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
Gavin Quinn
A bear walks into a rehearsal room: In Pan Pan’s new twist on The Winter’s Tale, the animal finally gets to tell the story
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Exit, Pursued by a Bear might sound absurd, but it opens up a world of dramatic connections
History Play review: Alive to revisionism and the unlit corners of the past
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Pan Pan’s nightmare is not that unsettling to awake from
Was Aldous Huxley right about our brave new world?
A German-Irish production reshapes Huxley’s enduring dystopian vision
Opera an’ bukes: Roddy Doyle to create new version of Don Giovanni
Dublin Theatre Festival announces one of next year’s highlights as it takes a bow for 2015
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
Peter Crawley’s cultural highs and lows of 2014
The harrowing ’A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing’ is hard to shake off
Review: The Seagull and Other Birds
Pan Pan Theatre makes Chekhov’s play the centrepiece of its crammed and elusive aviary. Are they able to wing it?
The right direction: unravelling the roles in the theatre awards
When we congratulate directors on a job well done, do we know what we’re congratulating them for?
Close to the bone: getting into Beckett’s headspace
Pan Pan’s production for stage of a 1959 radio play continues the ‘deregulation’ of the Beckett industry
Dead air
Beckett’s radio play Embers has been described as a “skullscape”. Can Pan Pan’s theatre version get that into our heads?
An early music duo, and ‘Carmen’ by way of ‘Tallafornia’
Early music was on the agenda at two concerts, while OTC’s ‘Carmen’ was defiantly contemporary
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Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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