Dublin Fringe Festival

Reviewed today are Revolutions - Programme 2 at the The Project andSpintren at the Theatre at Henry Place.

Revolutions - Programme 2/The Project: Two of the three works in the second Revolutions programme featured dancers as innocents, basking in old-fashioned uncomplicated worlds of love and play.

Julie Lockett embraced arch-theatricality in Something Old, Somewhere New, Somewhere Borrowed, Something Blue, a work laden with astute visual and musical references to 1950s' domestic bliss.

Nanette Kincaid took the music of those tragic love stories Carmen and Madame Butterfly for In The Round and acted out an obvious love story in very obvious ways. Complete with clouds and roses, every gesture and action was overblown, nothing being too kitsch. Mairéad Vaughan's It was All About the Truth couldn't have been more different.

Her inventiveness and craft throughout the work made it the highlight of the night and probably her best work to date.

Michael Seaver

Spintren

Theatre at Henry Place

Although technical glitches haunted the opening night of Spinstren the essence of the piece still seeped through. Blending text and movement is the crux of the work by half/angel.

In Spinstren, Jools Gilson-Ellis weaves threads of stories from the Sleeping Beauty to Athena and Arachne, as the three performers talk, sing and move through short scenes with spinning tops, spinning wheels and long lengths of thread.

There were moments of conceptual virtuosity and real beauty but the stop-start structure and techno-gloom soundscore held things back.

Michael Seaver