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2021: the best theatre of the year
Three Short Comedies by Seán O’Casey: Remarkable slapstick rages against authority
The Long Christmas Dinner: Repetitive scenes form a dreary montage
Mabel’s Magnificent Flying Machine: Taking risks at Christmas
City of phantoms: How did Dublin enter cultural collapse?
iGirl: Marina Carr’s freewheeling origin of the species
Purple Snowflakes and Titty Wanks: A bad-girl comedy set loose on religious Ireland
The First Bad Man: Characters go off the track inside Pan Pan’s obsessive book club
Night Dances: A spectacle that’s part fairy tale, part urban drama
Duck Duck Goose: Surveying collateral damage from an agonising rape trial
The First Child review: An opera seeks to understand a disturbing tragedy in suburbia
Once Before I Go review: The touching act of honouring a dying man’s wish
Where Sat the Lovers review: An excellent, compassionate drama flips open a conspiracy theory
Autistic License review: Using callous diagnoses to make subversive comedy
You’re Still Here review: Conversations that change lives forever
Eleanora Salter and the Monster from the Sea review: The comedy of sinking
Narcissus review: Crushingly good looks in a world run by beauty
The Veiled Ones review: Which way is witch?
Medicine review: Domhnall Gleeson struggles to remain at the emotional centre of this random play
In MiddleTown review: Leaving small-town comedy behind
Streamed theatre: Thank you but … goodbye?
To the Lighthouse review: An artist’s epic obsession with a towering marriage
Prometheus Now review: When the going gets tough, the experimental get weirder
The Saviour review: More heavy-handed than innovative
Lobsters review: Sly contemporary theatre gets soppy
The Love Behind My Eyes review: Brutal love by the sea
Embodying Glass review: Philip Glass’s music fuels a poignant dance about surviving lockdown
The Visiting Hour review: Clever retrieval of family history from the fog of dementia
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