What Are You Afraid Of? at Kilkenny Arts Festival: Peter Hanly’s stage-fright journey is provoking, enlightening and enriching
Lynne Parker directs her Rough Magic colleague with sensitivity and sureness and nuance, as well as a deft comic touch
Rough Magic Theatre Company
Lynne Parker: The Abbey does so much. But Ireland needs a national theatre for the 21st century
The future of Irish theatre looks bleak. It’s time to overhaul the way the sector works – including where the money goes, says Rough Magic’s artistic director
Freefalling: A wild, extraordinary story that you couldn’t make up
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Georgina Miller’s account of her recent life mixes daredevil adrenaline with humour and a lightness of touch
Peter Hanly was one of Ireland’s most recognisable actors. Then he vanished
More than a decade after his last appearance, the actor has found a way to talk about what happened - and from a startling place
Children of the Sun review: Rough Magic shakes up Gorky with humour, style and sheer chutzpah
Theatre: Purists may grind away a tooth or two, but Hilary Fannin’s adaptation will leave few audience members bored
Rough Magic at 40: ‘We started out as left-wing young idealists. That need to react to the world is very strong’
The theatre company, now more than 100 productions into its creative life, still holds firm to the artistic outlook it adopted back in 1984
Theatre of 2023: A year split between the muted past and vigorous present
Productions of classics appeared to be aimed at long-time theatregoers, yet this year the Arts Council warned of a decline in young people attending plays
The Loved Ones review: Complex, uncomfortable stories brought to life in a refreshing, deceptively simple way
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The pace of this assured, entertaining production never falters
Dublin Theatre Festival: ‘How many times do you think your heart can break?’: The Loved Ones review
Erica Murray’s new play drops into the lives of four women connected by unexpected circumstances
Cork Midsummer Festival week two: Reviews of Found, Freefalling, Sun & Sea and Ode to Joy
What we’ve seen in week two of the festival
Solar Bones review: Words worth listening to
Stanley Townsend carries the weight of this haunting adaptation of Mike McCormack’s novel
Eleanor Methven: A sorcerer of the stage
For Methven, who stars as Prospero in Rough Magic’s The Tempest, the rehearsal room is the beating heart of a theatre production
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
The GlossOpens in new window
Read the digital edition of The Gloss magazine now
Family NoticesOpens in new window
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices