Out for your Blood: The Lieutenant of Inishmore

First Published: The Irish Times, May 27, 2006
REGARDLESS of their final verdict on the Broadway production of Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore, there’s one bodily fluid that has been given liberal mention in the reviews. “Blood winds up on pretty much every surface,” wrote Ben Brantley in the New York Times; “bloodbath”, “blood-soaked” and [...]

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Patti Smith

First Published: The Irish Times, May 20, 2006
Faces stare from the walls of Patti Smith’s Soho brownstone, all of them in stark, unblemished black and white. Most of the faces are so rawly iconic that to see them here like this, hanging as informally as family snapshots, is to feel a shock of recognition. There [...]

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