A Slow Fire review: In Simon Stephens’s astonishing new play, hope is a bleak experiment
The intimate Glass Mask Theatre almost shakes under the ambition of this epic thriller directed by Rex Ryan
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From a portrait of a declining Judy Gardland to comedy, film adaptations and musicals, there’s much to look forward to in the coming year
Jigsaw review: A play so up close we hear the voice in its character’s head
Theatre: Lee Coffey’s new drama has the pieces to become a whirling Dublin tale fuelled by thrills and suspense
Little One review: A thriller so slippery that it has one up on its creators
Theatre: Dan Monaghan and Hannah Brady play siblings with a traumatic past in Hannah Moscovitch’s play
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Playwright Simon Stephens: ‘Our sense of self is defined by the stories we tell ourselves. My family told themselves we were Irish’
The Tony and Olivier winner feels a huge affinity with Rex Ryan’s ‘fearless’ Dublin company Glass Mask, which is premiering his play Men’s Business
Men’s Business review: Avant-garde date night pregnant with commitment issues
Theatre: Rex Ryan and Lauren Farrell star in Glass Mask’s world premiere of Simon Stephens’s new play
Paddy Daddy: Gloriously camp cabaret chronicling Mark T Cox’s intimate affairs in rural Ireland
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Cox jests about being a superstar, but, in his quick-witted humour and candid authenticity, he already is
Mother and Child review: A family reunion staged as a psychological drama
Theatre: This production has none of that oppressive intimacy; even as mother and child both discover they are sad products of their upbringings
Rex Ryan: My dad Gerry Ryan ‘wasn’t like other parents’
‘Theatre is a kind of church for me,’ says the actor and writer with entertainment in his blood
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