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The director’s compelling first feature takes cues from hostage negotiations but is more interested in common trauma than in fraught West Bank politics
Stanley Townsend carries the weight of this haunting adaptation of Mike McCormack’s novel
From Rough Magic’s Tonic to Mozart’s Requiem, the festival starts August 6th
I have discovered the joys, frustrations and etiquette of being a spectator alone in my home
Review: Ahmed is a credit to her nation. It’s a shame Mary McGuckian’s biopic is so pallid
‘Bringing people back together is really important,’ says director Olga Barry
Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions
Selina Cartmell unveils a new season featuring collaborations with Colm Tóibín, Stanley Townsend, Garry Hynes, Anu and Dead Centre
The Horslips man on Aoife Duffin’s powerful acting and Stephen Hawking’s humour
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Rough Magic is recharging itself with a new young company and an electrifying take on Shakespeare
Programme straddling popular and esoteric work attracts record numbers
Incantata review: the staging of Paul Muldoon’s elegy for a lover and a fellow artist is grief as an artform
David Mach’s vehicles explode out of an old print work’s concrete floor, an inflatable moon rises over the street, a sharp new Irish play opens - and that’s before Galway International Arts Festival opens tonight
This year’s festival boasts a full moon, and a garden, theatre, gigs, talks and thoughts
Paul Muldoon’s long poem in memory of his former partner is premiering as a theatre piece at the Galway Arts Festival with a performance by Stanley Townsend
Tom Murphy remembered as festival gears up for Galway 2020
The Scottish novelist on being a thorn in the literary establishment’s side
‘Redwater’, starring Jessie Wallace and Shane Richie, was filmed in Co Waterford
£4.25m Bellaghy facility a permanent exhibition about life and work of Nobel Laureate
Writer and arts champion responsible for some of the best-known ads of past 40 years
Graham Linehan’s much-hyped new comedy gets off to a bad start, but Gabriel Byrne’s ‘Quirke’ redeems itself in the end
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
