Medicine review – Domhnall Gleeson despairs in absurdist institutional limbo
July 2021
Enda Walsh: ‘All my plays are about people who haven’t been loved or looked after’
The Irish playwright is known both for feverishly claustrophobic plays – including his latest, Medicine – and big commercial hits. If a project doesn’t feel right, he fires himself
June 2021
Edinburgh international festival returns with music-heavy lineup
With theatre and dance scaled back, music dominates, including concerts from Simon Rattle, Damon Albarn, Nicola Benedetti and Laura Mvula
January 2021
Lockdown culture
David Bowie's Lazarus musical returns five years after his death
As the stage sequel to The Man Who Fell to Earth is streamed, theatre producer Robert Fox remembers his friend’s creative genius and generosity
June 2019
Cork Midsummer festival review – theatre for all … and one
Mini plays performed for solo festivalgoers are a hit – plus there’s a bluffer’s guide to the suburbs and a Tom Waits-esque concept album come to life
April 2019
Rooms review – Enda Walsh's empty spaces are full of despair
The week in theatre: Kunene and the King; Top Girls; Grief Is the Thing With Feathers – review
March 2019
Grief Is the Thing With Feathers review – Cillian Murphy is a wonder
Murphy has an astonishing athleticism playing both man and crow in an adaptation of Max Porter’s story of grief
The really empty space: do you need actors to make theatre?
From Enda Walsh’s disembodied voices to a Royal Court escape room, experimental theatre is being made without performers
Playing a blinder: Cillian Murphy on stage – in pictures
The Peaky Blinders star is appearing in Enda Walsh’s staging of the novel Grief Is the Thing With Feathers at the Barbican, London. Here’s a look back at his theatre roles
May 2018
Tom Murphy obituary
Irish playwright who raged against ‘Christian fascism’ and explored the themes of emigration and identity in his work
March 2018
Grief is the Thing With Feathers review – Cillian Murphy takes wing
In Enda Walsh’s ambitious adaptation of the Max Porter novel, Murphy is riveting as a bereaved husband – and an imaginary crow
November 2017
Cillian Murphy to star in stage version of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers
Enda Walsh adapts Max Porter’s acclaimed novel about love, art and bereavement for Complicité theatre company’s Irish production
July 2017
The Second Violinist review – Enda Walsh's fairytale opera is dark but dazzles
Enda Walsh and composer Donnacha Dennehy’s exhilarating blend of opera, theatre and film is a study in heartbreak with a hint of Bluebeard’s Castle
April 2017
On my radar
On my radar: Suzanne O’Sullivan’s cultural highlights
The neurologist and award-winning author on Dingle’s musical charm, playwright Enda Walsh, and London’s most opulent breakfast
