The Tragedy of Richard III: Editing Shakespeare’s crude portrait of the disabled royal
Belfast International Arts Festival 2024: Oisín Kearney and Michael Patrick’s inventive staging exposes some of the play’s bile
Lyric Theatre
Michael Patrick on Richard III: ‘It’s the first time on the island of Ireland a disabled actor has played this role’
‘We ask what happens when you have a life-threatening disease and only a few years to live,’ says the actor, who was diagnosed with MND last year
The Pillowman review: Martin McDonagh’s early play gets a pin-sharp, meticulously controlled staging from Lyric and Prime Cut
Theatre: Emma Jordan directs a well-balanced ensemble cast in the playwright’s depiction of a writer suspected of child murder in a totalitarian state
Little Women review: crowd-pleaser kicks off Lyric’s 2024 spring season
Theatre: Anne-Marie Casey’s production wraps itself around audience like comforting, hand-quilted blanket
Slippery When Wet review: Sparky solo show brims with queasy humour and scathing self-awareness
Theatre: Devlin cleverly creates workplace mundanity and half-promise of a good time
Rhino review: Ionesco reimagined in the virtual worlds of gaming and automaton-like avatars
Belfast International Arts Festival 2023: Patrick J O’Reilly presents cold, sci-fi-inspired dramatic concept
Burnt Out review: In Gary Mitchell’s new play, the destructive past resurfaces in the blink of an eye
Belfast International Arts Festival 2023: Dark deeds offset by cartoony humour have been a Mitchell trademark. It’s not as potent a combination here
Gary Mitchell: ‘I physically went into hiding because of the terror I saw in my children’s eyes’
The Belfast playwright still bears the scars of paramilitary intimidation. Burnt Out, his new play, is blunt about the old fantasies and harsh realities of Northern Ireland
Romeo and Juliet review: Fair Verona with Aperol spritz
Lyric Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s doomed romance emphasises the contemporary at expense of the universal
Propaganda review: Satisfying ruses in a cold-war musical
Belfast International Arts Festival: Conor Mitchell has crafted a slippery, intelligent new opera
Review: The Seafarer
Christmas spirits and sympathy for the devil in the Northern Irish premiere of Conor McPherson’s play
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