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A voice from another Ireland

by Belinda McKeon on 26 October 2010

For some New York theatre critics, the story of Teresa Deevy (1894-1963) seemed too good to be true. Or rather, too true: touched by too many hard truths for her work to be any good. As critics rolled up recently to the Mint Theater, off-Broadway, for director Jonathan Bank’s resuscitation of Deevy’s...

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Whose culture, whose Cathedral Quarter?

by Kathy Clarke on 20 October 2010

“Excuse me, where can we find the Cathedral Quarter?” The truth: no one has mapped out the streets of the quarter with any precision. Suffice to say, you’ll know when you’re there. Named after St. Anne’s Cathedral at its heart, the Cathedral Quarter is the birthplace...

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First we'll take Manhattan

by Tanya Dean on 01 October 2010

On a sunny September Saturday in New York, just off Washington Square, NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House played host to a day-long symposium titled 'Theatre Talk: In Transition, In Translation: Irish Theatre in the US Today'. In an effort to kickstart a panel conversation on "The Irish Brand",...

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The haunted prince, in triplicate

by Susan Conley on 29 September 2010

When a journalist is given leave to enter the rehearsal room, it can be something of an artificial experience. The work will be genuine but the approach can be flavoured by the awareness that a stranger is witnessing the proceedings. There’s no chance that someone – preferably the director...

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Fiche bliain ag fás

by Victoria White on 15 September 2010

The world was a very different place. The Berlin Wall had just fallen, Ireland was emerging from a major recession and it seemed there was nothing we couldn’t do. Bullaí Mhártain, a co-production between Deilt and Na Fánaithe, premiered in Druid Lane Theatre, Galway, in October 1989. I saw...

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Recuperation and discovery

by Victoria White on 15 September 2010

It was always intended that there would be a “sister” database to the Irish Theatre Institute’s Irish Playography, which catalogues new Irish plays in English from 1904 to 2006. Playography na Gaeilge, cataloguing new plays (and adaptations and translations) in Irish from 1901 to the...

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Mapping cities of the mind

by Susan Conley on 09 September 2010

Cities are constructed, from the ground up, of glass and bricks and mortar and steel; equally, they are constructed of memories and hopes and disappointments. In this age of budget globetrotting, if you’ve seen one city, you may feel you’ve seen them all, but it is arguable that you’ve...

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Fleeting connections and sauna diplomacy

by Peter Crawley on 19 August 2010

The Hangaslahti sauna, about twenty minutes outside the city of Tampere, is a distinctly Finnish model of prudent seclusion and unreserved display. A wooden lodge nestled into a forest of silver birch trees beside a clear water lake, it was built in 1968, renovated in 2006, and now stands as something...

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A London Letter: Women, Power and Politics

by Karen Fricker on 24 June 2010

I went along needing to be convinced. For the third time in two years, London’s Tricycle Theatre has undertaken a day-long themed play series: following on from “The Great Game”, about Afghanistan, and “Not Black and White”, about race in Britain, the latest is “Women,...

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Taking roads less travelled

by Peter Crawley on 17 June 2010

Dylan Tighe doesn’t tend to stay still for long. In 2001, shortly after graduating with a degree in Spanish and Italian from Trinity College Dublin, the actor, director and writer began travelling around the Balkans, primarily fascinated by acquiring new languages: from Bosnia to Serbia, Croatia...

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