What play did you go and see last night? (1 Viewer)

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I've been making an effort to go and see more theatre - there's a theatre club in Drogheda where you pay up front for a bunch of plays in a "season" (6 months approx), put that on my wishlist for the family Kris Kindle thing

Saw this one last night in The Abbey Youth's the Season -? - Abbey Theatre

Written and set in 1930s Dublin, was an eye-opener to see a bunch of early-20s people of my grandparents' generation talking and agonising over pretty similar shite to me in my early 20s (though the characters in the play were of a very different social class to my grandparents)

Anyway - worth going to see. Running until May 3 and not expensive - cheapest seats €15

 

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Other good stuff I've seen:

Chicken - Project Arts Centre <- absolutely bananas story about a rooster raised by humans in Kerry who becomes a famous actor
Making A Show of Myself - Smock Alley Theatre 1662 <- not a play, it's a storytelling thing from a woman who's won all kinds of storytelling competitions, funny and emotional
Prickly - dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum South Dublin <- probably my favourite out of everything I've seen in the last year. Funny, weird, emotional
Lisdoon Nirvana by Frankie McCafferty - An Grianan Theatre - Letterkenny, Donegal. Arts Music Comedy Venue <- play about a young lad from Donegal's first music festival

 

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Top tip for middle-aged single fellas - sex ratio at most of these things is about 5 women for every man

 

[ann post]

I was at the sean o casey three short comedies recently. two of them were really slapstick and the physical acting was great.

I like plays.

 

[pavlos]

I haven't been to see a play since Krapp's Last Tape with John Hurt in the Gate maybe 20 years ago. Great to see these recommendations, I'd love to get to the theatre more (or at all).

 

[snakybus]

I went to see King Lear at the Gate a couple weeks back. Conleth Hill (the eunuch from Game of Thrones) played Lear and he was outstanding. It's still running, go see!

Dr Strangelove at Bord Gais was pretty special - sets were amazing. Steve Coogan was great, as was the supporting cast, and lots of laughs. Very minor criticism: As good as Steve Coogan was, he just wasn't as madly brilliant as Peter Sellers, but then, who is?

 

[Cormcolash]

The Shark Is Broken - the Jaws play starring Ian Shaw as his da, in the Gaiety (until Saturday).
It's class! Really entertaining, good jokes throughout, great acting - obviously Shaw is perfect as his own da, but the guy doing Dreyfuss nails that fuckin laugh so much, and I've no idea where they found a guy that looks exactly like Scheider, cause that's a tough ask with his nose and all!

 

[dunderhead]

I went to see The Second Woman in Cork over the weekend. Eileen Walsh plays the same scene over and over again with 100 different actors, roughly ten mins each, with room for some improv. She was on stage for 24 hours straight with just a 15 minute break every 2 hours. (Saturday 4pm to Sunday 4pm) Absolutely amazing endurance and surprisingly really engrossing. I stayed for about 4 hours with my ticket. The option was there to come and go over the 24 hours as much as you like. Actors that joined her ranged from absolute amateurs to professionals. Brilliant experience. Regretted not getting the 24 hour ticket. Would totally have gone in for more Sunday morning/avo.

 

[ann post]

I went to see The Second Woman in Cork over the weekend. Eileen Walsh plays the same scene over and over again with 100 different actors, roughly ten mins each, with room for some improv. She was on stage for 24 hours straight with just a 15 minute break every 2 hours. (Saturday 4pm to Sunday 4pm) Absolutely amazing endurance and surprisingly really engrossing. I stayed for about 4 hours with my ticket. The option was there to come and go over the 24 hours as much as you like. Actors that joined her ranged from absolute amateurs to professionals. Brilliant experience. Regretted not getting the 24 hour ticket. Would totally have gone in for more Sunday morning/avo.

Wow
that sounds wild altogether

 

[bogmanfan]

Went to see Static in the Peacock last night. Two man play about an amateur radio enthusiast in Donegal who makes contact with an astronaut orbiting Earth. It drags a little in the middle, but overall a great portrayal of loneliness, fear and anxiety. Superb staging, and really good stuff overall.

 

[bogmanfan]

Went to Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman in the Gate last night. Very dark, very strange, very funny. Like almost everything I've seen by him. Great stuff.