5.0
Review: Cyprus Avenue, Royal Court
Eric (Stephen Rea) has recently become a grandfather. His daughter Julie (Amy Molloy) had a baby, Mary-May, five and a half weeks ago. Her mother and Eric’s wi...
Abbey Theatre
5.0
Review: Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Class, Traverse Theatre
★★ A play set in a school classroom in attempt to explore class struggles sums up what Iseult Golden and David Horan are exploring in their most recent produ...
An Actor Writes: Waking the Feminists
Image via bjaglin on Flickr. Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, considered Ireland’s national theatre, hosted a meeting last Thursday that finally gave voice to years ...
Review: Oedipus, Abbey Theatre
Oedipus is a notorious story, and its plotline of incest, patricide, exile and blindness have passed into common knowledge through Freud’s controversial Oedipal...
Review: By the Bog of Cats, Abbey Theatre
It’s time someone re-discovered the half-sunken caravan of Hester Swaine, the Traveller woman at the wild heart of Marina Carr’s play from 1998. On first look, ...
Review: Receptacle, Moving Bodies Festival 2015, MART Gallery
When Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo presented a performance at a Japanese dance festival in 1959 in which a young man copulated with a chicken and, debatably, ...