Conor Hanratty’s production treats the composer with all the loving care that he himself had first bestowed on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s play
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Like the Oscar Wilde play that inspired it, To Hell in a Handbag imagines characters spinning complicated, comic fictions that bend reality to their will
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Skilful skewering as opera ensemble shows audience exactly what it’s like
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Mick Dawson hoping side can benefit soon from proposed €30m upgrade to RDS
Here is our selection of the best shows opening this weekend, and the best productions still running that we've seen so far
‘Acis and Galatea’ has had its action propped up in a very Irish setting
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