Nikolai Gogol

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Hugh O’Conor - ‘the cheery Dubliner has emerged as one of our busiest hyphenates.’ Photograph: Tom Honan
Hugh O’Conor: ‘I had to go to Irish college rather than be in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’

Hugh O’Conor is pondering the years after his breakthrough role in My Left Foot. “I didn’t do some jobs I was offered,” he says. “My parents said I h(...)

“It’s just like a regular village but it’s a village of older women.” Above, still from I Am Not a Witch
The strange, true story of Ghana's modern-day camps for witches

I Am Not a Witch, the transfixing, audacious debut feature from the Zambian-born Welsh director Rungano Nyoni, opens as Zambian villagers surround a b(...)

Author Roddy Doyle. Photograph: Mark Stedman/Photocall
Roddy Doyle does Mozart: ‘I’m a recent convert to opera’

Had you asked Roddy Doyle 10 years ago how many operas he had been to, he says, he would have been able to tell you easily: “It was one.” Pose the s(...)

The Key/An Eochair, by Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Frenetic satire with linguistic flair

‘J was a paperkeeper.” The first sentence of Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s hilarious novella is a satiric statement of intent; J’s function is revealed but not (...)

The Double

Simon James (played by Jesse Eisenberg in a career best, surely?) is a socially awkward, cripplingly polite office wonk, whose innovations at work (...)

Review: The Nose
  • Stage
  • March 28, 2014, 16:00

The Nose The Mac, Belfast ***** If creative greatness can be measured by the enduring relevance of a piece to contemporary e(...)