Masterclass: A magnificent send-up of the anxieties of the age
Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: Brokentalkers and Truscott’s fruitful collaboration feels like a direct response to #MeToo
Crime and punishment and gorilla suits: this week’s theatre highlight
Brokentalkers’ sharp and stealthy new production asks us to examine our prejudices about the roots of crime, and the inhumanities of the prison system, offering no easy escapes
The Examination review: No easy escapes in Brokentalkers’ sly, provocative play
The irreverent company’s absorbing production interrogates the Irish Prison Service
Best theatre: You’ll dig Peat and be held captive by The Examination
A witty play about weighty matters; and a prison drama drawn from real life
Woman Undone review: Mary Coughlan’s acts of creation and destruction
The singer’s unconventional collaboration with Brokentalkers makes an unsettling art of suffering
The pick of this week’s theatre
This week’s theatre highlights all involve stories that need to be heard, and those who are either literally and figuratively deaf to them
Going out or staying in? The best shows, exhibitions and TV to see this weekend
City of London Sinfonia at the NCH, ‘This Beach’ revived from Fringe, BBC’s ‘Howards End’
Circus Animals’ Desertion review: Know the dancer from the cat
Brokentalkers’ surreal piece of dance theatre takes WB Yeats at his word
Dublin Fringe begins: reviews from the opening weekend
The opening weekend of the Fringe festival bursts into life with disturbing future visions and exhilarating burlesque
Brokentalkers break their own free-form traditions
In two productions, the maverick theatre group tackle big ideas about national identity, ‘which is really based on the idea that some people are better than others’
Tiger Dublin Fringe: five ways to choose what to see
From Panti Bliss and Hot Brown Honey to The Vaudevillians, here’s what you might pick
The Arc, part VIII: La Reine Claude builds towards its conclusion
The action takes a violent turn in the hands of Brokentalkers
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