Portia Coughlan

Actor on her electric pandemic projects and returning to Portia Coughlan after 25 years

The collective works in our series show how molten and defiant Irish artworks can be

Ireland’s amateur drama season is an eccentric, ambitious concept, with 54 productions touring 37 festivals. And the stories are as good off the stage as on it

From her irreverent early work to ‘volunteering her breasts’ for DruidShakespeare and on to her fresh take on O’Casey’s Juno, Crotty has never been one for convention

There’s a terrifying rage in her play ‘By the Bog of Cats’, which is reopening at the Abbey Theatre – and it’s an anger as old as the Greeks