Cinema, Television, Music, Theatre, Books reviewed.
What is a "thriller"? The quesstion is, I think, useful because these days a hell of a lot of movies are being marketed as thrillers that patently are not. Thus anyone wanting to see a real thriller has to take pottluck and in the process could well miss out on the precious few that do crop up.
The fortnight's review of cinema, theatre, art, music, television, radio, books
A review of the fortnight in Art, Music, Television, Cinema, Books
Art, Rock, Cinema, Theatre, Television and Books of the fortnight reviewed.
A review of the fortnight in Theatre, Music, Television, Radio, Opera, Books, Cinema
By Joseph O'Connor, Tom McIntyre, Conor Kelly, Michael Dwyer, John Fergusson, Gene Kerrigan, Aidan Dunne
Robert Armstrong headed east. His trip took him through five continents in as many months.
ON 6 JULY 1979, WHILE HE WAS WORKING on the play Translations, Brian Friel wrote in his "sporadic diary": "One of the mistakes of the direction which the play is presently pulling is the almost wholly 'public' concern of the theme: how does the eradication of the Irish language and the subbstitution of English affect this particular society? How long can a society live without its tongue? Public questions; issues for politicians; and that's what is wrong with the play now.
Round Up The Usual Disclaimers by Derek Doubtful and Gene Careful.
Colin Harrison's paintings are about mystery. They are packed with any number of inciidental, narrative mysteries: fragments of stories, visual clues, dramas pending or past. But they are also about the mysteries of time, memory, art.
Tonight there were several hundred people in the band. A very very big co-op for the last performance of the co-op band.