In this flinty, hard-eyed Irish production the horse just changes riders, but the lash goes on. If ever a Richard has met his match, it's this one courtesy of Druid.
Sometimes a train approaches so slowly that you can almost forget it's coming - it looks like the exploding Irish rents train is finally approaching the station - and a crisis point.
Celebrated Belfast born singer Brian Kennedy grew up in the Troubles and in recent years due to a cancer battle he successfully fought, he's faced some troubles of his own. Now he's back to take Manhattan.
This week Ireland's Druid theatre company returns to New York with Richard III, a play that's over 400 years old but that feels like it's been ripped from the headlines.
Like a lot of people, Brexit has been forcing me to contemplate the English presence in Irish political life lately and I regret that because it's often enraging.
In Europe this week the public confusion about Brexit is, if anything, even more pronounced now than in the USA. Quite simply, English credibility is shot to pieces.
Story of a rough night out for a luckless romantic named Bee, I Didn't...I Wasn't...I Amn't... is a raw and real look at working-class Dublin life and love.
