Lisa Dwan
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Waiting for Gobnait? Beckett’s ban on women challenged
- Stage
- October 19, 2020, 13:27
A dead man’s voice can travel a long way. In 1988, Samuel Beckett sued a Dutch theatre company for casting women in his existential drama Waiting for (...)

Pale Sister review: Colm Tóbín’s play more eager to meet a reader than a spectator
- Stage
- November 5, 2019, 15:04
Pale Sister ★★☆☆☆ Gate Theatre, Dublin In Sophocles’s version of Antigone, the clash between state power and individual conscience begins over a bod(...)

The best theatre shows to see this week
- Stage
- July 19, 2019, 10:21
Pale Sister Gate Theatre, Dublin. Previews until November 1st- 4th. Opens November 5th-9th 7.30pm (Saturday matinee 2.30pm) gatetheatre.ie It might (...)

From Beckett to A Christmas Carol, but not the Gate Theatre as we know it
- Stage
- May 29, 2019, 17:07
Samuel Beckett and A Christmas Carol – both with strong associations with the Gate Theatre over past decades – will return this year, but in new guise(...)

Forget the Wild Atlantic Way: here are the Northern Literary Lands
- Books
- July 27, 2017, 05:00
The flow of ideas from Seán Doran and Liam Browne is so fast that it can be hard to keep up, especially when the two of them get excited and start tal(...)

Get your own poem on Poetry Day Ireland
- Books
- April 27, 2017
Today marks Poetry Day Ireland, with more than 100 events around the country to celebrate our heritage in verse. One of the busiest spots will be Po(...)

Fintan O’Toole’s cultural highlights: ‘A great year for the elderly’
- Culture
- December 22, 2016, 05:00
Your 2016 highlights? It was a great year for the elderly: the last, hilarious and heartbreaking, volume of Samuel Beckett’s letters; Leonard Cohen’s(...)

Waking The Feminists supporters say ‘one more thing’
- Stage
- November 16, 2016, 05:00
At this week’s Waking The Feminists event – held to mark the year-long gender equality campaign – speakers were invited to offer “one more thing” to (...)

Feminist pressure group holds theatre organisations to account
- Stage
- November 14, 2016
Top-funded Irish theatre organisations have the worst records for gender equality in the industry, according to research compiled for the Waking the F(...)

Centenary concerts neglect to take the revolutionary road
- Music
- April 6, 2016, 01:00
Sometimes you really don’t end up where you thought you would. Last week the National Concert Hall presented Imagining Home, a series of concerts as (...)