The best theatre is always the result of a great collaboration and Neil Armfield found the ideal collaborator in Kate Champion — choreographer, director and founder of the dance theatre company Force Majeure. The pair's work includes Cloudstreet and The Ring Cycle.

Also, we consider what complete silence might finally allow us to hear in Will O'Mahony's play Minneapolis and we question how far reinterpreting the classics can take us in Caesar at La Boite.