Although their work could be mistaken for banal ‘postmodern’ parody, Irish theatre company Pan Pan have a seriousness that resists the jaded flippancy that often passes for subversion. So, while their bizarre take on Chekhov’s classic The Seagull is playful, daft, and ‘meta’, it’s also thrumming with something visceral and enigmatic, the sad, perhaps pointless passion of the human.

Samuel Beckett’s Embers is concerned with how memory fades, says Richard Fitzpatrick

One of the twists Pan Pan has given Shakespeare’s classic is to let the audience choose who will play the lead each night, writes Colette Sheridan