Henrik Ibsen

Mark O’Rowe’s scrupulously naturalistic dialogue balances plot’s tendency towards melodrama

Irish writer’s legacy is secure in the country of one of his own greatest influences

Three reviews from the opening weekend of the Dublin Theatre Festival

Fintan O’Toole: Have shock tactics had their day?

The Irish community and locals are getting acquainted through an oasis of drama

20 years after ‘Shine’, the self-effacing Aussie is the youngest actor to have won the elite acting treble of an Oscar, Emmy and Tony

Mark O’Rowe, who has written a new version of Ibsen’s play, may be an unlikely feminist

The grinding gears of the drama fairly shake the spirit

Written in 1986 as the introduction to a Dolmen Press edition of ‘Dubliners’ illustrated by Louis le Brocquy, but never used, this brilliant essay, recently found among the papers of the author, who died in 1993, appears here for the first time

The best of Frank McGuinness

Ibsen’s whistle blower brings us worrying news from Norway via Arthur Miller’s America