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Call for last waltz in The New Electric Ballroom

06.03.09

Fiona Mountford found herself longing for the last waltz to be called and The New Electric Ballroom closed up once more. ... more

Who won what at Standard Film Awards

03.02.09

Irish martyrdom, Indian poverty, American politics - the judges of the Evening Standard British Film Awards faced difficult choices.... more

Oh Brothers, where art thou in Delirium?

10.11.08

Audience members will feel many things at the end of this ridiculous take on The Brothers Karamazov but delirium is unlikely to be one of them.... more

Horror and bravery in Hunger

30.10.08

Steve McQueen�s courageous debut is an unflinching account of the IRA hunger strikers and the limits of human endurance.... more

Anglo-Irish madness in Walworth Farce

25.09.08

Mikel Murfi's chronically boisterous production of The Walworth Farce remains true to the title with its characterising notes of grotesquerie.... more

Head for Terminus rather than New Electric Ballroom

08.08.08

There's a strong strand of Irish writing in this year's Traverse programme, with new work from two of that country's best contemporary dramatists.... more

Celtic Tiger makes this play a farce

15.08.07

Enda Walsh's absurdist The Walworth Farce is given a high-energy production by Galway's Druid company, with committed performances by the cast of four.... more

Desperately funny and blisteringly acted

08.08.07

A tale of an Irishman and his two sons holed up in a grimy London flat, The Walworth Farce is desperately funny and manic.... more

Edinburgh Festival highlights

24.07.07

From theatre to comedy, music and film, our critics pick the best of the Edinburgh Festival.... more

Pacifism with a punch

25.04.07

The second double-bill of the Young Vic's Big Brecht Fest is an uneven match. Orla O'Loughlin's How Much Is Your Iron? provides all the value, while Senora Carrar's Rifles is rather dull.... more

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