Annie Ryan

Three reviews from the opening weekend of the Dublin Theatre Festival

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

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

Festival director Willie White says programme is about ‘keeping our momentum’

In Corn Exchange’s witty and absorbing new version, set in contemporary Ireland, the feathers fly again

For its anniversary production, director Annie Ryan settled on a stark Ingmar Bergman drama that does nothing to change the impression of the company as being hard to pin down

Trapped in a holiday created by Ingmar Bergman that’s given ghostly life on stage, can Beth Cooke’s Karin escape?

Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd slowly strip away the trappings of form and character from Chekhov’s first work, and take a wrecking ball of theatrical convention

As always, the shows being staged encompass the weird, the wonderful and the wacky

New anthology explores how playwrights responded to a country - and a theatre - in crisis

When she was approached for the only role in the distressing stage adaptation of A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, the actor had refused, saying she couldn’t do ‘another play about rape’ after a string of draining parts. What changed her mind?

To adapt Eimear McBride’s unconventional book can’t have been easy, but they’ve pulled it off

When we congratulate directors on a job well done, do we know what we’re congratulating them for?

Nineteenth-century New England comes closer to home in Corn Exchange’s austerely beautiful production of Eugene O’Neill’s tragedy