John Doran

Favourites Mount Leinster left behind at Cullen Park

Interview: John Doran, editor of the Quietus, thought writing about his alcohol and drug abuse would be cathartic, but dark undercurrents lurked beneath the happy mask of a colourful life

As an actor you may have only a few lines – or none at all – but you can still make the most of a role, as Dee Burke, who’s appearing in ‘Hedda Gabler’ at the Abbey, and John Doran, who features in Shakespeare’s tragedy at the Gate, are proving

John Doran wants you to join a cult: what have you got to lose?

The only survivor of a biblical apocalpyse is a feckless young Irish lad. Isolated, bored and short on prospects for the future, has anything really changed?

The stage seems densely populated. So how come the dressing rooms are so empty?

A new play sketches a young Irish male in a rut of loneliness, idleness and drunkenness. What’s the catch?

Collapsing Horse’s Yeats-inspired production will appeal to children and adults