Eleanor Methven

Collapsing Horse’s new show pits high tech against low as they tread the water boards

Rough Magic’s production of Stewart Parker’s play about the 1798 rebellion enriches the self-consciousness of the dramatic style

Productions of Stewart Parker plays have been among the biggest successes of his niece Lynne Parker’s career. For her latest tilt at Northern Star, she decided to ‘Brecht it a bit’

Tackling malevolent cupcakes, mutant lesbians and “the man problem” at the Abbey

The troubling aspects of Bernard Shaw’s dusty play are here hammered at with forced jollity – the result is not weightless fun

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

An exploration of the perceived morality of extreme positions pits religious idealism against pragmatic realism within a single family unit

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

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