Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label the irish rep

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever at the Irish Repertory Theatre

A new revival (revisal?) of One a Clear Day You Can See Forever is now running at the Irish Repertory Theatre. You can make as many changes as you want and rework the book as much as you want but the show is inherently flawed and will probably never work. But the score, oh the score. Which leads me to my next and last point... Nobody, and I mean nobody , is Barbara Harris. See? So don't bother.

A Double Dose of Enda Walsh; Disco Pigs at the Irish Rep, Ballyturk at St. Anne's Warehouse

Disco Pigs, the 20th anniversary revival now playing at the Irish Repertory Theater, and Ballyturk , making its US premiere at St. Anne's Warehouse, are my second and third Enda Walsh experiences. (Well, fourth, if you count the Tony award-winning book to the musical Once .) The first being last season's Arlington , which I truly, truly disliked. It had so much promise for me, someone who is a fan of dystopian, speculative stories, and yet, it was an incomprehensible bore. Fool me once, shame on you. And yet, I was somehow excited for Disco Pigs, thanks to a glowing response from a friend who saw the same production in London. But as it got closer to showtime, I had a little trepidation about understanding it. You see, Disco Pigs is written in a mix of Cork dialect and the secret language the two characters, Pig and Runt, have created for themselves. I had nothing to worry about, ultimately. I found that so long as I focused on the language, I had no problem following any...