The Irish Times

Culture shock: Is it really so hard to write about women?

From the male gaze to the female voice, it’s time to make a change

Fri Nov 27 2015 - 15:10

Famished Castle: ‘What happens lost love? Where does it go?’

Hilary Fannin’s play takes in a decade of loves won and lost and our economic boom and bust

Mon May 18 2015 - 01:00

Review: Famished Castle

Are all the characters in Hilary Fannin’s new play toxically self-involved or has our national plummet from prosperity left everybody isolated?

Thu May 14 2015 - 15:13

Review: Terjas Verdes

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

Thu Jun 5 2014 - 17:02

Review: Villa/Discurso

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

Thu May 29 2014 - 17:52

Parallel worlds: A Chilean trilogy that could be about the North

A young ‘disappeared’ woman, the debate over how a building linked to past conflict should be redeployed, and an exploration of a political leader feature in Prime Cut’s ambitious new trio of plays in Belfast

Tue May 27 2014 - 01:00

The final act: from the hospice to the stage

WillFredd Theatre’s production reveals the courage that underpins the darkness and light, the ebb and flow, of life in a hospice

Mon Feb 24 2014 - 01:00

Review: Care

WillFredd Theatre’s exploration of hospice care creatively explores systems and coping strategies

Fri Feb 21 2014 - 16:10

Branding, riots and archives centre stage at Abbey

Limerick City of Culture controversy among issues tackled at ‘Theatre of Memory’ symposium

Sat Jan 18 2014 - 01:01

Pride and Prejudice

In this adaptation of Austen’s classic, the young lovers’ encounters lack frisson, but the art of capturing an entire life in a few moments is demonstrated in the supporting roles

Thu Dec 5 2013 - 15:37