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
block 62
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
block 63
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
block 63
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
block 65
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
block 65
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
block 66
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
block 67
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
block 68
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
block 52
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
block 69
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
block 70
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
block 72
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