Lisa Dwan

TV guide: 12 of the best shows to watch this week

February 24th-Mar 1st: CMAT wows Dingle in Other Voices, and Channel 4 puts juries on trial

Sun Feb 25 2024 - 05:00

I feel a swell of national pride when I see a big Irish hunk do well on the telly

Patrick Freyne: On Love Island – All Stars, Adam spends much of his time wearing a hat and tiny pants and little else. It’s a classic Irish look

Thu Feb 15 2024 - 05:15

Blackshore review: Silly, watchable drama is one of the better thrillers from RTÉ

Television: The State broadcaster refuses to get over the Nordi craze but Lisa Dwan brings a dynamic grumpiness to her leading role as the sort of cop who goes to the pub on her own and reads a book while frowning

Sun Feb 04 2024 - 22:30

The Women of Troy: No country for women

Pat Barker’s sequel continues her vivid reimagining of Greek mythology

Mon Aug 30 2021 - 06:00

Lisa Dwan: ‘I was a blond, blue-eyed, pretty actress playing one vacuous role after another’

Then came Samuel Beckett, and his plays set the Irish actor on a new artistic path

Wed Jun 16 2021 - 06:00

Bloodlands finale review: Confusion, contrivances and coincidences abound

As a glowering antihero James Nesbitt saves a silly, overbaked series

Sun Mar 14 2021 - 22:25

The best new TV shows to watch in February and March

First Dates Ireland, Home of the Year, Line of Duty return. Eve Hewson stars in Behind Her Eyes

Mon Feb 08 2021 - 05:00

Waiting for Gobnait? Beckett’s ban on women challenged

Female and non-binary performers are tackling Beckett’s rigidity in a new play

Mon Oct 19 2020 - 13:27

Pale Sister review: Colm Tóbín’s play more eager to meet a reader than a spectator

While there is a subtlety in Tóbín’s text of this reimagined Antigone, Lisa Dwan’s stentorian performance conveys more thunder than thought

Tue Nov 05 2019 - 15:04

The best theatre shows to see this week

Lisa Dwan and Colm Tóibín rework Antigone by giving voice to overshadowed sister Ismene

Fri Jul 19 2019 - 10:21

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

Wed May 29 2019 - 17:07

Forget the Wild Atlantic Way: here are the Northern Literary Lands

Seán Doran and Liam Browne want people in the Border counties to celebrate their shared literary heritge

Thu Jul 27 2017 - 05:00

Get your own poem on Poetry Day Ireland

As part of today’s celebrations, Lewis Kenny will be writing personalised verse at Poetry Ireland’s HQ

Thu Apr 27 2017 - 11:03

Fintan O’Toole’s cultural highlights: ‘A great year for the elderly’

Culture review 2016: Seanad National Museum land grab shows depths of philistinism in our political culture

Thu Dec 22 2016 - 09:27

Waking The Feminists supporters say ‘one more thing’

To mark first anniversary of Waking The Feminists, Gender equality campaigners add 10 points to debate

Wed Nov 16 2016 - 05:00

Feminist pressure group holds theatre organisations to account

Waking the Feminists slate theatre organisations for below-par gender equality record

Mon Nov 14 2016 - 18:28

Centenary concerts neglect to take the revolutionary road

Michael Dervan: Two evenings of music and words as part of Ireland 2016 got me thinking about the links that were missed

Wed Apr 06 2016 - 01:00

Footfalls and phonecalls – An Irishman’s Diary about a night at the National Concert Hall

Fri Apr 01 2016 - 01:00

Imagining Ireland makes a stunning break for Europe

The NCH’s centenary celebrations continue with a night of high calibre one-off performances

Thu Mar 31 2016 - 16:28

Bernard Shaw to Roger Casement: put on the performance of your life

As Casement faced trial for treason in 1916, Shaw wrote a speech that he was convinced could turn the trial into a national drama, and save Casement from the scaffold

Sat Mar 26 2016 - 05:45

Literary listings: Merriman Summer School, Yeats in Dublin, and Rebellion at Stinging Fly

A round-up of upcoming events in the books world

Wed Aug 12 2015 - 15:33

Róisín Meets: Sinead Burke on life as a little person

‘Minnie Mélange’, aka the Alternative Miss Ireland, inspired by her impressive mother

Sat May 09 2015 - 01:00

Fintan O’Toole’s cultural highs and lows of 2014

Lisa Dwan’s series of performances was startling

Sat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00

Culture Shock: Beckett’s Irish women finally have a distinctly Irish voice

Lisa Dwan gives astonishing performances of ‘Not I’, ‘Footfalls’ and ‘Rockaby’

Sat Sept 13 2014 - 01:00

‘Theatre is a horrible business’: the wisdom of Beckett’s chosen one

The genial German director Walter Asmus was initially scared of Samuel Beckett before gradually becoming the playwright’s personally anointed representative on Earth

Wed Jul 23 2014 - 01:00

Fantasies in borrowed spaces as Galway Arts Festival opens tonight

Former ‘Connacht Tribune’ printworks is festival’s main gallery venue

Mon Jul 14 2014 - 01:00

What do a dragon, aliens and a giant red ball have in common?

Galway International Arts Festival announces programme for July event

Wed May 28 2014 - 01:00

Hay at Kells: And then there were three

Strong women grab Kells by the book

Sun Jun 30 2013 - 15:17

Hay at Kells: The weekend begins

The Hay Festival at Kells is a bright new chapter in the life of the Co Meath town

Fri Jun 28 2013 - 15:50

Lisa Dwan: ‘You can’t see. You can’t hear. Your head is in a harness. You can’t move your arms’

Performing Beckett’s ‘Not I’ involves being blindfolded, bound, and hovering on a platform in a pitch-black space. So why can’t Lisa Dwan leave it alone?

Mon Jun 24 2013 - 01:00