Rough Magic’s outdoor Kilkenny staging imagines a wildly out-of-hand holiday

National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’

The 2018 event includes productions on shame, fatherhood and an Aer Lingus hijacking

On the boards: Abbey stages 1936 play by the oft-neglected Teresa Deevy, and Stefanie Preissner directs Margaret McAuliffe’s one-woman show about an Irish dancer

From Panti Bliss and Hot Brown Honey to The Vaudevillians, here’s what you might pick

Rough Magic unearths a state-of-the-nation drama by Declan Hughes that could still dig deeper