The week’s best plays: Asking for It and Playboy of the Western World
Louis O’Neill’s Asking for It is revived for the Gaiety, while Playboy crosses the Border
Druid theatre company says it will produce only new plays in 2019
New writing ‘has to be nurtured and taken care of’, says artistic director Garry Hynes
Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessons
Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre
This week’s theatre highlights
Looking out for one another: Stage highlights take dispiriting look at blame, victimhood and apathy in society, and wonder about how to rebuild trust
Sexual assault: How do you change the script?
Drama and performance can play a role in teasing out the grey areas of consent, and changing hearts and behaviour
‘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
Asking For It and The Kite Runner: This week’s theatre highlights
An Irish rape case exposes a culture of victim-blaming in the stage adaptation of Louise O’Neill’s novel; repressed desires drive a boy’s own story from Kabul to San Francisco
Women don’t write national plays? ‘Well they can, and they do’
In 2018, a diversity of Irish women’s voices will take their place on the national stage
What happens to perspective when theatre adopts a first-person narrative?
Consider Friel’s plays and you realise what happens on stage can be acutely subjective
What is a ‘strong woman’? Isn’t our strength our complexity?
Writing my play ‘Helen and I’, I’ve been asking myself if women can’t also be vulnerable, needy, petty, destructive, self-destructive
Review of ‘Helen and I’: A gnarled family tree
McHugh has a skilled hand for creating mood, sly dialogue and psychological excavation, but seems less concerned with the mechanics of plot
Fantasies in borrowed spaces as Galway Arts Festival opens tonight
Former ‘Connacht Tribune’ printworks is festival’s main gallery venue
Cycling the Greenway at 70
Maeve Brady cycled the Great Western Greenway in Co Mayo for her 70th birthday last year
Tumbles, tantrums and tales of a terrible new cyclist
Our cycling series continues. After six months in the saddle and two falls, the stress of my inadequacy on a bike is giving me grey hairs
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