The Sex Party review – spiky comedy fails to satisfy
There’s tension in Terry Johnson’s tale of four couples meeting for sex and nibbles but the unruly debate isn’t deep enough
June 2021
The week in theatre: J’Ouvert; Under Milk Wood; Happy Days – review
Notting Hill carnival and Dylan Thomas’s radio masterpiece come to the stage
Happy Days review – Lisa Dwan swings from laughter to gothic gravity
Trevor Nunn’s production of Samuel Beckett’s classic play is stronger on music-hall comedy than bleakness
‘I rip off my skin and give him the guts’ – Lisa Dwan on her approach to Beckett
The actor had a great lockdown: she learned to cook, took up cello – and fell in love. Now six months pregnant, Dwan’s about to be buried up to her neck in Happy Days. Is she worried?
February 2021
Observer New Review Q&A
Lisa Dwan: 'Narratives of nasty women spread with few facts attached'
The Irish actor on reimagining Antigone, what she learned from Billie Whitelaw, and starring in Jed Mercurio’s new crime drama
November 2020
Trevor Nunn to direct Lisa Dwan in Beckett's Happy Days
Dwan will play Winnie in a 60th-anniversary revival of the play at Riverside Studios in London
April 2020
Europa28 review – female writers on Europe's future
Freedom is a recurring theme in an ambitious collection edited by Sophie Hughes and Sarah Cleave
January 2020
Beckett Triple Bill review – ticklish satire and quiet melancholy
David Threlfall, James Hayes, Niall Buggy and Lisa Dwan star in Trevor Nunn’s atmospheric productions of Krapp’s Last Tape, Eh Joe and The Old Tune
December 2016
Tristram Kenton's stage photos of the year – in pictures
Anna Karenina review – Lisa Dwan gives uncertain dazzle to Tolstoy
October 2016
Melbourne festival 2016: deeply personal melds with public spectacle in triumph for curator
Artistic director Jonathan Holloway infuses his electrifying first Melbourne festival with a series of interior realisations that reckon with the public self
No’s Knife review – a marathon and a triumph
Lisa Dwan’s adaptation of Beckett’s 13 short prose pieces is a feat of memory, dedication and courage
No’s Knife review – Lisa Dwan excels in Beckett's strange no man's land
Dwan’s vocal range is astonishing in her adaptation of Beckett’s Texts for Nothing, but the ingenious staging still struggles to give physical life to mysterious prose
September 2016
Theatre blog
Plan your week’s theatre: top tickets
Lisa Dwan: ‘Beckett made these wounds universal’
May 2016
John Boyega to star on stage in Old Vic's Woyzeck
Star Wars actor to play Büchner’s barber in theatre’s new season, which also features Glenda Jackson as King Lear
June 2015
Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby review – Lisa Dwan's breathtaking Beckett trio
Theatre blog
Plan your week’s theatre: top tickets
May 2015
Lisa Dwan on Beckett: ‘We don’t normally look at our frailty’
Despite winning acclaim with Samuel Beckett’s Not I for 10 years, Lisa Dwan says this ‘big beast’ of theatre remains forever challenging
February 2015
Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby review – a technical masterclass in Beckett
Lisa Dwan’s perfomance in this Samuel Beckett triptych impresses even as the plays themselves communicate their drama from a cold distance
