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Once: the musical by Enda Walsh, Gaiety Theatre
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2013)
As we enter the Gaiety, we discover that Once has already begun: the cast are gathered in what looks like an ordinary pub
where a session is underway. They play music for about twenty minutes while members of the audience ...
Faith Healer by Brian Friel, Gate Theatre
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2010)
During the last decade, Owen Roe has emerged as one of Ireland’s very best actors – yet, until now, he’s rarely filled a
major leading role. His performance as the Irishman in Ben Barnes’s 2001 Gigli Concert was astonishing ...
An enemy of the people, Ibsen adapted by Arthur Miller, Gate Theatre
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2013)
Ibsen’s 1882 An Enemy of the People is sometimes described as a problem play, in that it dramatises a compelling debate
between two brothers about the nature of morality and individual responsibility. But that term might ...
Re-imagining Shakespeare: A tender thing directed by Selina Cartmell: programme note for Siren Productions
(Siren Productions, 2013)
[No abstract available]
A pacifist rage: Martin McDonagh's Hangmen
(Royal Court Theatre, 2015)
[No abstract available]
Theatre stuff: critical essays on contemporary Irish theatre edited by Eamonn Jordan (Dublin: Carysfort Press, 2000)
(2003)
Optimism about contemporary Irish drama seems to have diminished recently. At the 2001 Irish Times/ESB Theatre Awards, a member of the judging panel lamented the scarcity of new Irish plays, stating that he wanted to ...
The theatre of Marie Jones: telling stories from the ground up
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-11)
It’s sometimes asserted that Irish women writers are doubly marginalised: first by their nationality and then by their gender. If that statement is true, we might add to it that Marie Jones has been marginalised a third ...
Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, Gate Theatre
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2010)
It took Samuel Beckett about three weeks to write Krapp’s Last Tape. During that time, the play went through seven
distinct stages which, according to the scholarship, involved a gradual stripping away of sentimentality: ...
Regionalisation and Globalization in Irish Drama since 1990
(Érudit, 2006-09)
The impact of globalisation on Irish theatre since the early 1990s has been considerable. A study of four recent Irish plays, all produced by "regional" theatre companies, suggests that contemporary Irish theatre is dominated ...
The Last Summer by Declan Hughes: programme note for Gate Theatre, Dublin
(Gate Theatre, 2012)
[No abstract available]