Three Fingers Below the KneeExploring nearly 50 years of state censorship, is director Tiago Rodrigues appalled by historic injustice or envious of a time when theatre was dangerous?Thu Oct 03 2013 - 12:49
The Threepenny OperaDirector Wayne Jordan restores the satirical and human bite to an opera of opulence and economyWed Oct 02 2013 - 13:32
Brecht effect: bourgeois bashing with catchy tunes‘The Threepenny Opera’ began in disaster and grew into a triumph – a new Irish production hopes to burnish its agitprop credentialsWed Oct 02 2013 - 01:00
The Bruising of CloudsThe third and final play for Fishamble by Sean McLoughlin has a gathering storm that is simply dispelledMon Sept 30 2013 - 17:34
Tom and VeraA debt-ridden middle-aged Irish couple plot to rob a bank in Desperate Optimists’ financial crisis revenge fantasyFri Sept 27 2013 - 13:28
Staging protests vs staged protestsDo we go to the theatre to confront our problems or to escape them?Fri Sept 27 2013 - 00:00
The third stage of griefA satirical site-responsive performance wickedly parodies the antagonistic rhetoric between private sector and public sector. Doesn’t it?Mon Sept 23 2013 - 12:56
Loath to closeAnu’s ambitious Thirteen project ends with a quiet call to actionMon Sept 23 2013 - 12:43
Circus, the new frontierWith their new cabinet of wonders, the Australian company Circa beggar belief and transcend languageMon Sept 23 2013 - 01:00
Landscape II: a room with a viewA war photographer retreats from the cacophony of trauma in Melanie Wilson’s chilly new work.Fri Sept 20 2013 - 11:24
Lambo: Sacrificial lambWhen Gerry Ryan confessed to killing a lamb in 1987, the hoax turned him into a household name. Did it also change the airwaves?Fri Sept 20 2013 - 11:22
A generation finds its voiceFour young Dubliners go out on the pull in Dylan Coburn Gray’s exhilarating and sexually candid verse monologue. The result is pure poetry.Thu Sept 19 2013 - 13:37
Women and children firstThis frantic promenade covers the same ground as previous instalments, but some events gain a new perspectiveThu Sept 19 2013 - 13:09
Taking the leadA couple of stalled lives discover a whirl of motion in Fishamble’s charming two stepWed Sept 18 2013 - 15:45
Ladling it outIt begins with a debate on broth, but Anu’s Soup aims to be more stirringTue Sept 17 2013 - 14:40
Learning the hard wayA few years ago Amy Conroy was in a rut. Now she has set up the HotForTheatre company, written three plays – including Break, at Dublin Fringe Festival – and toured the world. Could we all benefit from some creative thinking?Tue Sept 17 2013 - 01:00
We need convincingAs a real descendant of one of the Dublin Lockout heroes steps into his great grandfather’s shoes, Anu constructs an artful piece of agit propMon Sept 16 2013 - 11:10
On temporary displayThis instalment in Anu Productions’ Thirteen project takes us to a museum, but the exhibition is about to be derailedMon Sept 16 2013 - 11:10
Pushing the envelopeIt takes a while, but this paean to the post service gets its message acrossFri Sept 13 2013 - 13:40
Passing throughFact and fiction blur together in Porous, the third part of Anu’s Thirteen project. Can its artifice inspire real action?Thu Sept 12 2013 - 14:00
Paying more than lip serviceWe may never be able to interpret an unfathomable tragedy, but Lippy has extraordinary things to say about itThu Sept 12 2013 - 13:19
Resisting, through the agesA Georgian building is given voice in Anu’s latest instalmentWed Sept 11 2013 - 12:51
Return journeysThe first performance in Anu’s Dublin Lockout-inspired project, Thirteen, brings us, by rail, towards two visions of a collapseTue Sept 10 2013 - 12:55
Lippy lads: A meditation on meaninglessnessIf a suicide pact in Leixlip was a pointless tragedy, how can an experimental theatre maker and a traditional playwright make sense of it?Mon Sept 09 2013 - 01:00
A sense of hope on the Way Back HomeSet against a lost society, Louise White’s new show tries to find a path through despairSun Sept 08 2013 - 14:11
