Review: The Wild Duck, Almeida Theatre
Henrik Ibsen's classic play The Wild Duck is reinvented for a modern time, and with a modern style. The evergreen issues that underline the story stand out even...
James Joyce
Review: Lessness, An Taibhdhearc
What does it say of Lessness, a short prose penned in 1969 by Samuel Beckett, that its 60 lines were arranged at random, plucked one-by-one from a container? A...
Review: Blooming Ulysses, Bewley’s Café Theatre
Why adapt Ulysses – James Joyce’s towering, modernist tome – for the stage? The episodic adventures of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus set on mundane 16 June ...
Review: Riverrun, National Theatre, NT Shed
Inspired by Finnegans Wake, the book by Irish writer James Joyce that is more like a stream-of-consciousness linguistic experiment than prose, Riverrun explor...
Want to write? Five steps to better writing
“It is not enough merely to love literature, if one wishes to spend one’s life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it...