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Yfel review: Pan Pan’s probing of villainy allows the company to reclaim their power
The price of creativity is an age-old question. This Aphids coproduction finds some encouraging answers
A deal with the devil: What will artists sacrifice to realise their ambitions?
Yfel, a new play from Pan Pan and the Australian collective Aphids, delves into our darker nature to find out
Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh: Vague Symptom Clinic review – Chronic illness and political violence intermeshed
The Derry artist draws on his and his family’s health problems to raise the spectre of state violence in his city
The Mirror Stage review: Unflinchingly real experiences of losing contact with reality
Theatre: Brokentalkers developed their illuminating work about psychosis with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
The Mirror Stage: ‘When you imagine a theatre show about psychosis, what do you see?’
Brokentalkers have teamed up with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland to blend testimony, research and performance
Dancehall review: Luail’s dancers let loose as the music pulses through them
In Emma Martin’s restaging of her choreography, the dancers become one with Andrew Hamilton’s music
Be Careful, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is unflinching, sharp and in your face
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Mallika Taneja’s play is a biting satire on a mindset that situates family and societal honour in women
FeliSpeaks: Life as a ‘black, Irish, queer culchie’
Felicia Olusanya, aka FeliSpeaks, has created a show with thisispopbaby for the Dublin Fringe, exploring what it is like to grow up as a ‘queer black Irish midlands culchie’
Lost for words: Dublin-born artist Jenny Brady explores the world of interpretation
Watching The Glass Booth, we discover the subtle, complex and fascinating interplay of power and trust that mediating language orally involves
The Black Wolfe Tone review: A heavy-on-the-pedal psychodrama
Kwaku Fortune, in his stage-writing debut, plays a frustrated young man admitted to a psychiatric institution
Queen of the Meadows review: A compelling, exciting exploration of memory, loss, renewal and the supernatural
Dance: In this new work inspired by her grandmother’s beliefs, Robyn Byrne teams up with her fellow performer Susanne Engbo Andersen
Irish artist Michael Kane: ‘Patrick Kavanagh did nothing else but create art. And that was my ideal’
The Project Arts Centre founder, who is marking his 90th birthday with a solo show, is a firm believer in the idea that art truly matters. He lives fully surrounded by it
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