... The Lost Days of Ollie Deasey Dublin Theatre Festival: Mansion House Macnas, the Galway-based theatre company, has already worked on The Odyssey in a joint production with Els Comediants. This time director Mikel Murfi attempts a particularly Irish slant ...

... Quays Theatre at The Lowry. Phil Young's play is an unusual work about the relation ship between a partially-sighted man and a blind gin1. Richard, a diabetic who has lost his sight in one eye in an accident, is believably played by Patrick Bridgeman who ...

... photographs. Fox plays Alex with luminous intensity, a thirtysomething map- maker who finds herself pregnant, having lost her way in a relation ship with a married man. Her mother, a victim of Alzheimer's, has gone into a home, while flatmate Clootie, trying ...

... woman. Consequently their friendship offers fascinating insight into growing up, the impor tance and limitations of friend ship as well as, perhaps, of sexual awakening. Hatty does, after all, show Tom the garden's secret passages. It is also oddly ...

... makes each line count. The stage, a gantry-like construction over water which runs dry by the second half, recalls a sunken ship with water symbolising death (remember how Cassius saved Caesar from drowning?), cleansing (Brutus' lot begin in a heavily ...

... radio producer doing a period piece. He possesses a good singing voice with a sturdy impression of Mario Lanza, although he lost impact having to follow the previous act. Young multi-instrumentalist Davie Howes was full of his usual boyish energy and charm ...

... are dance history and critical analysis. Now in her early thirties, she manages the centre's staffing, finance and relation ship with the university, collaborating with other perfor ming arts archives including the Theatre Museum. Its information and education ...

... Richard (May. Famed throughout the area for his slightly over the top delivery and totally outrageous costumes, Olley never lost the audience and controlled proceedings throughout. Next on stage was Szara King. This classy female vocalist exudes confidence ...