Ideas for a new Ireland: ‘I pray for an Ireland free of sly bucks on the make’
Politicians, civic leaders and public figures on the Ireland they want to see in next 100 years
Jimmy Fay
Filming a live play during Covid: ‘We were playing Russian roulette’
Producing David Ireland’s Sadie at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre for TV was nerve-wracking
Karl Shiels: Maybe because he had been an electrician he was aware of the capacity to shock
A passionate advocate for originality, he knew that theatre could be electrifying
Double Cross review: Thomas Kilroy’s chillingly resonant take on nationalism
Ian Toner plays both William Joyce and Brendan Bracken under Jimmy Fay’s direction
The Lyric Theatre at 50: a cultural bridge in a divided city
It opened its doors on the cusp of the Troubles, but Belfast’s Lyric has survived
Event of the Week: Belfast International Arts Festival 2018
With Isabella Rossellini heading the line-up, this year’s festival is hitting the refresh button
‘Sallynoggin was her Vietnam’ RossOCK says of his mother
Postcards From The Ledge review: OMG – are those like actual feelings Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is having?
The Ladykillers review: at last, some killer roles for women
Graham Linehan’s staging of the Ealing comedy features an all-female cast for the first time, but the quality of the performances means tokenism is not an issue
Tiger Dublin Fringe: five ways to choose what to see
From Panti Bliss and Hot Brown Honey to The Vaudevillians, here’s what you might pick
Parker on Parker: ‘Stewart’s work has been horrendously ignored’
Productions of Stewart Parker plays have been among the biggest successes of his niece Lynne Parker’s career. For her latest tilt at Northern Star, she decided to ‘Brecht it a bit’
Bringing some southern soul to a northern beauty
The new executive producer of Belfast’s Lyric Theatre Jimmy Fay aims to put it at the centre of Irish culture
Breaking Dad: the upstaging of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly
In the third Ross play, his daughter arrives home with a 17-year-old version of him. And the key lesson from the first two plays? Writing comedy for the stage is very different to writing comedy for the page
Patrick O’Kane: thoughts on acting, Belfast and a head butt
The actor is one of the most intense and intelligent performers in Irish theatre; little surprise, then, that a conversation with him starts to sound like a masterclass on acting
Band of brothers: the Lockout with music and dancing
The Abbey Theatre’s adaptation of James Plunkett’s 1958 play ‘The Risen People’ takes in elements of music hall and vaudeville, and discards Jim Larkin
The Risen People
In a year of 1913 memorials, can a play this derivative, or a production this earnest, be taken seriously?
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