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In Paul Duane’s film, the growing sense of being lost in a Celtic variation on Hieronymus Bosch is stirring in the most creatively disagreeable way
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Pan Pan Theatre captures echo of Beckett’s poetry
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Sea Fever: Claustrophobic Irish-ish horror couldn’t be more prescient
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The 1982 debut from the composer and singer is still challenging
Olwen Fouéré and the Breton connection: This time it’s personal
A leading light of the Irish avant-garde conjures up her father’s wartime experiences
Olwen Fouéré on the price that revolutionaries pay
The actor’s role in ‘Danse, Morob’, a play that touches on the dirty protests of the Maze and other traumas, explores how revolution can break those whom others see as heroes
Fintan O’Toole’s cultural highlights: ‘A great year for the elderly’
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Elvis Costello, Enda Walsh and Hughie O’Donoghue announced for Galway
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The Drop Everything cultural biennial will soon take over Inisheer with art, music, and a specially built sauna
Imagining Home: Out of the Tradition review
The NCH closes its week-long exploration of 100 years of cultural history with a freewheeling journey through traditional music and words
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
Olwen Fouéré : ‘I never believed that you could love two people’
This week on Róisín Meets . . . the actor talks open marriage and Waking the Feminists
Inis Oírr tackles Abbey male bias with 90% female art line-up
Only one of 10 plays at Áras Éanna on Aran island this season will be performed by man
Anne Clarke to receive Special Tribute Award at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
Landmark founder recognised for her outstanding contribution to the industry
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Samuel Beckett’s late prose piece, written in fragments and pieced together at random, becomes oddly lulling
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
Stephen Rea to receive Irish Times Special Tribute Award
Award is part of the celebrations at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
‘Wild thing’ and lobsters kick off Galway festival
Galway celebrates two arts festivals in one fortnight
An actor’s journey into character
Tomorrow, this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards will be presented. The nominees for best actor and best actress talk about the roles they play
The best of Irish theatre: this year’s nominees
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