Annie Ryan
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Coronavirus: ‘The people involved in this business are so vulnerable’
- Culture
- March 17, 2020, 06:00
As precautionary measures against Covid-19 virus intensify, one of the most vulnerable sectors is the arts, where the majority of workers are self-emp(...)

The Fall of the Second Republic review: A fitting portrayal of political disarray
- Stage
- February 28, 2020, 12:52
THE FALL OF THE SECOND REPUBLIC Abbey Theatre ★★★☆☆ Michael West’s new play for Corn Exchange and the Abbey Theatre is set in an Ireland paralysed by(...)

Looking at a republic falling apart from the inside
- Stage
- February 22, 2020, 06:00
What if you could step back in time? Things might well turn out to have be worse. The Fall of the Second Republic, the new play from Corn Exchange, br(...)

Thought-provoking theatre where the audience is just you
- Stage
- June 25, 2019, 05:00
THEATRE FOR ONE Outside Cork Opera House ★★★★★ Annie Ryan of Corn Exchange once described her Car Show, which played to no more than three passengers(...)

The Misfits review: An intimate character study in a stripped-back Wild West
- Stage
- October 1, 2018, 11:51
THE MISFITS Smock Alley ★ ★ ★ ★ Strip away the huge Nevada skies from John Huston’s film of Arthur Miller’s The Misfits and it becomes an intimate st(...)

The Misfits: Marilyn Monroe’s swansong gets a stage reboot
- Stage
- September 22, 2018, 05:00
We are a long way from Reno. On an Autumn afternoon in Ranelagh the sun is coming through the high windows at an angle to dazzle the eye. Annie Ryan, (...)

Dublin Theatre Festival: Bewildering Synge, futuristic Ibsen
- Stage
- October 1, 2017, 13:37
Nora Project Arts Centre Space Upstairs ★★★ Updating a classic is always a chancy endeavour, so kudos is due to novelist and playwright Belinda McKeon(...)

Dublin Theatre Festival 2017: Eight of the best shows
- Culture
- September 28, 2017
The Sin Eaters Pigeon House Lab, Poolbeg. Sept 27-Oct 15 The Sin Eaters. Photograph: © Graham Cooper Such has been the power of(...)

An 11-year-old boy, alone on a Dublin stage for an hour
- Stage
- September 26, 2017, 05:00
About two years ago, Bush Moukarzel, the writer and co-director of Dead Centre, went to meet Ollie West, an 11-year-old boy from a theatrical family, (...)

Dublin Theatre Festival announces its 60th anniversary programme
- Stage
- July 25, 2017, 14:00
Launching the 60th anniversary programme of the Dublin Theatre Festival, its director Willie White surveyed the 31 productions and pointed out “there (...)