Asking For It and The Kite Runner: This week’s theatre highlights
An Irish rape case exposes a culture of victim-blaming in the stage adaptation of Louise O’Neill’s novel; repressed desires drive a boy’s own story from Kabul to San Francisco
The Kite Runner at Gaiety review: Becomingly naive stage version lays much of subtext bare
Khaled Hosseini’s novel inspired by Taliban’s ban on kite flying is given the stage treatment
Exploring the effect of immigration on Irish theatre
‘Staging Intercultural Ireland’ brings together plays and interviews on inward migration
Sharp lessons for contemporary campaigners: Frederick Douglass in Ireland by Laurence Fenton
Review: Douglass, an escaped slave forced to flee the US in 1845, was so moved by the poverty he saw in Famine-era Ireland that he felt he must speak out against the causes of human suffering generally
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