Review: Dublin Fringe Festival-FARM
WillFredd Theatre Company-Farm-Dublin Fringe Festival 2012 While waiting to be led into the warehouse that had been taken over for the production I could smell animals and looking down I noticed bits of straw on the floor. The audience was led into a small quartered off area where immediately we found ourselves observing a discussion...
Lucca’s hidden gardens: Palazzo Pfanner
Palazzo Pfanner is a large 17th century house in the centro storico of Lucca. The gardens are one of the hidden gems of the city. They can be glimpsed from the path at the top of the city walls, but visitors are also able to enter and see the baroque statues and plants in the...
Chelsea Flower Show 2012
The two ladies behind me stretched to try to see over the crowd in front of Diarmud Gavin’s garden. Did he get anything? I don’t think so. Can you see the sign? No. I don’t think he got anything. I couldn’t resist. I turned around to tell them I think he got a silver-gilt. Aaah...
Bruce Munro Light Installations, Longwood gardens, Pennsylvania
Most people don’t ponder much about light. We flick switches and twiddle knobs and only think about the power of light when there is a power-cut and we have to dig out the candles. A new contemporary art show at Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania, showcases the work of Bruce Munro, a man who spends his life thinking...
