Eileen Walsh

Thought-provoking theatre where the audience is just you

Review: Theatre for One’s six microplays are bracing, intimate-as-a-whisper performances

Cork Midsummer Festival 2019: Daring work and delicious food

Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme

Hitting the start button: This week’s theatre highlights

Dublin Will Show You How is a grim portrait of despair; Beginning is a tale of connecting

Beginning review: Beautifully measured tale of love in a time of social media

Eileen Walsh and Marty Rea give exquisite performances in David Eldridge’s play

Love in a modern climate: is romance just an antidote to loneliness?

David Eldridge investigates matters of the heart in Beginning at The Gate Theatre

Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister

National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’

2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough

The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year

Women on the Verge: Maelstrom of a comedy from Sharon Horgan

Did you sleep with more than two women during our break-up, she asks. ‘In a good week, yeah,” he replies

Hollywood parties? ‘The whole thing would make you sick’

Tipperary woman Kerry Condon's first lead role, in Sharon Horgan’s Women on the Verge, brought new pressures

The Children Act: Just let the film die, Emma Thompson

Review: Thommo just about rescues this silly adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel

Cyprus Avenue and The Plough and the Stars: the best theatre of the week

Stephen Rea stars in David Ireland’s scabrous comedy; the Abbey’s O’Casey returns

Irish Times Theatre Awards: Red gets to paint the town

What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer

Harassment ‘elephant’ enters the room at theatre awards night

Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner

‘Maze’ review: more like the ‘Great Escape’ than we had any right to expect

The 1983 prison break gets a responsible treatment but it's most effective as a prison break yarn

Former church sexton ordered to leave her home

Eileen Walsh given less than a fortnight to quit the house she has lived in for 35 years

The Same review: Enda Walsh puts two sisters behind bars

Walsh’s intense show takes place in Old Cork Prison

Elvis Costello, Enda Walsh and Hughie O’Donoghue announced for Galway

Suede, a new work inspired by Eileen Gray and US model Cameron Russell are also on the July arts festival bill

Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh on 'Disco Pigs': 'It was the ignorance of youth’

Twenty years later, Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Enda Walsh and Pat Kiernan talk about Corcadorca and the hit play that changed everything

The Plough and the Stars review: The poverty of our era put centre stage

The Abbey’s latest production of Sean O’Casey’s Easter Rising drama brings his characters into the light of the present. During the centenary of the event, has it made a familiar play any more illuminating?

‘People might be cross that some English bloke has desecrated a classic’

Director Seán Holmes had never seen The Plough and the Stars staged – until his current version went up at the Abbey Theatre

Calling the shots: A life in the day of a stage manager

It’s not actors whose way you need to stay out of behind the scenes at a theatre but stage managers, the key crew who subtly crack the whip from the wings

Sadly, there’s no such thing as total recall

Memory is unreliable, but the theatre relies on that

Disco Pigs

MIDNIGHT: the streets of Cork are alive with the sound of urination, garda sirens, expectoration and the aggressive mating calf…

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