Books in the bath, dancing from Dusk till dawn and other Kilkenny attractions
The Taming of the Shrew is a ghastly play but, like much else at Kilkenny Arts Festival, it’s handled with wit and made wonderful
Dawn Upshaw’s trajectory: no airs or graces
Dawn Upshaw has had a stellar opera career but she’s not in the business of making the music rarefied and is just as likely to be heard humming Beyoncé
Sign us up: the world of Bob and Roberta
The visual art of Bob and Roberta Smith – aka Patrick Brill – is political, humorous and all about empowering the spectator
Rattle in Seattle: Mark Yarm’s tales from when grunge was in bloom
Mark Yarm’s oral history of Seattle’s grunge scene has room for winners and losers
Ron Rash: Smoky Mountain darkness: ‘There’s that physical sense of not getting enough light’
The Appalachian writer Ron Rash brings his dark southern tales to the Kilkenny Arts Festival
Macnas: the show goes on, despite a Galway no-show
Change is ‘difficult and necessary’ at Macnas, as budget issues meant no arts festival parade
A multitude of Roger Doyles but only one composer
The 62-year-old pioneered Irish electronic music, and it returned the favour by saving his life
A Joycean stream of consciousness
Olwen Fouéré’s performance gives voice to the river in James Joyce’s unfathomable ‘Finnegans Wake’. It’s sink-or-swim time
The future of fashion?
Next month, Kilkenny’s National Craft Gallery is showcase work by designers striving to draw a line between fashion and art
Following the flow of the ‘Wake’ to its source
How can you capture the dark seam of energy and form at the heart of ‘Finnegans Wake’? By giving voice to the river that runs through James Joyce’s extraordinary book
Making a merry jest of Shrew’s misogyny
Shakespeare’s early ‘screwball’ comedy, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, is one of his most popular and controversial – so can an all-female cast take the edge of its sexism
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