Project, DublinFour minutes, 600 words, 25 plays – last year, Fishamble theatre company held an open call for mini-plays portraying aspects of contemporary Ireland. Submissions poured in, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:39PMAbbey, DublinNow that James Joyce's work is out of copyright, a number of attempts have been made to dramatise his celebrated short story, The Dead. While beautifully transposed to the scree…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMPeacock, DublinA Belfast pub, a man drinking pints, and a barman staring vacantly at a television screen: the opening scene of Owen McCafferty's new play is deceptively downbeat. There is so…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMThe Mac, BelfastIn Stacey Gregg's new play for Belfast festival at Queen's, four would-be rock stars spend so much time bickering that it is astonishing their band, Huzzies, ever performs in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:41PMIrish theatre generates high expectations. So much so, that if there isn’t a premiere of a play by one of Ireland’s leading playwrights – Sebastian Barry, Enda Walsh, Marina Carr, Fran…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:00AMPeacock, DublinWith a title that refers to the art of Japanese bondage, Gary Duggan's new play looks at contemporary Dublin through a multi-ethnic lens. An abstract set in the form of a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMGaiety, DublinThe release of James Joyce's work from copyright this year opens up new theatrical possibilities, which the Corn Exchange theatre company has seized in its adaptation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:14PMArdhowen, EnniskillenWhite-faced, open-mouthed, and spattered with shards of white light, Robert Wilson's Krapp might already have passed over to the other side. His performance, in his own …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMAbbey, DublinA double-edge runs through Tom Murphy's penetrating portrayal of exile and return, set in 1950s Ireland. On an annual summer visit to their hometown, a group of returned emigran…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PMPeacock, DublinSilent screen idol Rudolph Valentino may be the inspiration for this one-man show, but there is nothing quiet about it. Playwright and performer Pat Kinevane brings extravagan…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AMSmock Alley, DublinPan Pan theatre company's production of Ibsen's classic is an uncomfortable experience. Director Gavin Quinn and designer Aedín Cosgrove seem to be x-raying rather than r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMProject, DublinWhat can 25 short plays tells us about Ireland? Fishamble Theatre Company held an open submission last year for mini-plays that address aspects of contemporary Ireland in 600 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMProject, DublinIt is not surprising that the Dublin theatre festival was reluctant to announce the subject of Colm Tóibín's new play in advance. The possibility of headlines claiming "Virg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMO'Reilly Theatre, DublinWho is Peer Gynt? In Rough Magic theatre company's ambitious production of Ibsen's verse drama, he is a pyjama-clad patient in a psychiatric clinic, drifting between …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMLyric, BelfastThe star voltage of Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon is the essential ingredient in Sean Foley's new adaptation of a French farce by Francis Veber. Best known as the author of Le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AMAbbey, DublinA dream of escape is all that sustains the characters in Sam Shepard's bleak play from the 1970s, in which home and family are words that leave a sour taste for the Tate family.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:34PMProject Arts Centre, DublinIt is hardly a surprise that a radio play by Samuel Beckett should be concerned with the bleak, monotonous business of being alive. But in the hands of Pan Pan the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMAbbey, DublinBrian Friel's great achievement in Translations is to play with audience expectations as easily as he plays with words. A drama of colonisation based on the mapping of Ireland's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMBlack Box, GalwayA day in the life of the small town of Inishfree becomes a season in hell in the hands of playwright Enda Walsh. In the character of Thomas Magill, he has created a tormente…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:15PMLyric, BelfastAs part of its reopening celebrations, the Lyric is reviving a play that made a huge impact in Belfast when it premiered 30 years ago. Martin Lynch brought class politics into …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:08PMPeacock, DublinIn her first full-length play, Stacey Gregg tackles very current concerns about the sexualisation of children and loss of innocence. The pressure on teenage girls to have sex …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMLyric, BelfastAnyone looking for contemporary parallels in Arthur Miller's play based on the 1692 Salem witch trials will invariably find them. The fundamentalism, repression and prejudice t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:26PMAbbey, DublinMemories of young love trouble two characters in middle age in Paul Mercier's new play – his second opening at the Abbey this month, along with The Passing, with which it will…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:58PMAbbey, DublinMemories of childhood make it difficult for three middle-aged siblings to sell their family home in this new play written and directed by Paul Mercier. On the eve of the auction…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:27PMPeacock, DublinTowers of cardboard boxes, a bare stage and four actors in search of a script: this show has the abstraction of a dance piece or an art installation, as bodies and boxes move …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:35PMAbbey, DublinDion Boucicault's stage-Irishry and mastery of spectacle brought him fame in the 19th century, but can be a tricky proposition today. With its noble Irish rebels and gormless pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMMermaid, WicklowFootball has been a gift to Irish playwrights in recent decades, with the snakes-and-ladders fortunes of the Irish soccer team providing ready-made melodrama. Metaphors of th…
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