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...
Wayne Jordan
Review: The Shadow of a Gunman, Lyric Theatre
“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...
Review: Romeo and Juliet, Gate Theatre
During the most iconic scene in the Gate Theatre’s production of Romeo and Juliet, an affable Romeo (Fra Fee) paces excitedly through the seating aisles, castin...