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Theatre review: Druid dream team delivers a double bill for the ages with Synge and Shakespeare
To the Scottish Highlands – and, ­momentarily, the Aran Islands – for the Druid ­Theatre Company’s 50th anniversary bill (The ...
Theatre celebrates 125 years of storytelling
A seaside theatre that was "under real threat of closure" in the 1970s is celebrating 125 years of storytelling. Designed by ...
Dublin’s biggest theatre is staging its first production. Will its Little Shop of Horrors pull off a coup?
Bord Gáis Energy Theatre normally welcomes West End shows. It’s no small task to mount the venue’s first homegrown production ...
A Druid show and a sandwich for 50p: How Mick Lally, Marie Mullen and Garry Hynes began their theatre company 50 years ago
We were chancing our arm,’ Garry Hynes says of the company that brought superlative, expansive, intimate, skilled theatre to ...
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Why Irish language theatre is more important than ever
Ahead of their production of newly translated short works by Samuel Beckett, Muireann Kelly, the Artistic Director of An ...
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Theatre maker Bridget Ní Dhuinn: ‘I watched Twin Peaks for the first time, after years of friends telling me I’d love it. They were right’
Bridget Ní Dhuinn is a theatre designer and spectacle maker. Her company VolkiDána, with circus artist and director Polina Shapkina, presents processional piece Ephemera, which will close Sligo’s ...
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Galway celebrates 50th anniversary of Druid Theatre Company
A special event will take place in Galway this evening to mark the 50th anniversary of the first production by the Druid Theatre Company.