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The Cripple of Inishmaan review: Outlandish tales and dark distortions
This new production of Martin McDonagh’s comedy is wise not to play it straight
The Chastitute review: A promiscuous play that can’t settle down
It’s hard to know what to make of the sexual politics of John B Keane’s play
Culture Shock: Garry Hynes’s astonishing, exhilarating ‘DruidShakespeare’
The director’s extraordinary take on Shakespeare’s Henry plays, reworked by Mark O’Rowe and starring Aisling O’Sullivan, Derbhle Crotty and Marty Rea, feels like a sweeping epic as a whole, but moment by moment it feels intimate and detailed
Review: DruidShakespeare
Druid carve four Shakespeare plays into an epic of regal succession, and drag the kings down with the people where they belong
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: ‘Shakespeare may have been on magic mushrooms’
The Abbey goes Pan Pan for a subversive, tender and innovative production of Shakespeare’s warped comedy, which has been relocated to a nursing home
Funeral of actor Susan Fitzgerald told of her serenity facing death
Priest recalls an ‘extraordinary’ person
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