Chris McCormack is a theatre critic based in Dublin. He blogs on MusingsInIntermissions.blogspot.ie and writes for A Younger Theatre, Irish Theatre Magazine and the Arts Council of Ireland. He is also a PhD fellow at the National University of Ireland Galway where he is researching influential designers who worked at the Abbey Theatre.
Barry McStay's nail-bitingly good play asks timely questions in the wake of the Marriage Equality Referendum. However, politics aren't the extent of its reach.
Louise White's pastoral promenade inside a disused commercial building suggests the possibility of regrowth, drawing on the experiences of The Abbeyleix Bog Project.
Alice Malseed is exemplifiable of millennials burnt out by their late twenties, their hopes dashed in the bust. What can be made of this world stung into paralysis?
The return of the Spiegeltent lends greater diversity to the Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival, and may usher in a new maturity in time for its 21st birthday.
It's about time transgender characters arrived in the Irish theatre. Amy Conroy's new play is a fascinating look at the construction and deconstruction of masculinities.
In WB Yeats's mythic drama, an Old Man and the hero Cuchulainn seek drops of immortality at a magic well. Can they they survive its otherworldly Guardian?
With encouragement by an 'Intersections' funding award from the local university, a group of artists recount the tale of two Irish friars who left for Jerusalem in 1323.
It's worth welcoming the return of Yeats's three plays, revived by Mouth on Fire, in a theatre scene where his work has gone mostly unproduced for two decades.