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Sex scenes and bare boobs in play sets tongues wagging

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

It is the true scandal of the town. The opening of a play dominated by sex, which includes full frontal nudity and simulated intercourse at one of Ireland's grandest theatres, has the Dublin chattering class aghast.

Gallery takes stock with a masterclass in world art

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

WHEN the National Gallery has made headlines over the past decade it was generally because big money had been paid for a piece: €400,000 for an Orpen last year, for example, or €900,000 for a Van Gogh in 2007.

A masterpiece mystery with the hallmarks of a Dan Brown

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

It may lack the homicidal monks and fiendish ciphers of The Da Vinci Code. But a real-life art detective story, involving shady art dealers and intrepid academics, has brought to light a "lost" masterpiece, the latest in a string of discoveries that are exciting the art world and the great auction houses of Europe and America.

Review: Romeo et Juliette, Gaiety Theatre, Dublin

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Despite minor quibbles, Opera Ireland's production of Gounod's 'Romeo et Juliette' is most welcome.

Kingdom come

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

East Berlin tonight. And menace . . . The street lights are blinking just up ahead at this late hour. A man with a face straight out of The Shining or The Butcher Boy, who has already lurched past myself and Mieke Vanmechelen five minutes before, is now running back in our direction. There isn't anyone around to save us if he takes out a gun or a knife or, more possibly, an axe with warm blood dripping off it. Then, just as suddenly as he lurches in our direction, he runs past us again. And that is the last we see of him.

Review: Hamlet, The Helix, Dublin

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:47:12 +0000

IT'S not so much something rotten in the state of Denmark as something rotten in the Drawing Room, with Second Age's dressing of Hamlet in early Victorian costume.

Pirate Queen hits the high Cs again

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

THE stage show that sank on Broadway has been raised again by an amateur society, this time for an Irish audience.