Happy Days review: Buried again and again and again
Sandra O’Malley’s performance reveals vulnerability under the bravado
Niall Henry
Director Niall Henry takes on the lockdown challenge
Henry marks 30 years of absurd, visual drama as Blue Raincoat packs up till Covid allows
Jonathan Swift’s satire works as key to modern-day ills
Conall Morrison’s new play blends 18th-century wit’s biography with his bibliography
‘When you sail, it is impossible to think of anything else except the act of sailing’
Why I Love . . . Sailing
Trad and Tintown: the best of this week’s theatre
Emmet Kirwan stars in the revival of Mark Doherty’s 2004 play; Tintown explores how idealism can be corrupted by thirst for blood and illiberalism
This week’s theatre: Country Girls hit the Abbey while Alice returns to Wonderland
Abbey Theatre stages O’Brien’s subversive classic as a much safer journey and Blue Raincoat re-re-imagines adventures in Wonderland.
The School Days of Thaddeus K review: An elegant depiction of a dismal time
Blue Raincoat use puppetry to evoke the fragility of a young boy’s hellish education
A taste of the theatre this week
Looking forwards, looking backwards and looking up – here’s what’s on view
Beckett plays to be staged in former factory in historic Sligo estate
Plays to be presented in different parts of building are A Piece of Monologue, Play and Footfalls
Is it curtains for regional theatre as we know it?
With the closure of several regional theatre companies since 2008, and new funding mechanisms that favour Dublin-based artists, can regional theatre ever return to health?
Alice in Wonderland review: curious return to the past
Blue Raincoat takes a nostalgic trip down the rabbit hole of its own history
Blue Raincoat hasn’t just adapted Alice, it has almost adopted her
Alice was our first adaptation. We found a structure that was rich in ideas but uncomplicated in terms of language, allowing us play in theatre’s visual and physical aspects
Irish architects think inside – and outside – the glass box
For this year’s winning home designs, architects came up with ingenious solutions to size and other restrictions
Shackleton review: A cold eye cast over a legendary survival story
This Blue Raincoat production is fascinatingly uninterested in the thrills of the survival story
Review: The Playboy of the Western World
Blue Raincoat’s fascinating production sharpens up the Synge song by keeping cool
Blue Raincoat: pushing the boundaries of theatre from WB Yeats to Étienne Decroux
The author of a new book on Sligo’s innovative theatre company explores their physical style of acting, engagement with the landscape and commitment to education
Cheers of a clown
Behind the humour is a ‘search for what is human’, says Lee Delong, who is bringing ‘Night of the Living’ Clown to the Múscailt arts festival in Galway
First Cosmonaut
In Blue Raincoat’s retelling of the space race, Yuri Gagarin makes for a reluctant star
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