Theatre review: Romeo and Juliet

Romeo’s love is a little more ice than fire in a production whose heart lies in its decadent set pieces


Taking literature in Irish out of the Gaelic ghetto

Bob Marley agus Bob Dylan as Gaeilge? Liam Carson, director of the IMRAM Irish Language Literature Festival, which starts this Thursday, explains how it seeks to place the Irish language and its literature at the heart of public life within a modern, energetic and multicultural framework


Casual sex changes in ‘Twelfth Night’

Subversive gender play in Shakespeare’s comedy enabled it to explore prohibited desires, and the Abbey’s update keeps things ‘a bit dangerous’


Review: Twelfth Night

A daringly modern telling of Shakespeare’s comedy of desire, disguise and deception makes the play seem more true to itself



The Threepenny Opera

Director Wayne Jordan restores the satirical and human bite to an opera of opulence and economy




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