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Glasgow Girls' Cora Bissett coming back to Belfast with new show for '90s music lovers
What Girls Are Made Of tells the true story of the performer's years as an indie musician with everything along the way, featuring a live band playing classic songs from Nirvana, Radiohead and more
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Macha Productions Empowers Women with Righteous Theatre
John Higgins lifts the lid on former Kabosh writers Jo Egan and Fionnuala Kennedy's new joint venture, named after the ancient goddess of Armagh
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Keith Donald Finds Bliss at the John Hewitt Festival
Prolific performer recounts the highs and lows of six decades in the music industry with new solo show combining poetry, storytelling and more
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Playwright Brian Friel Celebrated in Inaugural Cross-Border Festival
Organisers behind Enniskillen's Wilde Weekend and Happy Days Beckett Festival honour Ireland's greatest living dramatist with events across Belfast and Co. Donegal this August
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Crazy
Without enough plot or pizazz to sustain its run-time, Brenda Murphy's country-tinged comedy unravels despite fizzing performances from its cast of three
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Walking to the Ark
Carlo Gébler’s new play serves up the Siege of Derry through the eyes of a family in crisis. 'What people think happened and what actually happened is always contested'
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Lanciatore
Paul Kennedy's wonderfully realised morality tale reveals the plight of the 21st century artist and warns of a brain drain as artistic opportunities dry up in Northern Ireland
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My English Tongue, My Irish Heart
Martin Lynch tells a contemporary cross-border love story set against the backdrop of departure and based on the book The Literature of the Irish in Britain
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Lally the Scut
Abbie Spallen creates a local Hell for local people in this powerful, hilarious, gruelling satire on post-conflict Northern Ireland currently running in The MAC
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Abbie Spallen's Lally the Scut
Lauded playwright on the 'divide and conquer' approach to arts funding cuts in Northern Ireland, why satire is 'an absolutely vital weapon' in the fight against austerity, and her new production at The MAC
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Playing I, Banquo
Actor Michael Patrick on inhabiting one of Shakespeare's more intriguing lesser characters in a new production of the Tim Crouch monologue
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One Sandwich Short of a Genius
Pending nuptials provide the perfect backdrop for Big Telly's chaotic farce featuring a cast of fine comic actors and an hilarious script by Zoë Seaton and Shelley Atkinson
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The Pillowman
Martin McDonagh pits the lowly writer against a totalitarian system suspicious of creativity in his finest play to date, currently running in the Lyric Theatre in Belfast
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Arrivals2
Months of workshops and interviews with ethnic minorities inform five short plays revealing how intercultural Northern Ireland is changing for the better and the worse
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The Gift
Cahoots NI work with visually impaired children to create a tantalising sensory journey with the help of playwright Charles Way and composer Garth McConaghie
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Meet the Writers of Arrivals2
'Racism is a knife sharpened on the whetstone of sectarianism.' Daragh Carville, Fionnuala Kennedy and Maggie Cronin on writing about the intercultural experiences of minorities living in Northern Ireland for Terra Nova
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The Lost Martini
'We will leave drunks or troublemakers to the bar staff but there are lots of other situations that can develop.' Accidental Theatre Company invite audiences to their newest immersive production in a Belfast office building
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Stitched Up
When an NHS surgeon leaves a pair of scissors inside a patient, his moral compass spins out of control in Rosemary Jenkinson's excellent play at the Lyric Theatre
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A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing
Annie Ryan's harrowing, enlightening and deeply satisfying adaptation of Eimear McBride's Joycean novel is a must-see at The MAC in Belfast
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Death of a Comedian
Owen McCafferty's Faustian play comments on the commercial corruption of art by focussing on one man's journey from gags to riches
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God of Carnage
'We ignore issues of class, racism, sectarianism and bigotry at our perile' says Prime Cut Productions artistic director Emma Jordon
