La Bohème @ Carlisle Memorial Church, Belfast
September 28th, 2021 | by Ian Patterson
“Love, alone command me!” The venue for Northern Ireland Opera’s comeback opera after eighteen months of Covid-19-inflicted anxiety, lockdown and …
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Cameron Menzies: A Bohemian Rhapsody
September 13th, 2021 | by Ian Patterson
Storytelling on the grandest musical scale returns to Belfast when Northern Ireland Opera dusts itself off after a difficult eighteen …
This Is How We Fly @ Solstice Arts Centre, Navan
January 17th, 2020 | by Ian Patterson
The setting is unusual for This is How We Fly’s gig at Navan’s Solstice Arts Centre. It isn’t the circle …
Endgame @ Project Arts Centre, Dublin
December 17th, 2019 | by Ian Patterson
“You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that!” When tackling any of Samuel Beckett’s plays, never mind one of his …
Cascando @ Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival
August 12th, 2019 | by Ian Patterson
It’s too far to see the expressions or to hear the reactions of the rowers gliding past as they observe …
Pas Moi/Not I @ Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival
August 5th, 2019 | by Ian Patterson
A broken mind is a terrifying notion. Once gone, so too, has a large slice of the humanity. Isn’t that …
BFF19: Another Day of Life
May 3rd, 2019 | by Ian Patterson
Confusão: chaos, anarchy, confusion. The word runs through Raúl de la Fuente and Damian Nenow’s Another Day of Life like a …
John Cooper Clarke @ Ulster Hall, Belfast
May 1st, 2019 | by Ian Patterson
“It’s let’s see who’s still alive in Belfast night”, the fifty-something-year-old man said, entering the foyer of the Ulster Hall. …
Samuel Beckett’s Watt @ Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire
April 23rd, 2019 | by Ian Patterson
“Nothing. But was that not something?” A stage adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s novel Watt is a fairly mad endeavour. Dense, …
Rigoletto @ Grand Opera House, Belfast
October 11th, 2018 | by Ian Patterson
“I’m denied that common human right – to weep” It’s entirely apt that Northern Ireland Opera’s staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s …
