Beckett’s Room review: A play with no performers and plenty of magic
Dublin Theatre Festival: Dead Centre’s ambitious new work depicts Beckett’s formative years in Nazi-occupied Paris
The play with no performers: Beckett’s Room is something between a conjuring act and a weird dream
As the world that made Samuel Beckett who he was becomes magically apparent, the point of Dead Centre’s unusual approach begins to makes sense
From Beckett to A Christmas Carol, but not the Gate Theatre as we know it
Selina Cartmell unveils a new season featuring collaborations with Colm Tóibín, Stanley Townsend, Garry Hynes, Anu and Dead Centre
About a boy: Hamnet heads up this week’s theatre highlights
Meet Shakespeare’s lost son at the Project, and don’t be late for your own funeral in Cork
To see or not to see: ‘Hamnet’ is this week’s must-see theatre highlight
Dead Centre’s brilliant one-boy show in Dublin, and all the drama of Electric Picnic
Hamnet is a child frozen in time to devastating effect
And Sebastian Barry delivers a superb prison drama at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival
An 11-year-old boy, alone on a Dublin stage for an hour
Ollie West, child star of ‘Hamnet’ at the Dublin Theatre Festival, says theatre is ‘kind of like PE’
Review | Chekhov’s First Play: ‘Platonov is the black hole at the heart of this brilliant endeavour’
Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd slowly strip away the trappings of form and character from Chekhov’s first work, and take a wrecking ball of theatrical convention
Staging the unstageable: Dead Centre take on Chekhov’s chaotic first play
The pioneering theatre company is taking an aggressive approach to Chekhov’s sprawling, untitled play and has even introduced a live director’s commentary – can it be tamed?
Irish shows conquer Edinburgh’s hilly terrain
In the largest international festival on earth, artists from Ireland have proven themselves disproportionately successful
The right direction: unravelling the roles in the theatre awards
When we congratulate directors on a job well done, do we know what we’re congratulating them for?
Paying more than lip service
We may never be able to interpret an unfathomable tragedy, but Lippy has extraordinary things to say about it
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