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And we mean mum, dad, siblings — all ages! The craic will be mighty. This August don't waste your weekends — get to Waterford and Kilkenny.

Theatre: Lynne Parker’s adept direction balances the verbal sparring and snappy lines with a sense of wasted lives and lost hopes

Tom Creed’s new production of Brendan Behan’s play – the first at the theatre for almost 40 years – features a cast of all female and nonbinary actors

The writer took a gamble when he went ahead with neither a commission nor interest from a theatre. Now it’s the Ark’s Christmas production

Written by playwright Helen Machalias, ‘This Rough Magic’ uses Shakespeare as a lens through which to explore our nation’s treatment of asylum seekers and refugees.

The poet laureate, who died a quarter of a century ago today, believed his Shakespeare fixation was almost fatal; his first wife, Sylvia Plath, was certainly the Titania to his Oberon. With his almost psychic connection to nature and a charisma so powerful that even the Queen was rumoured to fancy him, Ted Hughes has become a figure of myth – but to Robert McCrum, he was a mentor and a friend

This year’s shows include a meditative new play from Janet Moran and an ironic variation on the romcom by Nancy Harris

The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Erica Murray’s new play drops into the lives of four women connected by unexpected circumstances

The Loved Ones, written by Limerick playwright Erica Murray at Lime Tree Theatre