Project 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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