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Article: Fringe Festival Reviews
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- September 15, 2009
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TheIrish Timesreviews a selection of performances from this
year's Fringe Festival
Basin ****
Blessington
In an unsettling opening sequence, choreographed by Emma O'Kane,
tens of figures burst forth from the apertures of the Gate Lodge at
Blessington Basin. Dressed in costumes from different eras, we sense
the layers of history that have brought us here; the palimpsest of
the thousands of stories that have enriched the small public park's
history.
Inside the house, the audience moves among the ghosts: the
children playing games in the wardrobe, the saint in the hotpress,
the bride in the shower trapped by her own nerves. Imaginatively lit
by Sarah Jane Sheils, Basin is a living, breathing ...