Lost Lear director Dan Colley: ‘Go with a person’s reality. Step into their world’
Lost Lear uses Shakespeare’s tragedy as the scaffold for a new play that confronts the way we deal with dementia
Dan Colley
Irish theatre in 2019: A dramatic year that left the future uncertain
Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings review: A children’s story for a sceptical age
Dublin Fringe Festival: The charmingly offbeat adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez brings magic realism to all ages
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Varadkar pledges highest ever investment in cultural infrastructure
Taoiseach reaffirms commitment to doubling expenditure on arts, culture and sport
The Water Orchard review: How to avoid being reduced to an emoticon
Collapsing Horse’s new show pits high tech against low as they tread the water boards
Tommy Tiernan, Abandoman and Spencer Jones shine at Kilkenny Cat Laughs
The festival gets a new set of directors for 2017
Collapsing Horse are on their way to becoming a real repertory ensemble
The innovative group’s latest show is a version of Virgil’s epic ‘The Aeneid’
Artists to receive bursaries to mark Easter Rising
Programme aims to help young artists mark centenary landmark next year
Review: Care
WillFredd Theatre’s exploration of hospice care creatively explores systems and coping strategies
Welcome to where the wild things are
Collapsing Horse’s Yeats-inspired production will appeal to children and adults
Children’s theatre for all the ages
Theatre companies are achieving crossover successes by tapping into the nostalgia and escapism that attract adults and children to Pixar movies and Harry Potter
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