Audience participation is the worst performance trend since human sacrifice
Donald Clarke: Some of us are quite happy being bad sports. Now get away from me
Looking for an answer to the national question
This month sees Ireland’s national theatre playing in London, and its British equivalent coming to Dublin
Declan Conlon: ‘There’s not much pleasure in playing people who are content’
The actor likes to find the conflict in characters, making Tom Murphy’s plays ideal vehicles for his talents
Cate Blanchett: 'My maternal guilt is of the high-class and expensive variety'
Cate Blanchett's latest performance in Woody Allen’s ’Blue Jasmine’ – as a vodka-and-Xanax-swilling woman on the brink of breaking point – must have been quite a stretch for the immaculately casual mother-of-three
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