Conall Morrison

Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up

The troubling aspects of Bernard Shaw’s dusty play are here hammered at with forced jollity – the result is not weightless fun

When she was approached for the only role in the distressing stage adaptation of A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, the actor had refused, saying she couldn’t do ‘another play about rape’ after a string of draining parts. What changed her mind?

David Pearse steals the show amid a cast playing to the gallery with diverting, shameless slapstick

The national academy produced its first trained actors this year; can it become one of the best drama academies in the world?

A varied theatre career – including his new role as Brendan Behan – should save Peter Coonan from being typecast as a crook

The actor is one of the most intense and intelligent performers in Irish theatre; little surprise, then, that a conversation with him starts to sound like a masterclass on acting

As ‘Sive’ strides across the Abbey stage, two actors who formed part of the original cast share their memories of Keane’s early, enduring writing in Listowel

As the Abbey revisits John B Keane’s tragedy of lust and lucre, is it safe to go back into the kitchen?

Colin Murphy’s play of the events leading up to the 2008 bank guarantee contains the tensions of his dual identities as journalist and dramatist, and a new run introduces the coarse voices of the Anglo tapes

Under Conall Morrison’s playful and imaginative direction, a young cast returns some creative disruption to the fable

In the subversive spirit of Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, four young actors question authority in an interview with their director, Conall Morrison

Colin Murphy’s new docudrama on the 2008 bank guarantee performs the role of a public inquiry