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What Are You Afraid Of?

25 Sep - 4 Oct

Sharing our Drawers

17 + 18 Oct
What's on
at smock alley theatre
9 - 11 Oct
Two Plays, One Night: A Marriage Proposal & Eating Crows

A Marriage Proposal By Anton Chekhov
In this classic comedy, a nervous man, a friendly neighboring daughter and a land dispute collide in the most awkward engagement attempt you’ve ever seen.

Eating Crows By Lea Maas
Gripped by the amazing works of Shakespeare, Laura just wanted a quiet night with her book – not a visitor determined to drag up old memories.

20 - 24 Oct
It's F-
It’s fine is the new way to say things are fucked, right?
 
Beatrice is expecting and it’s a girl… fuck. She’s hormonal, frustrated, horny, lonely and feeling totally and utterly F-… F-… fine about it all.
It’s F, written and directed by Ishbel Clarence-Ray, first appeared at Scene + Heard: The Festival of New Work 2025. 
29 Oct - 1 Nov
Belfast Girls

Set in 1850, Belfast Girls tells the story of five fierce young women who face their dark pasts on a ship bound for Australia, as they leave Belfast in search of a better life.
Confined in close quarters, they embark on a tumultuous sea journey as they sail away from their homeland. Secrets are revealed, enemies made, and it becomes clear that no matter where they go, there is no escaping the past.

4 - 8 Nov
The Dolldrums

Lily Burke will do anything to be a real girl. Even if it kills her.
After a decade living stealth, Lily is murdered by her long-suppressed subconscious, Lilith. Trapped in the purgatorial Dolldrums, she reflects on a life shaped by sex, lies, and self-sacrifice.

The Dolldrums is a modern parable about the truths we deny and the perceptions we embrace. No matter how far we run from ourselves, we can never escape who we truly are.

5 - 8 Nov
Our Town

Hailed by Edward Albee as “the greatest American play ever written”, Our Town is set in the small town of Grover’s Corners over three acts.

A poignant, powerful exploration of everyday life, love, and loss, we are delighted to host Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning classic this November.

12 - 15 Nov
Boyfriends

Following a three month affair between two anonymous men, Boyfriends, charts the ups and downs and roundabouts of a modern situationship. As they swing through four million one hundred and ninety one thousand possibilities of what they might mean to one another, Boyfriends asks us to ponder on that age old question: what the f*ck is romance anyway?

17 + 18 Nov
Historical Standup

Historical Standup is a one-man show that blends sharp comedy with real archival material to retell Russian history through laughter. Instead of glorifying or condemning, the show unlocks national memory by treating even its darkest chapters with wit, irony, and empathy.

The stand-up is held in Russian.

17 Nov
GILE NA GILE: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF AOGÁN Ó RATHAILLE

Thit an domhan Gaelach as a chéile le linn saol Aogáin Uí Rathaille, agus bhí sé mar dhuine de phríomhthráchtaire ar an gcasadh cinniúnach seo i stair agus litríocht na hÉireann.

In Gile na Gile, composer and singer Lorcán Mac Mathúna has set his poems to stunning new music, which he will sing to accompaniment from musicians Martin Tourish and Éamonn Galldubh.

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Smock Alley Theatre lies in an unassuming part of Dublin city. Nestled on the banks of the River Liffey, you would be forgiven for thinking it a quiet little building. Originally built in 1662, The Theatre Royal at Smock Alley gave the world the plays of George Farquhar (The Recruiting Officer), Oliver Goldsmith (She Stoops to Conquer) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan (The Rivals). 300 people attended the theatre each night, seven days a week to be enthralled, entertained and enlightened by actors, acrobats, dancers, musicians and trapeze artists. Now, 350 years after it was first built, the theatre has been carefully and lovingly restored to become Dublin’s Oldest Newest Theatre. It is now once again a bustling hub of theatre, song, dance, art and creativity.

Dublin Municipal Theatre at Smock Alley

In 2025, Smock Alley Theatre became Dublin Municipal Theatre (DMT) at Smock Alley.

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