Press
“Dream sequences… suggest a monochrome Wonderland…The production makes acerbic swipes at property, status, corruption and power.”
- The Irish Times
“Inspired presentation of supremely high quality with dazzling production values… It’s a glorious, ludicrous romp full of hysteria and full also of hard hitting moral points about decency, kindness, malice and greed.”
-Sunday Independent
“I never knew that a nose could wreak so much havoc or be the source of so much fun, but in the hands of The Performance Corporation, clearly anything is possible…teasing highly stylised physical performances from the ensemble and crafting some knock-out scenes…Stunning lighting…brilliant visual spectacle”
****- Sunday Business Post
“Hilarious satire…beautifully artful……a show shimmying with inspiration.
Comically fruitful…Major Kovalyov’s predicament is echoed by The Performance Corporation’s stress on fun and grotesquery. It’’s all done with the slap and tickle of a feathery glove.”
- Irish Independent.
“Gogol’s absurdist comic short story, adapted with great inventiveness by Tom Swift, is given a sparkling production by a very versatile cast.
“A very talented company, which is directed with pace and great feel for comic choreography by Jo Mangan.”
****- Mail on Sunday
Tom Swift has breathed timely comment and barefaced Irish cheek into Gogol’s The Nose…movement and music are hideously apt and the script bounces along with a lot of laughs…lovely performances…fearsomely funny….a refreshingly different night out.
**** - Metro
Awards:
- nominated for an Irish Times Theatre Award 2009 for Costume Design
- winner of Irish Times Theatre Award 2009 for Lighting Design
