After many years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James agrees to become the sponsor of newcomer Luka. On ...

Jack Lowden reprises his performance from last summer's production, but does David Ireland's play impress the press? Fergus ...

Plays like The Fifth Step don't come around often. Those whose layered philosophical exoskeleton props up their own dramatic ...

Ballyduff Drama Group from County Waterford has been crowned winner of the 2025 RTÉ All-Ireland Drama Festival for their ...

Freeman and Lowden spar like champions. The Fifth Step, carefully directed by Finn den Hertog, spins through many moods and ...

Slow Horses star Jack Lowden takes on Martin Freeman in AA drama The Fifth Step that is not at all what you expect.

In a cautious era, David Ireland is British playwriting’s most prominent provocateur. His ink-black comedies are full of oddly lovable bastards who bulldoze their way into delicate issues like ...

Playwright David Ireland has made a career out of saying the unsayable, which has in the past meant gags about rape, race and other such wearyingly ‘provocative’ transgressions. With The Fifth ...

David Healy, a former team-mate of Steven Davis at both Rangers and Northern Ireland, says the former midfielder would be a ...