Friday, June 22, 2018
Lyric, 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 02:42AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
Abbey 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 07:33AMThursday, March 22, 2018
Black 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 01:00PMFriday, January 5, 2018
At 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 09:05AMTuesday, October 3, 2017
At 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 12:18PMFriday, July 28, 2017
Black 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 11:06AMTuesday, June 20, 2017
Lyric, 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 07:48AMFriday, April 14, 2017
Lyric, 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 02:48AMWednesday, February 15, 2017
Old 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 07:24AMThursday, January 19, 2017
Project 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 08:24AMMonday, December 19, 2016
Abbey 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 10:04AMTuesday, December 13, 2016
Abbey 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 09:48AMMonday, October 24, 2016
Lyric 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 07:21AMTuesday, September 27, 2016
Her 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 04:39AMMonday, September 19, 2016
Lyric 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 08:40AMFriday, July 1, 2016
Abbey 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 04:43AMTuesday, June 14, 2016
Abbey, 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 10:14AMMonday, June 6, 2016
Samuel 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 08:15AMThursday, March 17, 2016
Abbey, 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 11:40AMMonday, March 14, 2016
Project 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 09:52AMThursday, February 18, 2016
Abbey, 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 07:46AMThursday, January 14, 2016
Abbey 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 08:58AMFriday, November 20, 2015
Project, 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 09:40AMMonday, November 9, 2015
The 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 12:43PMSunday, August 23, 2015
Abbey, 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 08:52AMSunday, August 2, 2015
Enniskillen, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PMMonday, July 20, 2015
Mick Lally theatre, GalwayPlaywright and actor Amy Conroy gives herself the best lines as a transgender man, in a work full of intense deathbed confrontations and family truth-telling A sex-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AMMonday, June 22, 2015
Abbey, DublinWayne Jordan strips back Seán O’Casey’s drama, set during the Irish war of independence, to deliver an impressive meditation on violence and reality that feels tellingly mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:21AMFriday, June 19, 2015
Ardhowen, EnniskillenWhite-faced, open-mouthed, and spattered with shards of white light, Robert Wilson's Krapp might already have passed over to the other side. His performance, in his own …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:15PMWednesday, April 22, 2015
Abbey theatre, DublinAnnabelle Comyn’s staging of this drama of marital suffocation is so cool and controlled that it becomes almost inert Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMMonday, April 20, 2015
The Mac, BelfastIn smalltown Northern Ireland, politicians, the media and the church all pursue self-serving agendas after a small boy is trapped in a bog hole Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AM 
