COMEDY | 19 – 23 Sep | DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL
But He’s Gay
Shane Daniel Byrne
Main Space
The award winning Shane Daniel Byrne is Irish comedy’s new wonderkid (in his mid 30s). Once considered an exciting talent of contemporary performance art in Dublin he messed that up and now he’s a comedian.
Join him for his fierce and fiery début hour about the bittersweet agony and joy of coming out, the oddities of same sex love and Social Personal Health Education.
It’ll be funny, but he’s gay.
THEATRE | 18 – 23 Sep | DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL
HYPER
Jaxbanded Theatre
Boys’ School
For decades Trans people have been using hyperpop to shatter standards of genre, gender and good taste.
Right now, the only thing Saoirse wants to shatter is her own f*cking voice.
Told through live vocal modulation and manipulation, this is a rip-roaring and unabashedly Queer theatrical deep dive into Trans identity and music.
What it means to speak, sing and, for the audience (yes, you babe), to listen.
CABARET | 19 – 23 Sep | DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL
FEET PICS AREN’T FREE!
Gráinne Holmes Blumenthal
Boys’ School
For sale: feet pics, freshly painted.
Have you ever seen a picture of yourself tagged online that you don’t even remember taking? Now imagine it was a picture of your feet. Imagine Gráinne’s horror when she was stumbling around Wikifeet (as you do!) and she sees pictures of her little toesies posted online without her consent – and worse, for completely free!
So, come with Gráinne, foot model extraordinaire, and learn the importance of why feet pics are NEVER free.
THEATRE | 19 – 23 Sep | DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL
Persona Metropolitana
Annachiara Vispi & Giulia Macrì
Black Box
This is Giulia.
Like 55% of us, Giulia lives in a city. It is predicted that by 2050, almost 70% of us will live in a city – two thirds of the people on the planet.
Giulia wonders if we’ll all fit.
Giulia doubts it.
A piece for an actor and a dancer set on an imaginary Rome metro carriage / Paris RER line / New York subway / seat on the Tube / last Dart home. In cities we feel invisible, Giulia thinks. Or free.
THEATRE | 20 – 23 Sep | DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL
Hand of God
Carley Magee & Aaron Finnegan
Black Box
Magical realism and soft horror collide in this suburban noir. Orla and Grace realise moving in together might not actually save their relationship. Suddenly, the outside world turns on its head and unravels their already fractured lives. Secrets become harder to keep as reality closes in – and Grace’s bed-bound grandmother only fuels their desire to get out. With nowhere left to hide, the women are forced to confront the painful truth of their relationship.
THEATRE | 21 – 23 Sep | DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL
Tony Cantwell’s Sketch Show
Tony Cantwell
Main Space
Step into the whimsical world of Tony Cantwell. Renowned for his stand-up comedy, the man Hot Press called ‘The 2nd Best Comedian in Ireland’ returns to his first love with a night dedicated solely to sketch comedy.
Prepare to be captivated by a medley of music, surreal sketches, cinematic moments, and puppets! With special appearances from familiar faces, this extravaganza promises an unforgettable evening of trippy laughter.
DTF
/THEATRE | 2 – 7 Oct | DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL
Warrior
Karen Egan
Main Space
Everyone knows somebody who has suffered from cancer. Egan’s own journey has inspired her to explore the vulnerability, chaos and humour of that experience.
In Warrior, anti-heroine Katherine Kirk shows the many sides to her troubled mind as she time- travels through treatment, while also exploring her relationship with her brother Barry. This is a universal story of how we derive strength by turning adversity into opportunity.
THEATRE | 10 – 14 Oct | DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL
Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel
Tim Crouch and The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh
Main Space
The Fool leaves King Lear before the blinding. Before the killing. Before the ice-creams in the interval. In this new work, Tim Crouch draws on ideas of virtual reality to travel back to the future of the play he left. Back to a world laid waste by division and trauma; a world where the revolution will take place on a screen.
Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel is a daring piece of theatre that switches between scathing stand-up and an audacious act of collective imagining. It’s a celebration of live performance and a skewering of the state we’re in now.
THEATRE | 28 Sep – 8 Oct | DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL
To Be A Machine (Version 2.0)
Dead Centre
Boys’ School
What’s wrong with reality? Why do we feel the need to escape it?
From its very beginning theatre has offered audiences a chance to escape the world and enter a new one. The phrase “virtual reality” was first used by a playwright, Antonin Artaud, to describe the nature of theatre: a technology which allows us, for one night only, to get out of our heads.
But what happens when theatre stops working? Where do we go next?
THEATRE | 13 Oct | DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL
The Rachel Baptiste Programme: First Look Readings
Smock Alley Theatre
Boys’ School
The Rachel Baptiste Programme is a paid and mentored script development programme for Black Irish theatre makers and writers of colour, named after the 18th Century singer who performed to great acclaim at Smock Alley. Work-in-progress readings of new, full length plays from two participating writers, Sean Gallen and Joy Nesbitt.
An opportunity to catch early draft development scripts from exciting new contemporary voices.
HALLOWEEN THEATRE |16 – 18 Oct
THEATRE/SPOKEN WORD | 25 Oct
Five Days
Joe Nawaz
Boys’ School
In April 2005, writer Joe Nawaz and his family travelled from Belfast to the wilds of Pakistan on the trail of a mystery. The mystery of how, where and why his father Rab had been murdered there.
DANCE | 28 Oct
Battle of the Poles
SideShow Dramas
Main Space
This Freestyle competition is different in the sense that it is held in 4 rounds –
Each round will be won by knock out!
Judged by a panel of Irish dance and performer experts.
Who will be the first ever Freestyle champion of Battle of the Poles?
COMEDY | 4 Nov
Shut up, You
The Collaborations Agency presents Ali Fox
Main Space
Ali Fox is obsessed with the past.
A darkly comic night of storytelling and jokes proving the history of generational trauma and self-hatred in Ireland has made us the most hilariously dysfunctional race in the world.
THEATRE | 8 – 11 Nov
THE CURIOUS CASE OF ALBERT CASHIER: Lincoln’s ‘Lady’ Soldier
Quintessence Theatre
Main Space
Belvidere, Illinois, 1862: A young Irishman, Albert D.J. Cashier, enlists with the Union Army in the Civil War and becomes a decorated hero. But unknown to his comrades, Private Cashier is waging an internal war all of his own. When he is fifty years a veteran an indiscreet doctor reveals to all of America that Cashier was assigned female at birth, born under the name Jennie Hodgers, from Clogherhead, Co. Louth, Ireland.
From that day on Albert’s greatest battle truly begins: for identity, selfhood, and truth.
THEATRE | 10 + 11 Nov
The Body & Blood
Carol Murphy
Boys’ School
The Body & Blood is the story of Maggie Murtagh, an Irish country girl who transmogrifies into The Vigilante Cannibal Nun during The Famine after the death of her family. She steals from the rich to give to the starving poor. She eats the colonizers; becomes an addict; and destroys her soul.
THEATRE | 7 – 9 Nov
Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story
Awkward Productions
Boys’ School
Do you know the story of Diana? Probably. But do you know our story of Diana? We very much doubt it. Join Diana in heaven as she shares the untold and untrue tale of her extraordinary life. Combining drag, multimedia, audience interaction, puppetry and a lot of queer joy – this unique celebration of the peoples princess is as hilarious as it is tasteless.
THEATRE | 6 – 21 Dec
You Belong To Me
Once Off Productions and Smock Alley Theatre
Main Space
You Belong To Me is a savage new comedy by Rory Nolan, about the rules we make, the laws we break and what falls between the cracks in an unflinching look at two people who haven’t agreed on a single thing since they said “I do”.