Jaxbanded Theatre

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.

A New Play by Liath Hannon, star of hit Irish Film Girls and Boys.

Age Suitability: 16+
Warnings: Nudity, Violence, Transphobia, Sexual Content

WRITTEN BY Liath Hannon
DIRECTED BY Ois O’Donoghue
SET DESIGN BY Jodie Doyle
COSTUME DESIGN BY Jodie Doyle
SOUND DESIGN BY Ultan De Stainleigh
LIGHTING DESIGN BY Sophie Cassidy
PRODUCED BY Ois O’Donoghue
ADDITIONAL COSTUME PIECES PROVIDED BY Oran Aurelio
POSTER PHOTOGRAPHY Donal Talbot

CAST Liath Hannon, Ruairí Nicholl

TICKETS €21 | €19 (CONCESSION)

RUNNING TIME 60 mins no interval

The DollHouse: A Fundraiser for Trans Art

Jaxbanded Theatre and Smock Alley present “THE DOLLHOUSE”, a special fundraiser for trans short film “HOSTILE ARCHITECTURE” by Liadán Roche and James Hudson and a celebration of trans art, immediately following Jaxbanded Theatre’s final performance of Liath Hannon’s “THE DOLLDRUMS”.

Join us after the Dolldrums finishes at 21:00 for a drink in the Banquet Hall, a 30 minute curated set of audiovisual trans artistry (yes we’ll play SOPHIE don’t worry) and queer speakers before we descend deep into the DollHouse rave and desecrate the site of a former Dublin gentleman’s club in the Boys School. Watch and join in as we transform it with queer joy and dance.

The DollHouse launches The Afters – a series of artist-led, post-show events that blend music, art and community at Dublin’s municipal theatre, Smock Alley.

For full information and tickets click here.

ABOUT THE COMPANY
Jaxbanded is a multidisciplinary arts collective that was founded by Ois O’Donoghue and Ruairí Nicholl in 2020, with additional members Ultan De Stainleigh and Jodie Doyle joining the collective in subsequent years.

Past works include HATE F%#K (The New Theatre), HYPER (Dublin Fringe Festival 2023, Edinburgh Fringe 2024), Sentimental (Scene & Heard 2023), Stone Cold Sober (Audio Drama), Take A Seat (Short Film), AION (Itch.io, Interactive Online Theatre Piece, Game Developers World Championship 2023) and Camping At The End Of The World (Short Film).

Jaxbanded’s work has received accolades including Ois O’Donoghue being named Director of The Year 2024 by The Arts Review (HATE F%#K, The New Theatre) and having been nominated for Awards including The Popcorn Group X BBC Writers New Writing Award (HYPER Edinburgh Fringe 2024), The Fishamble New Writing Award (HYPER, Dublin Fringe 2023) and The George Fitzmaurice Award (Dublin Fringe 2023).

The name Jaxbanded is a bastardisation and play on the word ‘Banjaxed’, here meaning the Irish colloquialism for that which is broken down without any hope of recovery. In changing the word we hope to change the meaning, by creating theatre that can hopefully instill a sense of hope and togetherness (orto be ‘banded together’) in what can often be a broken down world thattries to seperate us. The word ‘Jax’ (bathroom) encapsulates this in a way, a contemporary place in which the Irish storytelling tradition is often the most alive and well.

The work of Jaxbanded incorporates any and all aspects of live performance including traditional theatrical writing, music and movement pieces. In embracing all of these elements, we aspire to create new work that is original, stylistically unique and ultimately most representative of the theatre that we ourselves want to see in the world.

Reviews of Jaxbanded’s Past Work
★★★★★ “Five stars is not enough” – The Irish Times (Review of HYPER)

★★★★ “Brave, exhilarating, and refreshingly fearless” – The Arts Review (Review of HATE F%#K)

★★★★ “You’ll leave in awe of this young Irish company” – The Scotsman