Glasgow Girls review: A self-aware musical urging solidarity through song
In this galvanising take on a true story about Scottish teenagers who stood up for an asylum-seeking friend, you have to park your cynicism to believe change is possible
The week's theatre highlights: Glasgow Girls and The Cripple of Inishmaan
Martin McDonagh’s scabrous comedy at the Gaiety; stirring Glasgow Girls musical at the Abbey is timely for more than one reason
The Suppliant Women review at the Belfast International Arts Festival
This stunning newly translated version of Aeschylus’ poetic tidal wave is tailor-made for a 21st century audience
The best theatre to see this weekend
It’s the handover period between Dublin festivals this week as the Dublin Fringe Festival begins to wind up and the Dublin Theatre Festival starts to ramp up. Here’s a small selection of the changing stages
This week at the theatre
This week at the theatre, you find robotic revolutions, a threatened Eden and other unlikely relationships.
Cover My Tracks review: Goodnight Galway, there will be no encore
Charlie Fink and David Greig’s smart, subtle collaboration depicts a relationship, a separation and a hard act to follow
Dublin Theatre Festival announces its 60th anniversary programme
Festival director Willie White says programme is about ‘keeping our momentum’
Estate seeks to bring Roald Dahl’s work to new generations
Century on from author’s birth, group’s goal is to make every child in the world a fan
Creditors review: A paranoid play that works like a chauvinist’s nightmare
David Greig’s version of August Strindberg’s play is luridly unhinged, but this odd production opts to play it seriously
David Greig: ‘I had to somehow become Strindberg’
The Scottish playwright has tackled topics as troubling as Anders Behring Breivik. So how did he get on in the strange world of Strindberg?
Theatre review | Being Norwegian skirts cliche to achieve poignancy
Women are from Norway, men are from Scotland in David Greig’s charming comedy with hints of something darker
How to be Decadent in a time of hardship for Irish theatre
Andrew Flynn, Decadent Theatre Company’s director, has an unusual ability to combine artistic passion with the deal-clinching pitches of a travelling salesman
Culture Shock: Anything’s better than doing nothing about Gaza
In times of conflict, culture also becomes a battleground
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