Mark O Rowe

Normal People: Putting Sally Rooney’s novel on the small screen

The project marries two of Ireland’s most talented artists – Rooney and director Lenny Abrahamson

Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends to be filmed for BBC

Lenny Abrahamson to direct adaptation of acclaimed Irish writer’s debut novel

Normal People: First trailer released for BBC’s Sally Rooney adaptation

Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald direct Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones

Why Irish film-makers and actors can’t do proper sex scenes

Film sex is fine. But sex featuring Irish actors, in films set in Ireland? That never really works

‘The answer is more’: Dublin Fringe director on choosing acts and supporting artists

Ruth McGowan wants to transform lives, inspire change, and test her own limits

Karl Shiels: Maybe because he had been an electrician he was aware of the capacity to shock

A passionate advocate for originality, he knew that theatre could be electrifying

Can experimental theatre be sentimental?

Inspired by the loss of its home, Dublin Youth Theatre partners with Pan Pan to contemplate youth and adulthood in The Sleepwalkers

Thought-provoking theatre where the audience is just you

Review: Theatre for One’s six microplays are bracing, intimate-as-a-whisper performances

Cork Midsummer Festival 2019: Daring work and delicious food

Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme

Event of the Week: Cork Midsummer Festival

Theatre, music and literature galore is to be found across the city from the 13th June

BBC reveals stars of its adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People

Lenny Abrahamson to direct Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones in 12-part series

Citysong: Epic drama that gets deep into the Dublin groove

The past is always present in the award-winning new play by Dylan Coburn Gray. Told in verse, it’s like a record of the modern city in which the needle jumps around

Sure Look It, Fuck It review: Clare Dunne soars in grungy ode to Dublin and home

The show echoes Mark O’Rowe’s dramatic monologues and the spoken word rhythms of Emmet Kirwan’s Dublin Old School

Charlie’s a Clepto review: Nimble plotting, nimble performance

Clare Monnelly pivots through a range of characters in this revival of her artful debut

The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: all this year’s nominees

After seeing more than 130 shows, the judges have made 60 nominations in 15 categories

Edinburgh festivals: awards and acclaim – and exhaustion – for Irish performers

As the international and fringe festivals close, Irish teams reflect on a good month

In the new theatre space, there’s no room for an emotional vacuum

We’re seeing a revolution in form in theatre, but content is what keeps audiences engaged

The Delinquent Season: A hugely disappointing Irish debut

Review: Cillian Murphy, Eva Birthistle and Andrew Scott can’t save Mark O’Rowe’s film

The Approach review: An intricate puzzle of a play

Mark O’Rowe’s new drama finds that people are the hardest things to solve

Theatre of the week: Swan Lake reimagined and the Gregory deal remembered

Birds of a feather flock to the theatre this week

The best theatre shows this week

Osborne’s ‘Look back in Anger’ returns to the Gate, and a new work from Mark O’Rowe

‘You never know whether a play works until the actors are on the stage’

Mark O’Rowe’s latest play ‘The Approach’ was triggered by three women in his head

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