Escaped Alone review: Four women, catastrophe and the comforts of ordinary chatter
Cork Midsummer Festival 2025: Anna Healy, Sorcha Cusack, Ruth McCabe and Anna Monaghan star in Caryl Churchill’s dark, cracklingly funny play
Annabelle Comyn
The Jesus Trilogy: Beautifully textured adaptation captures all the sadness and mystery of JM Coetzee’s novels
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Annabelle Comyn’s evocative production, featuring Fergal McElherron and Elaine O’Dwyer, makes clever, convincing choices
The Sugar Wife review: Siobhán Cullen and Chris Walley star in elegant revival of drama loaded with moral quandaries
Annabelle Comyn stages professional rendering of well-made play in which affluent Dublin couple are challenged by arrival of two visitors
Girl on an Altar: Eileen Walsh and David Walmsley bring a muscular energy to Marina Carr’s searing new play
Theatre: War may be the backdrop, but the real territory at stake is the marriage bed
Sinéad Campbell Wallace on returning to opera: ‘It’s in my bones’
Going back to singing was a challenge – not least because her voice had changed
Collective artistic experiences are one of society’s safety valves
Latest Government announcements have delayed the promised increase in audience size for theatres and cinemas
Annabelle Comyn: On My Culture Radar
The theatre director on how Derek Jarman and Parasite fed into her play Our New Girl
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
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
The Mick Flannery album that grew into a musical
The characters in Ursula Rani Sarma’s first musical, a collaboration with the Cork singer-songwriter called Evening Train, yearn to escape their small-town home
‘Tom was very good at expressing his emotions, so I always felt his love. He didn’t bottle that up’
A year after his death, playwright Tom Murphy is being celebrated by actors keen to share their experience of working on his plays. His widow, actor Jane Brennan, talks about life with – and without – Murphy
This Album Changed My Life: Bob Dylan – Desire (1976)
Scarlet Rivera’s violin on the album informed Mick Flannery’s approach to music
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
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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