It’s the end of an era for Irish theatre as Michael Colgan bows out at the Gate. He tells Alan O’Riordan about an eventful 33 years

Dublin’s Gate Theatre made a loss last year, which cut into its accumulated profits, newly-filed accounts reveal.

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Abbey Theatre, Dublin

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IT’S Thursday afternoon and Olwen Fouere and Owen Roe have just gotten out of bed. “We were pretending to have sex,” says Fouere, reassuringly emphasising the “pretending”.

OWEN Roe is one of Irish theatre’s most prized actors.

Liz Roche combines film and dance to explore the mind-body connection, writes Pádraic Killeen