Romance on our stages is not simply a diet of saccharine coconut-ice representations of love, but the mundane Monday-morning toast type and the unripe-apple sharpness of the unrequited sort too.
Whether you are watching a balletic cygnet pas de chat across the stage, or a cartoon pig stomp in pretend puddles, make your next theatre trip a fond memory for all the family.
Theatre has always been rife with superstitions and ghost stories. After all, where better for those things to incubate than in the home of smoke and mirrors (though superstition would argue that mirrors on stage are bad luck!)?
It’s September and that can only mean one thing, it’s back to school time. The pencils have been sharpened, the school bags have been dusted off, and students around the country are looking uncharacteristically tidy in their school uniforms.
As Shakespeare wrote, “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date,” so get out there, grab your sunhat, your picnic blanket and your sense of adventure, and seek out something on summer’s spontaneous stages
Pop on your seat-belt, roll down your window, and pick a good CD because we are headed on a road trip around Ireland stages for my pick of the best our stages have to offer this summer.
A brilliant play might not cure your broken leg, but I promise it will make you feel better. Theatre is a communal art form, a creative outlet, a distraction. This World Health Day, maybe a trip to the theatre will be just the tonic.
