The Audience reacts to Trade / Mary Motorhead
Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
Critic and audience reactions to Emma O'Halloran's and Mark O'Halloran's Trade / Mary Motorhead.
Trade / Mary Motorhead opened at Kilkenny Arts Festival from 8-11 August 2024 and is going back on nationwide tour from 11-26 October, showing at Dublin Theatre Festival, Cork, Tralee, Ennis and Navan.
“Compelling double bill reveals Emma O’Halloran’s impressive instinct for opera” - The Irish Times - Michael Dungan ★★★★
“mezzo-soprano Naomi Louisa O’Connell is alternately terrifying and sympathetic as Mary” - The Irish Times - Michael Dungan ★★★★
“the young Ó Dálaigh is a revelation, as if O’Halloran dragged him in from a back laneway and only then discovered he had a beautiful voice” - The Irish Times - Michael Dungan ★★★★
Read the full review from The Irish Times here.
“powerful singing from mezzo soprano Naomi Louisa O’Connell, whose voice as expressive instrument and interpreter of lyrics proves breathtaking” - The Arts Review - Chris O'Rourke ★★★★
“Creed (...) weaving music, lyric and voice into something sublime” - The Arts Review - Chris O'Rourke ★★★★
“Tenor Oisín Ó Dálaigh and bass-baritone John Molloy simply astonishing throughout” - The Arts Review - Chris O'Rourke ★★★★
“Kuhl’s lights hugely successful” - The Arts Review - Chris O'Rourke ★★★★
“conductor Elaine Kelly is again extraordinary at plumbing musical depths with directness and subtlety” - The Arts Review - Chris O'Rourke ★★★★
Read the full review from The Arts Review here.
“It’s a rich experience, full of drama. A bitter-sweet and enthralling evening of new opera.” - Irish Independent - Katy Hayes
“Emma O’Halloran’s music is various and dramatic, experimental but melodic, with plenty of sparky electronic elements alongside traditional instrumentation” - Irish Independent - Katy Hayes
“Creed’s direction elicits top-notch acting, as well as the expected superb singing” - Irish Independent - Katy Hayes