Miriam Lord’s Week: Banking film is a guaranteed scary Halloween spectacle
Zombie banks, dead flies and Fran from Love/Hate – ‘The Guarantee’ is Nightmare on Kildare Street, without the spine-tingling suspense
The Guarantee: the unmaking of modern Ireland
‘A bleak portrait of the end of a pocket empire’. Writer Colin Murphy and producer John Kelleher tell Donald Clarke about bringing the story of the most expensive bank bailout in history to the big screen
Review: Borstal Boy
The stage version of Behan’s classic lacks subtlety but makes for rollicking entertainment
Fran the man becomes Behan the borstal boy
A varied theatre career – including his new role as Brendan Behan – should save Peter Coonan from being typecast as a crook
‘Cinderella’ Ireland stars in bank guarantee film
Based on the play by Colin Murphy, ‘The Guarantee’ goes into production this month
Waiting for Godot
Gare St Lazare Players take Beckett’s masterpiece away from more earthly concerns. Does Godot need more gravity?
The dark side of the moon landing
Richard Dormer’s Irish-American gangster play orbits around a jukebox, violence and some brutal characters
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