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• 27
  FEB
  2022

  THE FINANCIAL TIMES | REVIEW

  Frankie Boyle brings life and laughter to Endgame in Dublin....
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• 27
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH INDEPENDENT | REVIEW

  The Gate’s sly ‘Endgame’ holds a mirror to a post-Covid world:When Beckett’s Endgame was first staged in 1957, it was seen, probably inevitably...
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• 26
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH INDEPENDENT | INTERVIEW

  Aaron Monaghan on his new production of Tarry Flynn: ‘I never want to lecture the audience’ The Cavan actor with a career ‘beyond dreams’ on...
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• 25
  FEB
  2022

  RTÉ | FEATURE

  Listen: The Steward Of Christendom by Sebastian Barry: For 72 hours only, The Gate Theatre, The Office of Public Works, and RTÉ proudly present a...
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• 25
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH INDEPENDENT | FEATURE

  The haunted stage - Portia Coughlan returns to the Abbey Theatre: 'Portia Coughlan challenges ideals of motherhood which have been engrained in the...
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• 25
  FEB
  2022

  RTÉ | OPINION

  15 Years of THISISPOPBABY - taking Irish theatre by storm: As Ireland's trailblazing performance company THISISPOPBABY celebrate their 15th birthday..
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• 23
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | FEATURE

  Drama at the Abbey as Arts Council investigates finance and governance: Payments to former directors have prompted independent audit by Mazars...
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• 23
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | REVIEW

  Three Monologues review: Gentle intimacy and attention to character: Jennifer Johnston’s triptych gives expression to three people living through...
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• 21
  FEB
  2022

  THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH | FEATURE

  Show at Lyric Theatre cut short after cast complain about behaviour of audience: A sold out production at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre was stopped on...
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• 21
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | REVIEW

  Happy Days review: Buried again and again and again: Sandra O’Malley’s performance reveals vulnerability under the bravado...
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• 20
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH INDEPENDENT | REVIEW

  Portia Coughlan reviewed: Denise Gough gives a divine turn: Portia Coughlan is in hell and sees no way out. The only future is a further depth of...
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• 19
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | FEATURE

  The Lion, the Witch and the Dryrobe: Covid’s cruel spell broken: A magical new production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe brings joy to the...
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• 18
  FEB
  2022

  THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH | INTERVIEW

  ‘At its core, opera is just another way to tell a story... and to connect human to human’: Watch this space,” said Sinead O’Kelly. A search is...
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• 17
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | REVIEW

  Endgame review: Absurd family comedy set at the end of the world: Not since Ab Fab has watching an insecure parent reliant on their child been as...
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• 17
  FEB
  2022

  THE GUARDIAN | REVIEW

  Portia Coughlan review – blistering birthday tragedy of self-destruction: Denise Gough plays out Portia’s bleak 30th, defined by...
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• 17
  FEB
  2022

  RTÉ | FEATURE

  Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days: "You're on earth. There's no cure for that." Comedian...
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• 17
  FEB
  2022

  THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH | FEATURE

  New Tigers Bay theatre project setting the stage for the next Kenneth Branagh: There’s a wealth of talent in north Belfast — we just have to tap...
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• 16
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | REVIEW

  Portia Coughlan review: Eerie tragedy addresses sexuality and motherhood: New production ensures this unforgettable story remains searing in its...
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• 16
  FEB
  2022

  THE FINANCIAL TIMES | REVIEW

  Denise Gough struggles to find a spark in Portia Coughlan: A melancholy mood dominates this revival of Marina Carr’s play at the Abbey Theatre...
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• 14
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | REVIEW

  Into the Woods review: Happy ever after in this fairytale mash-up: Stephen Sondheim’s deconstructed fairytale gets an inventive treatment...
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• 14
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | REVIEW

  Les Misérables review: Power to the people: Spectacular set-pieces and showstopping tunes will take your breath away...
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• 14
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | FEATURE

  Gravity (A Love Story): Playwright Neil Flynn on taking a ‘cosmic leap of faith’: Einstein, Darwin, Dickens and Joan of Arc appear in a play that...
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• 13
  FEB
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | REVIEW

  Bloody Sunday drama One Para skilfully unpacks a complex war: He’s just one. One of hundreds of crack troops in the Parachute...
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• 12
  FEB
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | REVIEW

  Boozing, flirting and fighting as reality TV is given a script: 15 Minutes at Glass Mask Theatre, Dublin until February 19...
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• 12
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | INTERVIEW

  Derbhle Crotty: ‘Waking The Feminists is having lasting consequence’: Actor on her electric pandemic projects and returning to Portia Coughlan...
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• 10
  FEB
  2022

  THE STAGE | REVIEW

  Into the Woods review: Familiar fairytales are twisted into moral messages and uncomfortable truths in this wonderfully designed musical at Lyric...
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• 10
  FEB
  2022

  THE GALWAY ADVERTISER | FEATURE

  Also For Roaring - experimental theatre at Black Box: A kaleidoscope of scripted conversations, improvisations, mouth organs, and masks...
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• 08
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | INTERVIEW

  Danya Taymor on directing Endgame at the Gate: ‘It’s a huge responsibility’: The American director is keen to explore the physicality of Beckett’s...
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• 08
  FEB
  2022

  RTÉ | FEATURE

  Defying Gravity - Neil Flynn on his multi-dimensional new play: Playwright Neil Flynn introduces his new work Gravity (A Love Story), premiering...
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• 06
  FEB
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | FEATURE

  Gabriel Byrne’s stagecraft in Walking with Ghosts redeems Irish memoir by numbers: Walking with Ghosts has been eagerly awaited, and not just among...
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• 05
  FEB
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | FEATURE

  Gabriel Byrne throws away his masks to bring memoir to theatrical life: Walking With Ghosts at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin until Sunday, Feb 6...
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• 05
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | OPINION

  Hugh Linehan: Covid shut down the world but couldn’t bring the curtain down on Irish theatre: The first in-person Irish Times Theatre Awards since...
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• 03
  FEB
  2022

  THE TIMES | REVIEW

  Walking With Ghosts theatre review — nowhere to hide from the ghosts of his past: This is one of Ireland’s finest performers at his very best...
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• 02
  FEB
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | INTERVIEW

  Walking with Ghosts: Gabriel Byrne looks at the strange boy in the mirror: Actor’s adaptation of his memoir explores painful memories with serious...
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• 02
  FEB
  2022

  THE GUARDIAN | REVIEW

  Walking With Ghosts review – Gabriel Byrne’s trip down Dublin’s memory lanes: The actor adapts his impressionistic memoir for the stage, giving...
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• 02
  FEB
  2022

  THE FINANCIAL TIMES | REVIEW

  Gabriel Byrne is captivating in one-man show Walking with Ghosts: The actor returns to the Dublin stage with stories from his life and his hometown...
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• 02
  FEB
  2022

  RTÉ | FEATURE

  Watch: Carmen uncovered - inside INO's latest opera: Two years on from when it was originally scheduled, Irish National Opera are finally bringing...
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