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The Fifth Step review – Jack Lowden and Martin Freeman go head to head

A new arrival at Alcoholics Anonymous meets with his apparently composed sponsor in David Ireland’s knotty, often hilarious two-hander

The Guardian - UK

The Fifth Step at @sohoplace: Jack Lowden and Martin Freeman have terrific chemistry in this slippery comedy

4/5 The two actors tackle challenging material with aplomb in this tight, thought-provoking two hander

Evening Standard

Scottish star Jack Lowden to star in West End play about addiction

SCOTTISH actor Jack Lowden and Sherlock's Martin Freeman are to star in a play about addiction that has been transferred to the West End...

The National (Scotland)

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Jack Lowden joined by Martin Freeman in alcoholism drama The Fifth Step

Lowden first appeared in David Ireland’s two-hander in Edinburgh last year. For its West End run, he is paired with his ‘hero’ Freeman

The Guardian - UK

Martin Freeman returns to London's West End alongside Jack Lowden in alcoholism confessional

David Ireland’s new play The Fifth Step is a starry two-hander coming to @sohoplace

Evening Standard

Edinburgh festival theatre 2024: The Fifth Step; The Outrun; I Wish You Well; Gwyneth Goes Skiing – review

Jack Lowden and Sean Gilder compel in David Ireland’s crackling new AA drama

The Guardian - UK

The Fifth Step review – Jack Lowden excels as an alcoholic finding a sponsor

In David Ireland’s complex two-hander, co-starring Sean Gilder, a troubled youth is persuaded to join the 12-step programme by a former addict

The Guardian - UK

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‘I went straight to whisky at 14’: David Ireland on tackling booze on stage

His charged dark comedies tackling the extremities of religious conflict have occasionally led to walk-outs. Will his new play – about men, alcoholism and masturbation – be just as provocative?

The Guardian - UK

Edinburgh festival 2024: 20 theatre shows making a scene this summer

With subjects ranging from the deadly serious to the downright silly, this year’s shows include plays about addiction, politics, funk and Come Dine With Me

The Guardian - UK

The Walking Dead star spotted filming 'intoxicating' ITV thriller in Scottish city

ANDREW Lincoln has been spotted filming an "intoxicating" new thriller for ITV in Glasgow ...

The National (Scotland)

‘Formidable’ TV star returns to British screens for first UK role in more than a decade

The London-born actor has worked in the US since 2010

The Independent UK

The week in theatre: Macbeth; Stranger Things: The First Shadow; Ulster American – review

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo wire you into the Macbeths’ innermost thoughts; Stranger Things takes theatrical spectacle to the next dimension; and Woody Harrelson and co fire off David Ireland’s machine-gun provocations

The Guardian - UK

Ulster American review – Woody Harrelson and Andy Serkis perfectly awful in anarchic comedy

David Ireland’s explosive satire turns into farce as two buffoons parading as progressives team up with a dramatist played by Louisa Harland

The Guardian - UK

Andy Serkis on his ‘shocking’ new play, AI and cancellation: ‘I defy anyone not to tap their foot to Michael Jackson. Your body won’t let you cancel him’

The actor and director goes to the pub to tell Patrick Smith why he thinks ‘Ulster American’ might start a riot, how his ‘Animal Farm’ will land in a Britain that has abandoned democratic principles and why America faces another catastrophe if Trump takes power

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The Guardian - UK

‘I gasped when I read it’: Woody Harrelson, Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland on Ulster American

The trio are about to fall out violently in the shocking yet hilarious play about misunderstandings over the Troubles and Brexit. They talk woke fever, big pharma and playing chimpanzees

The National (Scotland)

Director Andy Arnold on moving to a new stage after 15 years at Glasgow's Tron

THEATRE director Andy Arnold – who is leaving Glasgow’s Tron Theatre after 15 successful years at the helm – is one of the most important…

The Guardian - UK

Woody Harrelson returns to London stage in ‘riotous’ Ulster American

The Hollywood star will appear alongside Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland in David Ireland’s black comedy

The Guardian - UK

From Boiling Point to Breathtaking – the 15 best TV dramas for autumn 2023

Brie Larson in Lessons in Chemistry, Lenny Henry’s post-Windrush drama, the final series of Sex Education and The Crown – choice viewing as the nights draw in

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The Lovers: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interviews and all about the comedy drama

The Lovers on Sky Atlantic is a romantic comedy set in Belfast and starring Roisin Gallagher and Johnny Flynn as a pair of unlikely sweethearts.

The National (Scotland)

The Tron's Cyprus Avenue is a satire that couldn't be more timely

WHEN the Tron Theatre’s artistic director Andy Arnold programmed this revival of David Ireland’s acclaimed, Northern Irish tragicomedy Cyprus…

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Not One of These People; Not Now; Super High Resolution – review

Questions of who can speak for whom animate both Martin Crimp’s new AI work and David Ireland’s brilliant Belfast dialogue. And a star is born in Nathan Ellis’s white-hot NHS play

The Conversation

Farewell to David Ireland, three-times Miles Franklin winner and master of mosaic fiction

Australian novelist David Ireland, winner of three Miles Franklin awards in the 1970s, and recipient of the Order of Australia in 1981, has died at the age of 94.

The Guardian - UK

Not Now review – sparky comedy about Belfast, belonging and the Bard

An aspiring actor considers a move from Northern Ireland to London in this witty two-hander by Cyprus Avenue’s David Ireland

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