Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Midwinter Break – an overly gentle exploration of exile and trauma (Queen’s Film Theatre from Friday 20 March)

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A pregnant woman was caught up in gunfire during the Troubles in what she euphemistically refers to as “as accident” in Belfast. Her baby wa...
Sunday, March 08, 2026

Front & Centre / Dangerous Play / Poached (6-8 March in The Playhouse)

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Back in November 2015, the #WakingTheFeminists campaign erupted in the realisation of a dearth of women’s voices and female creatives in th...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Consumed – soup is taken while intergenerational trauma comes back to bite four generations of women (Lyric Theatre until Sunday 8 March, then Park Theatre in London)

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Do we pass on trauma from the Troubles and even as far back as the Irish Famine from one generation to the next as easily as we learn to rep...
Saturday, February 21, 2026

Animal Farm – modern day protesters give their take on Orwell’s classic tale (Tinderbox Theatre at The MAC until 28 February)

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Four stellar performances anchor Tinderbox’s adaptation of Animal Farm . A group of women have been placed in a distressed holding cell that...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026

The Barber of Seville – a finger-picking and financially-wise Figaro engineers romance (Lyric Opera Ireland at Grand Opera House until Saturday 21 February)

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Figaro can fix your love life as well as spruce up your barnet. The barber helps a poor student Lindoro to enter the Seville home of a beaut...
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Saturday, February 14, 2026

The Human Voice – truth, lies, betrayal and a forlorn sense of hopelessness (Prime Cut Productions at Lyric Theatre until Saturday 28 February)

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A day later and I’m still haunted by just over an hour spent in the life of the woman at the heart of The Human Voice . She’s a professional...
Friday, February 06, 2026

Expösed – a titan of fashion’s personal standing is seen to flag (Baby Lamb Productions at Accidental Theatre until Saturday 7 February and then London)

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Some of the freshest theatre comes from companies formed from young actors who’ve trained together and graduated from drama courses and coll...
Thursday, February 05, 2026

Maggie’s Menopause – another stage of life but no less eye-wateringly funny (Grand Opera House until Saturday 7 February and NI tour)

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Maggie Muff is older, but is she any wiser? The east Belfast woman’s escapades began in book form before Leesa Harker translated Maggie to ...
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Tuesday, February 03, 2026

Melania – my takeaways from the elegant film that everyone is talking about but few have seen (currently playing in Cineworld and Odeon Belfast)

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The film Melania identifies as a documentary and covers the twenty days up to and including President Trump’s second inauguration. Melania’...
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The Importance of Being Earnest – even more giddy, flirty and flighty than last year (Lyric Theatre until Sunday 22 February)

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The Lyric Theatre’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest has been revived and returned to its main stage over the weekend. The sen...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

Here & Now: The STEPS Musical – a gloriously silly production, a riot of colour, familiar tunes, and a jukebox story that engages as well as entertains (Grand Opera House until 31 January)

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The brash cyan and pink supermarket costumes in the opening scene of Here & Now: The STEPS Musical hint that the full STEPS sensibility...

Nouvelle Vague – a satisfying dive into the world of early French New Wave cinema (Queen’s Film Theatre from Friday 30 January)

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As the last of his coterie of pals to make the dive into directing, film critic Jean-Luc Godard believes that it’s long past time to bring h...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

No Other Choice – a redundant worker spirals down a chute of catastrophe in a bid to regain employment (Queen’s Film Theatre from Friday 23 January)

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When Man-su is fired from the Korean paper mill, the former award-winning “pulp man of the year” is sure he’ll be back in work within three ...