Aoise Meaney, Séamus McLean Ross in Disco Pigs,. Image, Marcin Lewandowski *** When it first premiered in 1996, Enda Walsh’s ...

Physical Landscape. Image, Ewa Figaszewska *** T. S. Eliot claimed there is more to the poem than the poet knows themselves.

Visually, director Emma Jordan recognises the challenge and leans into it. Stuart Marshall’s clever set steeped in Paul Keogan’s liminal lights as much a moonlit graveyard as a deserted community hall ...

Like A Bronx Tale, Ryan’s story charts a young boy’s descent into a world of crime. A life he wasn’t trained into so much as groomed for at a very young age, with all that the word implies. The ...

Niall Buggy and Dearbhla Molloy in Meredith. Image, Ros Kavanagh A dim, privileged sun, Meredith's gravitational pull attracts paid satellites who wouldn't be there otherwise. Tishé Fatunbi's live-in ...

Mary Murray and Sabah Qalo in Refuge. Image, Andreas-Etter Throughout, twinning is the name of the game. Echoes and reflections of the past paired with present moments reveal history invariably ...

Marty Rea and Eileen Walsh in A Moon for the Misbegotten. Image Ste Murray Hynes's choices, mostly successful, all come at a price. Like the casting of the brilliant Eileen Walsh as hard-working ...

Some plays age gracefully. Some come to resemble themed pubs. Director Caitríona McLaughlin’s sensitive take on Conor McPherson’s The Weir, first produced in London in 1997, captures the best of both ...

As with his novella, Tóibín highlights a popular practice, one he is himself guilty of. Namely press-ganging Mary into ideological service as it was, in the beginning, is now and probably forever ...

Emer Dineen, John Doran, Ashleigh Dorrell, Jeanne Nicole Ní Áinle, Liz FitzGibbon, Karl Quinn and Aidan Crowe in Animals. Image, Ros Kavanagh Like a sequence of vaudevillian sketches, with several ...

Rosa Bowden in Frigid. Image Joseph Murphy. Being Ireland, the teenage tropes are rather less shiny. No mean girls here, strutting the malls like a coven of Kardashians. Rather we have Casey, Steph ...

Looking like an English garden party, were it not for the use of cell phones you might think 1920s with its Bright Young Things. But lack of clarity is the least of this ragged production’s problems.