The story of Deirdre of the Sorrows is one of the best known in all of Irish mythology. Deirdre is…
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Online references on Henrik Ibsen As Christmas approaches, paternal Torvald Helmer (Owen McDonnell) chides cheerful wife Nora (Hannah Yelland) for…
In a few thousand years, what will people know of our time? What great myths will circulate about those who…
Though Dancing at Lughnasa, Translations and Aristocrats have all enjoyed recent revivals, The Home Place is Brian Friels first new…
The mythic story of Orfeo ed Euridice has been one of the standards since the beginning of opera. It concerns…
In 1851, Rigoletto was a challenge in all sorts of ways. For a start, it was based on Victor Hugos…
September 18 1890, Madison Square Theatre, New York City: an elderly actor feels the chill and the oppression of the…
Peter Shaffers Amadeus is a tremendously powerful meditation on the nature of artistic inspiration that cruelly inducts its own audience…
Schedule of other performances around the world Online references on Verdi The dress rehearsal for the premiere performance of Verdi’s…
Following a failed rebellion led by Polyneices, one of the sons of the incestuous Oedipus, the new King, Creon (Lorcan…
Online references on Greek tragedy Following a failed rebellion led by Polyneices, one of the sons of the incestuous Oedipus,…
Comedian Stuart Carolans first play is a surprisingly dark and intense thriller set in 1980s Northern Ireland. Five years after…
Shelagh Stephenson’s previous works The Memory of Water and Five Kinds of Silence both featured characters haunted by the absence…
The Cherry Orchard DVD Alan Bates, Charlotte Rampling, Katrin Cartlidge, Michael Gough Based on the play by Anton Chekhov. Online…