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A Misanthrope

A Misanthrope

17 Jul - 2 Aug
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14 - 19 Jul
Bunny Bunny

Bunny is mad. She’s mad as hell and she’s not going to take it anymore…is she?

On the edge of eviction, her love life in pieces and no money in her pockets, Bunny tries again. An absurdist romantic nightmare comedy filled with empty piggy banks, landlord ex-lovers, their new lovers, and a song about hotel soap, Bunny Bunny is a solo clown show about trying to hold it all together while everything is falling apart.

21 - 25 Jul
DANNY RYAN

Growing up gay can rob you of your formative romances, but Mark’s on a mission. He’s been in love with Danny since Stonerock Secondary! Everyone’s in college now, the marriage ref totes just passed, and being gay is finally chic… right?

DANNY RYAN is the love letter that every little gay boy never got to send in school. It takes us on a heartfelt first-hand rollercoaster ride through teen angst, junior cup rugby, first loves and… Spin Disco?

1 + 2 Aug
LUGHNASA

An evening of original music, poetry, prose and monologues to celebrate the Irish Lughnasa. Lughnasa marks the beginning of the harvest season. We feel that in this time of increasing division, we want to focus on harvesting from our community. Headlining with the brilliant FILIDH, we want to bring people together to spend an evening of connection.

9 Aug
Someone In This Crowd Will Betray Me
I’ve got a terrible feeling about this show. Like somehow the whole thing is doomed. I have this recurring dream where I’m on stage, thousands of miles from home and the crowd has turned on me. There are thousands of them and they are all booing me and Sofia Vergara (from Modern Family) is there and so is Simon Cowell and he’s slamming his fist into a red buzzer. This show has nothing to do with that story. I doubt I’ll even mention it.
12 - 16 Aug
Just Being Open With You

Sadie and Danny, have broken up, they’ve gotten back together, neither seems to work for them. They open their relationship to every other Joe, Josephine, Josef and Jo, to find what they’re missing in their relationship.

A slick depiction of an emotionally messy topic.

14 + 15 Aug
The Lesbian Revue of World History

​In the year 2198, two lesbian astronauts are kidnapped by an Alien Overlord who forces them to perform on loop a musical revue of the entirety of world history. As they spend their days in captivity doing cabaret, the lesbians are forced to consider what became of our humanity and what we the people may become if allowed to survive.

4 Sep
The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2025

The Cambridge Footlights are back with five of Cambridge’s best student comedians putting on a brand-new show featuring their funniest sketches!

Footlights was founded in 1883 and is one of Britain’s oldest student sketch comedy troupes.

29 Oct - 1 Nov
Belfast Girls

An award-winning feminist play based on a true piece of largely untold Irish history, Jaki McCarrick’s Belfast Girls follows the story of five fierce young Irish women aboard the Inchinnan travelling from Belfast to Australia during the Famine in the desperate hope of a new life abroad.
Over the long ship journey the women form intense bonds, and life-changing secrets are revealed.

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history

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.

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