Review: PORTIA COUGHLAN, Almeida Theatre
Marina Carr’s award-winning play returns to London directed by Carrie Cracknell and starring Conversations with Friends starlet Alison Oliver (who trod the same boards earlier this year in Women, Beware the Devil). A compelling analysis of toxic dysfunction and female pain, Portia Coughlan is a jarring family drama shackled by tragedy. It propels Oliver into theatre stardom.
SUNSET BOULEVARD Leads Our Top Ten West End Shows for October
The West End is bursting with amazing shows this October. The stars are out: Nicole Scherzinger, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Kenneth Branagh, Giles Terera and Joseph Fiennes are just some of the actors treading the boards of the capital this month.
GIRL ON AN ALTAR Comes to the Abbey Theatre
What do you do in a marriage when you can’t stay and you can’t go, as love finds a way to persist despite the direst of circumstances? This is a fundamental question, to which there is no right answer, of Irish playwright, Marina Carr’s Girl on an Altar.
Review: THE MAI at Irish Classical Theatre
A modern day memory play of sorts with influences of Greek mythology may be one way to describe THE MAI, now playing at Irish Classical Theatre. Never a company to shy away from complex topics, the drama that is unfolding challenges the viewer in a myriad of ways.
Clonmel Junction Arts Festival Lights Up The Town in July
Tipperary's version of the Circus is Coming to Town. Clonmel Junction Arts Festival arrives in Clonmel from July 1st to 10th. The Junction Dome, a temporary performance structure for theatre, literature, and more, comes alive. It takes over empty retail spaces; and sparks conversations on how to creatively enhance a regional town through the arts.
Clonmel Junction Arts Festival Returns This Summer
The main hub will be the Junction Festival Dome. This wonderful structure will be at Kickham Barracks, familiar to regional audiences from Clonmel’s In The Open Faoin Spéir projects, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Waterford Spraoi’s PRISM.
BWW Review: GIRL ON AN ALTAR, Kiln Theatre
The Greeks seem to be trending at the moment. Last year TikTok went mad for Madeline Miller’s book Song of Achilles, Ivo van Hove brought his mash-up of myths to the Barbican at the start of the month, and the Almeida’s latest project is being compared to a Greek masterpiece. London seems to be in a blood-thirsty mood these days and now the Kiln joins in.