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Trading roots and rebuilding a reputation

by Peter Crawley on 26 May 2011

Earlier this week, an American left Washington for Ireland in order to trace his roots back to a small village in Offaly. (You may have heard something about it). At roughly the same time, a Kildare-based Irish theatre company found itself in Washington mining the cultural history of a historical Irish...

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Dance criticism in the online zone

by Michael Seaver on 24 May 2011

“Snark”, according to US film critic David Denby, is abuse of a particular kind: personal, low, teasing, rug-pulling, finger-pointing, snide, obvious and knowing. In his book, Snark, he writes that it has infected journalism and common discourse, largely through Web 2.0. Now everybody is...

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A new direction for Corcadorca?

by Rachel Andrews on 27 April 2011

The newly-refurbished Triskel Arts Centre in Cork city officially opened its doors last week. The venue, which now comprises Triskel’s original centre and, adjoining it, a restored twelfth-century church with the new name of Triskel Christchurch, will function as a multi-disciplinary hub, incorporating...

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Belfast's Lyric Theatre opens doors to new talent

by Jane Coyle on 18 April 2011

For over forty years, a granite keystone engraved with lines by W. B. Yeats sat directly above the entrance of Belfast’s Lyric Theatre, signalling its founder Mary O’Malley’s aspiration that this should be a poet’s theatre. Now that stone has found a new home inside the splendid,...

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Into the literary labyrinth

by Jesse Weaver on 14 April 2011

To a new playwright, it can seem impossible to find a point of entry into a large theatre like the Abbey. While Ireland’s national theatre has consistently staged new work, it seemed of late to focus on the new work of established writers such as Tom Murphy, Marina Carr and Billy Roche, to name...

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History, politics and Puccini

by Jane Coyle on 28 March 2011

Northern Ireland has a new opera company. It’s called, unsurprisingly, NI Opera. But its artistic director Oliver Mears is determined that this willbe one of the few predictable aspects of an organization that aims to break down cultural and social barriers and dispel preconceptions surrounding...

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London Letter: theatre goes global

by Karen Fricker on 17 March 2011

Can you stage the inconceivable? Does theatre have particular qualities that might help people comprehend concepts and phenomena so much bigger than ourselves that we struggle to even articulate them in words? These are the questions that have most been on my mind as I’ve contemplated the onslaught...

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Letting his inner critic loose

by Peter Crawley on 08 March 2011

Michael Keegan-Dolan can take criticism, but he’s not exactly fond of it. That hardly makes him a unique figure among creative artists, but the artistic director of Fabulous Beast, Ireland’s most successful dance theatre company, is remarkably responsive to it; never more alert to its power...

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A career in lights

by Susan Conley on 24 February 2011

A cursory glance at Paul Keogan’s CV reinforces what you may have already thought: at home, abroad, and on tour, Keogan is clearly a leading light in his field. And, having carved quite a niche for himself as one who helps a production - whether theatre or opera - tell its story with instruments...

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Budapest Letter: politics on the national stage

by Fíona Ní Chinnéide on 10 February 2011

There are a number of anxieties in advance of the General Election on February 25th, not least the worry that we will just get more of the same, but few Irish artists will be anxiously watching the ballot boxes fearing the impact of the new government on Arts Council decision-making, and the Director...

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