Smock Alley Collaborations

Woo Hoo!  We won two free tickets via Le Cool Dublin to a performance of 3 short one act plays at Smock Alley Threatre.  

We milled about the lobby waiting for Collaborations to begin.  Paper tags and pens hung around the atrium inviting people to leave their random sentiments.  

My favorite was When I was little, I wanted to be an astronaut or a vicar.   I wonder what profession this person actually chose?

The performances included:

1. The Trainee - a brief tragicomedy about a shoe store employee
2. The Seeds - a poignant monologue about a girl and her terminally ill father
3. The Art of Not Blinking - a dialogue between two twenty-somethings working at a kids house of horrors

The show was slated to run for 1 hour but all three performances were done in about 35 minutes.  We had a great time but had we paid 12 euro a ticket, we'd have been a tad disappointed at the length of the performances.  I'm a big fan of value for money.

We headed out to Fallon and Byrne after the show for a glass of wine and cheese plate - a nice refined way to end our theatre evening.

Dublin - Kitchen Restaurant

We added another restaurant to our Dublin repertoire recently.  Kitchen is located on Anne St. right off of Grafton Street in the heart of Dublin's City Centre.  We tried beet and goat cheese salad...

...lamb shank and couscous...

...and gnocchi with squash and shaved parmesan.

The food was well presented and tasty; maybe a notch below Camden Kitchen and Green 19 in my opinion but the friendly and attentive service made up for any shortcomings.