The Plough and the Stars was first performed at the Abbey Theatre in 1926. The audience rioted. Now regarded as a masterpiece, this provocative play is an essential part of our understanding of 1916. Recently performed during the centenary of the Easter Rising, Olivier Award-winning director Sean Holmes returns with this production of Sean O’Casey’s absorbing play. Set amid the tumult of the Easter Rising, The Plough and the Stars is the story of ordinary lives ripped apart by the idealism of the time. The residents of a Dublin tenement shelter from the violence that sweeps through t

Critically-acclaimed VOLTA THEATRE COMPANY returns to Smock Alley with a new production of Shakespeare’s gripping tale of murder, totalitarianism and how a person loses their soul. In a politically unstable world, where witchcraft and satanic cults chip away at the status quo, a man temperamentally unsuited to kingship seizes the crown by violent means. Corrupted by absolute power, he becomes vengeful, paranoid and completely unhinged in his bid to establish a dynasty bloodline. Shakespeare’s timeless story about the horrors that lie in wait beyond societal breakdown has non-stop act

After its sell out run in The Viking Sept ’24 and also a sell out run in Bewleys Café Theatre ’25, we are delighted to welcome back this extraordinary piece of theatre. ‘A first-class script, excellently directed, with a beautifully judged performance, The Kiss packs a lifetime into a lunchtime’-*****-The Arts Review. Murphy constructs the monologue so well…and is extraordinarily well served by Griffin’ *****- Sunday Independent. ‘One-man tour-de-force… The performance and the play will remain in my memory for a long time’*****- Reviews Hub Eddie has dreams but h