# Theatre
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Police in manslaughter investigation after actor dies following hanging scene onstage
5 Feb 2016
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emmet kirwan
'When a working class person writes, you're asked: Is it like Roddy Doyle?'
31 Jan 2016
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women on stage
'Here, women seemed to be more wary of speaking out. That's changing now.'
20 Dec 2015
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minute books
Never-before-seen Abbey Theatre papers show how it fought against censorship
15 Dec 2015
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importance of being earnest
"The point that he’s making is the bull**** of the upper classes - we’re still unchanged now"
29 Nov 2015
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done for
This gay man had the sassiest response to a mother who didn't want him teaching her kids
20 Nov 2015
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Voices
'The assumption is that plays written by women aren’t good enough'
Grace Dyas
19 Nov 2015
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Bataclan
'You are and always will be the love of my life': tributes paid to British man killed in Paris
15 Nov 2015
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waking the feminists
Fury, apologies, and calls for respect as feminists shake the Irish theatre world
12 Nov 2015
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A view from the bridge
What Fran did next: Peter Coonan goes Italian for the stage
19 Sep 2015
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by the bog of cats
The Abbey theatre stage has been transformed into an icy bog for this dark play
30 Aug 2015
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the bloody irish
There's a new musical about the 1916 Rising - and it's pretty slick
22 Aug 2015
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phaedra
Looking for something different? This 15-mins of operatic agony might be it...
28 Jul 2015
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Ferguson
Irish playwright embroiled in controversy over play about death of black teen
25 Apr 2015
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who is hedda gabler
"She could set the world alight - but she’s not allowed, so she sets fire to people’s hair"
25 Apr 2015
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the man who fell to earth
David Bowie is writing a musical with Irish playwright Enda Walsh
2 Apr 2015
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Abbey Theatre
Can these famous names help write and perform six plays in 24 hours?
1 Feb 2015
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Cinderella
This special sensory event is for children who thought they'd never see a panto
17 Dec 2014
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on the stage
"This area's gone to the f**king dogs": Why this writer was inspired by Dublin's rubbish problems
2 Nov 2014
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Voices
Opinion: What springs to mind when you think of artists with disabilities?
Padraig Naughton
7 Oct 2014
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Voices
Opinion: 'We Irish deal with things with a sense of humour - even cancer'
Neil Douglas
13 Sep 2014
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Voices
Video: 'At the time, there were few plays that expressed what I was thinking'
Eoin Lynch
4 Sep 2014
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