Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

June 9, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Q Theatre, May 28 7/10 Ever wanted the floor to swallow you rather than be the sacrificial lamb on the altar of audience participation? Having been warned of this show’s extreme level of audience involvement, we wore masks, studiously avoided eye-contact and survived. Many were not so lucky. But here’s…

June 6, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Wharf 1 Theatre, May 25 7.5/10 It could easily have been hammered together as a soapbox, but instead Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman built a play. They wrote a series of stories adding up to the big one that won’t go away: the original inhabitants of this continent woke up…

May 28, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Reginald Theatre, May 15 7.5/10 Remember when humour and bad taste were allowed to share spittle in the same mouth? David Ireland does. The Belfast playwright has his characters spewing countless lines that leave you unsure whether laughing isn’t a little naughty. Yet not laughing is impossible, because what they’re…