The Arts Review​

Darragh Gilhooly and Ruarai Lenaghan in The Anatomy of Burke and Hare. Image, incredited ** When it comes to The Anatomy of Burke and Hare by Darragh Gilhooly , the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray. Which describes not just the downfall of serial killers William Hare and William Burke, but the problems of a troubled production. Its tale of two Irish emigrants who terrorised Edinburgh in 1828 to provide cadavers to paying surgeons going over the top in all the w

Philippa Dunne, Ayesha Antoine, Stephen Brennan, Kae Alexander and Rowan Finken in Eureka Day. Photograph: Helen Murray **** To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, you can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, but never all of the people all of the time. Not that the board of California’s Eureka Day Private School don’t try. Woke inclusivity, cultural sensitivity, social justice and a host of appropriate hashtags you never even knew about are

Eimear Barr and Clodagh Mooney-Duggan in In Vitro. Image, Al Craig *** Mark Twain claimed you should never let truth get in the way of a good story. When it comes to Aoife O'Connor's intriguing In Vitro , it's sound advice. Only the advice isn’t heeded. Its eagerness to share truths about the pressures of surrogacy undermining, and undermined by, O’Connor’s far more effecting story. That of a troubled couple, Sam and Lily, together two years, living together one, thinking of