Agreement: No play about the Good Friday negotiations has the right to be this much fun
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Owen McCafferty’s writing cuts through the Belfast peace talks’ seriousness to find levity in personal stakes and political bluster
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Owen McCafferty’s writing cuts through the Belfast peace talks’ seriousness to find levity in personal stakes and political bluster
Theatre: Owen McCafferty’s searing new dramatisation of the Belfast Agreement negotiations is a political thriller with echoes of Greek drama
The actor play found it fascinating to follow the late Ulster Unionist leader’s hard road to compromise for Owen McCafferty’s play Agreement
New writing ‘has to be nurtured and taken care of’, says artistic director Garry Hynes
It opened its doors on the cusp of the Troubles, but Belfast’s Lyric has survived
Omnibus Theatre’s Irish Season celebrates community, reconciliation and belonging
A version of ‘The Tempest’, set in west Kerry, called ‘A Shitstorm’, is slated for theatre
The actor likes to find the conflict in characters, making Tom Murphy’s plays ideal vehicles for his talents
In Owen McCafferty’s new play, four stand-up routines form an anatomy of a sell-out
Arts community praises Paisley’s vitality, but some find it hard to forgive his divisive role
In the largest international festival on earth, artists from Ireland have proven themselves disproportionately successful
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
The stage seems densely populated. So how come the dressing rooms are so empty?
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