Futureproof may be set in a circus freak show, but its themes of bodily autonomy have obvious echoes in the wider world, writes Colette Sheridan

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Marjorie Brennan meets Ellie Kisyombe from pop up cafe, Our Table, as she embarks on a three-month internship with Darina Allen – and begins a new column in Weekend.

Hard Working Class Heroes has become the nation’s major showcase for emerging bands. Cork-born organiser Angela Dorgan tells Eoghan O’Sullivan who to watch out for

Kerry theatre maker Dick Walsh goes beyond the conventional, while retaining his comic world view, writes Pádraic Killeen

The rugby star tweeted that "ya ain't alternative unless you're in front of a blue wall these days".

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UPDATE at 11am: Cian has since apologised and deleted the tweet which provoked criticism from Repeal the 8th campaigners, saying he didn't understand the significance of the blue wall.

Our Table wants to start a conversation about how we treat asylum seekers in Ireland. Michelle Darmody hopes it will change an unfair system that profits from the pain of others

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I was a very mouthy kid, the youngest of five and very precocious.

Carmel Winters’ latest play explores how new communities are created when people are displaced by conflicts and war, says Colette Sheridan.

Singer embraces movement and visual performance as she embarks in a new theatrical direction, says Padraic Killeen

I’ve been acting since I left school so in a way it’s all I know. I grew up in Castlegregory, Co Kerry. I’m the youngest of five, with two brothers and two sisters.

I’m alarmingly straight, a bit of a say what you think person.

The tragic story of the shooting of Eamon McDevitt by the British army in 1971, and its impact on the deaf community, is being told through sign language, writes Caomhán Keane

Peerless punk poet John Cooper Clarke will be in Dublin and Cork over the next week. The first time he gigged in Ireland was back in "1979ish" at the Project Arts Centre. He was then at the height of his fame.

Forty years after his first solo show, Charles Tyrell has introduced etched lines to his customary abstract grids, says Tina Darb O’Sullivan.

With a gig in the Project this week, comic Seán Hughes reflects on his success in Britain, writes Richard Fitzpatrick.

Classical: Calefax Reed Quintet - CIT Cork School of Music

Fresh from enjoying an acclaimed run off-Broadway, Janet Behan’s play Brendan at the Chelsea makes its Dublin debut at Project Arts Centre next week. Produced by Belfast’s Lyric Theatre, the play stars Adrian Dunbar as writer Brendan Behan.

Dance: Junk Ensemble: Dusk Ahead, Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny

Now I can relax and enjoy my wedding in a month.

After her acclaimed performance in The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Orla Fitzgerald was expected to determinedly pursue a film career.

The market research people would struggle to find the demographic that Keith Farnan is aiming for with his latest comedy show, but that’s kind of how he likes it. The show is an exploration of feminism entitled ‘How much is that woman in the window?’.

Acclaimed play Follow shares the theatrical elements of sign language with a wider audience, writes Pádraic Killeen

Writing and producing six plays in a day is the focus of 24 Hour Plays at the Abbey, says Pádraic Killeen

Dublin writer Mark Cantan unleashes his first professionally produced full-length play at the Project. Pádraic Killeen reports

Hard Working Class Heroes is a forum for new acts to showcase their music and meet with agents and managers, says Eoghan O’Sullivan

PROLIFIC writer Emma Donoghue’s new play, The Talk of The Town, premiered at the Project Arts Centre last night and continues until Oct 14.

Steve Wickham says: “I’m a working musician. So, for me, there is still nothing that beats playing live.“

I became an actor for one reason — because I loved it.

ALTHOUGH a feature of Dublin life since 1852, the Clarence Hotel was taken over by Bono and The Edge of U2 in 1992.

THEATRE student Sarah Louise McColgan from Cork city was last night awarded the 2010 Pat Murray Bursary.

An Irish actress will appear alongside Stephen Fry in a cliff-hanger end to a new drama series to air on ITV early next year, it was confirmed today.

An award winning comedy about Sigmund Freud is to have its Irish premiere in Dublin in line with the 150th anniversary of the birth of the renowned psychiatrist.

Home-grown Irish talent will take centre stage at this year’s annual Dublin Writers Festival, it emerged tonight.