Justine Cooper
9 results
Design and Destroy: Ireland’s entry at the Prague Quadrennial
- Culture
- July 25, 2019, 05:00
Theatre is a transient art. It exists entirely in the present moment. As the stage curtain falls, its boundaries are closed; the next time it rises, i(...)
The Misfits review: An intimate character study in a stripped-back Wild West
- Stage
- October 1, 2018, 11:51
THE MISFITS Smock Alley ★ ★ ★ ★ Strip away the huge Nevada skies from John Huston’s film of Arthur Miller’s The Misfits and it becomes an intimate st(...)
Dublin Dance Festival: Female choreographers step up
- Stage
- May 22, 2018, 10:00
Catedral ★★★★ When the audience, as if in one surge, rose to its feet as the final ripple of Catedral’s passionate physical intensity subsided, it wa(...)
Body Language review: An ambitious show that scratches our surfaces
- Stage
- December 7, 2017, 14:40
RHA Gallery, Dublin **** Body language is prone to pseudo-science: simplistic decoding of gestures and posture to instruct how to sit during a job (...)
Girl Song review: A slow burn that’s more than the sum of its parts
- Stage
- October 7, 2017, 15:00
Samuel Beckett Theatre ★★★★ Attention is often given to unpicking experiences suppressed in the mind, rather than experiences archived within the bo(...)
How fringe are you? 12 shows pitch for your ticket-buying time
- Stage
- September 3, 2016, 05:00
Liz Roche Company Wrongheaded Project Arts Centre, September 11th-16th; iti.ms/2c6ZdZM Who are you? The choreographer Liz Roche, the spoken-word (...)
Review: Tundra
- Theatre
- May 21, 2014, 14:00
Tundra **** Samuel Beckett Theatre We feel and hear the Arctic wind howling across the imagined tundra of Emma Martin Dance, and watch (...)
Dancers in the dark
- Culture
- May 17, 2014, 01:00
‘Have you seen my notebook?” Simon Jaymes has a touch of panic in his voice when he can’t find his rehearsal jottings. They could be anywhere. Rather (...)
Dusk Ahead
- Irish Times
- October 2, 2013, 12:00
Dusk AheadProject Arts Centre****Junk Ensemble’s latest work returns to familiar territory: the state of unpredictability between pillars of certainty(...)
