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CATHY Belton is having a ball playing Patricia Hennessy in new TV3 soap Red Rock.

Harold Pinter’s play centres on the strange relationship between two brothers, Aston (Marty Rea) and Mick (Garrett Lombard), and a third man, a vagrant, Davies (Michael Feast), that Aston has graciously allowed to stay in his flat.

Abbey Theatre

John Mahoney has been to Galway so many times, there’s a danger people will forget what he’s best known for. Mahoney for years played Marty Crane, the cranky father to two psychiatrists in sublime US sitcom Frasier-

Belfast native Marty Rea relishes playing Lord Goring in Oscar Wilde’s comedy An Ideal Husband, says Pádraic Killeen.

Theatre - The Colleen Bawn

For Garry Hynes, artistic director with Druid Theatre Company, 2014 has begun where 2013 ended, with the joyous revival of Dion Boucicault’s 1860 play, The Colleen Bawn.

Theatre - The Hanging Gardens, The Abbey, Dublin

Tom Murphy’s emigration trilogy is “an inner history of Ireland,” Garry Hynes tells Alan O’Riordan