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This festival showcases the best tasters of never before seen theatre, comedy and music from the North, South, East and West of Ireland. We programme a variety of wild and wonderful performances. The public can then give their honest feedback in a variety of ways – Secret Ballot, Video Booth, or Tablet Tale.

How it Works:

You buy a ticket to a specific ‘block’.
A block often contains 2 short shows, performed one after the other.
A ticket to a block costs €10 if booked in advance or €13 on the door.
Each block is normally 60 mins in duration.

Now, Time to browse them blocks! Scroll down or download the festival brochure.
block 62
MUSIC

Jack takes a Noise for a Walk

Where is the line between the line between noise and music

Thu 27 + Fri 28 Feb
8pm
Boys’ School

 


Jack came by Dublin some moons ago via Sligo, Galway + Saturn (slight return). He has a background in electronics, composition and holds an MPhil in Music + Media Technology from TCD. He plays several instruments and can even write music with dots and everything. This evening he may use some of these skills, but more than likely won’t. Jack likes treading carefully on the line between noise and music- at some point a song might even break out, who knows? He likes barbecued halloumi, and words like ‘fricative’

Written + Performed by: Jack Cawley

Running Time : 25 mins

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STAND-UP COMEDY

Fred Cooke

Work in Progress

 

Thu 27 + Fri 28 Feb
8pm
Boys’ School

 


Fresh from hosting The Tommy Tiernan Show and dancing to the semi-final of Dancing with the Stars, comedian Fred Cooke is taking his work in progress show to Scene + Heard. Expect chaos!

Running Time : 30 mins

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THEATRE

The Storm

A comedy to blow your socks off!

 

Thu 27 + Fri 28 Feb
9:15pm
Main Space

 


As a storm approaches two men, a woman and a horse shelter in the local church for the night but it’s the storm inside which threatens to do the most damage.

Warning: `this performance contains flashing lights and loud noises.

Written by: Claire Millane
Directed by: Mark O’Reilly
CAST: Brendan Farrell, Claire Millane, Aidan O’Sullivan
Produced by: Cathal Feeney
Photography + Costumes by: Silvana Benedetto

Running Time : 20 mins

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IMPROV

Histrionix

A true tale told by idiots

 

Thu 27 + Fri 28 Feb
9:15pm
Main Space

 


An improvised comedy show where a historian tells a lesser-known story from history which is re-enacted by improvisers who don’t know the story and don’t know what they’re talking about.

Improvisers: Luke Benson, Mark Cantan, Richie Earley, Aoife Moore, Kelly Shatter

Running Time : 40 mins

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MUSIC + DANCE

Nostalgia

Flamenco music + dance in a dialogue with contemporary dance + uilleann pipes

 

Fri 28 + Sat 29 Feb
6:15pm
Main Space

 


Nostalgia is a tale of survival, of what makes us human, told through the language of Flamenco and dance. Evoked by Federico Garcia Lorca’s poetic language, through the female characters in The House of Bernarda Alba (1945) and Yerma (1934), interlaced with music from Lorca’s collected popular songs Canciones Populares Antiguas (1922), Flamenco music and Uilleann Pipes

Directed + Choreographed by: Lola Ros Gordon

Cast + Musicians:
Ana Belen Lopez Rodriguez (Flamenco Dancer)
Dave Fadden (Uilleann Pipes)
John Walsh (Flamenco Guitarrist)
Joyce Richardson (Flamenco Dancer)
Laura Tato (Flamenco Dancer)
Pache (Contemporary Dancer)
Rebeca Sanchez (Flamenco Singer)
Zoltan Laszlo (Hungarian Zither)

Running Time : 50 mins

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LIVE ART

Art Against The Odds

You don’t do it for the money

 

Fri 28 + Sat 29 Feb
6:30pm
Boys’ School

 


Join us for a night of live art exploring what it means to survive as an artist in Dublin today. 4D Space is a curatorial collective focused on promoting performance and live art in Ireland.

Curated by: Áine O’Hara
Produced by Marisa Conroy
Artist assistant: Sarah Richardson
4D Space is Áine O’Hara & Tara Carroll

Running Time : 30 mins

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THEATRE

Show Me Your Wallets

The future’s not great. Send money.

 

Fri 28 + Sat 29 Feb
6:30pm
Boys’ School

 


An underground religion worshipping capitalism in climate-crisis tomorrow. Money! Paying water charges!! Giant insects enslave everyone!?
A comedy about interrupting apathy towards climate crisis and its irrefutable link with capitalism.

Written by: James Ireland
With thanks to The Pluralist Magazine, Attention Anthology and RCA Writing.

Running Time : 30 mins

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THEATRE
KATS : The Green Room Musical

Whiskers lost. Paws wiped. Dreams destroyed.

 

Fri 28 + Sat 29 Feb
7.45pm
Main Space

 


What do a Rose of Tralee, PLC in childcare, and a lady with severe OCD have in common? A green room of Graham’s mam’s theatre in Tralee.

