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Gare St Lazare Players, Waiting for Godot | Photo: Eliott Erwith

Gathering the Threads of Irish Theatre

September 5th, 2013 by

Lisa Wolfe previews Dublin Theatre Festival It will be interesting to see, in perhaps a decade from now, if the current density of productions of Samuel Beckett’s plays and stories have influenced a younger generation of writers. Will there be a fashion for plays about loss, failure and regret? Will stages be populated with curious […]

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vickiweitz, 26 Marathons in 26 Days

The Fringe is Nigh

July 30th, 2013 by

The arrival of the Edinburgh Fringe brochure at the Total Theatre editorial office always arouses mixed feelings – a frisson of excitement, of course, at the thought of a month-long bonanza of theatre, but also a sense of dread at the prospect of wading through something the size of a telephone directory, trying to work […]

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