Theatre: Aisling O’Sullivan, Marie Mullen, Anna Healy, Nick Dunning, Zara Devlin and Patrick Martins star in a bravura production that shouldn’t work but mostly does
Marina Carr
Turning a script into a finished show is hugely complex. We spend a day at the National Theatre to see Audrey or Sorrow come together
Theatre: War may be the backdrop, but the real territory at stake is the marriage bed
From works such as By the Bog of Cats to the playwright’s most recent work, Girl on an Altar, familiar intimate questions are played out on an epic scale
Review: Evangelia Rigaki and Marina Carr’s piece features compelling performances but sometimes struggles with the acoustic challenges of its venue
Actor on her electric pandemic projects and returning to Portia Coughlan after 25 years
I have met inspiring Arab women through my work says Padraig Downey, an Irish theatre maker in Dubai
Sharp drop in 2020 revenues followed theatre postponing or cancelling 23 productions
Numbers in venues restricted to 50 pending Government decisions on Covid-19 measures
‘In this country, where most of the population are play-actors ... it’s bound to yield players’
Fatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdown
Year as European Capital of Culture had been due to start with fire spectacle
She first played Shakespeare’s prince in Dublin. Now she’s reprising the role in New York
Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work
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