Blue Raincoat Theatre Company

Mother Courage and Her Children review: A darkly comic road trip through a Europe at war

Theatre: Sandra O Malley delivers a career-defining performance in Blue Raincoat’s meticulous production of Bertolt Brecht’s 1941 play

Mon Nov 11 2024 - 10:00

The Last Pearl: Blue Raincoat’s best voyage yet

Theatre: Niall Henry’s absorbing play about a deep-sea diver is eerily resonant with contemporary concerns

Wed May 01 2024 - 10:17

Happy Days review: Buried again and again and again

Sandra O’Malley’s performance reveals vulnerability under the bravado

Mon Feb 21 2022 - 12:50

Director Niall Henry takes on the lockdown challenge

Henry marks 30 years of absurd, visual drama as Blue Raincoat packs up till Covid allows

Mon Oct 12 2020 - 05:00

Eoin McNamee: On My Culture Radar

The writer on Bob Kelly in Tintown, actor Amybeth McNulty and Eily O’Connell’s jewellery

Sat Jul 13 2019 - 05:00

The School Days of Thaddeus K review: An elegant depiction of a dismal time

Blue Raincoat use puppetry to evoke the fragility of a young boy’s hellish education

Mon Nov 05 2018 - 12:45

Beckett plays to be staged in former factory in historic Sligo estate

Plays to be presented in different parts of building are A Piece of Monologue, Play and Footfalls

Sun Sept 17 2017 - 19:00

Blue Raincoat hasn’t just adapted Alice, it has almost adopted her

Alice was our first adaptation. We found a structure that was rich in ideas but uncomplicated in terms of language, allowing us play in theatre’s visual and physical aspects

Thu Oct 27 2016 - 12:50

Shackleton review: A cold eye cast over a legendary survival story

This Blue Raincoat production is fascinatingly uninterested in the thrills of the survival story

Thu Mar 24 2016 - 17:35

Blue Raincoat: pushing the boundaries of theatre from WB Yeats to Étienne Decroux

The author of a new book on Sligo’s innovative theatre company explores their physical style of acting, engagement with the landscape and commitment to education

Mon Oct 27 2014 - 00:54