Musings In Intermissions

A newly politicised, dreamy and gauzy imagining of Shakespeare's comedy at the Abbey Theatre. Photo: Ros Kavanagh.  Abbey Theatre...

A comedian makes a Faustian pact in Owen McCafferty's new play. Lyric Theatre, Belfast Feb 11-Mar 8 My review of Death of a C...

You'll have to go somewhere else to read my Pals and A Midsummer Night's Dream  reviews.  Last September, I sat at conference ...

ANU Productions present PALS , an installation based on events surrounding the Irish who fought at Gallipoli in WWI.  Some plays for y...

School was out this summer and some of the first graduates of The Lir lent serious verve to Selina Cartmell's kinetic staging of Punk...

Enda Walsh's play  Ballyturk preached the idea of pushing life, and theatre, to the very edge  As per the year end ramble of mak...

In Shaun Dunne's drama an inner-city Dublin community prepares to celebrate the paving of a waste ground. But in the face of regenera...

The stifling realism of Synge's play prompted riots at its 1907 premiere. What happens when Blue Raincoat take The  Playboy of the We...

The artful surface of Mark O'Rowe's play leaves us suspecting throughout. Things are not what they seem. Abbey Theatre, Dubli...

100 years after the outbreak of the Great War, do we still live in the world of Shaw's play -  where society drifts towards destructi...

As the walls of Ballybeg Hall crumble in Patrick Mason's staging, you find yourself strangely unsympathetic.  Abbey Theatre Jun...

The Lyric Theatre's new Executive Producer Jimmy Fay to direct Judith Roddy and Carol Moore in a production of Pentecost . The ...

A modern telling of Shakespeare's comedy might just break new ground. Photo: Ros Kavanagh. Abbey Theatre Apr 30-May 24 ...

McCafferty's play exposes the influences of violence in 1970s Belfast. But will reconciliation be that simple?  Abbey Theatre A...

The Abbey primes the canon for young audiences. As Ali White's Me, Mollser  expands the universe of The Plough of the Stars , it al...

Sive was first rejected at the Abbey for being "too melodramatic". Director Conall Morrison seems set on restraining such devi...

In Michael West's study of affectation can an elderly couple possess the truth that allows their family to move on from a dark past? ...

Wayne Jordan's kinetic production of The Threepenny Opera brought movement that is rarely seen on the Gate stage. I already made...

Abbey Theatre, Dublin Theatre Festival Oct 9-Nov 9 My review of The Hanging Gardens by Frank McGuinness coming up just as soon as I...

Production image of Blue Raincoat's upcoming production of First Cosmonaut by Jocelyn Clarke. The best Irish theatre of 2013 may st...