new doctor who trailer

Personality i liked it up until the time vortex opened out of the ground but that said it wasn't aimed at fanboys like me

Trocaire Fast 2010- fundraising update

Currently at €60.54- will do more during the week

Trocaire Fast 2010

This year i will be giving up three things for 48 hours- Coca Cola, alcohol and Tea for 48 Hours (4-5 March). Anyone who knows me can testify that is will be hard for me.

If i reach €200 i may give up tea as well (this is a major major challenge)

You can sponsor me online at http://www.trocaire.org/users/bazkennedy or in person

Limerick Unfringed day 5

So on the final day i caught 4 shows:

Dos Palabros
This rehearsed reading, based on one of the Eva Luna stories was a nice play about a young woman who makes a living out of words. Some interesting performances especially from Liam O'Brien who gave an fascinating portrayal of mental breakdown.

Rating 3/5

Aqureo
For me this was the most under rated piece of the festival and i can't wait to see the full production if it ever comes to Ireland. The play tells the story of a couple who travel to Lourdes and how it affects the husband in a way he

Credit must go the writer who created some of the most realistic characters and dialogue i've ever come across in theatre. In particular the characters of the husband and wife were brilliantly written and performed.

Rating 4/5

The beast
I didn't find this an enjoyable play but i don't think the writer intend the audience to enjoy it. The play tells the story of an artist and a whore who meet and begin a strange sort of relationship based on mutual love, hate and his unwillingness to pay for her services.

Rating 3/5

Unfringed Awards/Nick Carswell & Elective Orchestra
The festival came to a conclusion in Dolans on Sunday night with a well attended award ceremony. The winners were:
Best Male Performance: David Heath (Beast)
Best Female Performance: Madb Lambert (Cleaner)
Best Production: Memory Deleted
Spirit of Unfringed: Lords of Strut
Special Judges Award: The Beast

This was followed by Nick Carswell and the Elective Orchestra. As the girl beside said "they're so nice- the perfect background music". I think this sums it up.

(my review of the festival overall will be posted soon)

Unfringed day 4 (continued)

Didn't make to beast but did happen to make it to Memory Deleted.

Memory Deleted
I'm struggling to figure out and describe this one. This piece takes place in a hotel room. Before the show you get to walk around the 2nd floor of the hotel and see different people (the cleaner watching tv is a room, a single mother feeding her child and watching tv, a whore lying on a bed). The performance itself focuses on one room and the people who have been there and their stories.

My problem with this piece is that i'm still not 100% sure what was going on. There was so much happening that it was easy to miss something (you might be listening to one monologue and miss something happening in the corner). That said it was a brilliant concept and a good performance by the actors in a challenging role (3 performances a day?)

rating 3.5/5

Limerick Unfringed day 4

So having been unable to attend anything on the Friday due to college and work I set out to hit as many shows as possible over the weekend. Easier said than done.

Lords of Strut
The Lords of Strut are a street performance duo that mix dance and comedy, you could say the Laurel and Hardy of the dance world. The pair gracefully mix some daring acrobatic stunts with amazing comic timing. For every backflip there's a humorous pratfall or comic mistiming. Both performances today gathered huge crowds which is a great thing for the city. For me the highlight was watching one of my lecturers become a dancer himself (which i have on video *grins*)

Overall no words can do justice to this performance so here's the video (sorry about the quality)


rating: 4/5

The Cleaner
This one woman play (featuring Madb Lambert, of the Lambert Puppet Theatre family) took place in a kitchen. We watch a young woman who's comes to clean the kitchen. Over the span of 25 minutes we see her interact with various objects around the room (brushes, mops, coats, bags etc) to bring a series of characters to life. These characters take on personalities of their own and you can even imagine them as real people thanks to the brilliant acting from Madb Lambert, easily the best performance of the unfringed festival so far

rating: 5/5

Unfortunately the rehearsed reading of Laetitia was postponed. Tonight I'm heading to Beast and maybe to Memory Deleted

Don't worry...