Irish Examiner, 24 June, 2008
By Ian Kilroy
K; The Iowa Project
Old Distillery, North Mall, Cork
[we've cut the middle of this because it tells the whole story of the play - we'll put it in once the run's over!]
Old Distillery, North Mall, Cork
[we've cut the middle of this because it tells the whole story of the play - we'll put it in once the run's over!]
With the clunky charms of a black and white B Movie, Hammergrin Theatre Company’s promenade production succeeds to entertain and confuse in equal measure.
…All in all, the company has devised and directed a great evening’s entertainment – intelligent, amusing and witty.
… a company that is growing into one of the best new company’s on the Cork theatrical scene.
5 responses so far ↓
Chris // June 26, 2008 at 8:49 am |
I saw the show on Tuesday. Well done guys – it was brilliant!
Lili // June 27, 2008 at 8:25 am |
Your best production yet – the writing was sharp and intelligent, the music atmospheric, and the acting great. You all created something really memorable and unique. WELL DONE!!!
hammergrin // June 27, 2008 at 10:14 am |
Thanks Chris, and thank you Lili – great to get such positive feedback.
Lili // July 1, 2008 at 2:20 pm |
CONGRATS AGAIN!
Just saw online edition of Irish Times – write up on the M-S F:
..WHILE THIS YEAR’S drama strand had a touch of Dutch exteriors
(Sensazione, Robodock, Braakland , Victoria) it might also cause Cork City
Council to consider a heavier investment in the festival, given the way in
which locations emerge as immense theatrical opportunities which, as with
Hammergrin’s impressively staged presentation of K: the Iowa Project at
the Old Distillery, reveal unusual, historic or otherwise fascinating
aspects of the urban landscape. Big productions like this, like the
intriguing Braakland , or Corcadorca’s compelling The Hairy Ape (both
already reviewed) take on extra dimensions, almost an extra significance,
from such revelations, as a place becomes a landscape, a site expands into
a vista and grim old structures loom into lovely, forgotten
perspectives……
hammergrin // July 1, 2008 at 7:29 pm |
Yes… I wonder how much of that we can claim as referring to us? … All of it? Great!