Belvoir’s new Artistic Director says 2016 will be about theatricality, variety of life and faith in humanity.

When the announcement was made earlier this year that Eamon Flack would take over as Belvoir’s third Artistic Director in January 2016, the incumbent Ralph Myers described him as a dreamer and a pragmatist. He described Flack as someone, “with a great sense of social responsibility who is able to combine emotional sensitivity with inner toughness.”

At that time, giving a hint of his vision, Flack claimed, “A theatre is one of society’s test cases. If a rich, liberal country can’t find a way to include the full variety of life in the model of itself on stage, then how can we hope to include the full variety of life in the real society off stage?” Announcing his first season of work, it seems he has found a way to realise just that.

Amber McMahon, Matthew Whittet and Eamon Farren star in Girl Asleep

“There are angry plays, political plays, celebrations,” revealed Flack. “There are splendid big acts of community, and...