Stage Reviews
The Jesus Trilogy: Beautifully textured adaptation captures all the sadness and mystery of JM Coetzee’s novels
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Annabelle Comyn’s evocative production, featuring Fergal McElherron and Elaine O’Dwyer, makes clever, convincing choices
Find Your Eyes: ‘Oh Lord, will it be like this all the way through?’ we ask at first. But this tricky piece rewards surrender
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: In this unclassifiable performance piece, Benji Reid creates a seductive amalgam of theatre, choreography and photography
Freefalling: A wild, extraordinary story that you couldn’t make up
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Georgina Miller’s account of her recent life mixes daredevil adrenaline with humour and a lightness of touch
Safe House: Enda Walsh’s new work is an oppressively desolate song cycle
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Kate Gilmore is impressive as a vulnerable young woman, but parts of the staging overwhelm her character
Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Pan Pan’s loose retelling of Shakespeare contains flashes of real artistry
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Manuel Zschunke is particularly compelling as the paranoid king Leontes in an uneven reimagining of The Winter’s Tale
Breaking: Two characters, four actors and a rotating series of scenes, emotions and meanings
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: In Amy Kidd’s play, actors of different genders, races, backgrounds and accents portray the same unhappy couple
Guest Host Stranger Ghost: A genuinely original high concept gets its first outing
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: This nomadic play’s use of other productions’ sets mirrors the insecure tenures so many young people are forced to put up with
Sandpaper on Sunburn: A humorous, compelling portrayal of what it means to be neurodivergent
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: David Horan’s family drama dives head first into the topic of autism
Home, Boys, Home: Dermot Bolger’s heartbreaking, witty script is also a powerful commentary on family, society and morality
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Ray Yeates, Fionnuala Gygax and Donna Anita Nikolaisen star in the final part of a trilogy that began with In High Germany
Trifled: Bawdy, fun, line-crossing modern romance in which everyone needs saving
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Caitlin Magnall-Kearns’s play reminds us that we don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors
Béatrice et Bénédict: A mischievous, playful Fiona Shaw brings extra energy to Berlioz’s opera
Opera: Conductor Ryan McAdams draws lively, fresh playing to a concert performance featuring Paula Murrihy, Anna Devin and Niamh O’Sullivan
Darkmatter: A freaky, oozy horror dance
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The Dutch choreographer Cherish Menzo’s eventful piece has a frightening otherworldliness
Molly Sweeney: Brian Friel revival features fine performances and elegant staging
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Andrew Flynn’s production, with Genevieve Hulme-Beaman, Denis Conway and Manus Halligan, makes up for play’s slight staticness
Agreement: No play about the Good Friday negotiations has the right to be this much fun
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Owen McCafferty’s writing cuts through the Belfast peace talks’ seriousness to find levity in personal stakes and political bluster
Grace: A moving depiction of the complex way a girl with autism experiences life
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Eleanor Walsh gives a delicate performance in Jody O’Neill’s gentle drama
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
Amelia: A touching vision of where we – and theatre – will end up in the climate crisis
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Dee Roycroft’s ingenious play could be considered dystopian, but the pessimism doesn’t get everyone down
0800 Cupid: Hilarious, heartfelt musical theatre by one of Ireland’s rising stars
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Emer Dineen combines high-camp fantasy with a personal tale of family illness, grief and alienation
Grania: Lady Gregory’s epic love story takes on a new lease of life in its Abbey debut
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The thorns and snares of lust and envy are forces to be reckoned with in Caitríona McLaughlin’s reimagining
An Ant Called Amy: A magical, thought-provoking lesson in learning to slow down
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Julie Sharkey’s delightful performance treads carefully on the topic of sibling loss
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