Dead Centre: 3 books

“Grief fills the room up of my absent child.” (William Shakespeare, King John, Act III scene iv) Irish theatre collective Dead Centre’s new solo work for an eleven-year-old boy is devoted to Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet, who died in 1596 at the age of eleven. His father, the famous poet...

“I’m having absolutely nothing more to do with the theatre or the human race. They can all go to hell” – Anton Chekhov

‘I’m sorry I didn’t get all that. It could be a bad connection – I’m not sure if it’s you or me. Could I ask you to repeat it?’ In 2000 in Leixlip, co. Kildare, an aunt and 3 sisters boarded themselves into their home and entered into a suicide pact that lasted 40 days. We weren’t...