SPLENDID ISOLATION: LOCKDOWN DRAMA

New times call for new ways of thinking, especially within the hard-pressed creative industries struggling to keep the thrill of live performance alive.

BLACK LIVES DO MATTER

Two guest writers – Belfast International Arts Festival director Richard Wakely and actress/university professor Josette Bushell-Mingo – reflect on the burning issue of today: Black Lives Matter.

THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT FOR FREELANCE ARTISTS

Suffering for your art is one thing but freelance artists on variable, unpredictable incomes are finding the current situation unbearably bleak.

OPERATION ELSEWHERE

The theatre community is finding inventive new ways of bringing live performance into people’s homes, like Big Telly’s madcap green screen journey back to ancient mythology.

CHERISH THE ARTISTS TOO

Lyn Gardner asks, ” What is theatre’s most precious resource?” and answers it in a probing article in The Stage.

LA MÉNAGERIE DE VERRE (THE GLASS MENAGERIE)

Tennessee Williams’s early masterpiece is brought heartbreakingly to life by a remarkable central performance by one of the great actors of our day.

AN FÉILEACÁN AGUS AN RÍ (THE BUTTERFLY AND THE KING)

An ancient Irish tale of love, lost and found, and the transformation of a young girl into a butterfly are given new life in this fusion of words, dance and illustration.

EMMA.

Fondant colours, off-beam characterisations and gentle satire make for a crowd-pleasing version of the Jane Austin classic.

ON McQUILLAN’S HILL

A long overdue revival of a pithy Northern Ireland play is receiving positive attention from London critics and audiences.

MAIDEN VOYAGE DANCE – DOUBLE BILL

B-words abound in Maiden Voyage Dance’s newly commissioned Double Bill – boundaries, borders, belonging, brinkmanship and, of course, Brexit.