Ciaran Bagnall

The Gate becomes Gatsby Mansion again in this fluid F Scott Fitzgerald adaptation

Ian Toner plays both William Joyce and Brendan Bracken under Jimmy Fay’s direction

Dublin Theatre Festival: Derbhle Crotty is moving as Marina Carr’s family figurehead

What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer

Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner

After a year in which three well-known Northern actors took their lives, a three-week programme of events, Edgefest, focuses on male mental health

Undoing Disney was brave but there is no magic in this rock opera alternative

This week in the theatre

The audience joins in the decadence in the Gate Theatre’s thrillingly immersive production

Designed to include members of the audience, the Gate Theatre’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel begins at the door

Anu’s latest performance traces a legacy of violence against civilians, from Moore Street barricades to modern-day terrorism. Will you choose death or glory?

This isn’t the most serious meditation on gender equality, but it’s definitely one of the most charming

DBC Pierre’s novel excoriates contemporary America, and this production doesn’t quite keep the anger on the boil

In spite of a fast-moving narrative, the action sometimes feels laboured

A biting comedy of manners that spirals into a shaming demonstration of bad manners

Liz Roche Company’s latest collaboration with Maiden Voyage Dance takes a tumble with the words of Seamus Heaney

A North-South co-production by Liz Roche and Nicola Curry is inspired by Heaney’s ideas about displacement

The final part in the Mac’s Chilean trilogy makes the horrors of the Pinochet regime resonate much closer to home

Prime Cut’s new staging of a Chilean double-header finds one post-conflict society exploring the memories of another. Are they simpatico?

Friel’s early masterpiece still resonates

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