Star Fíonna Hewitt-Twamley reflects on eight years of performing Brian Foster's acclaimed solo play, humanizing street life, and taking the stage at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre.…
A smartly written, tense, and painfully relevant examination of belonging, identity, and the quiet frictions beneath Irish welcome.…
Eileen Walsh and Marty Rea deliver towering performances in Druid's striking production of Eugene O’Neill's final play at the Dublin Theatre Festival.…
An overstuffed narrative and unrefined musical score leave Xnthony's world-premiere pilgrimage musical struggling to deliver emotional resonance or consistent comedy.…
Fishamble's dual-timeline migration drama is handsome and full of noble intent, but a static staging keeps its emotional urgency at arm's length.…
Erica Murray’s witty, grounded world premiere at the Gate Theatre balances laugh-out-loud humor with deeply recognizable domestic tension.…
ANU Productions delivers extraordinary acting and thrilling, close-quarters boxing choreography in Cyclone, though its fragmented narrative structure makes the complete story hard to grasp.…
Brokentalkers and Andy Smith present a live, immersive gallery installation that resists standard theatrical classification at Dublin Theatre Festival.…
The Goat Exchange turns Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s cinematic masterpiece into a brilliant live Lux Radio Theater illusion at the Dublin Theatre Festival.…
A delightfully absurd, dystopian pop opera that turns supermarket convenience into a tragic, hilarious love triangle between a shopaholic, a cashier, and a self-checkout machine.…
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A new family show by Frances Kay that opens up the world of Franz Kafka to young people and adults alike, based on the story of Kafka writing letters to a young girl after she lost her doll. Brought to life by Theatre Lovett with a versatile ensemble cast including Charlotte...
Grania, a play by Lady Gregory, makes its Abbey Theatre debut as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Directed by Caitríona McLaughlin, this contemporary reimagining of the Irish legend focuses on the tumultuous love story of Gráinne, Diarmuid, and Fionn, exploring themes of...
William Shakespeare had one son. He named him Hamnet. He then left home to pursue his career in the theatre, effectively abandoning his family. In 1596, he was told that the boy – who was then eleven years old – was seriously ill. By the time Shakespeare reached Stratford...
A new stage adaptation of the critically acclaimed Ken Loach film, Jimmy’s Hall.
Olive, Alison and Tilly tear through a landscape of sex, drugs and violence in an unstoppable stream of poetic verse. Their stories converge in one place, on one evening, under an unforgiving sky. Told in Mark O’Rowe’s unique rhythmic style, Crestfall is a play about love in a...
A new stage adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s international bestselling novel, Room, with a haunting score by Kathryn Joseph and Cora Bissett.
Actor and playwright Noelle Brown was born in a mother and baby home in Cork in the 1960s and adopted at eight weeks old. Postscript is an honest, funny and extremely moving true story about her search for identity.
‘Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this, saying it’s me?’ A lone figure. A voice searching in the dark for who it is and why it speaks. Lisa Dwan offers a searing personal and political vision of...
Major Barbara probes the undercurrents of a firebrand Salvation Army major’s relationship with her arms-manufacturing, millionaire father. On a mission to save, Major Barbara must navigate the uneasy terrain where good and evil, morality and economics, salvation and perdition...
Breda is newly separated, facing retirement and feeling a bit invisible, she doesn’t want a birthday party! But her friends are determined to cheer her up and they descend on her to celebrate. After some homemade birthday cake and a few too many Bacardi’s – it turns out Breda’s...
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