Written by J.B. Priestley the production plays at The People Theatre until Saturday November 3rd. Our Theatre reviewer Seamus Doran was there on the opening night. J.B. Priestly was an intellectual with the common touch. He had the ability in his writing generally and most particularly in his plays to take difficult issues and subjects [...]
Separate Tables reviewed by Seamus Doran
Set in fifties out of season Bournemouth the middle aged, fading upper middle class residents are staring into the abyss of their lives and of their social milieu. Youthful dreams of love and social advancement lie stranded on the high shore of faded empire. This is the world of Sir Terence Rattigan, one of England’s [...]
Test Your Brain with National Geographic
“SEEING IS NOT BELIEVING” The human brain contains many mysteries. Hard wired to perceive the world about it and store a record of what it has experienced. Therein lies its brilliance and its greatest design fault. We see what we think we see. We see what we want to see. We are at the mercy [...]
Barney McKenna – Last of The Dubliners
Feature writer Seamus Doran pays his own personal tribute to Barney McKenna The last of the original founder members of The Dubliners has died. I learnt with some sadness that legendary banjo player Barney Mc Kenna died yesterday at the age of 72 at his home in Howth just outside his beloved Dublin. Barney [...]
People’s Theatre Centenary Season
PAST GLORIES review by Theatre writer Seamus Doran of A Spoonful Of Honey by Tony Gannie /Never Rains But It Pours by Alison Carr An Evening of Contrasts ! A Spoonful of Honey Lillian is in a nursing home.. she has a playwright grandson. He poses a challenge. Give me stories from your life – [...]