The theatre director’s new show, Leaving, is a powerful departure for the returned emigre

Tough choices: audiences get to elect their own prince in Pan Pan’s brilliant alternative take on ‘Hamlet’ at the Abbey; while Veronica Dyas, Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky share a Mother in Dyas’s new production ‘My Son My Son’

Cillian Murphy stars in Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Plus: The Unmanageable Sisters at the Abbey and THISISPOPBABY’s mini-St Patrick’s festival

Betrayed by the promise of property, Veronica Dyas walked away from it all, and documents her journey in this installation and performance

Betrayed by the promise of property, Veronica Dyas walked away from it all, and documents her journey in this installation and performance

Five years on from her ‘mad’ appointment – ‘they hired a 27-year-old amateur’ – Róise Goan, outgoing director of the Dublin Fringe Festival, leaves it in its most mature state yet