NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD SCREENING NATIONALLY FROM JUNE 25 ‘A sumptuous production, rich in detail, craft and spectacle‘ The Guardian NT Live: The Playboy of the Western World is in cinemas from June 25. J M Synge’s classic play was first performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin on 26 January 1907, … Continue reading
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Joyce, Groucho Marx and the fraught sexual politics of women in the cut-throat Joyce industry. Continue reading
Rosán Sensory Adventures, founded by Phillida Eves, is taking its immersive sensory performance “Antarctica!” to the Lincoln Centre in New York and later to Sydney. Inspired by Ernest Shackleton’s expedition, the production incorporates sensory elements for neurodiverse audiences, emphasizing interaction and storytelling through visual imagery, music, and real ice. Continue reading
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Class took place on Monday night around the kitchen table, and it was always a relaxing cultural evening. Afterwards the chat continued often to near midnight. Indeed, there were times I felt transported to a farm house in the Donegal Gaeltacht of the 1960s and that I was not in Canada at all. Continue reading
He first met her by chance as she was emerging from a taxi, ‘…a vision in black velvet and volumised hair’, recognising O’Hagan as ‘that Scottish boy’ and his response in kind, ‘And you’re that country girl.’ Continue reading
The country has come a long way since – and not just in sport, where its rugby union team in
particular has excelled – but as an economy, with Saipan taking place during the Celtic Tiger years. Continue reading
Mary Walsh’s life in Australia as a wife, mother and nurse. Continue reading
Always in a hurry, the fishmonger would stay in the middle of the street and shout out that he was there. Women rushed out of their houses with their aprons on. Clutching their purses, they queued for the fish wrapped in newspaper. Continue reading
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