MARY CONWAY is frustrated by the stylistic muddle that arises when you apply a pub theatre sensibility to a towering Greek tragedy

MARY CONWAY recommends an early Shakespearean tragedy that feels so contemporary that it mirrors our daily news

Acclaimed as a masterpiece when it premiered, this study of story-telling in an Irish pub more than lives up to expectations, says MARY CONWAY

MARY CONWAY is frustrated by a new play that loses its drama amid the moral dilemma of re-settling children in the aftermath of WWII

MARY CONWAY relishes the spectacle of a domestic implosion in a setting strangely divorced from any social, political or cultural context

Memorable, deeply penetrating and exquisitely performed, writes MARY CONWAY

MARY CONWAY admires a study of environmental idealism that aspires to Chekhov but is arrested in a deluge of middle-class opinion

MARY CONWAY applauds the success of Beth Steel’s bitter-sweet state-of-the-nation play

MARY CONWAY is blown away by a flawless production of Lynn Nottage’s exquisite tragedy

MARY CONWAY revels in the Irish American language and dense melancholy of O’Neill’s last and little-known play

MARY CONWAY recommends a play that some will find more discursive than eventful but one in which the characters glow

MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a play that presents Shelley as polite and conventional man who lives a chocolate box, cottagey life