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9 - 14 June
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at smock alley theatre
17 - 21 Jun
The Burke Sisters

For exactly a year, after the death of one of their husbands, the Burke sisters have refrained from seeing, talking to or even texting each other. That is all going to change today, as the sisters meet in the dead husband’s local to celebrate the end of the mourning period. Carmel Burke, has a potentially life changing plan that could alter her younger sisters lives forever.

26 - 28 Jun
Friends From The West End

Three Friends From the West End reunite — sharing nostalgic, heartwarming, and hilarious stories from their time in some of the world’s biggest musicals. With rich vocals and a lot of heart, this is a thoughtfully curated programme of close harmony & storytelling — with a pinch of theatrical mischief.

1 - 5 Jul
The Grönholm Method
Four candidates arrive to what seems to be an unorthodox interview. As things unravel, they find themselves part of a claustrophobic exercise which takes them to dark places. They can leave anytime they want; yet, they do not.
How far would you go?
3 Jul
Tom Lawrinson: Buried Alive (And Loving It)

Everything is awful but that’s okay, argues Tom in his ridiculously entertaining show about family and growing up in a Spanish subterranean cave. A show for siblings who shared a rubbish childhood, shirtless ex-pats, and comedy fans alike.

4 Jul
Bum Notes: The Improvized Musical & Auto-Correbt

Bum Notes (and a very special guest) are back in Smock Alley with a 4th of July improvized musical! And no it won’t be about Hamilton… well it could be. It is improv after all.

7 - 12 Jul
Mosaic

Following on from a Dublin Fringe run and a Fishamble New Writing Award nomination, Louis Deslis brings his show Mosaic, back to Smock Alley where it all started. A Franco-Irish tale of craic, joie de vivre, and everything in between.

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.

17 Jul - 2 Aug
A Misanthrope

Supper & Show tickets available

In this swirling and sexy comedy of bad manners, Molière’s France becomes Dublin’s FRANS, a Silicon Docks megacorp brimming with pissants, posers, and plutocrats all grubbing for power and pleasure.

The Irish Premiere of American Playwright Matt Minnicino’s Helen Hayes Award nominated adaptation, from the team behind the five-star (Irish Times) production of Tempesta by Deirdre Kinahan: director/designer duo Marc Atkinson Borrull and Molly O’Cathain of Sugarglass.

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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.

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