Barry McStay's nail-bitingly good play asks timely questions in the wake of the Marriage Equality Referendum. However, politics aren't the extent of its reach.

BWW Review: MOTHER YOU - A Vision of Serenity From the Midlands
BWW Review: MOTHER YOU - A Vision of Serenity From the Midlands
September 11, 2015

Louise White's pastoral promenade inside a disused commercial building suggests the possibility of regrowth, drawing on the experiences of The Abbeyleix Bog Project.

BWW Review: GROUNDED - Worshipping the Sky
BWW Review: GROUNDED - Worshipping the Sky
September 10, 2015

Goerge Brant's unsettling play asks questions about the changing state of warfare.

BWW Review: THE WINDSTEALERS - The Bust in a Gust
BWW Review: THE WINDSTEALERS - The Bust in a Gust
September 10, 2015

A fictional Irish town becomes victim to a sinister wind-farm plot in Jane Madden's brilliant farce.

BWW Review: REBEL REBEL - Rising Actors On a Bigger Stage
BWW Review: REBEL REBEL - Rising Actors On a Bigger Stage
September 9, 2015

Aisling O'Mara and Robbie O'Connor summon two Abbey actors who fought in Easter week 1916.

BWW Review: IT FOLDS - Old Horse Town
BWW Review: IT FOLDS - Old Horse Town
September 9, 2015

In this beguiling co-production, junk ensemble and Brokentalkers place confidence in a cast of strangers.

BWW Review: JELLYFISH - Pulsating Through a Sea of Troubles
BWW Review: JELLYFISH - Pulsating Through a Sea of Troubles
September 7, 2015

Alice Malseed is exemplifiable of millennials burnt out by their late twenties, their hopes dashed in the bust. What can be made of this world stung into paralysis?

BWW Review: Millennial Malaise in THE PLEASURE GROUND
BWW Review: Millennial Malaise in THE PLEASURE GROUND
August 24, 2015

Jarlath Tivnan's debut play is written in the strokes of black comedy but points to darker truths under the surface in rural Ireland.

BWW Features: Tiger Dublin Fringe Brings Back Spiegeltent for 21st Celebrations
BWW Features: Tiger Dublin Fringe Brings Back Spiegeltent for 21st Celebrations
August 4, 2015

The return of the Spiegeltent lends greater diversity to the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival, and may usher in a new maturity in time for its 21st birthday.

BWW Reviews: SPRING AWAKENING Brings Purple Summer to Dublin
BWW Reviews: SPRING AWAKENING Brings Purple Summer to Dublin
July 30, 2015

Ill-Advised is a rare case in Ireland as a company dedicated to musical theatre. How will they mount Spring Awakening?

BWW Features: Meet the New Abbey Theatre Directors
BWW Features: Meet the New Abbey Theatre Directors
July 22, 2015

Neil Murray and Graham McLaren believe in the concept of a National Theatre that 'reaches all of the country'.

BWW Opinion: Why You Should Go See Exhibit B (or Let it See You)
BWW Opinion: Why You Should Go See Exhibit B (or Let it See You)
July 17, 2015

The Anti-Racism Group that Campaigns Against Exhibit B around the World are now demanding Galway International Arts Festival to cancel its run.

BWW Reviews: Transgender Lives Brought to Fore in LUCK JUST KISSED YOU HELLO
BWW Reviews: Transgender Lives Brought to Fore in LUCK JUST KISSED YOU HELLO
July 15, 2015

It's about time transgender characters arrived in the Irish theatre. Amy Conroy's new play is a fascinating look at the construction and deconstruction of masculinities.

BWW Reviews: Yeatsian Magic Bubbles AT THE HAWK'S WELL
BWW Reviews: Yeatsian Magic Bubbles AT THE HAWK'S WELL
July 14, 2015

In WB Yeats's mythic drama, an Old Man and the hero Cuchulainn seek drops of immortality at a magic well. Can they they survive its otherworldly Guardian?

BWW Features: The Art of Winning a Referendum
BWW Features: The Art of Winning a Referendum
June 26, 2015

A month on from Ireland's historic passing of same-sex marriage, what role did the arts play in the lead-up to the referendum.

BWW Reviews: Midsummer Magic Dashed at FRIARS WALK
BWW Reviews: Midsummer Magic Dashed at FRIARS WALK
June 21, 2015

With encouragement by an 'Intersections' funding award from the local university, a group of artists recount the tale of two Irish friars who left for Jerusalem in 1323.

BWW Reviews: HIDDEN CURRENTS at Cork Midsummer Festival
BWW Reviews: HIDDEN CURRENTS at Cork Midsummer Festival
June 21, 2015

Tom Lane's audio trail looks at the underground water system that influenced the building of Cork City.

BWW Reviews: New Abbey Play Offers Complex Legacies of The Troubles
BWW Reviews: New Abbey Play Offers Complex Legacies of The Troubles
June 19, 2015

Jimmy McAleavey's new play meditates on the complex legacies of The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

BWW Reviews: Yeats Revived in SAINTS & SINNERS
BWW Reviews: Yeats Revived in SAINTS & SINNERS
June 11, 2015

It's worth welcoming the return of Yeats's three plays, revived by Mouth on Fire, in a theatre scene where his work has gone mostly unproduced for two decades.



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