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Here’s a round up of some of the best festival line-up’s country-wide, from Ailin Quinlan.

Opera director Michael Barker Caven tells Colette Sheridan how The Rape of Lucretia still has much to say about sexual violence in war.

The Plough and the Stars, set around the Easter Rising, is the story of one woman’s efforts to preserve her family, says Carl Dixon

I think my dad hoped I’d follow an academic path, but the stage was in my blood.