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Ireland event guide for the week June 7th–13th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way
Everyman theatre
Making History Friel review: Everyman production throws a lot at Brian Friel’s clunky play
The drama’s radical idea is to locate disorganised rebel leaders in a drawingroom comedy, but it’s soon derailed by a insistent focus on the nature of remembering
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‘People forget that Brian Friel was a radical’
Des Kennedy, head of the Everyman, is directing Making History, about Hugh O’Neill, earl of Tyrone, as the first production in the Cork theatre’s Everyman Made series
Red Riding Hood: Everyman’s warm-hearted panto sparkles with exuberance
Theatre: Grace O’Halloran, the production’s 11-year-old star, has an immediate, unforced rapport with the young audience
Gatman! review: Tadhg Hickey’s monologue is an exposition of inebriation as something joyous
Theatre: Telling has the comedy of self-awareness but falters as it gathers its darkness
The Summer I Robbed a Bank review: A riot of inspired fun as David O’Doherty’s children’s book becomes stage show
Theatre: creative and innovative display of stagecraft using video and lighting with glee that enchants audience
Beauty and the Beast: Jubilant panto has audience roaring enough to peel gilding off the Everyman’s ceiling
Theatre: Driven by very attractive singing and by Anth Kaley’s musical direction, the pace is helter skelter
‘Asking For It’ stage review: An unsettling anatomy of rape culture
This gruelling adaptation of Louise O’Neill’s novel is alarming for good reason
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