January 11, 2004
Old reliables
The Irish Times/ESB Irish Theatre Awards will be doled out next month. The nominations are rather Dublin-centric. Rightly so, Frankie McCafferty gets a best actor nomination as Dinzie in Druid's Sharon's Grave, but that's it. Judge Helen Meaney bemoans the lack of innovation outside of Dublin.
Outside of Dublin there was a marked concentration on revivals, which is pretty unexciting.
I wonder would anyone have bothered to look at the plays even if there was a new one every week? It seems a little unfair. Outside of the capital, there is a limited number of works that can be performed in any year - there's not that many theatres for a start. And considering that most of the nominations for the Dublin-based theatres are for plays from Ibsen, Oliver Goldsmith, Arthur Millar and Tennessee Williams, maybe she should look a little closer to home.
Posted by Monasette at January 11, 2004 05:13 PM