May 2022

Written and performed by Joanne Powers Review by Kerric Harvey From a shocking opening that grabs both your attention and your nervous system from the moment the stage lights come up, “Miss Delta Township” locks on and never lets go, kicking off in the 1960’s and then moving at warp speed through several decades of

Written and performed by Les Kurdendall Review by Kerric Harvey It’s not easy, being Queen. It’s especially not easy if you’re a gay, Black, male born into slavery in the 19th century American South. And if you like to give parties for everyone you can find who might be, well, more than a little bit

Take Desire Away, Venue: Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street Dublin 2. Time: 7.30pm and Saturday matinee up to May 7th. AE Housman’s ‘The Shropshire Lad’ emotes in ‘Is My Team Ploughing?’ (a poem set to music by George Butterworth and Vaughan Williams), “Is my friend hearty, Now I am thin and pine, And has he

Written by Brian Merriman Starring Colin Malone and Jeremie Cyr-Cooke Review by Kerric Harvey   Veteran playwright Brian Merriman has done it again.   His new one act, “Straight Acting,” is thoughtful, engaging, articulate, funny, and exquisitely well-crafted in the tradition of “situational comic drama,” which brings to mind “comedies of manners” like “The Importance

‘Half of Nothing’ and ‘Porn’, at Pennylane Bar, free play reading May 1st. Ella Skolimowski is a Playwright worth watching. She likes to turn things on their head which makes us re-examine our norms and notions of ‘logic’. We were told in the introduction that she won the ‘Amy Dalton Bursary ‘ organised by the