What Are You Afraid Of? at Kilkenny Arts Festival: Peter Hanly’s stage-fright journey is provoking, enlightening and enriching
Lynne Parker directs her Rough Magic colleague with sensitivity and sureness and nuance, as well as a deft comic touch
Lynne Parker
Lynne Parker: The Abbey does so much. But Ireland needs a national theatre for the 21st century
The future of Irish theatre looks bleak. It’s time to overhaul the way the sector works – including where the money goes, says Rough Magic’s artistic director
Freefalling: A wild, extraordinary story that you couldn’t make up
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Georgina Miller’s account of her recent life mixes daredevil adrenaline with humour and a lightness of touch
Peter Hanly was one of Ireland’s most recognisable actors. Then he vanished
More than a decade after his last appearance, the actor has found a way to talk about what happened - and from a startling place
Children of the Sun review: Rough Magic shakes up Gorky with humour, style and sheer chutzpah
Theatre: Purists may grind away a tooth or two, but Hilary Fannin’s adaptation will leave few audience members bored
Hilary Fannin: ‘You’re faced with something so mad – maybe you’re going to die’
Last year the former Irish Times columnist’s work on her new play, for Rough Magic and the Abbey, was interrupted by a double cancer diagnosis
Rough Magic at 40: ‘We started out as left-wing young idealists. That need to react to the world is very strong’
The theatre company, now more than 100 productions into its creative life, still holds firm to the artistic outlook it adopted back in 1984
Eleanor Methven: A sorcerer of the stage
For Methven, who stars as Prospero in Rough Magic’s The Tempest, the rehearsal room is the beating heart of a theatre production
Kilkenny Arts Festival mixes risk and safe-bets in search of magical chance
From Rough Magic’s Tonic to Mozart’s Requiem, the festival starts August 6th
Kilkenny festival to present mixture of virtual and live events
‘Bringing people back together is really important,’ says director Olga Barry
Looking at a republic falling apart from the inside
Corn Exchange’s new and final play is a grim look at an alternative 1970s Ireland
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
Hecuba review: Perspective and psychology brought to an ancient tale
Dublin Theatre Festival: In Marina Carr’s version of Hecuba, the scale of tragedy is made rivetingly intimate
Rough Magic theatre, 35 years on: ‘Dublin in those days was so bohemian’
Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions
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