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A new musical theatre piece takes a trip to the past on Irish feminists’ Contraceptive Train GREAT to be in Dublin again during the festival season. During the five-odd weeks of the Fringe and Dublin Theatre Festival in September/October, Dublin city is a magic...

Homing in on the housing shortage

WE’VE all experienced the desperation of trying to find accommodation in a new city. When places are barely big enough to fit the amount of money you’d need to rent them , it’s time for a rethink. Especially if you’re an arriving theatre director looking for a...

The dark side

“OH GOD,” cried the man on the park bench, and buried his face in his hands. “God, what am I doing here? What’s the point? What does it all mean?” The pinstripe-suited woman on the other side of the bench glanced at him out of the corner of her eye. Then she...

The children they wished to forget

The Irish theatre company BrokenTalkers presents The Blue Boy, a stark depiction of a dark episode of Irish history THERE’S a ghost that haunts Artane, a part of Dublin where Ireland’s largest industrial school used to be. Schoolchildren there tell stories about...