It’s 1978, and Ireland is on its back. War ravages the north, and the south suffers rabid inflation and crippling unemployment. U2 are yet to dominate the world, and it seems there’s little that’s Irish to raise spirits or spark pride. Then Munster, an amateur rugby union team from Limerick,…
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F Scott Fitzgerald could never have imagined the avalanche of adaptations that would cling to the starched shirt-tails of his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. Plays, films, musicals, an opera and even a ballet have milked and re-milked the characters, the opulent setting and the tale of failed love. Now…
When British choreographer Kate Prince hears music, she always sees matching movement. This is what happened when she listened to The Police’s Walking on the Moon, resulting in Message In A Bottle, a 2020 dance piece based on entirely Sting’s music. Performed by her acclaimed Sadlers’ Wells-based company ZooNation, it’s…