Monday, February 10, 2020
Politically, the time is out of joint in Ireland. Elections and assemblies, tariffs and trade deals, boundaries, borders and Brexit provide the
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Shakespeare’s plays lend themselves to song and dance adaptations – look at West Side Story and The Boys from Syracuse. Given the
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Beauty and the Beast is a fairytale with substance and a message – that real beauty lies within a person. The opening
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The auditorium is drenched in purple light. The packed audience is a sea of blue satin dresses. Lights go up on a
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Tidings of comfort and joy replace Dickensian filth and misery in this handsome, rip-roaring new take on a Christmas staple. In the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:15PMPaul Boyd’s new musical adaptation of Peter Pan is a thing of beauty. It keeps faith with both the narrative of JM
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There are worst places to be snowed in on Christmas Eve than a cosy pub in the country. But it’s an entirely
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Rarely is a political party both the subject of an opera and the author of its own libretto. With apposite timing, in
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Textually, Oonagh Murphy’s nightmarish reimagining of J.M. Synge’s once contentious The Playboy of the Western World remains firmly rooted in the lonesome
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What on earth could be done with a new production of Shirley Valentine that has not already been done before? Cushioned by
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A Streetcar Named Desire requires careful handling. At its best – when the casting is cohesive, the personal chemistry crackles and the
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There’s more to John Godber’s Bouncers than immediately meets the eye. Over four decades, its raucous humour and on-the-nail observations of a dirty,
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The King is dead. Long live the king. Through the ages, the replacement of one corrupt despot with another represents the opposite
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Writer, poet and politician Victor Hugo is revered as one of the towering cultural figures of 19th-century Europe but less known was
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The moon is full, the sky is starry and the elves are out to play. Mischievous Dewdrop (Jolene O’Hara) is new to
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Christmas would be a pretty dismal affair without copious quantities of turkey and tinsel but that’s the reality for many people. Since
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It would be a particularly grudging panto-pooper who would deny the pleasure Belfast derives from the annual Christmas glitterfest at the Grand
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Who did Brendan Bracken and William Joyce see when they looked into the mirror? Two Irishmen, the first the Tipperary-born son of
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Ian McKellen’s fascist dictator, Antony Sher’s bottled spider, Jonjo O’Neill in biker leathers – they rank among the most memorable recent incarnations
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Celebrating Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel, Arts Over Borders presents site-specific events in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Jane
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The Belfast Telegraph is a Northern Ireland institution. In its day it was widely looked upon by both communities as the news
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Conor Mitchell’s work is unpredictable and fearlessly theatrical. That’s what makes it so exhilarating. In The Fall of the House of Usher,
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Fifty years ago, at the start of his writing career, Brian Friel was already breaking the mould in dramatic experimentation and structural
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Peace ostensibly broke out in Northern Ireland in 1998 with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. Since then, the place has
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Abigail’s Party: the very title is synonymous with social climbing, terrible fashion and big hair. The epitome of car crash drama, its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:24AMAfter weeks of waiting, the word is out – and it is deeply discouraging. Arts organisations across Northern Ireland have suffered stringent
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Dion Boucicault’s rowdy melodrama The Colleen Bawn is a disaster waiting to happen. It is a rambunctious whirlwind of a thing, in
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It’s all too much for one man to bear: the devastating loss of his wife in a domestic accident, the wordless sadness
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Young at Art has been inspiring children in Northern Ireland and around the world for 20 years. Director Eibhlin de Barra tells
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John is not just cracking up. He’s falling apart. But why? He has a steady if humdrum job, a caring mother and a
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For his debut production as artistic director of Northern Ireland Opera, Walter Sutcliffe has signalled his intention to broaden the company’s scope
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