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Project Cube, Dublin:Even the welcoming announcements at this mini-festival of new work had been culture jammed, subverted, served with a twist. “How yis?” asked an archly informal voice. “Ah, that’s good to hear.” Over five days, this announced 10 brisk productions from emerging artists curated by THEATREclub, an infuriatingly young company with only slightly less energy than the national power grid.

The material for Karl Watson’s Bang Shoot Blastmay have been the emotional shrapnel of young relationships, but Liana O’Cleirigh’s staging evinced a generation in the grip of performance. Whether re-enacting scenes from Casablanca, Titanicand Juno– partly as parody, partly as revered canon – or fishing staggeringly unintimidated audience members from their seats, the performers turned both love and theatre into an interactive game.