To the Lighthouse features electrifying performances from Virginia Woolf’s maelstrom

Irish Independent /

There are moments in Virginia Woolf’s short novel To the Lighthouse where the intensity and emotional accuracy of the prose seems almost to shimmer. It forces the image of the lighthouse across the bay on the island of Skye to float above a falsely placid sea: crossing it and breaking the surface will shatter the lives […]

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To the Lighthouse review – Fierce and comic thoughts spoken out loud

The Guardian /

Cork Midsummer festival online – Virginia Woolf’s novel, centring on an Edwardian marriage and the rupture of war, is richly adapted and beautifully staged with a strong ensemble cast. Shadow and light alternate in Marina Carr’s rich new adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, filmed in Cork’s Everyman theatre in a co-production with Hatch Theatre Company.

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To The Lighthouse review: A gloriously ambitious and inventive production at Cork Midsummer Fest

Irish Examiner /

Marina Carr’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece combined film and theatre. “What is the meaning of life?” asks Lily Briscoe in To The Lighthouse. It may be, as she says, a “simple question” but it is one that underpins this profound meditation on life, love, loss, the meaning of art and the role of

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To the Lighthouse

The Arts Review /

Language, its flow, density, and malleability is vital to Virginia Woolf’s 1927 classic To the Lighthouse. So when Hatch Theatre Company’s production commences with crashing waves drowning out words, immediately followed by an overbearing musical soundtrack, portents aren’t good. Whatever Marina Carr is trying to establish in the opening moments of her adaptation gets mostly

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Actor Derbhle Crotty on her fifties: ‘I’m going to wring as much pleasure and joy out of life as I can’

Irish Independent /

The dynamo actor reflects on past roles, her upcoming turn in Marina Carr’s new play and party planning at the end of the pandemic.  ‘My mother died when I was 17,” says Derbhle Crotty. “Of course, that’s at the heart of everything. It always is… a private part.” Her words float into the ether. I

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‘The Approach’ Review: Three Women and the Men Who Define Them

The New York Times /

Mark O’Rowe’s intricate, beautifully acted play begs for debate. To start: Why don’t its protagonists have full lives of their own? For an hour I’d sat riveted to my laptop, watching the writer-director Mark O’Rowe’s “The Approach” performed live from Dublin. Then the superb actors took their bows, and I was seized by an impossible

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Irish Eyes, Unsmiling: Mark O’Rowe’s The Approach Is a Triple Showcase for Actors

Vulture /

The Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe doesn’t bring his work to New York often, but when he does, the seats catch fire. His Howie the Rookie has been performed in New York three times in the last 20 years—each time scorching the curtains—and anyone who saw his string-of-monologues Terminus in 2008 is probably still waking in the night, screaming. But our view

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The Approach review – this jewel of a show captures the thrill of live theatre

The Guardian /

The easygoing reminiscences of three women reveal depths of turmoil and heartache in Mark O’Rowe’s deftly written triumph. Three friends meet around a table to catch up on each other’s lives. They chat, drink tea, leave and reconvene. Despite a minimal plot and dialogue that might appear static on the page, The Approach is a

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