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Man of Valour
8 Aug 2011
Mime and punishment
Haven’t we been through this before? Wasn’t it some time in the 1970s we stopped being dazzled by mime artists? Didn’t we pretty quickly realise the means of telling a story are never as interesting as the story itself? It seems not in the case of…
Corn Exchange theatre company bring Man of Valour to Edinburgh 2011
27 Jul 2011
One-man action movie from acclaimed Irish company
It’s a scenario familiar to many. A lonely office worker tries to escape his humdrum existence, living out a fantasy world of swashbuckling make-belief and mind-blowing heroism. ‘Everyone can relate to it,’ says actor and co-writer Paul Reid. ‘It’s…
Freefall captures mood of bewilderment moments before death
27 Jul 2010
Dublin theatre group's Fringe show captures mood of the times
It would be misleading to say the latest play by Dublin’s Corn Exchange was about the credit crunch, the collapse of the Celtic Tiger and the scandals within the Catholic church, but those events were playing out when Freefall was created last year and…
