Stage Reviews
Paddy Daddy: Gloriously camp cabaret chronicling Mark T Cox’s intimate affairs in rural Ireland
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Cox jests about being a superstar, but, in his quick-witted humour and candid authenticity, he already is
It Was Paradise, Unfortunately: A stunningly clever investigation of theatre as a trans art form
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Raphaël Amahl Khouri’s delivery makes traumatic revelations come across as funnily offbeat
Malignant Humour review: This one-woman wonder is far funnier than a cancer-inspired circus act has any right to be
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Hannah Gumbrielle’s storytelling is acrobatic as she is in this show about her lymphoma diagnosis and treatment
Afterwards review: Impeccable performances and crackling dialogue in a play with an unmistakable purpose
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Janet Moran cannily sets post-Eighth Amendment comedy in English abortion clinic
An Attempt to Talk With the Beginning of the World: Organic, sensitive, magical
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Anna Newell’s immersive dance performance for babies creates a beautiful, deeply rewarding experience
Illness as Metaphor: A clever, moving and genuinely new piece of theatre
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Dead Centre’s new production features remarkable performances from six people living with long-term illness
Dancehall Blues: Dark odyssey oscillates between 20th-century Europe and the post-Covid era
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The ‘great reset’ provides the backdrop for an enigmatic show brought to life by Stephanie Dufresne and Alex O’Neill
Terra: A dancer – and a planet – trying to get back to certain kind of feeling
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: In Alessandra Azeviche’s slow-burning show, the choreographer sets out to break free from her torments
The Man Who Talks to Statues: A bit like a skit your mam might send around her book-club group chat
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: A one-man show is no easy feat, but the Young Offenders star Shane Casey struggles to fill the stage
Television: A high-wattage cabaret with enough power to imagine something new
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: SexyTadhg’s ingenious show meditates on concerns about authentic selves while the outside world beams into people’s minds
A Good Room: A terrace house becomes the last decent comedy club in town
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Cian Jordan and Allie O’Rourke share their journeys into stand-up in this zippy but fraught comedy show
Gatman! review: Tadhg Hickey’s monologue is an exposition of inebriation as something joyous
Theatre: Telling has the comedy of self-awareness but falters as it gathers its darkness
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