ART
The Burning Frame by Nigel Rolfe
Green on Red Gallery, Park Lane, Spencer Dock, Dublin Until Oct 24th greenonredgallery.com
A stalwart of the international performance art scene, Nigel Rolfe's show will feature a live performance on Friday, September 11th of a new work, Red. The show's title refers to the shooting dead of a woman in Haiti. Her offence was to have looted a framed painting. Photographic works and pigment drawings make up the bulk of what's on view.
THEATRE
Grounded
Project Arts Centre. Previews Sep 5-6 Opens Sep 7-12 6.30pm & 8.45pm (Sep 9, 11, 12 mat 1pm) €22/€20 fringefest.com
“First day on the job,” says a pilot, commuting to work, before she corrects herself: “The war,” she says. “Whatever.” In George Brant’s tersely poetic monologue it can be hard to draw the distinctions, based among the pilots of America’s drone programme – or, as the former F-16 pilot more witheringly calls it, “the Chair Force”. Her demotion, as she sees it, is a clipping of her wings; where once she was alone in the blue sky, now a wife and a mother, she stares at a grey screen of a Middle Eastern desert for 12-hour shifts. But this is the changing face of warfare, where action and consequence are distanced by some 8,000 miles, and morality begins to feel similarly remote. Staged by Siren Productions as part of the Tiger Dublin Fringe, Selina Cartmell directs Clare Dunne (above) as the pilot whose home life and her job – the war, whatever – begin to blur into each other, until everything comes crashing down.
