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God of Carnage
Prime Cut Productions' adaptation of the Yasmina Reza play is a breath of fresh air at The MAC in Belfast -
Belfast Goes Out To Lunch in 2015
Festival director Sean Kelly on making the arts accessible to all despite impending funding cuts -
Jack and the Beanstalk
Terry Blain discovers that for all our technological advances nothing much changes in Pantoland -
Du Dance: Fallen
Intergenerational dance production recalls the experience of the First World War in Belfast and beyond -
Bounce! Festival 2014
Arts and Disability Forum host their annual celebration of accessible art in the Lyric Theatre from August 28 – 31 -
Shot Glass: Part Deux
Theatre impresarios John Higgins and Joe Nawaz continue their cottage industry exploits at the Sunflower Bar -
Banbridge Musical Society Stage Titanic Serenade
Banbridge Musical Society adapt Stewart Love's short play as a musical, featuring popular songs from the era -
Sestina's King Arthur
The singing group set Purcell's semi-opera in First World War territory for two performances in Belfast and Derry~Londonderry -
Shot Glass
Newly established company dedicated to 'pub theatre by new writers' launches with two short plays in the Sunflower Bar -
Aida
Ellen Kent's traditionalist production of Verdi's masterpiece fails to set the pulses racing -
A Portrait of the Artist...
Dublin's New Theatre tour a stage adaptation of James Joyce's classic novel with mixed results -
Family Fever
McCracken Memorial Drama Society resurrect one of Sam Cree's 'downright silly' plays -
Macbeth
The golden age of Northern Irish opera continues with NI Opera's contemporary take on Verdi's dark masterpiece -
Du Dance at CityDance 2014
Du Dance and Royston Maldoom showcase their latest cross-community project at the Crescent Arts Centre -
The Colleen Bawn
The Druid production is an object lesson in how to successfully revivify plays to a modern audience -
Field Day Present A Particle of Dread
Stephen Rea, co-founder of the legendary theatre company, on collaborating with 'American literary eminence' Sam Shepard for City of Culture -
Summertime
A victim of sexual abuse searches for answers in David Ireland's 'consistently watchable' new play -
The Rape of Lucrece in Derry~Londonderry
The UK City of Culture welcomes the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of Shakespeare's epic poem -
Sea Lavender
A gay love triangle unravels against the backdrop of the Siege of Derry in Andy Hinds' deft play -
Belfast Festival at Queen's
New director Richard Wakely on this year's festival highlights and his hopes for the future