DANCER
Winner Best Film, Guernsey Lily Film Festival 2010

In the wake of a tragic accident, Jack struggles with the guilt of what he has done. As it begins to consume him, he finds himself drawn towards the family of the victim. Dancer is a tale of redemption, of good people doing bad things and, ultimately, the price they have to pay.


A cast of excellent actors delivering a moving story about the aftermath of a hit and run fatality.

Guernsey Press, 21^st July 2010

ORANGE FLOWER WATER
The Mill Theatre, Smock Alley Theatre, The New Theatre, St John's Listowel, Tech Amergin

The acting is sensitive and apt...Hastings brings a likeable humanity and strength to the spurned Miss Perfect...including a lengthy, sad yet funny sex scene...An enjoyable, insightful production of a taut and tender play.

...real people grappling with their own weaknesses and moral confusions. Here Steve Gunn (David) and Amy Hastings (Cathy) inhabit their roles with conviction, making it easy for the audience to connect with their dilemmas.

THE RAINSTORM
Axis Arts Centre, Dublin Fringe Festival 
September 2006

 
Premiere of the theatrical debut of award winning poet Noel Duffy, set in New Hampshire and tracing the fallout amongst friends & family after the death of a girl by heroin overdose.

A mesmeric, atmospheric work...Amy Hastings (Lori) and Elaine Reddy (Mrs. Sutton) conjured up magnificently captivating performances...Director Jessica Curtis has assembled a stellar creative team and elicits tender and affecting performances from the cast.

NO EXIT 
Andrews Lane Studio
May - June 2005

 
The existentialist classic by Jean-Paul Sartre about 2 women and a man trapped in Hell together.
 

It works best as a showcase for their talents...three very different parts and all of them excellent! ...Interesting and it stayed with me... There were laughs - you feel very good about life when you leave it.

Sartre's polemic is leavened by Ashmawy's edgy performance and Hastings' portrayal of airy desperation.

OLEANNA
Cork & Dublin 
March & April 2005

This is full of tension and fascinating character revelation...Amy Hastings is a marvelous Carol, a complex creation whose cause comes first, mercilessly turning the knife.  Mamet's coruscating play is in good hands here.

Oleanna packs a powerful punch...Amy Hastings is very good as the student, whose vulnerability draws out the professor, but whose agenda strangles him...both actors are understated and their performances have a cinematic intensity.

The two actors make a determined stab at getting to the heart of their parts. Amy Hastings successfully negotiates the transition from a nervous, insecure student to a confident, articulate young woman.

A two-hander which confronts American campus political correctness straight on, it stars beautiful Amy Hastings...This play already opened to rapturous reviews in Cork, the Irish capital of all things cultural.

PROBLEM SOLVERS ANONYMOUS & IT WON'T BE GREAT WHEN I'M NOT HERE
Irish Tour
January & February 2005

 
A double-bill of two satirical, physical comedies by Christian O'Reilly, presented by Tyger Theatre Company, Galway.
 

To have faith restored in contemporary theatre is a wonderful way to leave a play…as the curtain falls the superb directing and energetic acting all linger for a long time afterwards….done with style, wit, panache and balance…Jessica Curtis, Deborah Wiseman, Amy Hastings and Sean O’Meallaigh make up the ensemble…Combining movement and classical drama, the play also uses the pantomime method to great effect.

SWIMMING WITH SHARKS
Civic Theatre Studio & Andrews Lane Studio 
November & December 2004

An adaptation for stage of the Kevin Spacey film about the cut-throat Hollywood industry.

The acting is strong and convincing, and Amy Hastings and Eoghan McLaughlin do well in supporting roles.

THE NIGHT GARDEN
Northcott Theatre Exeter
March 2002

This was a world premiere of a new play developed by The Royal National Theatre Studio in London and staged in Exeter, set in Dublin during the week of the moon landing in 1969.

It is a curiously affecting play which refuses to be dismissed from the memory...Eva Bartley and Amy Hastings tenderly evoke the flowering of forbidden love in the shadow of violence.

There are some fine performances...Maggie (Amy Hastings) has already tasted a new life in England and sees it as a new dawn.

The pick of the performances were very good. Amy Hastings as Aisling’s worldly friend Maggie brought to the stage the palpable excitement of her stay in London.

Lin Coghlan’s challenging play offers great scope for its actors...this world premiere is played out with raw and powerful emotion.