Turn Around

Project Arts Centre, Dublin Apr 12-28 8.15pm €15/€13 01-8819613 projectartscentre.ie

If you can read the name of this season designed by Project Arts Centre and Absolut Fringe without your mental iPod skipping straight to a Bonnie Tyler song, you are more mature and joyless than we are. For Irish audiences unaccustomed to repertory theatre, though, the tune of Turn Around’s experiment can be harder to keep in their heads.

The unifying logic to this adventure, though, is to offer attentive audiences a second chance to catch some impressive, slightly overlooked work from recent Fringe Festivals across a spectrum of genres. Mirari revises last year’s dark comedy When Irish Hearts are Praying, now entitled Threshold (April 14th, 16th and 26th); Dance company DISH weave themes of destiny and connection into live music and movement with The Spinner (Apr 13, 17 28), Ger Clancy uses puppets and projections to assist Waterworn’s one-man whale hunt (Apr 12, 21 23), three adept performance poets rhyme out life, love and learning on Three Men Talking About Things They Kinda Know About (Apr 18, 19 27), and Brian Flemming’s Gis’ a Shot of Your Bongos Mister (Apr 20th, 24th and 25th) recounts a real story of regeneration from Senegal to Fatima through music and comedy. It’s an encouraging gambit, and every now and then it falls in place.

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James Joyce’s Dubliners Dublin Writer’s Museum, Parnell Sq, Dublin