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Jane Coyle

Biography

Jane Coyle is an award-winning Belfast-based arts journalist and critic. She is a regular contributor to the Irish Times, The Stage, Culture Northern Ireland and BBC Northern Ireland.

Recent Articles

The Dead review

ReviewsDec 16, 2024

Louise Lowe’s adaptation of the last chapter of Dubliners, James Joyce’s celebrated 1914 collection of short stories, is a delicious treat

The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan review

ReviewsDec 9, 2024

Glossy show with a cheerfully nonsensical narrative

A Christmas Carol review

ReviewsDec 5, 2024

Intelligent, beautifully presented, version of the much-loved Christmas epiphany from adapter Marie Jones, set in Belfast

Emma review

ReviewsDec 2, 2024

Kate Hamill’s Jane Austen adaptation is as pretty as a powder box, but ultimately falters on its own cleverness

Aurora: A Modern Myth review

ReviewsOct 28, 2024

Multi-genre creative technology sits alongside the miracles of the natural world in Prime Cut’s dramatisation of one woman’s environmental protest

The Tragedy of Richard III review

ReviewsOct 17, 2024

A landmark, intensely moving central performance dominates this tantalising revisioning of Shakespeare’s great history play

Yerma review

ReviewsOct 11, 2024

With direction from Patrick J O’Reilly, this resetting of Lorca’s tragedy from the heat of Spain to the chilly Irish borderlands loses some of its lyrical poetry