A Break from the staff room and the schoolyardIn the aftermath of a tragedy a school turns to music to find rhyme and reasonSun Sept 08 2013 - 14:08
The problem of eternal youthTheatre makers are getting younger – are they getting a chance to grow?Fri Sept 06 2013 - 00:00
How Róise Goan grew the FringeFive years on from her ‘mad’ appointment – ‘they hired a 27-year-old amateur’ – Róise Goan, outgoing director of the Dublin Fringe Festival, leaves it in its most mature state yetWed Sept 04 2013 - 01:00
A Swift experiment in Lilliputian logicIn the subversive spirit of Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, four young actors question authority in an interview with their director, Conall MorrisonThu Aug 29 2013 - 01:00
Welcome to Edinburgh Fringe: ‘It’s a meat market’So says playwright and actor Stefanie Preissner of trying to get your show noticed at the Fringe, which, like negotiating the hilly city itself, can be an uphill slog or a freewheeling delightTue Aug 20 2013 - 01:00
Crossing the lineWhat might have been a drama about hearts and minds during the 1913 Dublin Lockout becomes a tragedy of inflexibilityMon Aug 19 2013 - 11:00
Whose side is time on, anyway?Plays are getting shorter. Are we looking at time the wrong way?Fri Aug 16 2013 - 00:00
Close to the bone: getting into Beckett’s headspacePan Pan’s production for stage of a 1959 radio play continues the ‘deregulation’ of the Beckett industryWed Aug 14 2013 - 01:00
Stop making senseWe search for meaning in the world. Why won’t theatre play ball?Fri Jul 26 2013 - 00:00
Where the bodies are buried: sexuality and power in South AfricaIt’s a new day in South Africa in Yael Farber’s new version of Miss Julie. Has anything really changed?Wed Jul 24 2013 - 18:45
A Joycean stream of consciousnessOlwen Fouéré’s performance gives voice to the river in James Joyce’s unfathomable ‘Finnegans Wake’. It’s sink-or-swim timeTue Jul 23 2013 - 18:00
Yael Farber: Turning up the heat in South AfricaSouth Africa’s intense society shows the best and worst of humanity, says Yael Farber. Can ‘Mies Julie’, her version of Strindberg’s class tragedy, escape apartheid?Sat Jul 20 2013 - 01:00
Alone at lastTwo lovers with intellectual disability slip away to a hotel room in Christian O’Reilly’s finely balanced play for Blue Teapot. Do they need protection?Thu Jul 18 2013 - 13:11
Last ordersEveryone gets a second chance at love in Bruce Graham’s numbingly competent playWed Jul 17 2013 - 13:45
A twist in the tailThe mouse hero of Pat McCabe’s children’s story knows how to work a crowd. It’s just as well this production comes with its own onstage audienceWed Jul 17 2013 - 13:00
Special-needs actors centre stage: ‘For once they have the power in the room’Several new theatrical productions are asking audiences to stare at disabled people, and explore their loves, lives and issuesWed Jul 17 2013 - 01:00
Making a merry jest of Shrew’s misogynyShakespeare’s early ‘screwball’ comedy, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, is one of his most popular and controversial – so can an all-female cast take the edge of its sexismSat Jul 06 2013 - 01:00
Stage Struck: The hard sellHow does a theatre’s marketing affect the meaning of a play?Fri Jul 05 2013 - 00:00
Stage Struck: The hard sellHow does a theatre’s marketing affect the meaning of a play?Fri Jul 05 2013 - 00:00
Cork’s vital statisticsRimini Protokoll’s 100% Cork puts a cross-section of society on stage. Are they more than just a number?Mon Jul 01 2013 - 18:00
How Michael Frayn gets it sublimely, perfectly wrongThe playwright and novelist, author of Noises Off and Copenhagen, prefers to disappear from his work, finding rich comedy in chaos and deep uncertainty in historySat Jun 29 2013 - 01:00
Cork Midsummer brings it all back homeThis year’s Cork Midsummer Festival puts the city on stage. So who will be left to watch it, and will it amount to more than the sum of its parts?Thu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00
And they all lived happily ever after, except for the witchHow many ways are there to tell a fairy tale?Thu May 30 2013 - 01:00
