The anti-style of Martin Sharry’s severely minimal new play takes a hatchet to both bourgeois conformity and representational theatre. But does it work?

A curiously unsettling double bill from the deadpan Dick Walsh teases out the options within politics, stories and free will. Do we really have a choice?

Richard Maxwell takes the individuality, drama, poetry, mimesis, emphasis and virtuosity out of the story of a hero . . . so what’s left?

Seven shows, seven restaurants, and seven options; here’s a week’s worth of suggestions and great nights out for this year’s festival