'2020 was going to be the most amazing year ever for us'
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- January 16, 2021, 05:00
Producer Anne Clarke on experiencing live performance for first time since pandemic
Live theatre was getting interesting. Then Covid arrived
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- January 13, 2021, 05:00
Several new plays were due on the country’s big stages, a rare sight
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards for 2020 deferred because of Covid-19
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- December 22, 2020, 12:31
Nominations for each categories in annual awards usually announced in early January
Waiting for Gobnait? Beckett’s ban on women challenged
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- October 19, 2020, 19:58
Female and non-binary performers are tackling Beckett’s rigidity in a new play
Embargo review: Deirdre Kinahan’s new play is unashamedly humanistic
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- October 13, 2020, 05:00
Dublin Theatre Festival: Unquestionably a celebration of the protest but with layers of nuance
The Party to End All Parties: There is a lot going on in one-and-a-half smallish packages
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- October 9, 2020, 13:00
Dublin Theatre Festival review: Summoning the despair of an urban space in the time of Covid
Director Niall Henry takes on the lockdown challenge
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- October 12, 2020, 05:00
Henry marks 30 years of absurd, visual drama as Blue Raincoat packs up till Covid allows
Looking for América review: Memory tells a different kind of truth
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- October 6, 2020, 05:40
The Great Hunger review: ambitiously staged, with scenes of rare beauty
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- October 9, 2020, 16:21
To be a Machine review: Experimental format well-suited to play’s core theme
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- October 5, 2020, 10:01
Self-conscious experiments complement the exploration of transhumanism
Pan Pan Theatre captures echo of Beckett’s poetry
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- September 29, 2020, 12:04
‘Beckett is quite a good voice, I would imagine, in terms of the tone of pandemic’
A Thousand Ways – A Phone Call review: An experience for two strangers
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- September 25, 2020, 13:00
Dublin Theatre Festival: Audience members meet through a guided phone call about their lives
‘This image of a man tarred and feathered, driving a train out of rage, just haunted me’
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- September 26, 2020, 05:00
Deirdre Kinahan on her site-specific play about the 1920 munitions strike
The Electric Kazoo review: Noonan’s mannered show maintains engaging presence
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- September 14, 2020, 13:25
Dublin Fringe Festival: Recorded album would help find wider audience for family-friendly repertoire
DruidGregory review: Captivating performance rooted in history
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- September 17, 2020, 10:58
Revival of Lady Augusta Gregory’s neglected works is of vital importance
Experience O’Connell Bridge: A Focal point for revolution and change
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- September 19, 2020, 05:00
The Party To End All Parties is an interactive piece created against the backdrop of Covid-19
![Over the years Brendan O’Connor has dialled down the sardonic sneer [...] and he’s now an empathetic interviewer who wears his knowledge of books, culture and history lightly. Photograph: Kinlan Photography](/polopoly_fs/1.4464393.1611243717!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_76/image.jpg "Over the years Brendan O’Connor has dialled down the sardonic sneer [...] and he’s now an empathetic interviewer who wears his knowledge of books, culture and history lightly. Photograph: Kinlan Photography")
