166 stories by "Helen Meany"
Project, DublinIt is not surprising that the Dublin theatre festival was reluctant to announce the subject of Colm TóibÃn's new play in advance. The possibility of headlines claiming "…
O'Reilly Theatre, DublinWho is Peer Gynt? In Rough Magic theatre company's ambitious production of Ibsen's verse drama, he is a pyjama-clad patient in a psychiatric clinic, drifting between …
Lyric, BelfastThe star voltage of Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon is the essential ingredient in Sean Foley's new adaptation of a French farce by Francis Veber. Best known as the author of Le…
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Abbey, DublinA dream of escape is all that sustains the characters in Sam Shepard's bleak play from the 1970s, in which home and family are words that leave a sour taste for the Tate family.…
Project Arts Centre, DublinIt is hardly a surprise that a radio play by Samuel Beckett should be concerned with the bleak, monotonous business of being alive. But in the hands of Pan Pan the…
Abbey, DublinBrian Friel's great achievement in Translations is to play with audience expectations as easily as he plays with words. A drama of colonisation based on the mapping of Ireland's…
Black Box, GalwayA day in the life of the small town of Inishfree becomes a season in hell in the hands of playwright Enda Walsh. In the character of Thomas Magill, he has created a tormente…
Lyric, BelfastAs part of its reopening celebrations, the Lyric is reviving a play that made a huge impact in Belfast when it premiered 30 years ago. Martin Lynch brought class politics into …
Peacock, DublinIn her first full-length play, Stacey Gregg tackles very current concerns about the sexualisation of children and loss of innocence. The pressure on teenage girls to have sex …
Lyric, BelfastAnyone looking for contemporary parallels in Arthur Miller's play based on the 1692 Salem witch trials will invariably find them. The fundamentalism, repression and prejudice t…
Abbey, DublinMemories of young love trouble two characters in middle age in Paul Mercier's new play " his second opening at the Abbey this month, along with The Passing, with which it will r…
Abbey, DublinMemories of childhood make it difficult for three middle-aged siblings to sell their family home in this new play written and directed by Paul Mercier. On the eve of the auction…
Peacock, DublinTowers of cardboard boxes, a bare stage and four actors in search of a script: this show has the abstraction of a dance piece or an art installation, as bodies and boxes move …
Abbey, DublinDion Boucicault's stage-Irishry and mastery of spectacle brought him fame in the 19th century, but can be a tricky proposition today. With its noble Irish rebels and gormless pe…
Mermaid, WicklowFootball has been a gift to Irish playwrights in recent decades, with the snakes-and-ladders fortunes of the Irish soccer team providing ready-made melodrama. Metaphors of th…
