Woman Undone review: Mary Coughlan’s acts of creation and destruction
The singer’s unconventional collaboration with Brokentalkers makes an unsettling art of suffering
Orfeo ed Euridice: An opera of intense, crisp energy
Mezzo-soprano Sharon Carty takes full possession of Orfeo’s wide range of emotions
Surfeit of sopranos: This week’s classical highlights
Sharon Carty, Celine Byrne and Danielle de Niese are all performing in Ireland this week
The pick of this week’s theatre
This week’s theatre highlights all involve stories that need to be heard, and those who are either literally and figuratively deaf to them
Going out or staying in? The best shows, exhibitions and TV to see this weekend
City of London Sinfonia at the NCH, ‘This Beach’ revived from Fringe, BBC’s ‘Howards End’
Talking won’t always help war-trauma victims. But dance might
Tom Clonan joins a cast of dancers who are finding new ways to describe the brutality of war
Swan Lake review: Humour in the darkness, beauty among the ruin
Dublin Theatre Festival: Mikel Murfi takes multiple roles in Michael Keegan Dolan majestic retelling of the classic story-ballet
Dublin Fringe begins: reviews from the opening weekend
The opening weekend of the Fringe festival bursts into life with disturbing future visions and exhilarating burlesque
Review: Sive
As the Abbey revisits John B Keane’s tragedy of lust and lucre, is it safe to go back into the kitchen?
Dancing in the dark: Junk Ensemble brings on the blindfolds
‘Dusk Ahead’ asks its dancers to step into the unknown – ‘they genuinely don’t know what is ahead’
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Common Ground
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