Theatre

ROBERT TANITCH catches Katie Mitchell's startling production, but at the annoying expense of missing out on the actual play.

THIS recent offering from the prolific pen of Tom O'Brien is a curiosity - a pot pourri of the standard Irish themes of exile, land, emigration and unrequited love.

ROBERT TANITCH on why Edith Piaf's tale cannot be told enough.

THE best reason for seeing the film Gigi has always been to hear Maurice Chevalier singing Thank Heaven For Little Girls, I'm Glad I'm Not Young Any More and the witty show-stopper, I Remember It Well, in which his memory proves hilariously faulty. 

SARAH Kane's final play before committing suicide at the age of 28 captures all the agony of a tortured mind.

ROBERT TANITCH catches some exhilarating choreography and singing at Sadler's Wells's touring production of a landmark musical from the US.

SHAKESPEARE'S Timon of Athens is a cynical satire on a hypocritical, money-grabbing society living beyond its means on borrowed credit. It sounds very topical.

THERE was a special poignancy to this Palestinian National Theatre production as Mahmoud Darwish, the creator of this epic poem, here adapted for the stage by Khalifa Natour, died only days before.

POSSIBLY the relative rarity of productions of Smetana's comic opera, normally overshadowed by the more famous The Bartered Bride, makes it acceptable Edinburgh Festival fare.

IAN SINCLAIR is left frustrated by the missing questions as a man hunts the truth in the post-September 11 2001 fervour.