Anne Clarke

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Irish playwrights Emmet Kirwan, Marina Carr, Enda Walsh and Stacey Gregg promote Theatre For One, which is running as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival. Photograph: Clare Keogh
Cork Midsummer Festival 2019: Daring work and delicious food

It’s dim, dressingroom lights surround the frame, and the aesthetic is theatrical red velvet. I’m alone in the single seat, hands on armrests. A scree(...)

A group photograph to mark the final major public event after a full year of campaiging by Waking The Feminists on The Rosie Hackett Bridge in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Yes we did: Irish theatre’s gender-equality revolution

What a difference a couple of years can make. Some top players in Irish theatre are chatting in the Lir Academy of Dramatic Art in Dublin. Anne Clarke(...)

Campaign director Lian Bell (front) leading a Waking the Feminists event on the Rosie Hackett Bridge in Dublin in 2016. Photograph: Kate Horgan
Waking the Feminists campaign wins a Tonic Award in London

Waking the Feminists, the campaign for equality for women in Irish theatre, has won a Tonic Award in the UK. The award for “a brave and creative cam(...)

Winners (back row): Laurence Kinlan (best supporting actor), Fergus Shiel (best opera), Sarah Bacon (best set design), Francis O’Connor (best costume design), Sarah Lynch (best production), Marty Rea (best actor), Sarah Jane Shiels (best lighting), Derbhle Crotty (best actress), Lian Bell (judges’ special award). Front row: Doreen McKenna (best costume design), Anne Clarke (special tribute award and best opera), Stacey Gregg (best new play), Louise Lowe (audience award) and Owen Boss (audience award). Not in photograph: Jimmy Eadie (best sound), Garry Hynes (best director) and Abigail McGibbon (best supporting actress). Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Taking a bow for Irish theatre

The best gear and fancy frocks at the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards had personality and style – you wouldn’t expect less from a theatre crowd – an(...)

The winners at the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2015 in The National Concert Hall, Dublin. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Video: Cillian Murphy and the Gleesons lead tributes to producer Anne Clarke at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards took place with a spectacular ceremony at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Sunday. Among the video tribute(...)

Anne Clarke on the set of Once the Musical in the Olympia Theatre, Dublin in 2015. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Anne Clarke to receive Special Tribute Award at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

Anne Clarke of Landmark Productions is the recipient of this year’s Special Tribute Award at the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2015. The presenta(...)

Gavin Quinn. Photograph: Eric Luke
The right direction: unravelling the roles in the theatre awards

The nominees for best director at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards don’t mean to sound ungrateful. But none of them are entirely sure (...)

Donal O’Kelly in Fionnuala, a one-person show about the Shell Corrib gas project
Welcome to Edinburgh Fringe: ‘It’s a meat market’

Anybody who visits Edinburgh in August will experience a daily combination of ease and struggle. That is the natural condition in one of the hilliest (...)

The Medical Council was criticised by some candidates for extending voting by 10 days on the day the polls were due to close. Photograph: David Sleator
Six doctors elected to Medical Council

Six new members have been elected to the Medical Council, the organisation has announced. The doctors were voted in by fellow medics from a fie(...)