Two 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMDublin theatre festivalA forgotten play by Seán O’Casey inspires Anu Productions’ immersive journey through a dilapidated block of flatsTwo or three return visits would be required to p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMPeacock, DublinStem cells, DNA and subtle psychology give an edge to Michael West’s deft contemporary reboot of FrankensteinPlaywright Michael West fuses old and new ideas in his gripping …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMTown Hall theatre, GalwayStanley Townsend brings the poet’s searing love poetry to life in a visually stunning show boasting some Beckettian touchesFor the bereaved it can often feel as if…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMGate, DublinThe author’s adaptation of his comic novel about an unplanned pregnancy is filled with nostalgic touches and noisy energyRoddy Doyle’s recent books have delved into such diff…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMLyric, BelfastMillions of children around the world love Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's story of a quest for companionship and understanding. The best-selling French novella from 1943 has succe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMAbbey theatre, DublinA sensitive revival of Brian Friel's play about a Catholic family in Donegal offers no easy answers to the problems of class and kinThe title of Brian Friel's play from …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMBlack Box, GalwayIn Enda Walsh’s adaptation of the Max Porter novel, Murphy is riveting as a bereaved husband – and an imaginary crowEnda Walsh’s plays are populated with characters co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMAt Dublin’s Abbey and Gate theatres and beyond, a grassroots movement has put the spotlight on a new wave of female playwrights, directors and other creatives In The Red Shoes at Dublin’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:05AMAt the Dublin theatre festival, Shakespeare is reunited with his son, Sebastian Barry’s prisoners look back, Ibsen’s Nora lands in a dystopian future and Anu Productions deliver an urgen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMBlack Box, GalwayPlaywright Walsh and composer Donnacha Dennehy’s exhilarating blend of opera, theatre and film is a study in heartbreak with a hint of Bluebeard’s CastlePlaywright Enda …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMLyric, BelfastCasting women as the criminal gang heightens the artifice and adds a poignant twist to Graham Linehan’s adaptation of the classic film comedyCasting women in the roles of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMLyric, BelfastPatrick O’Kane embraces both the humour and humanity of the troubled abstract expressionist in John Logan’s award-winning playHumour is not readily associated with the abst…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMOld Cork prison, CorkTwo women meet in a psychiatric institution and realise they are the same person in a riveting, superbly realised productionFor the 25th anniversary of Corcadorca theatr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMProject Arts Centre, DublinThis tale of a daughter and her dead father, a former Maze prison hunger striker, is strong on symbolism and has an incantatory performance by Olwen FouéréA daug…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMAbbey theatre, Dublin Marina Carr and Wayne Jordan’s distillation of the 800-page behemoth conjures impressive set-pieces but wobbles on individual characterisationsIt is not hard to see w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMAbbey theatre, DublinAnnabelle Comyn’s staging of this drama of marital suffocation is so cool and controlled that it becomes almost inertIn Mark O’Rowe’s new version of Ibsen’s 1890…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMLyric theatre, Belfast Lucy Caldwell freights her well-observed Chekhov adaptation with the tensions of 1990s Belfast, adding to the siblings’ sense of stifled isolation “We can’t sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:21AMHer plays have explored porn, technology and life in her childhood home of Belfast. Stacey Gregg talks about tackling ‘gender fraud’ with the award-winning Scorch and interweaving tales …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:39AMLyric theatre, BelfastLisa Dwyer Hogg’s crop-haired Joan is an unshakeable believer raging within a corporate world in this updated version of George Bernard Shaw’s playGeorge Bernard Sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:40AMAbbey theatre, DublinAmong three sharp leads, Aisling O’Sullivan is riveting as an Irishwoman learning disturbing truths about her home town in this revival of Tom Murphy’s 1998 playFrom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:43AMAbbey, DublinPhillip McMahon and Raymond Scannell’s ‘play within music’ is a sometimes awkward yet always impassioned story about a working-class woman’s strugglesPlaywright Phillip …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:14AMSamuel Beckett theatre, DublinEimear McBride’s award-winning novel transitions perfectly to the stage in Corn Exchange’s startling and upsetting Dublin theatre festival show about the im…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AMAbbey, DublinIn this refreshed, high-energy restaging, Sean O’Casey’s 1926 classic of political theatre still has insistent questions to ask about social justice Inclusion of Sean O’Ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:40AMProject Arts Centre, DublinThere’s venom and sexual frankness in this reworking, but little sense of why Northern Ireland should be the location Related: Patrick Marber interview: ‘Your …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:52AMAbbey, DublinStephen Rea is riveting as a troubled Ulster loyalist whose hatred of ‘the Fenians’ drives him to breakdown in this compelling Irish playThe therapist in David Ireland’s l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AMAbbey theatre, DublinGeorge Bernard Shaw’s early work rehearses trenchant social commentary about marriage and parenthood, and shows that compromise is no easy matterGeorge Bernard Shaw th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:58AMProject, DublinThis stage version of Ingmar Bergman’s film about a woman on the brink of madness swaps mystical intensity for dysfunctional family dynamicsIngmar Bergman referred to his fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:40AMThe Abbey will commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising with work by nine men and one woman. But its incoming co-directors should champion a very different model of national theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMAbbey, DublinBlending Greek myth and Irish folklore, Marina Carr’s bleak, surreal drama is undermined by too much shouting and a lack of pityA dead black swan, a blind seer, a visitor from…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:52AMEnniskillen, Co FermanaghMoving immersive performances of Britten’s Phaedra and Beckett’s All That Fall, along with his otherworldly Ohio Impromptu, starred in this year’s lineupA woma…
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