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FESTIVAL | 13 Feb – 1 Mar

Scene + Heard 2025

 

Theatre / Music / Dance / Aerial / Spoken Word / Visual Art

 

All spaces

111 pieces of new work across all genres presented over 3 wonderful weeks in Smock Alley!


THEATRE | 4 – 8 Mar

COCK

Lyons and Wiley present

Boys’ School

When John takes a break from his boyfriend, he accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out . . . Mike Bartlett’s punchy story takes a playful, candid look at one man’s sexuality and the difficulties that arise when you realise you have a choice.


THEATRE | 7 + 8 Mar

The Sh*t Table

Don’t Think Twice Theatre

Main Space

What do you do with the people you have to invite to your wedding when you really don’t want them there? Easy! Put them all at one table at the very back of the room. But what if putting those strangers together turns out to be the worst decision of your life?


THEATRE | 11 – 15 Mar

Macbeth

Volta Theatre Company

Main Space

Macbeth is a war hero, disturbed, in his hour of success, by a prophecy that he will one day be ruler. Goaded by his ambitious wife into an act that goes against his deepest instincts of loyalty, he unleashes a cycle of violence that plunges the country into terror and dictatorship.

THEATRE | 18 – 22 Mar

SANTA FE: Tales from the Modern American West

Happen/Chance Productions & Bankside Arts Collective

Boys’ School

Set against a vivid, shifting backdrop of American landscapes, Robert Caisley’s SANTA FE offers three stark and darkly comedic explorations of 21st century Americana. From a pair of self-serving, fair-weather talent agents with a twisted sense of loyalty, a disastrous first date which spirals into a catastrophically oblivious non-apology, to the tequila-soaked musings of a couple of middle-aged salesmen.


THEATRE | 28 Mar

Áine Gallagher: For the Love of Milseáin

Áine Gallagher

Main Space

Award winning comedian and Ireland’s “queen of the offbeat” Áine Gallagher, is on a mission to prove that speaking Irish can be both accessible and hilarious. In “FOR THE LOVE OF MILSEÁIN“, audiences can sit back, feel inspired and enjoy Áine’s tales, like when she met our president Michael D Higgins and other similar disasters in her own journey to learn Irish.


Comedy | 4 Apr

The Vikings are coming! (The Saga of Laughter Begins)

SuperCut

Main Space

Brace yourself for a whirlwind of hilarious quests, epic revenge plots, and untamed Viking valor!

Fresh off the longships from Denmark, these masterful comedians will craft a fully improvised Viking saga right before your eyes— guaranteed to leave you laughing until you can’t breathe.


DANCE | 5 + 6 Apr

Intertwined

Dublin School of Dance and Etiquette

Main Space

Dublin School of Dance and Etiquette present Intertwined

A dance show that intertwines a variety of dance styles and reflects on the diverse personalities of its terpsichoreans.


THEATRE | 8 – 19 Apr

The Last Man in Ireland

Modest Odyssey

Main Space

For reasons currently unknown, rising sea levels have inexplicably affected Ireland and Ireland only, reducing the island to one small indistinct piece of land owned by one remaining Irish civilian.


THEATRE | 16 + 17 May

Stuck in the Middle with You

Bright Umbrella 

Main Space

Belfast 1996. 5 RUC officers are stuck in the back of a land rover during a sectarian riot.  Their life stories unfold, and the play explores the complexities of policing NI, the North, during The Troubles”


COMEDY | 3 Jul

Tom Lawrinson: Buried Alive (And Loving It)

A Lovely Time

Main Space

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.