Feeling Good

Whitewashing: Black skin under siege

Rébecca Chaillon and Aurore Déon are cleaning women whose dirty theatre becomes a surreal salon.

Sep 26 • 

Chris McCormack

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The Deadline Project: Musicians’ relationship drama at the end of the world

Two musicians debate whether to record their dead friend’s songs as the world ends.

Sep 20 • 

Chris McCormack

Attention: Keeping love – and theatre – interesting

Georgia Bruce’s swooning play features one of the best duets of the year.

Sep 19 • 

Chris McCormack

Shredder: An artful antidote to our information overload

Anxieties of living off-grid are teased by David McGovern's edgy performance.

Sep 19 • 

Chris McCormack

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Constriction: A stately walkthrough of motherhood’s secrets

Mai Ishikawa’s physical theatre play resembles a Beckettian crawl towards oblivion.

Sep 9 • 

Chris McCormack

August 2025

10 Seán Rocks interviews

Since a life before helming RTÉ Arena, Rocks was a theatre creature.

Aug 2 • 

Chris McCormack

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July 2025

Did they stop being theatre kids?

Mapping a journey through 50 years of Druid.

Jul 26 • 

Chris McCormack

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The Pillowman: Martin McDonagh done camp? Yes!

A kid in a Jesus beard gets swatted across the room in slow motion.

Jul 13 • 

Chris McCormack

June 2025

Escaped Alone: The genie out of the bottle

This 2016 play announced the beginning of our current doomer era. Has it gotten darker?

Jun 21 • 

Chris McCormack

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April 2025

Youth’s the Season: The end of ambition in Dublin

At a party in jazz era Dublin, young scenesters are faced with decisions about their future.

Apr 9 • 

Chris McCormack

February 2025

King Lear: Not business as usual

The usual bluster gets traded in for a nuanced study of parents and children who work together.

Feb 28 • 

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December 2024

Best plays of the 2020s so far

From the tremendous 2020 spring season through to the other side of the pandemic.

Dec 30, 2024 • 

Chris McCormack