Sophie Motley

The Summer I Robbed a Bank review: A riot of inspired fun as David O’Doherty’s children’s book becomes stage show

Theatre: creative and innovative display of stagecraft using video and lighting with glee that enchants audience

Mon Jun 10 2024 - 11:01

‘We started with Take That and worked backwards’: Irish National Opera’s contemporary Werther

Sophie Motley has set the Goethe story behind Massenet’s 1892 opera in an electrifying rural Ireland

Wed Apr 19 2023 - 05:15

Kilkenny Arts Festival mixes risk and safe-bets in search of magical chance

From Rough Magic’s Tonic to Mozart’s Requiem, the festival starts August 6th

Tue Jul 06 2021 - 05:00

Cork theatre-makers waiting in the wings to step into the new normal

Theatre scene that thrived before pandemic is busy planning for return to work

Mon Mar 01 2021 - 05:00

Rough Magic theatre, 35 years on: ‘Dublin in those days was so bohemian’

Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions

Sat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00

Dublin Fringe begins: reviews from the opening weekend

The opening weekend of the Fringe festival bursts into life with disturbing future visions and exhilarating burlesque

Mon Sept 12 2016 - 14:00

How fringe are you? 12 shows pitch for your ticket-buying time

As the Tiger Dublin Fringe festival prepares for this month’s event, a dozen of the artists taking part give the low-down on their shows

Sat Sept 03 2016 - 05:00

Review: Everything Between Us

David Ireland drops more than a few depth charges in one of the best pieces about conflict in “post conflict” Northern Ireland yet written

Wed Feb 18 2015 - 14:15

Review: Terjas Verdes

The final part in the Mac’s Chilean trilogy makes the horrors of the Pinochet regime resonate much closer to home

Thu Jun 05 2014 - 17:02

Parallel worlds: A Chilean trilogy that could be about the North

A young ‘disappeared’ woman, the debate over how a building linked to past conflict should be redeployed, and an exploration of a political leader feature in Prime Cut’s ambitious new trio of plays in Belfast

Tue May 27 2014 - 01:00

The final act: from the hospice to the stage

WillFredd Theatre’s production reveals the courage that underpins the darkness and light, the ebb and flow, of life in a hospice

Mon Feb 24 2014 - 01:00

Review: Care

WillFredd Theatre’s exploration of hospice care creatively explores systems and coping strategies

Fri Feb 21 2014 - 16:10

Mahler’s masterpiece finally gets the reception it deserves

His First Symphony felt alien to 19th-century listeners, but Saturday’s audience lapped it up

Wed Oct 30 2013 - 01:00