Before You Say Anything review: Multiple stories forced into an elegant flawed play

Three seemingly unrelated stories about people unsafe from the police merge in Malaprop's new play. Photo: Simon Lazewksi

Will I See You There review: Eavesdropping on a touching reunion in a city square

 

In this slick play-installation, the audience peers down from above and listens to a chance encounter between friends through headphones. 

Token Cis review: Some shakily constructed jokes but this comedy material is gold

 

Alive to empty symbols of effort, the main parody by this comedy troupe is to give stage time to guest cisgender comics as if they're doing them a favour. Photo: Shubhangi Karmakar

The First Pegeen review: Sad forbidden romance in the Celtic Twilight

In this biographical drama about the Abbey Theatre star, Molly Allgood attends the funeral of her lover John Millington Synge from a distance. Photo: Futoshi Sakauchi

Solar Bones review: Experimental novel adapted into absurdly random ghost story

 

Mike McCormack's novel sees the ghost of a man return to his home on All Soul's Day. Photo: Ste Murray  

The Happy Prince review: Alluring production of Oscar Wilde’s story without the decadent comedown

The statue of a prince peers into the lives of a city's misfortunate inhabitants, in Oscar Wilde's story for children. 

Seraglio review: An opera from the lost season reimagined as a daringly modern miniseries

In Irish National Opera's hands, Mozart's orientalist singspiel loses the arabesques and makes the move to lockdown Dublin.

Binge review: A gleeful performance installation on Zoom where treasured television shows hold life’s answers

This interactive performance, presented by Cork Midsummer Festival, makes reassuring parallels between the audience's stories and the lives of fictional television characters. Photo: Christa Holka

Ulysses review: RTÉ’s staggering 29½-hour radio play of James Joyce’s wild gibberish novel

In Joyce's story, Leopold Bloom navigates an unhappy marriage and Stephen Dedalus searches to elevate everyday heartache into epic poetry

Exotic v. Baskin review: An operatic riff on a trashy pleasure struggles to tame its subjects

Carlow Arts Festival's Tiger King-inspired opera sees a showdown between zookeeper Joe Exotic and animal conservationist Carole Baskin.