Hecuba review: A touching war story encouraging us to look closer

Queen Hecuba is exiled in this ancient tragedy, but Marina Carr's intimate reimagining gives all its characters multiple perspectives. Photo: Ste Murray  

Pasolini’s Salò Redubbed review: A notorious film becomes an overwhelming mirror up to Ireland’s past

Dylan Tighe's bold adaptation transposes Salò from Italy to the early decades of the Irish state, an era when alliances were hatched between church and state. Photo: Luca Truffarelli 

Mám review: A dance through Ireland’s subconscious without any coherent point

Michael Keegan-Dolan's new dance resembles scenes from a dramatic community gathering, but its nostalgia doesn't make it complete. Photo: Ros Kavanagh 

Beckett’s Room review: Samuel Beckett and Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil’s touching story of survival

This miraculous play without performers takes us to Nazi-occupied Paris, and the source of Samuel Beckett's storytelling. Photo: Kyle Tunney

Incantation review: Misty performance art about intergenerational trauma

Maïa Nunes, an artist of Irish-Trinidadian descent, connects to her forebears in this performance art. Photo: Alan Gilsenan

Sorry Gold review: An intoxicating and profound aerial epic

 

Emily Aoibheann's extraordinary aerial dance brings us from the heights of civilisation to its wreckage.  Photo: Eoin Kirwan 

Some Names Were Changed review: Fiction brings us closer to the truth in this cluttered documentary play

In Ross Dungan and Ronan Phelan's new interactive play, the audience help tell the story of a married couple. Photo: Patricio Cassinoni

Fetch review: Superb art-horror installation about impending disaster

Two strangers meet onboard a flight in this installation, presented inside a shipping container. Photo: Paula Trojner

Pretty Feelings review: A magnificent surreal comedy about the art of love

The goddess Venus is the director of a match-making agency in this ebullient production. 

Sink review: A play excavating two women's lives and discovering too little

An archaeologist digs up a bog body in John O'Donovan's new play, but ends up uncovering the trauma of another woman. Photo: Keith Dixon