2019: The best theatre of the year

My favourite theatre moments of 2019: The Children, Pretty Feelings, Beckett's Room, Tall Tail, and Endgame. 

Faultline review: A heartfelt depiction of a movement gaining ground

ANU and the Gate Theatre's new immersive play is set in 1982, when hundreds of LGBTQ+ people were under investigation. Photo: Pat Redmond 

The Beacon review: An absorbing thriller about blood thirst

A famous artist relocates to an island cottage - the spot where she's suspected of having murdered her husband - in Nancy Harris's new play. Photo: Robbie Jack 

Last Orders at the Dockside review: An old-fashioned play, and not because it's set in the 1980s

A community joins in paying tribute to a dead man in Dermot Bolger's new play. Photo: Ros Kavanagh  

Your Words in My Mouth - Brussels Take review: A play casting its audience and cementing their eyes to the script

Inside a secretive meeting place, a small audience recreates a real conversation between Belgian residents. 

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