La Reine Claude, a collaborative play by some of our finest writers
The full script for The Arc, a project devised by The Irish Times and Dublin Theatre Festival
The full script for The Arc, a project devised by The Irish Times and Dublin Theatre Festival
As our collaborative play approaches its finale, things are looking increasingly bleak for Mulcahy thanks to Genevieve Hulme-Beaman
The action takes a violent turn in the hands of Brokentalkers
Bush Moukarzel gives La Reine Claude a dark twist
Kate Heffernan dials up the tension in ‘La Reine Claude’
An actor’s pottering around a ramshackle stage may not be dramatic but it becomes quietly hypnotic
An exercise in unadorned storytelling and sparing stagecraft resists the information overload of the modern world
One of Australia’s Stolen Generation reasserts his dignity and spirit
Kate Stanley Brennan, Niamh McCann and Declan Conlon to play the parts, as Stacey Gregg joins the fray of ‘La Reine Claude’
Tickets are now on sale for a rehearsed reading of our collaborative play, featuring contributions from Tom Murphy, Enda Walsh, Sonya Kelly and many more
Tom Murphy started it; Enda Walsh wouldn’t let it go; and now Deirdre Kinahan is exploring the bad blood and intrigue of La Reine Claude
Deirdre Kinahan captures the claustrophobia of small town society and family life in a play that transcends its bleak premise
Nevermind Mark O’Rowe’s return to dialogue, does his family tragedy for the Abbey signal a new commitment to realism? Or is anything here as it seems?
What does the future hold? Brokentalkers look forward with our our hopes and aspirations
Two men stare down the barrel of being 50: the results are clever and sensitive
Oliver Jeffers’ book jumps off the page and into space in this beautiful stage adaptation
An artfully layered production from Australia’s Back to Back Theatre exposes the mechanics of power play and the right to represent controversial material
Jonathan Capdevielle explores who he is and what has formed him, from the traditional folk music of the Pyrenees to more recent pop-culture fantasies
To adapt Eimear McBride’s unconventional book can’t have been easy, but they’ve pulled it off
Can a maniacally upbeat community centre worker change the world – with your help?
Hugo Hamilton’s nuanced first World War drama looks at the family fallout after the return of an injured sailor
Tom Murphy began our collaborative play for the Dublin Theatre Festival; here, Enda Walsh gives the plot a surreal twist
Anu Productions’ celebrated Monto Cycle comes full circle, where present day Dublin finds its history repeating
The festival opens with the Schaubuhne’s riveting and dangerous production of Hamlet. Though this be madness, yet there’s method in it
Robert Softley places the disabled aesthetic at the heart of his show, and the result is bold and stylish
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With ‘Vardo’, the concluding part of Anu Productions’ thrillingly intimate four-part series, director Louise Lowe brings the extraordinary Monto Cycle full circle. But is that any way to leave it?
The plays of the ‘Howie the Rookie’ writer are dark, complex affairs. With his new work, ‘Our Few and Evil Days’, about to open at the Abbey Theatre, even he admits he doesn’t fully know what makes them tick
A new play by Tom Murphy is something worth celebrating, and his latest, ‘Brigit’, draws on the historic source of all of his storytelling
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