Rory Nolan

Endgame review: Druid’s exquisite production brings a lightness of step to Beckett’s indestructible tragicomedy

Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Garry Hynes directs Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Bosco Hogan

Wed Jul 17 2024 - 08:54

Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan take on Beckett: ‘To understand Endgame is to understand that you can’t understand Endgame’

Galway International Arts Festival 2024: For Druid’s Endgame, Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan are immersed in Beckett. It’s surpringly enjoyable, they say

Sun Jul 07 2024 - 05:30

Paul Weller and a Madness spectacular: This week’s unmissable online events

Dublin Dance Festival and Ross O’Carroll-Kelly are among the other highlights

Thu May 13 2021 - 06:00

Druid, Chekhov and the politics of power

Garry Hynes directs The Cherry Orchard, a play she says that’s still of the moment

Sat Feb 15 2020 - 05:00

The Alternative review: Sly thought experiment which unpicks threads of history

Dublin Theatre Festival: In Fishamble’s new production, all of Ireland remains in the UK and now faces a referendum on whether to stay

Fri Sept 27 2019 - 12:35

Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister

National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’

Mon Jan 07 2019 - 16:16

Theatre: a new generation takes on the words of Flann O’Brien

‘Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann)’ draws from ‘The Dalkey Archive’ and other stories

Sat Dec 22 2018 - 05:00

Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann) review: Nostalgia, booze and tale tales

This directorless sampling of Flann O’Brien ends up looking like an actors’ lock-in

Thu Dec 20 2018 - 12:50

DruidShakespeare: Richard III review – Striking, intoxicating, disturbing

Garry Hynes’s production is like a horror show seen through a haze of laughing gas

Thu Sept 27 2018 - 13:17

Sympathy for the devil: how DruidShakespeare got to the soul of Richard III

For director Garry Hynes, the desire to portray this tortured king goes back years

Sat Sept 15 2018 - 05:00

An unsentimental look at a Dublin that will not accommodate its own

Shelter review: History repeats itself in Cristin Kehoe’s admirably understated drama set in modern Dublin

Wed Jul 18 2018 - 14:43

Stephen Swift: affection and love flow for an actor and a gentleman

Dublin stage actor who has died aged 44 remembered as ‘an outstanding example of how to live’

Thu Jun 07 2018 - 17:53

Return of Druid’s Godot is a theatre highlight worth waiting for

Druid’s unmissable Waiting for Godot embarks on national and international tour, while Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton is back in Blue Raincoat’s intrepid production

Sat Feb 24 2018 - 05:00

GPO celebrates its 200th anniversary with performance and stamp

Dublin’s most famous historical building is also the world’s oldest working post office

Thu Jan 11 2018 - 15:45

‘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?

Wed Nov 01 2017 - 11:17

Theatre highlights for the week ahead

Jane Austen one-women musical is staged with lashings of sharp wit and loving irony

Fri Oct 27 2017 - 05:00

Did you hear the one about the actor trying to be funny?

Druid actor Rory Nolan takes his comedy seriously - which may explain his impressive ability when it comes to theatre, and to trolling his fellow cast members

Tue Apr 25 2017 - 05:00

Jacques Brel’s vision is very alive and well in Dublin

The Belgian songwriter’s caustic social criticism is at the heart of the Gate Theatre production

Tue Feb 07 2017 - 05:00

‘We can’t keep funding productions and not the time for their development’

The ‘Irish Times’ IrishTheatre Awards judges have been impressed by the sector's strength in depth but concerned about the effect of funding cuts

Sat Jan 14 2017 - 05:00

Savour all that Kilkenny has to offer at bank holiday festival

Bank holiday weekend food festival has big plans for its 10th birthday celebrations this week

Tue Oct 25 2016 - 17:00

Waiting for Godot review: The best production for 25 years

Druid Theatre’s production of the Beckett classic is exceptional and miraculous

Thu Jul 14 2016 - 17:30

Druid Theatre announces rural tour of ‘Waiting for Godot’

Company selects three ‘bleak but beautiful’ locations to showcase Samuel Beckett’s text

Tue Jul 12 2016 - 18:04

Northern Star review: Northern Star review: A riff on nationalism with profound resonances

Rough Magic’s production of Stewart Parker’s play about the 1798 rebellion enriches the self-consciousness of the dramatic style

Sat Apr 30 2016 - 14:15

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’

Wed Apr 20 2016 - 06:00

Paul Howard: ‘It was science fiction when I wrote it, but now it doesn’t seem that odd’

This week on Róisín Meets…Ross O’Carroll-Kelly creator on his futuristic play

Sat Mar 12 2016 - 01:00

Video: Cillian Murphy and the Gleesons lead tributes to producer Anne Clarke at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre

Wed Mar 09 2016 - 15:00

The Importance of Being Earnest review: Wilde wins again

As his parade of double lives spills out of the closet, Oscar Wilde peers down on a production that is almost entirely at his service

Wed Dec 02 2015 - 13:40

Review | Chekhov’s First Play: ‘Platonov is the black hole at the heart of this brilliant endeavour’

Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd slowly strip away the trappings of form and character from Chekhov’s first work, and take a wrecking ball of theatrical convention

Mon Sept 28 2015 - 12:08

Culture Shock: Garry Hynes’s astonishing, exhilarating ‘DruidShakespeare’

The director’s extraordinary take on Shakespeare’s Henry plays, reworked by Mark O’Rowe and starring Aisling O’Sullivan, Derbhle Crotty and Marty Rea, feels like a sweeping epic as a whole, but moment by moment it feels intimate and detailed

Fri Jun 19 2015 - 14:00

Review: DruidShakespeare

Druid carve four Shakespeare plays into an epic of regal succession, and drag the kings down with the people where they belong

Mon May 18 2015 - 17:46

First Encounters: Paul Howard and Lisa Lambe

Lisa Lambe: ‘I’m so proud of him. He’s the bee’s knees’

Sat Feb 21 2015 - 05:00

Theatre review: She Stoops to Conquer

David Pearse steals the show amid a cast playing to the gallery with diverting, shameless slapstick

Thu Dec 11 2014 - 16:24

Review: Breaking Dad

The new Ross O’Carroll-Kelly play provides an evening of good, not-so-clean fun and unapologetically slapstick humour

Fri May 02 2014 - 16:00

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

Tue Apr 22 2014 - 01:00