The real question now is whether Elaine Kelly will get the opportunities to build her experience and repertoire

Conversations turn Beckettian when this festival of all things tragicomic doesn’t turn out as planned. Could it be any other way?

Sean Doran wants to make Happy Days a ‘destination festival’, turning Enniskillen, where the playwright and novelist went to school, into a Mecca for his fans

A huge number of productions and premieres were stuffed into the Enniskillen festival, many of them performed in intriguing locations

So says Happy Days festival director Seán Doran of Beckett. Doran’s aim is to break new ground, and with the celebration of the playwright in Enniskillen he has pulled that off

Four arts festival directors share their thoughts on what makes a great festival and recount their toughest challenges