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King Lear
The Abbey amazingly hasn’t staged King Lear since the early 1930s. Director Selina Cartmell thus has no legendary productions of Shakespeare’s bleakest tragedy to outshine. The aged Lear (Owen Roe)… more →
Talking Movies
King Lear
wrote 3 months ago: The Abbey amazingly hasn’t staged King Lear since the early 1930s. Director Selina Cartmell thus ha … more →
The Talk of the Town
wrote 5 months ago: Emma Donoghue’s original script promised to be one of the highlights of the Dublin Theatre Festival … more →
Conversations on a Homecoming
wrote 5 months ago: Druid’s lightest outing of the Dublin Theatre Festival at the Gaiety saw their sterling ensemble ass … more →
A Whistle in the Dark
wrote 5 months ago: Druid stunned the brutalised Gaiety audience into silence at the Dublin Theatre Festival with Tom Mu … more →
The Select: The Sun Also Rises
wrote 5 months ago: Hemingway’s first novel was transformed at Belvedere College into one of the highlights of the Dubli … more →
Dubliners
wrote 5 months ago: Corn Exchange’s flagship production of Dubliners at the Gaiety for the Dublin Theatre Festival was d … more →
The Lark
wrote 9 months ago: Anouilh’s strikingly modern take on Joan of Arc is performed in the strikingly antique Boys School s … more →
The Plough and the Stars
wrote 9 months ago: Director Wayne Jordan reprises his acclaimed 2010 production of O’Casey’s old warhorse, but, even wi … more →
Fast Intent celebrate Joan of Arc
wrote 9 months ago: BBC 2’s recent Hollow Crown Henriad may have focused attention on the looming 600th anniversary of t … more →
The House
wrote 9 months ago: Tom Murphy’s 2000 Abbey commissioned play about the frustrations of returned emigrants in the 1950s … more →
Beyond the Stage: Talking Theatre Talking (Thinking, Feeling and Engaging with) Theatre
wrote 9 months ago: by Madeleine Brown Cimolino to Quigley. Quigley to the crowd. The crowd to Cimolino and back to the … more →
Travesties
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wrote 11 months ago: Rough Magic bring Tom Stoppard’s 1975 play Travesties to the Pavilion Theatre to mark Bloomsday but … more →
Glengarry Glen Ross
wrote 11 months ago: David Mamet won a Pulitzer in 1984 for his black comedy about desperate real estate agents, and this … more →
Alice in Funderland
wrote 1 year ago: The Abbey stages its first musical in 20 years, but if decades long moratoriums are the cost of keep … more →
Stage v Page
wrote 1 year ago: I’ve noted that I tied myself up in absolute knots over the distinction between plays that really ha … more →
Top 10 Plays to see on stage before you die
wrote 1 year ago: It’s caused an awful lot of angst and wide consultation to try and do it justice but this 200th blog … more →
Improbable Frequency
wrote 1 year ago: Rough Magic triumphantly reprise their 2004 musical comedy at the Gaiety, atoning for writer Arthur … more →
Hamlet
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wrote 1 year ago: Regular readers will remember previous worries about the possibility of an unbiased review if you kn … more →
Big Maggie
wrote 1 year ago: The Clinic star Aisling O’Sullivan stars as the titular monstrous matriarch in Druid’s production of … more →
