Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Annabelle Comyn’s evocative production, featuring Fergal McElherron and Elaine O’Dwyer, makes clever, convincing choices
Annabelle Comyn stages professional rendering of well-made play in which affluent Dublin couple are challenged by arrival of two visitors
Theatre: War may be the backdrop, but the real territory at stake is the marriage bed
Going back to singing was a challenge – not least because her voice had changed
Latest Government announcements have delayed the promised increase in audience size for theatres and cinemas
The theatre director on how Derek Jarman and Parasite fed into her play Our New Girl
Louis O’Neill’s Asking for It is revived for the Gaiety, while Playboy crosses the Border
Inspired by the loss of its home, Dublin Youth Theatre partners with Pan Pan to contemplate youth and adulthood in The Sleepwalkers
The characters in Ursula Rani Sarma’s first musical, a collaboration with the Cork singer-songwriter called Evening Train, yearn to escape their small-town home
A year after his death, playwright Tom Murphy is being celebrated by actors keen to share their experience of working on his plays. His widow, actor Jane Brennan, talks about life with – and without – Murphy
Scarlet Rivera’s violin on the album informed Mick Flannery’s approach to music
Looking out for one another: Stage highlights take dispiriting look at blame, victimhood and apathy in society, and wonder about how to rebuild trust
Drama and performance can play a role in teasing out the grey areas of consent, and changing hearts and behaviour
This gruelling adaptation of Louise O’Neill’s novel is alarming for good reason
An Irish rape case exposes a culture of victim-blaming in the stage adaptation of Louise O’Neill’s novel; repressed desires drive a boy’s own story from Kabul to San Francisco
Late at the Gate review: gifted writer and performer Emmet Kirwan responds to John Osborne’s ‘Look Back in Anger’
Yasmina Reza’s celebrity warhorse returns, while Emmet Kirwan gives a dissenting, rhyming response to ‘Look Back in Anger’
New production of Osborne’s drama pulls down curtain on angry young man
John Osborne’s aggressive scourge Jimmy Porter is about to appear in the Gate
Osborne’s ‘Look back in Anger’ returns to the Gate, and a new work from Mark O’Rowe
‘Medea’ misses the mark while ‘Risurrezione’ goes down a storm
Syrian conflict and mother and baby homes among political themes in the two events
Culture review 2016: The familiar delivered fresh revelations, while ghosts haunted many of our stages
McHugh has a skilled hand for creating mood, sly dialogue and psychological excavation, but seems less concerned with the mechanics of plot
This reprisal of Tom Murphy’s meticulous play is the Abbey’s best show in years
Fiach Mac Conghail says reaction sparked ‘a professional and personal crisis’
Simon McBurney, Robert Lepage and Brian Friel all know that, whether they escape us, prove false or exert a destructive hold, memories always keep us in their grip
Brian Friel’s 1990 play about five sisters in 1930s Donegal is finally being directed by a woman, Annabelle Comyn, and she intends to expose its hidden darkness
Annabelle Comyn’s respectful and inquisitive revival is engaged with nostalgia, particularly the pain at the root of that word
Q&A with Irish actor Rory Fleck Byrne: ‘It took going abroad for me to realise how much Ireland has contributed to the world of theatre and film’
The festival has shunned an obvious theme in favour of reaching a wider audience
As an actor you may have only a few lines – or none at all – but you can still make the most of a role, as Dee Burke, who’s appearing in ‘Hedda Gabler’ at the Abbey, and John Doran, who features in Shakespeare’s tragedy at the Gate, are proving
Abbey production of Ibsen’s drama feels stilted
The harrowing ’A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing’ is hard to shake off
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