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Citysong: Whatever your stage in life, wherever your home, you are reflected in Dylan Coburn Gray’s careful map. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh
Citysong review: An Irish family’s entrancing journey across generations

CITYSONG Abbey Theatre, Dublin ★★★★☆ It takes a moment to recognise the shape within Sarah Bacon’s set: a shattered, jagged mirror that provides the (...)

Aaron Monaghan, Garrett Lombard, John Olohan and Jane Brennan in Druid Theatre’s Richard III. Photograph: Robbie Jack
The Irish Times 22nd Irish Theatre Awards: Villainy triumphs in tales for our times

Now is the winter of our discontent made... if not quite glorious summer, perhaps a more agreeably temperate spring. After a cold snap of criticism an(...)

Il Bravo: nominated for best opera and best costumes. Photograph: Clive Barda/ArenaPal
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: all this year’s nominees
  • Stage
  • January 19, 2019, 05:00

A stunning, shape-shifting lament with a bravura star performance. A room-spinning take on an unstaged Samuel Beckett novel. A vivid mingling of forgo(...)

Lauren Coe is excellent as Emma in ‘Asking for It’. Photograph: Hugh O’Conor
‘Asking For It’ stage review: An unsettling anatomy of rape culture

Asking for It ★★★★ Everyman Theatre, Cork   Emma O’Donovan, a fifth-year schoolgirl with brittle self-esteem, has become accustom(...)

Bleep, bloop, bash: the NYT cast in R.U.R.
R.U.R. review: May the robots rise up to meet you

R.U.R. – Rossum’s Universal Robots Peacock Theatre, Dublin      *** A few weeks ago, two robots began to conspire against (...)