Feature: The uneasy crown in DruidShakespeare
In a promotional image for DruidShakespeare - Druid Theatre Company’s upcoming presentation of Shakespeare’s ‘History Plays’ - we see the white-painted face of ...
Chris McCormack
Review: The Pillowman, Town Hall Theatre
Artists’ rights and principles are complicated issues. It’s tempting to take Katurian, the writer imprisoned by a totalitarian regime in The Pillowman, as a sta...
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Abbey Theatre
The course of Shakespeare’s comedy at the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre, never did run smooth. “A Midsummer’s Abbey Nightmare” ran the headline of o...
Review: Pals – The Irish at Gallipoli, Collins Barracks
Too long have the Irish who fought in the British army during WWI been lost to obscurity. Whitewashed in the national memory by the nationalism that followed th...
Chris McCormack
Chris McCormack is a theatre critic based in Dublin. He blogs on MusingsInIntermissions.blogspot.ie and contributes to *Irish Theatre Magazine *and the Arts Council of Ireland. He is also a PhD fellow at the National University of Ireland Galway where he is researching influential designers who worked at the Abbey Theatre.