Abbey, 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…
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…
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