BELFAST artist Colin Davidson is about to lock up his studio for the day when he catches a glimpse of himself in a mirror and has an unscheduled stand-still moment of recognition – the type of ‘revealing of the soul’ moment, in fact, that he might aim to capture in one of his many portraits.

IT'S been almost a year since Teresa Livingstone last performed a 'normal' live show.

ALTHOUGH Belfast playwright Martin Lynch has maintained a constant presence in the city's arts scene for well over 40 years, the ongoing global pandemic has forced even this most indefatigable character to take a step back.

SIR Simon Rattle quitting as director of the London Symphony Orchestra to take up a job in Germany is perhaps among the most high profile examples of the pandemic's cultural fallout.

1. When did you think about a career in comedy and what were your first steps into it? I was always into comedy and wanted to be a writer or a clown from a very early age.

OVER the past decade, the annual Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival, A Wilde Weekend and Lughnasa FrielFest events have become cultural beacons for visitors from across Ireland and beyond, who travel to Co Fermanagh and Co Derry / Donegal to enjoy innovative celebrations of the life and works of the Irish literary greats Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde and Brian Friel, presented and performed by top talent.

1. When did you think about a career in comedy and what were your first steps into it? When I decided to give stand-up a try for the first time in March 2018 it was for a bit of craic – I didn’t see it as a possible career at all.

Peter Liversidge at The MAC IT'S very impressive that The MAC has commissioned edgy English artist Peter Liversidge, whose CV includes work at Tate Modern, to produce a comment on our times.