Author: Liam Murphy

Evita

Evita

Liam Butler added much to his considerable reputation as a musical theatre director with a powerful and at times stunning production of Evita for one of the best musical societies in the country. Ballinrobe Musical Society have established an impressive reputation for innovative and big-production musicals. They are...
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Thoroughly Modern Millie

Thoroughly Modern Millie

The Presentation Secondary School are to be congratulated for choosing a 2002 stage musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, based on a 1967 movie of the same name. The transition year students delivered a first rate show with strong performances and characterisations, with excellent costumes, great dancing and a clever...
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Review: Make Music To His Name

Review: Make Music To His Name

Waterford has many reasons to be grateful for the contributions that the composer Eric Sweeney has made to the musical name and fame of this proud city. But in his role as organist and choirmaster at Christ Church Cathedral. He has brought forth an historic CD spanning nearly a century of sacred music and playing in...
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Review: The Shaughraun

Review: The Shaughraun

Once again, it was the amateur, the community theatre company who are providing the drama of big cast plays, big broad brush spectacle and good value for money. Dungarvan Dramatic Club in the shadow of bereavement and in a time honoured tradition showed that the show goes on and their closeness of cast and crew...
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TV Review: De La Salle Choir

TV Review: De La Salle Choir

It was great to see the De La Salle College Senior Choir compete so well in the Derry Millennium Centre on RTE1 in the All Island School Choir of the Year competition. Unfortunately, the Dublin Wesley Choir, Ballinteer under their conductor Helen Doyle won out in the end (they were runners-up last year). The De La...
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Review: Love and Fury

Review: Love and Fury

Subtitled The Passion of Jonathan Swift, Catastrophe Theatre Company brought that fine character actor David Heap to the Theatre Royal in Love and Fury. Sadly, there was little passion and no fury except for the wind outside the theatre. Heap gave ten years of his career in Fair city playing Donal Maher and he was in...
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Review: Trading Faces

Review: Trading Faces

Good Tuck, It’s Twink should have been the title of Robert C Kelley’s foray into ladies night out theatre. There was no programme, perhaps people are not buying them anymore but there was not even a printed off sheet of information or a press release to hand. But the proper (far from proper) title was Trading Faces –...
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Review: The High Kings

Review: The High Kings

It was a night you wouldn’t put a politician out in the sheets and cascades of rain but the Theatre Royal was full to the roof for The High Kings – the new trad and ballad royalty – inheritors of the noble call, sons of the famous and themselves legends – Finbarr Clancy, Brian Dunphy, Martin Furey and Darren Holden....
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