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Louise Lowe
The Dead review: James Joyce’s tragicomedy wraps around the audience in a hugely engaging, immensely accomplished evening
Theatre: Marty Rea and Maeve Fitzgerald star as Gabriel and Gretta Conroy in Louise Lowe’s promenade staging of the beloved Dubliners story
The Dead brought to life: how James Joyce’s celebrated short story is being re-created as an immersive experience
Featuring Marty Rea, Maeve Fitzgerald and Marie Mullen, Louise Lowe’s re-creation is taking over Newman House, on St Stephen’s Green in Dublin
Starjazzer: Affecting, innovative Anu adaptation marries a put-upon O’Casey heroine with her equally abused granddaughter
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Louise Lowe’s socially conscious production tells two stories at once, putting an unusual theatrical space to creative use
Theatre for One: This Ireland review – Brilliant, totally immersive one-to-one plays
Cork Midsummer Festival 2024: The brilliance of these 12 five-minute plays lies in their containment
The Pull of the Stars review: Sincere and sharply performed adaptation of Emma Donoghue novel
Play breaks little ground theatrically, but few will emerge unmoved or uninterested
Emma Donoghue: ‘With birth, it’s a real spin of the roulette wheel. Women’s lives have always been determined by this crapshoot’
The writer on her new stage adaptation of The Pull of the Stars, her novel set over three feverish days in the maternity ward of a Dublin hospital
Hammam review: Louise Lowe’s terrifying immersive play reinforces Anu’s singular position in Irish theatre
Theatre: The writer and director transforms an unrecognisable Peacock venue into the Battle of Dublin in 1922
The Saviour review: A showcase for Marie Mullen’s room-filling stagecraft
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Deirdre Kinahan’s fine two-hander groans with dramatic commentary on where the nation has been and where it has ended up
An Old Song, Half Forgotten: This play shouldn’t really work but it’s a compelling celebration of a life in theatre
Theatre: Bryan Murray, who has Alzheimer’s, gives a deft, graceful performance as a veteran actor with the disease
Actor Bryan Murray on his Alzheimer’s: ‘There is no short-term memory. It is not the end of the world for me. But – there is a but’
Bryan Murray stars in Deirdre Kinahan’s new play at the Peacock. His role intersects with his own reality as he plays a man with Alzheimer’s
Old Ghosts: A Joycean chamber opera in an evocative setting
Review: Evangelia Rigaki and Marina Carr’s piece features compelling performances but sometimes struggles with the acoustic challenges of its venue
Starting a museum: 10 lessons I learned in 10 years
The Little Museum of Dublin, founded in 2011, is the people’s museum of the capital
Staging the Treaty: This marathon production will recreate debates a century later
Some 100 years ago TDs made the most important choice in the history of Irish State
Dublin Port makes pitch to become major cultural hub
Plays recorded at the port to showcase future plans to renovate old warehouses
Experience O’Connell Bridge: A Focal point for revolution and change
The Party To End All Parties is an interactive piece created against the backdrop of Covid-19
Faultline review: Immersive journey through a societal upheaval
Dublin Theatre Festival: This absorbing new work remembers a faultline in the early days of Irish gay rights
The week’s best plays: Playboy of the Western World and Faultline
Dublin Theatre Festival productions examine Irish theatre and history from new angles
Thought-provoking theatre where the audience is just you
Review: Theatre for One’s six microplays are bracing, intimate-as-a-whisper performances
Cork Midsummer Festival 2019: Daring work and delicious food
Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme
Event of the Week: Cork Midsummer Festival
Theatre, music and literature galore is to be found across the city from the 13th June
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
The Irish Times 22nd Irish Theatre Awards: Villainy triumphs in tales for our times
Peter Crawley’s analysis: It was a big year for villainy as Richard III took top honours
‘I’m two months from homelessness’: the real lives of performers
Average weekly earnings of €494 for performers in the arts is two-thirds of the average in other sectors
The Lost O’Casey review: An urgent understanding of contemporary Dublin
Dublin Theatre Festival: Anu’s immersive production sends characters and audience spinning through a disappearing city
Theatre of the week: Misogynistic therapy, and a neglected Sean O’Casey play
Two new productions at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival re-examine old art works
Women don’t write national plays? ‘Well they can, and they do’
In 2018, a diversity of Irish women’s voices will take their place on the national stage
The Sin Eaters: Memories from Irish women in our vexed recent history
Anú’s latest show, which takes place in a clinical space, is impressive but not intimate
Dublin Theatre Festival 2017: Eight of the best shows
Here's our recommendations for what to see over the next few weeks
Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 2011 – Laundry, by Louise Lowe
By staging her play in a former Magdalene laundry the playwright compels the audience to inhabit the haunted spaces of Irish history
On Corporation Street review: Anu explores what it takes to rebuild shattered city
The theatre company’s latest show explores the legacy of the Manchester bombing
Manchester bombing, 20 years on: ‘Why did you do it?’
Twenty years ago today, a huge truck bomb tore through the heart of Manchester. Irish theatre company Anu’s new show, which opens today in the city, looks at locals’ memories, their recovery and the aftershocks that still resonate
Sunder review: In the eye of the Moore Street storm
Anu’s latest performance traces a legacy of violence against civilians, from Moore Street barricades to modern-day terrorism. Will you choose death or glory?
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