155 stories by "Chris McCormack"
Faeries, changelings, merrows and hawthorn trees: Chris McCormack dives into Irish folklore in Big Telly Theatre's adaptation of Jane Talbot's story collection.
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A state of unbridled fury: Chris McCormack reviews Eva O'Connor's new play about bitter enemies and unlikely friends.
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The ferocious fires of Ireland's culture wars: Chris McCormack reviews Emily Gillmor Murphy's dark new three-hander at Dublin's Theatre Upstairs.
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Virtuosity hidden in the most allusive places: Chris McCormack is at Galway Theatre Festival to review Emma O'Grady's unique solo show.
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A body squirming in the gallows: Chris McCormack heads to Galway Theatre Festival to review Brick Wall Theatre's production of Pierre Brault's 1999 play.
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Lessons woven from art history: Chris McCormack emerges, paint-splattered and perceptive, from Emma Jordan's revival of John Logan's 2009 play.
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Shaking heaven to be heard: Chris McCormack is swept up in Brokentalkers' politically charged, modern-day reimagining of the Passion Play.
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Cowardly nostalgia: Chris McCormack lingers in the halcyon bliss of Noël Coward's 1930 comedy.
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With 26 scenes and 40-plus characters, Marina Carr's tremendously ambitious adaptation of Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina feels rather crowded. It's probably best
An oil painting dominates the stage. The graceful woman it portrays, with her controlled smile and fashionable curls, is the accomplished mother
History hasn't been kind to Irish women playwrights. Most of their work fell out of repertory long ago. A turning point may
David Ireland hasn't slept. In a Dublin cafe, the morning after the opening night of his new play Cyprus Avenue, the Northern
Campaign group Waking the Feminists has claimed that gender equality can be achieved in Irish theatre in five years. It made the
The air is heavy inside the studio where Aoife Duffin has just finished a rehearsal for A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing,
Last week, the Abbey Theatre " Ireland's national theatre " hosted the first meeting of #WakingTheFeminists, a gender equality initiative born out
You might think they're buzzing little villains but the fact is they're integral to our planet. According to Albert Einstein: "If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man would …
It could easily be interpreted as an act of narcissism. Quarantine, one of the UK's most terraforming companies, has arrived at such self-regard as to roll out scenery from its past producti…
When Jack cut down the beanstalk that brought a dead Giant crashing down on his provincial town, everyone was arms up in arms. Blind Summit, the UK's premier puppet theatre company, tell the…
On a pastel stage of dressing screens and make-up mirrors, blues and pinks interweave and combine in illustrations of Pablo Picasso's peace sign and the international drag queen RuPaul. The …
There's certainly enthusiasm in Patch of Blue, the London-based theatre troupe who have adapted Irish novelist Sarah Moore Fitzgerald's Back to Blackbrick. In their effort to put the story o…
The downside of bringing a student production to the Fringe is that it faces going up against experienced acts, with the contrast between professional and amateur disciplines brought more…
In today's world, where black people witness the Ferguson shootings on their televisions, how can the feeling not be of being under systematic attack? In her play, Racheal Ofori takes hold o…
"If you find something funny then laugh", says Jess Thom, a London artist with Tourettes syndrome. Alienated by the diagnosis in her early twenties, Thom took the advice of a friend: "You…
'Tis the witching hour. The crowd file in at midnight for a heavy metal band pumping with the rage of the Greeks. In Aeschylus's Oresteia, the matriarch of the House of Atreus, Clytemnestra,…
What your computer can learn about you from your web searches and your reliance on Google Translate (despite your "fluency" in German), down to the porn you watch, makes for a startling poss…
