Lines in the strandPlaywright Abby Spallen writes complex, interesting roles for women, not for ideological reasons, but simply because she wants to do goood work, writesSARA KEATING
Hardy role reclaimed from a greatARTS: ‘IT WAS NEVER, ever the intention to become a director, and therefore an artistic director and therefore all of this.” The “this” to which the modest little gesture of Joe Dowling’s hand refers is probably the most impressive theatre building of the 21st century. We are sitting in a public area high up in the extraordinary new (Tyrone) Guthrie Theatre, which opened in 2006 on the banks of the Mississippi in Minneapolis, writesFINTAN O’TOOLE
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- The Revenger’s Tragedy
36 Cecil Street, Limerick
A republican writer with 16th-century sensibilitiesCULTURE SHOCK : For all its liberalism, English mainstream culture is still uncomfortable with its radicals such as John Arden, who has found artistic freedom in Ireland. For all its faults, this country has embraced his tradition, and finds his presence gratifying
