Everything Falls review: Family care presented as a wearying, compassionate dance
Theatre: Shaun Dunne and Brokentalkers’ collaboration portrays the challenges of looking after a partner with a long-term illness
Shaun Dunne
This Solution review: Choreography and carnality collide spectacularly
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: It lacks subtlety, but Shaun Dunne’s multimedia exploration of online pornography and real-life consequences is exhilarating
An Irish man signs up to make gay porn, then wants to change his mind. This Solution is about his experience
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Shaun Dunne hopes his play will resonate with people who have been in situations ‘that they haven’t been able to escape from’
‘A city like Dublin needs to have life, and we want to be part of it’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2020: Live performance is more important than ever, says Willie White
Live Collision develops a new kind of festival in response to Covid-19
The coronavirus outbreak forced a rethink for the cutting-edge arts festival – with intriguing results
The incredible but true stories of Mark Smith
Making documentary theatre about his life has given the actor his first opportunity to tell his own story
Theatre highlights: A bracing documentary on HIV in Ireland
Look out for ‘Rapids’, about life with HIV by Shaun Dunne, and the Abbey’s 24-hour plays
The time of my life: ‘It felt like the city was being ran by 18-21 -year-olds’
Shaun Dunne… on a DIY theatre space
Rapids review: An artful antidote to the resurgence of HIV
The HIV infection rate in Ireland is twice the European average, thanks to shame and silence
Dublin Theatre Festival 2017: Eight of the best shows
Here's our recommendations for what to see over the next few weeks
The Ark: Theatrical treats, and where to find them
The Dublin centre has been providing arts for children for more than 20 years
The Abbey’s school project: ‘Only one of these students had even been to the theatre’
The Abbey’s Theatre-Making and Citizenship course has been piloted in an inner-city Dublin school, and the positive effects on students have been manifold
‘This might be awful’: the Theatre Machine test
Each evening, audiences pay €14 to see four short works in progress. You might see a disaster or an embryonic hit
Review: The Waste Ground Party
As an inner-city community seethes, there is still cause for celebration in Shaun Dunne’s new play, which combines social realism and mystery
Review: Advocacy
This documentary-style piece sets itself the formidable task of exploring disability service provision in Ireland
Reared by the Abbey, empowered by its stage
The theatre’s outreach programme made Shaun Dunne an actor at 11. Now he’s back with his own play
The young ones: brave new writing takes over Irish theatres
Irish theatre is bursting with energy – but youth is all these artists have in common
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