Gate theatre, DublinThe comedian turns on the roguish charm as part of a dazzling cast that inject new poignancy into the absurdist classic One of Samuel Beckett’s most celebrated plays, E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMAbbey theatre, DublinDenise Gough plays out Portia’s bleak 30th, defined by family resentments, misogyny and the spectral presence of her dead twin, in this disturbing drama It is not only…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMAbbey theatre, DublinWith a jazzy soundtrack and heaps of audience participation, this pared-back production manages to find light in the darkness of depression Of all the brilliant things t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMPavilion, DublinDruid theatre’s cast go all out for the ridiculous in this rarely performed triple bill, delivered with music hall flair Druid theatre company’s triple bill by Seán O’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMAbbey theatre, DublinGillen, Niamh Cusack and Nigel Lindsay deliver haunting monologues in director Joe Dowling’s production Frank Hardy, faith healer, was too brainy to be a true artist, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMVarious venues, DublinImmersive Irish history, unacknowledged Aids deaths and post-coital chats – this year’s festival is challenging and entertaining Returning to live performance with…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMLyric, BelfastEx-lovers attempt to rebuild a fence in Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney’s play marking the centenary of the partition of Ireland An invisible line bisecting a boggy field …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMAbbey, DublinSarah Hanly embodies a range of characters in her punchy debut play that explores the pressures on teenagers “It’s a holy show,” Saoirse declares, as she comes round in ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMWith theatre for an audience of one, a whirlwind set of Kevin Barry stories and sparky songs, the Irish festival is in fine form Adapting to Covid-19 restrictions with ingenuity, Galway inte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32PMAbbey, Dublin and available onlineRosaleen McDonagh’s play, an unsettling love story set in a Traveller community, has the ring of truthfulness A love story shines through a mass of societ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMEdinburgh festival fringe, onlineDeirdre Kinahan’s play explores how culpable Máire can be for acts of cruelty, when she was brutalised as a young woman in a church-run institution Deirdr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMCoole Park, GalwayLady Augusta Gregory’s former home is an apt backdrop for this transposition of the play to 1880s Ireland Druid Theatre Company’s outdoor setting of Thomas Kilroy’s C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMCork Midsummer festival onlineVirginia Woolf’s novel, centring on an Edwardian marriage and the rupture of war, is richly adapted and beautifully staged with a strong ensemble cast Shadow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMAbbey, Dublin, and onlineUna McKevitt’s droll domestic drama shows us a day in the life of a family dealing with the ill health of an ageing father Reopening to live audiences for the firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMAvailable onlineStephen Rea and Judith Roddy give beautifully nuanced performances as a father and daughter meeting during the Covid-19 pandemic A pane of glass is not the only thing keeping…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMAvailable onlineGilly Campbell’s autobiographical play about searching for her absent father may be a monologue, but it tells a story much larger than one person’s How to make sense of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18PMAvailable onlineInspired by a real incident where a woman was barged into the path of an oncoming bus, Sonya Kelly’s play explores proximity and distance Three lives intersect for just an …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMWith productions staged live outdoors, livestreamed, or available online, this year’s festival fused the past with the present, and engaged an audience both present and remote “You see m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMBlack Box, GalwayContemporary themes resonate throughout Garry Hynes’s production about a debt-ridden aristocratic family on the brink of losing their estate Something in the sombre mood o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMA vaudeville thriller set around a Dublin newspaper in 1973 uses knockabout humour to parallel modern-day geopolitics ‘General swearing and delight” is playwright Michael West’s winnin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMGalway 2020 promises everything from Margaret Atwood to art with local asylum-seekers. Its organisers and artists talk about building bridges and creating a lasting legacy for Irish artists …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMProject Arts Centre, DublinCracking male banter gives way to seeping sadness in John O’Donovan’s play about three men grieving for their friend Tripping on drugs, 17-year-old Liam lies d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMGate, DublinThe acclaimed writer’s version of the Greek tragedy focuses on her sister Ismene, with plenty of modern relevances Colm Tóibín’s new version of the Greek tragedy Antigone d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMMarina Carr’s Hecuba probes a mother’s grief, family secrets unravel in The Beacon and audiences are immersed in 80s LGBT+ Dublin in Faultline Questions of interpretation drive Nancy Har…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMAbbey, DublinOnly those with the most righteous anger will triumph, in this small-town play about wider societal issues. Sexist graffiti on a suburban wall provokes blazing confrontation in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMTown Hall theatre, Galway There are echoes of Joyce and Beckett as guests gather at a dinner party and grapple with their own disconnectedness A highly strung dinner-party host looks set for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMVarious venues, CorkMini plays performed for solo festivalgoers are a hit – plus there’s a bluffer’s guide to the suburbs and a Tom Waits-esque concept album come to life The multi-dis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMAbbey, DublinA versatile cast and evocative setting bring to life Dylan Coburn Gray’s award-winning script, which follows a taxi driver’s journey through an eclectic Dublin family In Dyl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMThe Mac, BelfastA Northern Irish teenager escaping to Wales for an abortion is played with huge empathy, lifting a script that is thin on drama A young woman lies across a row of hard plasti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMGate, DublinThree nuclear physicists are reunited in this drama about ageing, marriage and sexual rivalry, directed by Oonagh Murphy With its slow release of a series of moral questions, Luc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:22AMTwo frank solo shows, East Belfast Boy and Every Day I Wake Up Hopeful, depict male crises with heart, humour and hip-hopSaggy and shuffling, his dressing gown flapping over a middle-aged sp…
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