Gavin Quinn

History Play review: Alive to revisionism and the unlit corners of the past

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Pan Pan’s nightmare is not that unsettling to awake from

Mon Oct 09 2023 - 09:13

Was Aldous Huxley right about our brave new world?

A German-Irish production reshapes Huxley’s enduring dystopian vision

Mon Nov 23 2015 - 06:00

Opera an’ bukes: Roddy Doyle to create new version of Don Giovanni

Dublin Theatre Festival announces one of next year’s highlights as it takes a bow for 2015

Mon Oct 12 2015 - 06:30

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: ‘Shakespeare may have been on magic mushrooms’

The Abbey goes Pan Pan for a subversive, tender and innovative production of Shakespeare’s warped comedy, which has been relocated to a nursing home

Mon Mar 02 2015 - 01:00

First Encounters: Aoife Duffin and Ned Dennehey

‘My job is to make her laugh’

Sun Feb 15 2015 - 05:00

Peter Crawley’s cultural highs and lows of 2014

The harrowing ’A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing’ is hard to shake off

Sat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00

Review: The Seagull and Other Birds

Pan Pan Theatre makes Chekhov’s play the centrepiece of its crammed and elusive aviary. Are they able to wing it?

Tue Sept 30 2014 - 16:25

Irish Times Theatre Awards

The Winners

Mon Feb 24 2014 - 01:01

The right direction: unravelling the roles in the theatre awards

When we congratulate directors on a job well done, do we know what we’re congratulating them for?

Thu Feb 13 2014 - 01:00

Close to the bone: getting into Beckett’s headspace

Pan Pan’s production for stage of a 1959 radio play continues the ‘deregulation’ of the Beckett industry

Wed Aug 14 2013 - 01:00

Dead air

Beckett’s radio play Embers has been described as a “skullscape”. Can Pan Pan’s theatre version get that into our heads?

Fri Aug 09 2013 - 16:00

An early music duo, and ‘Carmen’ by way of ‘Tallafornia’

Early music was on the agenda at two concerts, while OTC’s ‘Carmen’ was defiantly contemporary

Tue May 21 2013 - 02:00