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Two men stare down the barrel of being 50: the results are clever and sensitive

Oliver Jeffers’ book jumps off the page and into space in this beautiful stage adaptation

An artfully layered production from Australia’s Back to Back Theatre exposes the mechanics of power play and the right to represent controversial material

Jonathan Capdevielle explores who he is and what has formed him, from the traditional folk music of the Pyrenees to more recent pop-culture fantasies

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

Can a maniacally upbeat community centre worker change the world – with your help?

Hugo Hamilton’s nuanced first World War drama looks at the family fallout after the return of an injured sailor

Tom Murphy began our collaborative play for the Dublin Theatre Festival; here, Enda Walsh gives the plot a surreal twist

This children’s show creates a concentrated beauty from almost nothing

The last of a nomadic tribe, and two excitable scientists; what could possibly go wrong?

Anu Productions’ celebrated Monto Cycle comes full circle, where present day Dublin finds its history repeating

The festival opens with the Schaubuhne’s riveting and dangerous production of Hamlet. Though this be madness, yet there’s method in it

A rock opera in Irish is hobbled by its supporting slot production values

Robert Softley places the disabled aesthetic at the heart of his show, and the result is bold and stylish

With the Dublin Theatre Festival kicking off this week, here are ten playwrights who have also penned novels

With ‘Vardo’, the concluding part of Anu Productions’ thrillingly intimate four-part series, director Louise Lowe brings the extraordinary Monto Cycle full circle. But is that any way to leave it?

The plays of the ‘Howie the Rookie’ writer are dark, complex affairs. With his new work, ‘Our Few and Evil Days’, about to open at the Abbey Theatre, even he admits he doesn’t fully know what makes them tick

A new play by Tom Murphy is something worth celebrating, and his latest, ‘Brigit’, draws on the historic source of all of his storytelling

A thrillingly raw production of ‘Hamlet’ from Berlin’s Schaubühne theatre gives Shakespeare’s famously unstable character a licence to improvise. Is its famously iconoclastic director in complete control?