Peter Crawley
Peter Crawley is chief theatre critic with The Irish Times, for which he also writes Stage Struck, a column on theatre. He is news editor of Irish Theatre Magazine, has taught Contemporary Irish Theatre in Context at Trinity College Dublin, co-edited No More Drama, a book on contemporary international performance, and wrote The Collaborative Arts Performance Pack, an interactive lecture performance for CREATE. He has a degree in Theatre Studies and English Literature from Trinity College Dublin and a masters in Journalism from the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Class dismissed
- Theatre
- May 16, 2013, 19:00
Education is a waste in Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist parable. What else can it teach us?
Stage Struck: watching from afar
- Theatre
- May 3, 2013, 01:00
New words, a sex change and a Communist twist – what else happens when an Irish play goes abroad?
Last orders
- Stage
- April 25, 2013, 17:47
The life and wild times of Oliver Reed: 22 Brandy Alexanders, 126 pints and no hangovers
This other ‘other Eden’
- Stage
- April 24, 2013, 18:20
Can Shakespeare’s drama of a dethroned English King be turned into an Irish history lesson?
Knowing when to start Digging
- Stage
- April 24, 2013, 18:20
Rough Magic unearths a state-of-the-nation drama by Declan Hughes that could still dig deeper
The dark side of the moon landing
- Stage
- April 11, 2013, 18:00
Richard Dormer’s Irish-American gangster play orbits around a jukebox, violence and some brutal characters
Stage Struck
- Theatre
- April 12, 2013, 01:00
Why believing isn’t always seeing
A subversive comic drama and an earnest comment box
- Stage
- April 11, 2013, 06:00
Everyone has a double identity in Bernard Shaw’s play. So does the Gate’s new production
Small Box Psychosis/The Last Crusader
- Stage
- April 5, 2013, 15:30
Barry McKinley’s claustrophobic comedies get caught in a tight spot
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