Travesties Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire
Its schisms feel like stories from an old, declining civilisation, and its many isms, well, they seem mere parlour games now. And this for two reasons: firstly, the wild statements of artistic manifestos have been so internalised by the culture that they appear obvious, rather than shocking.
Dada truly has become Gaga. And secondly, because these poses pale into insignificance in the face of the 21st-century’s numerous, intractable problems of a planetary scale.
