The choir sings an upbeat hymn before Pastor Paul (William Gaminara) stands to deliver his sermon for the evening. “Let us pray.” A few members of the audie...
Entering the space at the Gate Theatre you are accosted by spinning yellow hazard lights and heavy, fast rock music, reminiscent of Massive Attack. This sensory...
The world of Tom Murphy’s 1983 play is filled with music: the chimes of the church bell signalling the hours, the rhythmic whacks of a telephone switch-hook to ...
Image of an Unknown Young Woman at the Gate Theatre
By Elinor Cook. Directed by Christopher Haydon.
She is a young woman in a yellow dress.
She has been shot...
“Oh, Cathleen ni Houlihan, your way’s a thorny way!” In director Wayne Jordan’s staging of Sean O’Casey’s 1923 tragicomedy, the pedlar Seumas Shields (David Gan...
The Gate’s always wonderfully intimate space is this time transformed into a rebel military base in war-torn Liberia, in director Caroline Byrne’s accomplished ...