Aaron Monaghan

Endgame review: Druid’s exquisite production brings a lightness of step to Beckett’s indestructible tragicomedy

Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Garry Hynes directs Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Bosco Hogan

Wed Jul 17 2024 - 08:54

Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan take on Beckett: ‘To understand Endgame is to understand that you can’t understand Endgame’

Galway International Arts Festival 2024: For Druid’s Endgame, Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan are immersed in Beckett. It’s surpringly enjoyable, they say

Sun Jul 07 2024 - 05:30

Hidden Assets: An unlikely mishmash of suicide bombers, Irish gangsters and Angeline Ball

TV review: The Irish-Belgian-Canadian drama is Irish stew with moules-frites and maple syrup

Sun Nov 07 2021 - 22:30

Once Upon a Bridge: Unchecked aggression and its regretful aftermath

Theatre review: In Sonya Kelly’s new play, commonplace hostilities can alter lives forever

Mon Feb 15 2021 - 12:45

Eighteen Irish panto productions for all the family to watch this season

Pantomimes and family shows have gone online – or even switched to a drive-in format

Thu Dec 03 2020 - 10:00

‘Always be beautiful. Always be dynamic. Always be welcoming’

A Japanese mentor helped to inspire Conor Hanratty’s online short play War Paint

Thu Jul 23 2020 - 05:00

Emma Mackey: ‘No, not all French people want to have sex all the time’

The Sex Education actor talks about her Irish roots and her Anglo-French upbringing

Sat Jun 27 2020 - 05:00

Wayne Jordan: ‘I didn’t feel like an artist anymore, but an interior designer’

The theatre director’s new show, Leaving, is a powerful departure for the returned emigre

Sat Mar 07 2020 - 05:00

Druid, Chekhov and the politics of power

Garry Hynes directs The Cherry Orchard, a play she says that’s still of the moment

Sat Feb 15 2020 - 05:00

Jonathan Swift’s satire works as key to modern-day ills

Conall Morrison’s new play blends 18th-century wit’s biography with his bibliography

Sat Sept 28 2019 - 05:00

‘I don’t think I would be a writer were it not for Irish writers’

US playwright Brian Watkins takes inspiration from Joyce’s The Dead for his latest work, Epiphany

Sat Jun 29 2019 - 05:00

Trad review: Father and 100-year-old son, locked in a torturous relationship

Livin’ Dred seems dutiful to rather than inspired by Mark Doherty’s comic look at stifling tradition

Wed May 01 2019 - 16:05

Trad and Tintown: the best of this week’s theatre

Emmet Kirwan stars in the revival of Mark Doherty’s 2004 play; Tintown explores how idealism can be corrupted by thirst for blood and illiberalism

Sat Apr 27 2019 - 05:00

Shoplifters of the world unite: Charlie’s a Clepto is this week’s theatre highlight

In Clare Monnelly’s debut play, a misspelling spins her protagonist into a life of petty crime, but it’s the play’s subtle borrowings and light references that really steal the show

Sat Mar 23 2019 - 05:00

Charlie’s a Clepto review: Nimble plotting, nimble performance

Clare Monnelly pivots through a range of characters in this revival of her artful debut

Wed Mar 20 2019 - 10:30

St Patrick’s Day: 21 events across Ireland for the bank holiday weekend

From Dublin's St Patrick’s Festival to Kilkenny Tradfest and a Co Wicklow slime lab

Thu Mar 14 2019 - 06:00

Past tension: the eternal battle between old and new music

There was nothing wrong with the New Music Dublin Festival – just its name

Wed Mar 06 2019 - 11:43

Theatre highlights: A bracing documentary on HIV in Ireland

Look out for ‘Rapids’, about life with HIV by Shaun Dunne, and the Abbey’s 24-hour plays

Sat Feb 02 2019 - 05:00

The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: all this year’s nominees

After seeing more than 130 shows, the judges have made 60 nominations in 15 categories

Sat Jan 19 2019 - 05:00

Theatre: a new generation takes on the words of Flann O’Brien

‘Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann)’ draws from ‘The Dalkey Archive’ and other stories

Sat Dec 22 2018 - 05:00

Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann) review: Nostalgia, booze and tale tales

This directorless sampling of Flann O’Brien ends up looking like an actors’ lock-in

Thu Dec 20 2018 - 12:50

Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessons

Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre

Sat Dec 08 2018 - 06:00

DruidShakespeare: Richard III review – Striking, intoxicating, disturbing

Garry Hynes’s production is like a horror show seen through a haze of laughing gas

Thu Sept 27 2018 - 13:17

Sympathy for the devil: how DruidShakespeare got to the soul of Richard III

For director Garry Hynes, the desire to portray this tortured king goes back years

Sat Sept 15 2018 - 05:00

An unsentimental look at a Dublin that will not accommodate its own

Shelter review: History repeats itself in Cristin Kehoe’s admirably understated drama set in modern Dublin

Wed Jul 18 2018 - 14:43

Kevin Barry: On My Culture Radar

The award-winning author and playwright on Tommy Tiernan, Austin Texas, and why we need podcasts

Sat Apr 28 2018 - 05:00

Return of Druid’s Godot is a theatre highlight worth waiting for

Druid’s unmissable Waiting for Godot embarks on national and international tour, while Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton is back in Blue Raincoat’s intrepid production

Sat Feb 24 2018 - 05:00

Dublin Theatre Festival 2017: Eight of the best shows

Here's our recommendations for what to see over the next few weeks

Thu Sept 28 2017 - 05:00

‘Maze’ review: more like the ‘Great Escape’ than we had any right to expect

The 1983 prison break gets a responsible treatment but it's most effective as a prison break yarn

Wed Sept 20 2017 - 05:00

The Second Violinist review: An extraordinary modern opera

A lonely life is subsumed into this collaboration between Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh

Mon Jul 31 2017 - 15:56

The best classical performances to see this week

Dublin International Piano Festival, opera at the Galway Arts Festival and 37th Chamber Music Festival in Castletownshend

Thu Jul 20 2017 - 13:00

Galway arts festival marks 40th opening, while Fringe celebrates sixth year

Syrian conflict and mother and baby homes among political themes in the two events

Sun Jul 16 2017 - 20:54

Brian Wilson and two major operas for Galway Arts Festival

Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up

Tue May 02 2017 - 10:12

Did you hear the one about the actor trying to be funny?

Druid actor Rory Nolan takes his comedy seriously - which may explain his impressive ability when it comes to theatre, and to trolling his fellow cast members

Tue Apr 25 2017 - 05:00