Dublin Theatre Festival

News, features and reviews of the best Irish and international theatre at this year's festival, which runs from September 28th to October 15th

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Nina Raine (seated front left) with director Oonagh Murphy (seated front right) and the cast of Tribes. Photograph: Mark Stedman

‘If you’re from a family of writers, everything is fair game’

Culture
Peter Crawley
October 3, 2017, 05:00

Nina Raine should know. Her father, a critic, once told her: `Your business is not to be worrying about people’s feelings. Because otherwise you will never write'

Melt review: A play that goes to the end of the world

Melt review: A play that goes to the end of the world

There’s no other play quite like Rough Magic’s Melt right now

Hamnet is a child frozen in time to devastating effect

Hamnet is a child frozen in time to devastating effect

And Sebastian Barry delivers a superb prison drama at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival

Dublin Theatre Festival: Bewildering Synge, futuristic Ibsen

Dublin Theatre Festival: Bewildering Synge, futuristic Ibsen

Three reviews from the opening weekend of the Dublin Theatre Festival

The Sin Eaters: Memories from Irish women in our vexed recent history

The Sin Eaters: Memories from Irish women in our vexed recent history

Anú’s latest show, which takes place in a clinical space, is impressive but not intimate

This is a room . . . review: The contemporary fear of not having a home

This is a room . . . review: The contemporary fear of not having a home

A sprawling devised drama from Dublin Youth Theatre uses a large cast and vivid vignettes to illustrate timeless themes

Come Away With Me . . . review: There’s one thing you need to do before seeing this show

Come Away With Me . . . review: There’s one thing you need to do before seeing this show

Where else in this year’s festival are you going to hear the call of the Australian raven and a southern boobook?

‘If Frank Pig lit the fuse, then Leaves Of Heaven is the explosion’

‘If Frank Pig lit the fuse, then Leaves Of Heaven is the explosion’

Pat McCabe lists ingredients of his cultural stew and hails Co-Motion as it presents a double bill of his plays

Dublin Theatre Festival: eight of the best shows to see

Dublin Theatre Festival: eight of the best shows to see

Here's our recommendations for what to see over the next few weeks

An 11-year-old boy, alone on a Dublin stage for an hour

An 11-year-old boy, alone on a Dublin stage for an hour

Ollie West, child star of ‘Hamnet’ at the Dublin Theatre Festival, says theatre is ‘kind of like PE’

The best theatre to see this weekend

The best theatre to see this weekend

It’s the handover period between Dublin festivals this week as the Dublin Fringe Festival begins to wind up and the Dublin Theatre Festival starts to ramp up. Here’s a small selection of the changing stages

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