Macbeth brought to life in scary style
By David Hennessy
5 stars
The Acting Gymnasium have brought William Shakespeare’s tragedy of political ambition Macbeth to life with an eeriness and an atmosphere that...
Family affair
Aoife Hinds tells David Hennessy about playing a character with abandonment issues, encountering casual racism in Ireland and following her father Ciarán Hinds into...
London-Irish theatre company brings Macbeth to life
David Hennessy
A London-based theatre company led by Armagh director Gavin McAlinden is bringing Shakespeare’s classic Macbeth to life in London with Meath actress Tracy...
President Higgins leads tributes to playwright Tom MacIntyre
President Michael D Higgins led the tributes to the playwright and poet Tom MacIntyre who died following a long illness.
President Higgins said in a...
A timely reminder
David Hennessy spoke to Translations star Fra Fee on the parallels with the play and today's current events
The late Brian Friel's ground-breaking play about...
‘Til death do us part..
David Hennessy talks to Aoife Duffin, the Kerry actress starring as The Bride in Marina Carr’s adaptation of Spanish tragedy Blood Wedding.
Aoife Duffin leads...
Irish Rambling House returns for its mission to ‘entertain the Exiles’
Irish Rambling House is back on its 19-year old self-styled mission to “entertain the Exiles”.
And it’s sticking to the same formula that its loyal...
Irish events in the UK this Autumn
Irish music, film. theatre, arts and charity events coming up this season
Arts & Culture
Nathan Carter plays the Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage on Tuesday 1...
Go, Lovely Rose plays for first time since 1937
Go, Lovely Rose, by Irish Playwright Mary Manning, is being performed for the first time since 1937 this weekend.
A dramatic monologue exploring the...
Lauren McCory: ‘Philomena Begley lived four doors down from me’
Lauren McCrory, the 22-year old Irish country music singer and star of the 1916 musical, Blood Upon The Rose, about the doomed romance of...