Reviews
Selected Media Comment
Gothic Mayhems created by Finucane & Smith
"Stunning... At the heart of her extraordinary shows is Finucane's volcanic physical presence and willingness to always go 'too far'." Sydney Morning Herald "Those who have seen performance artist Moira Finucane in action would concur that she is less an actor and more a force of nature - her work is concentrated and intensely controlled, sexually charged and compellingly strange, minutely choreographed and unsettling."
The Age
"A real treat. sinister, macabre, highly original" Manchester Evening News on Bad Things, commissioned by QUN UK (2000)"
"Highly charged, multifaceted, extraordinary... Finucane's characters are typically defined by a fragile beauty, a power and an elegance bordering on fragmentation and death."
Realtime
"Moira Finucane gives a fine performance as a towering spooky hag - a wonderful blend of the wicked fairy Carabosse, Charles Dickens' Miss Haversham, and the cosily creepy Morticia Adams, drawn slowly towards her diminutive seamstresses who diligently stitch and toil to feed their mistresses appetite, pricking and lacerating themselves with needles to shower her in blood...her massive black train expanding outwards to enshroud the audience."
The Age on The Dress Shop commissioned by Chunky Move (2001)
"Sewing through their own flesh, two black garbed seamstresses rouse a somnolent Vampira in a gargantuan black gown who shudders and hallucinates as her lacy black train rises to envelop everyone in the shop"
The Australian on The Dress Shop commissioned by Chunky Move (2001)
"Greenaway meets Nosferatu..."
InPress
"Perpetually fascinating to watch..."
Stage Left
"Phantasmagoria attacks all the senses in a visual bleak, maniacal and totally riveting performance.. we transfixed, unquestioningly believe her... eerie, powerful and indelible."
MCV on phantasmagoria (2001)