THEATRE

Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Peacock Theatre, Dublin 8pm

Can you put a momentary and momentous act back together? Attempting to reconstruct the unconventional 1980s performances of James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, staged across Scotland by young director Paul Bright, Untitled Projects creates an archive of an idiosyncratic theatre history. There's much more to it than that, in a piece about memory and imagination with plenty of surprises. PC

ART

Not life/necessarily
NCAD Gallery, 100 Thomas St, Dublin Until Oct 24

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The title is taken from Beckett's poem, Something There. Last year Chloe Brenan and Chanelle Walshe shared a residency in Dresden "to explore the points of confluence in their respective practices". The resulting subtle, tactful artistic dialogue makes up this exhibit, with Brenan's fragmentary photographic images and Walshe's paintings and drawings, plus selected readings by poet Annemarie Ní Churreín. AD

FILM

Soylent Green
QFT, Belfast 6.30pm

Take notes for post-scarcity at Richard Fleischer’s 1973 dystopian classic, in which New Yorkers survive economic collapse by subsisting on nutritional wafers (right) made by the Soylent Corp. But what are the terrifying ingredients? Charlton Heston stars alongside Edward G Robinson, making his last screen appearance. TB