A devised piece.
Directed by: Eoghan Collins
CAST: Aoife Martyn, Gemma Kane, Sadhbh Mc Loughlin, Kieran Roche

Running Time : 30 mins

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THEATRE

BAD GHOST

Putting the “Unfinished” back in “Business”

 

Fri 28 + Sat 29 Feb
7.45pm
Main Space

 


With his company in peril, a 9-to-5 spirit medium needs to prove his worth solving those horrible murders by channeling a ghost. Hope it’s not a bad one! OH WAIT

Written + Performed by: Jimmy Kavanagh, Robbie Doyle, Sam Killian
Also starring: Ciara Berkeley, Ellen Finnerty, Eoin Potts, Mazzy Ronaldson
Director: Amelia McConville

Running Time : 30 mins

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THEATRE

Floozie

…in the jacuzzi

 

Fri 28 + Sat 29 Feb
9:30pm
Boys’ School

 


“Do you ever feel like Dublin’s a massive party that we’re all invited to? Yeah, me neither.”
The story of Dublin’s most notorious lady.

Written by: CN Smith
Directed by: Michelle Henry
CAST: Bronwen Barrett
Produced by: Martha Knight
Light Design + Stage Management by: Shannon Cowan
Sound Design by: Conrad JB
Assistant Director: Jenny Oleinik
Dramaturgy: Megan Thompson

Running Time : 20 mins

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THEATRE

STJÄLKAR

A relentless hunt for answers

 

Fri 28 + Sat 29 Feb
9:30pm
Boys’ School

 


It’s 2017. Civil servant John Chesterton thinks he’s got life dotted, crossed and filed alphabetically, but he’s about to discover that not everything can be solved with exceptional administrative skills.

Written + Performed by: Dylan Tonge Jones + Jack Murphy
Directed by: Daniel Monaghan
Produced by: Emily Fox
Dramaturg:y by Stephanie Dufresne
Music by: Dylan Tonge Jones

Running Time : 40 mins

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THEATRE

Shamrock Hill

I’m still me, no matter what

Sat 29 Feb
1pm
Main Space

 


A piece of theatre exploring one man’s psychosis through the expression of movement and stylised theatrical performances to empower the words of those marginalised and stigmatised by mental health.

Written by: Colette Wrafter
Directed by: KathyAnn Murphy
Produced by: Sean Roper Nolan

Cast – Joe O’Neill, David Roper Nolan, Kolm Cearns, Scott Leeson, Andrew Cuzack and Conor Christian

Running Time : 60 mins

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REHEARSED READING

Animals

They Sold newspapers,they made Headlines!

 

Sat 29 Feb
2:30pm
Main Space

Dublin 1934 ” WHEN All YOU HAVE IS NOTHING, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE”
– hear the untold story of Francis Lawless, founder and sole surviving member of Dublin’s infamous Animal Gang!

Written + Produced by: Dylan Henvey
Directed by: Jack Lowe
Photography by: Brenda Fitzsimons
Photo model; Mannix flynn
CAST: Craig Gahan, Cat Williams, Jack Lowe, Peter Armanda

Running Time : 60 mins

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THEATRE

The Middle Of Somewhere

This is her last night here

 

Sat 29 Feb
3pm + 8pm
Boys’ School

 


How does somebody accept that they simply don’t know? A Mother tries to answer the biggest question of her lifetime. Why? How? Where?…and who!

Written + Directed by: Ronan Dempsey
Produced by: Nicole Mersey
Music by: Martin Corcoran
Set Design by: Rachel Stout
Stage Management by: Rachel Stout
Sound Design by: Gavin Hennessy
Videography by: Tom Maher

Running Time : 35 mins

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THEATRE

The Actor and the Über-Marionette

The boy who designed his own shadow

 

Sat 29 Feb
3pm + 8pm
Boys’ School

 


The ‘Über-Marionette’ was Edward Gordon Craig’s dream of the actor without weakness. But can we divide the artist from the art? A biographical sketch of one the 20th Century’s most controversial theatre directors.

Written + Directed by: Chris Moran
Set Design by: Rodolfo Villalobos
Puppetry by: Josh Roxby
Lighting Design by: Fenna Von Hirschheydt
Produced by: Vincent Moran (Wilde Shamrock Touring Theatre)
Presented with the kind support of the Edward Gordon Craig Estate

Running Time : 25 mins

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REHEARSED READING

The Absolute State

True stories. Word for word.

 

Sat 29 Feb
4pm
Main Space

 


Forty-five young people living in Ireland between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two were interviewed on the topic of their relationship with alcohol. This is what they had to say…

Written + Directed by: Luke Shanahan
CAST: Darragh Lawlor, Emma Moloney, Georgia Clarkson Kelly, Oisin O’Donoghue

Running Time : 60 mins

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MUSIC

Two Weeks

The mind’s music, real and imagined.

 

Sat 29 Feb
5pm
Boys’ School

 


Falling in and out of dreams from a hospital bed, the boundary point of the real and imagined begins to blur. Featuring new music composed for violin, viola & electronics.

Written + Performed by : Ultan O’Brien
Produced by : Emma Áine O’Leary
Image by: Alex Foster

Running Time : 55 mins

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IMPROV

PLAYBACK Comedy

We play back your stories

 

Sat 29 Feb
9:15pm
Main Space

 


PLAYBACK is a form of improv that replays your stories before your eyes. For audiences who love “Whose Line is it anyway?”.

Performers : Ailish McCarthy, Amy Walsh, Felix O’Connor, Gillian Fitzgerald, Jack McKenna, Seamus Stackpoole

Running Time : 60 mins