This week’s theatre: Country Girls hit the Abbey while Alice returns to Wonderland

Abbey Theatre stages O’Brien’s subversive classic as a much safer journey and Blue Raincoat re-re-imagines adventures in Wonderland.

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

Return of Druid’s Godot is a theatre highlight worth waiting for

Druid’s unmissable Waiting for Godot embarks on national and international tour, while Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton is back in Blue Raincoat’s intrepid production

A taste of the theatre this week

Looking forwards, looking backwards and looking up – here’s what’s on view

‘We can’t keep funding productions and not the time for their development’

The ‘Irish Times’ IrishTheatre Awards judges have been impressed by the sector's strength in depth but concerned about the effect of funding cuts

Alice in Wonderland review: curious return to the past

Blue Raincoat takes a nostalgic trip down the rabbit hole of its own history

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

Matti Bye: The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

First Cosmonaut

In Blue Raincoat’s retelling of the space race, Yuri Gagarin makes for a reluctant star

‘What isn’t music?’ Kilkenny ponders the big questions

Musical fusion of different stripes could be heard at the recent arts festival – with varying degrees of success