Chief Ike’s Mambo Room was the venue for Solas Nua and Forum’s Beckett 100 year birthday party on Tuesday night. I arrived around five thirty just in time to find the Solas Nua crew blowing up the balloons. Our staff writer Tim Treanor and his wife Lorraine Treanor arrived shortly thereafter and our reporting crew […]
Review: Upshot from Forum Theatre
To say Upshot is one cool piece of theatre would be accurate, but that statement alone would not do it justice. Ami Dayan’s play is highly entertaining and full of dark humor. A writer with a troubled marriage sits down to write a play based on the last man left standing after a nuclear war […]
Upshot from Forum Theatre, Take 2
Publisher’s note — This is our second review of this play. Spotlight center stage — a Man atop a stone, gun in hand, as music reminiscent of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odessey plays about. It is a gloomy beginning, creating a mystique about the stage which does not rise; we are entranced, seduced by a […]