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The Girl On The Train **** @BGETheatre .". an irresistibly entertaining production. ".
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****A remix takes a song then delivers an entirely different version. The same might be said when it comes to different directors and different casts. If you had the pleasure of seeing 2019’s The...
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Mortal Sin **** @BewleysCTheatre .". deeply satisfying and deeply enjoyable. ".@LeeCoffey7.
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****Straitjacketed by a choking Irish Catholicism, life loving friends, Colm and Peggy, live lives of quiet desperation. Like the restrictiveness of Peggy’s buttoned up cardigan, they can barely...
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The Weir ***** @3olympiatheatre .". utterly and effortlessly brilliant, The Weir is not to be missed. " .#TheWeir @TheWeirPlay @LandmarkIreland #KateHortonProductions.
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Brendan Gleeson in Conor McPherson’s The Weir. Image, Rich Gilligan *****You wonder sometimes. Especially when so many theatre lovers say they no longer see the point. Even if Covid hadn't decimated...
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The Lunch Punch Power Hour in Conference Room 4 *** @AbbeyTheatre .". fine direction and a superlative cast. ".
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***They say the greatest trick the devil ever played was making you believe he doesn’t exist. The greatest con corporate culture ever pulled was tricking its staff into believing they mattered....
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Devastated and shocked! I was only speaking with Sean last week in Galway. His loss to the arts is immeasurable. More significantly, the loss to his family. He was looking forward to picking up his kids and heading home that day. My deepest sympathies to his family.
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Little Shop of Horrors **** @BGETheatre .". full of wild, relentless energy. ".@theatreworx.
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Jacqueline Brunton in Little Shop of Horrors. Image uncredited.****Despite global popularity, the musical is an underdeveloped genre in Ireland. Understandable as there's huge financial risk involv...
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In Extremis ** @BewleysCTheatre .". Conor Hanratty. delivering a sensitive, smart portrayal of the manly effeminate Wilde. ".
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Gene Rooney and Conor Hanratty in In Extremis. Image, Aoife Cronin**It’s easy to scoff from our enlightened distance at the Victorian predilection for all things supernatural. Séances, spiritualism,...
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A Misanthrope *** @smockalley .". funny, insightful and sexy. ".@OnceOffHQ.
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Emer Dineen and Matthew Malone in A Misanthrope. Image, Patricio Cassinoni***Molière’s The Misanthrope gets the Carry On treatment in the somewhat muddled A Misanthrope. Written by American playwri...
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Galway International Arts Festival 2025: T5/Sea Wall **** @GalwayIntArts .". two poignant performances painted with poetry. Not to be missed. ".@DecadentTheatre.
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****It's not enough that Simon Stephens is a brilliant playwright, he also works magic with the short form monologue. Twenty or so minutes of intimate character studies, crammed with detail, in which...
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Galway International Arts Festivals 2025: The Baby's Room **** @GalwayIntArts .". Walsh’s. superb writing and Gilmore's deeply impassioned delivery cohere into something quietly powerful. ".@kategilmore__.
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The Baby's Room by Enda Walsh. Image by Emilija Jefremova****Enda Walsh clearly has a soft spot for Galway, and Galway clearly has a soft spot for him. It’s not just the shows he’s premiered in the...
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Galway International Arts Festival 2025: Sabotage **** @GalwayIntArts .". wild, sexy, dangerous and fun. ".#NoFitState #Circus.
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Sabotage by No FitState. Image by Mary Wycherley****I have to confess to never seeing the allure in running away to join a circus. The romance, yes; but think about the reality. Also, classic circus...
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Riders to the Sea/Macbeth **** @GalwayIntArts.". be prepared to be seriously blown away. " .@DruidTheatre @DubTheatreFest.
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Marie Mullen and Marty Rea in Druid's Macbeth. Image by Ros Kavanagh****Some facts land with sobering clarity. Including there are as many years between 1925 and 1975 as there are between 1975 and...
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The Pillowman **** @GateTheatreDub .". unsettling, brave, and in many ways brilliant. ".#ThePillowman.
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Juilan Moore-Cook, Fra Fee and Aidan McArdle in The Pillowman. Image, Ros Kavanagh****Story. Commonly conflated with narrative. Yet the two are distinct. Narrative being one component, albeit an...
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An Evening With Wee Daniel ** @The_New_Theatre .". Sweeney O'Connor oozes charm and charisma. ".
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**‘Up in Donegal,’ the award winning An Evening With Wee Daniel tells us, ‘things are different’. Different not necessarily being as interesting as you might have hoped. Aoife Sweeney O'Connor's one...
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Cork Midsummer Festival 2025: Escaped Alone **** @CorkMidsummer .". a superb, understated production whose simplicity belies its underlying power. ".@EverymanCork.
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Ruth McCabe, Sorcha Cusack, Deirdre Monaghan and Anna Healy in Escaped Alone, by Caryl Churchill. Image, Ros Kavanagh****In Caryl Churchill's dystopian satire Escaped Alone, the world is gone to...
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Cork Midsummer Festival 2025: Theatre for One: Made in Cork **** @CorkMidsummer .". you’d be mad to miss it. ".@LandmarkIreland @OTheatricals @CorkOperaHouse.
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Áine Ní Laoghaire in It's Not You by Cónal Creedon, Theatre for One:Made In Cork. Image Jed Niezgoda****An often neglected festival joy is the familiar things. Like Landmark Productions and Octopus...
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Cork Midsummer Festival 2025: Stitch **** @CorkMidsummer .". Kelleher's wildest, bravest, most compelling performance to date. ".@Ireneie_cat.
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****What is it about physically demanding theatre at Cork Midsummer Festival this year? Whilst Eileen Walsh deservedly takes the durational plaudits, and every other plaudit imaginable, Irene...
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Cork Midsummer Festival 2025: The Second Woman *****. @CorkMidsummer .". the theatrical event of 2025. ".@CorkOperaHouse #TheSecondWoman.
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*****...It's that time of year when the calendar says summer but the weather’s going to do whatever it’s going to do. The only thing you can count on for consistency is Cork Midsummer Festival. This...
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The Cave **** @AbbeyTheatre .". fun, entertaining, and eminently enjoyable. ".#TheCave.
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Tommy Tiernan and Aaron Monaghan in The Cave. Image Ros Kavanagh****Barry does Samuel Beckett. Kevin Barry that is. The Abbey Theatre’s current production, The Cave, finding the renowned novelist...
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