Stage Struck: the end game commences

Whether it comes as with a bang or a whimper, the ending of an act of theatre gives it shape and meaning. At best, it leaves us wanting more.


January 31st, 1912

FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Abbey Theatre’s performance of The Playboy of the Western World in New York attracted protests during…


Synge a song of Wicklow

For Mc Cormack, the life and work of Synge is a narrative which involves, in all its local particularities, the crisis of the…





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