Drama at Inish review: A fun if frictionless experience
Lennox Robinson’s theatrical satire is comically enhanced in the Abbey’s slapstick-accentuated Christmas production
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Ruth Negga as Hamlet: Outsiders are in at the Gate theatre
Gate breaks from its painful recent past with ‘The Snapper’ and an innovative ‘Hamlet’
Let the Right One In review: black magic combination of tenderness and brutality
The West End hit at the Abbey hovers somewhere between fairy tale and horror story
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
Tribes review: How to find a family you belong to
Everybody is talking but nobody is listening in Nina Raine’s intelligent, furious play
‘If you’re from a family of writers, everything is fair game’
Nina Raine should know. Her father, a critic, once told her: `Your business is not to be worrying about people’s feelings. Because otherwise you will never write'
Striking Out review: RTÉ’s new drama all sheen and surface
Amy Huberman and the rest of the cast seem lost in the weird comedy and supposed drama of this show
A Month in the Country review: Getting a grip on some love angles
Turgenev’s play gets a stately pace as Brian Friel smuggles the radical energy of passion into a distinctly Irish word play
Tributes paid at funeral of mother of Dublin acting family, Daphne Brennan
‘Strumpet City’ actor described as a woman with great love for words and family
Review: Heartbreak House
Written fitfully during the first World War and finally presented to an utterly changed world, Shaw’s experimental play remains tangled and complex. Can the Abbey make sense of it?
Review: Twelfth Night
A daringly modern telling of Shakespeare’s comedy of desire, disguise and deception makes the play seem more true to itself
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