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Jospehine is casually undermined by patriarchal systems and  experiences daily intrusions palmed off as innocuous assistance Josephine K and the Algorithms: Kafka gets a modern update
  • Peter Crawley
  • October 16, 2017

In Stacey Gregg’s new play, the forces that push us around are creatures of our own creation

Zolzaya Enkhtuya, Saruul Altantuya, Ashley Xie, Eh-Jae Kim, Xier Luo and Zheyu Wei in The Good House of Happiness. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh The Good House of Happiness: Bright, broad strokes don’t entirely cover the cracks
  • Arminta Wallace
  • October 14, 2017

Pan Pan aims to give Brecht’s work a modern, accurate update

The show itself is punctuated by a chaotic history of music, as Warlop, her three-piece band and one punishingly overworked roadie barely keep the show on the road Fruits of Labor review: An exhilarating riot of music and madness
  • Laurence Mackin
  • October 14, 2017

Miet Warlop returns to Dublin Theatre Festival in typical explosive fashion

Karine Polwart pays attention to stuff that our society doesn’t usually notice Wind Resistance by Karine Polwart review – A spellbinding storyteller
  • Arminta Wallace
  • October 13, 2017

Seamless piece of theatre – part memoir, part gig, part nature documentary, but much, much more than the sum of its parts

Talking Shop Ensemble and Shaun Dunne have collaborated on Rapids Rapids review: An artful antidote to the resurgence of HIV
  • Peter Crawley
  • October 12, 2017

The HIV infection rate in Ireland is twice the European average, thanks to shame and silence

Tressa (Seana Kerslake) with  Matt (Ryan Donaldson) and Scober MacAdam (Sean McGinley) in King of the Castle. Photograph: Robbie Jack King of the Castle review: An overlooked work steps into the canon
  • Mick Heaney
  • October 12, 2017

Druid’s production picks away at the tensions of rural life with a savage eye

Miss Saigon: An operatic production that stuns. Miss Saigon: This is almost flawless showbiz. No wonder it's such a hit
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • October 11, 2017

Review: Intersection of showbiz and brutality provides enormous audience pleasure

Grace Cahill in Girl Song Girl Song review: A slow burn that’s more than the sum of its parts
  • Michael Seaver
  • October 9, 2017

Emma Martin’s new show seeps into the consciousness long after leaving the theatre

Clare Dunne (Sylvia), Alex Kowak (Billy) and Fiona Bell (Beth) in Tribes at the Gate Theatre Tribes review: How to find a family you belong to
  • Peter Crawley
  • October 6, 2017

Everybody is talking but nobody is listening in Nina Raine’s intelligent, furious play

Donal Gallery (Policeman) and David Pearse (Leopold Bloom) in James Joyce’s Ulysses, adapted by Dermot Bolger, at the Abbey Theatre. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh Ulysses review: Joyce’s masterpiece gets a pop-up book treatment
  • Peter Crawley
  • October 5, 2017

The sprawling, shape-shifting puzzle of Ulysses here becomes a series of theatrical parlour games

I’m Not Here at Dublin Theatre Festival until October 7th. Photograph: Dorje de Burgh I’m Not Here review: Like eavesdropping on an injured soul
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • October 5, 2017

In this ritualised meditation, Doireann Coady works through her grief for her brother Donal, who died 3,104 days ago

Owen Roe and Charlie Maher in ‘Melt’ Melt review: A play that goes to the end of the world
  • Peter Crawley
  • October 2, 2017

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

“Let me know when I tell a lie,” Chris Rock says at one point, to dead silence.  Photograph: Ethan Miller/Getty Images Chris Rock on why bullies work and his “scary ass drive” through Limerick
  • Siobhan Kane
  • October 1, 2017

“Comfort is the poison” reads the on-screen message, as Rock wrongfoots his audience at every turn during an incendiary show

The Sin Eaters leans towards ‘a sense of female oppression, kept artificially vague’. Photograph: Graham Cooper The Sin Eaters: Memories from Irish women in our vexed recent history
  • Peter Crawley
  • September 29, 2017

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

The Suppliant Women: a spine-tingling atmosphere of sadness, despair and longing The Suppliant Women review at the Belfast International Arts Festival
  • Jane Coyle
  • September 29, 2017

This stunning newly translated version of Aeschylus’ poetic tidal wave is tailor-made for a 21st century audience

The  mantras of the homeless desperately asking for money act as a  kind of Greek chorus. Photograph:  Aoife Herrity This is a room . . . review: The contemporary fear of not having a home
  • Mick Heaney
  • September 29, 2017

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

Patrick Moffatt, Beth Buchanan and Heather Bolton in Come Away With Me ... Photograph: Pia Johnson Come Away With Me . . . review: There’s one thing you need to do before seeing this show
  • Arminta Wallace
  • September 29, 2017

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

‘I’m done with humble,’ says Caoilfhionn Dunne’s mercurial Katie, shrugging off the shackles of 1930s Ireland. ‘Didn’t I always know I have greatness in me.’ Katie Roche: Ambitions of greatness for a woman in search of character
  • Peter Crawley
  • September 6, 2017

In 1930s rural Ireland, Katie Roche is a young woman with notions. In 2017, this revival of Teresa Deevy’s neglected classic has clearer aims

Bleep, bloop, bash: the NYT cast in R.U.R. R.U.R. review: May the robots rise up to meet you
  • Peter Crawley
  • August 27, 2017

To hell with humans; we’re on the terminators’ side, in NYT’s reboot of Karel Capek’s 1921 play

Dancing at Lughnasa: ‘An  explosion of flour and frustration unites the sisters as their wireless provokes a ceilidhe in the kitchen’. Photograph:  Darragh Kane Dancing at Lughnasa review: All promises are sealed with a maybe
  • Mary Leland
  • August 10, 2017

Brian Friel’s classic returns to the stage

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Jospehine is casually undermined by patriarchal systems and  experiences daily intrusions palmed off as innocuous assistance Josephine K and the Algorithms: Kafka gets a modern update
Zolzaya Enkhtuya, Saruul Altantuya, Ashley Xie, Eh-Jae Kim, Xier Luo and Zheyu Wei in The Good House of Happiness. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh The Good House of Happiness: Bright, broad strokes don’t entirely cover the cracks
The show itself is punctuated by a chaotic history of music, as Warlop, her three-piece band and one punishingly overworked roadie barely keep the show on the road Fruits of Labor review: An exhilarating riot of music and madness
Dublin Theatre Festival What to see and how good is it? The best and brightest of this year's festival
 
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