THEATRE | 14 – 19 Jul
Bunny Bunny
Nora Kelly Lester
Boys’ School
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.
THEATRE | 17 Jul – 2 Aug
A Misanthrope
Sugarglass & Smock Alley Theatre in association with Once Off Productions
Main Space
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.
THEATRE | 21 – 25 Jul
DANNY RYAN
Benjamin Reilly
Boys’ School
Growing up gay can rob you of your formative romances, but Mark’s on a mission. He’s been in love with Danny since Stonerock Secondary! Everyone’s in college now, the marriage ref totes just passed, and being gay is finally chic… right?
DANNY RYAN is the love letter that every little gay boy never got to send in school. It takes us on a heartfelt first-hand rollercoaster ride through teen angst, junior cup rugby, first loves and… Spin Disco?
COMEDY | 9 Aug
Someone In This Crowd Will Betray Me
Reuben Solo
Main Space
I’ve got a terrible feeling about this show. Like somehow the whole thing is doomed. I have this recurring dream where I’m on stage, thousands of miles from home and the crowd has turned on me. There are thousands of them and they are all booing me and Sofia Vergara (from Modern Family) is there and so is Simon Cowell and he’s slamming his fist into a red buzzer. This show has nothing to do with that story. I doubt I’ll even mention it.
THEATRE | 12 – 16 Aug
Just Being Open With You
SaltWater Theatre
Main Space
A three hander, a couple, and everyone else in their relationship.
Sadie and Danny, have broken up, they’ve gotten back together, neither seems to work for them. They open their relationship to every other Joe, Josephine, Josef and Jo, to find what they’re missing in their relationship.
A slick depiction of an emotionally messy topic.
THEATRE | 14 + 15 Aug
The Lesbian Revue of World History
LemonSoap Productions
Boys’ School
In the year 2198, two lesbian astronauts are kidnapped by an Alien Overlord who forces them to perform on loop a musical revue of the entirety of world history. As they spend their days in captivity doing cabaret, the lesbians are forced to consider what became of our humanity and what we the people may become if allowed to survive.
FRINGE | 6 – 8, 12 – 14 Sep
Stephen Jobs
Stephen Colfer
Boys’ School
A stand up comedy show that doesn’t just ask What do you do for a living? but Why do you do for a living? Stephen Colfer has juggled two decades of odd jobs to support his ‘real’ one… comedy. Somewhere between alphabetising CDs, demoing tech that doesn’t work, letting one hundred trainee doctors practice on his ears, and occasionally making art for money, he hopes to answer the question: where does Stephen end, and Jobs begin?
FRINGE | 6 + 7, 17, 20 Sep
Eras Tour: An Improvised History Musical
Bum Notes
Main Space
They say history is written by the victors… now watch it being made-up by a bunch of improvisers via the medium of SONG*!
FRINGE | 5 + 7 – 10 Sep
dublinitgirl_ vs _dartlinediva: rap battle royale
Harry Hennessy
Patrick Sutton Studio
FRINGE | 7 – 11, 13 + 14 Sep
Anonn | The Other Side
Scaoilte Theatre
Boys’ School
This can’t be all there is.
FRINGE | 7 – 9, 11 – 13 Sep
OFFSPRING (A Modern Frankenstein)
Emily Terndrup
Patrick Sutton Studio
In this visceral, genre-smashing collision of bold storytelling and exhilarating choreography, Terndrup exhumes the bones of Mary Shelley’s horror classic, reanimating them into a fiercely modern meditation on creation, control, and consequence.
FRINGE | 8 – 10 Sep
ALIENS
Curious Industries
Main Space
I didn’t like it here at first. I didn’t like anything. Join a real-life mother and daughter on a road trip from Donegal to southern Italy, as they weave their personal stories with those of Italian immigrants in Northern Ireland and present-day migrants, activists, and strangers meet along the way.
FRINGE | 9 – 13 Sep
Itch
Christopher McAuley
Boys’ School
FRINGE | 9 – 11 Sep
Fry Me to the Moon
Michael Fry
Main Space
FRINGE | 10 – 13 Sep
CHOP
Lords of Strut & Cian Kinsella
Patrick Sutton Studio
Big Axe. Big Muscles. Big Existential Horror. A Real Man. A Bro’s Bro. A macho & cool man who chops wood. Because chopping wood is what Real Men do. The world is burning, the birds are gone, and the only solution? More chopping. But the cracks start to show. And if the chopping stops… then what?
FRINGE | 11 – 13 Sep
Am I The A**hole?
Dafe Orugbo & Lisa Nally
Main Space
All rise. The Court of Public Opinion is now in session.
FRINGE | 12 – 15 Sep
You Cry Weird
Tony Cantwell
Main Space
FRINGE | 16 Sep
TenderWRITE Big Plays: No Esc by Cal Ó Muirí
TenderWRITE
Main Space
WRITE, to mark, on a surface, typically paper, with a pen, pencil or similar implement.This series of readings shine a light on new and fresh stories from exciting new playwrights, all aged 16-24. Come experience life through the eyes of our youngest artists. There is love and desire, anxiety and fear, and a great ability to laugh despite the fact that the world is heating up to a point of explosion.
FRINGE | 14 – 16 Sep
Queens of Comedy
Aideen McQueen, Sophia Wren & Guests
Main Space
Get ready to bow down.
FRINGE | 16 – 20 Sep
He Dies in the End
Liam McCarthy
Boys’ School
Matty’s dead, but it’s not as bad as it sounds.
FRINGE | 16 – 20 Sep
don’t copy me (copy)
Gift Horse Theatre
Patrick Sutton Studio
Original art is dead and you’re invited to the funeral.
FRINGE | 16 – 20 Sep
PerfectionisTÁ
Louisa Ní Éideáin
Boys’ School
Ever felt like you were born to be exceptional… and now you’re just tired? Ever chased perfection so hard you forgot what you actually want? Then, this is the (self-sabotaging) selfhelp seminar you’ve been waiting for. Join Louisa Ní Éideáin for a camp, comedic, musical ode to the mediocre perfectionists who were promised it all and are left as the victims of human shrinkflation.
FRINGE | 17 – 20 Sep
LAST GIG EVER!!
AGENTS & JUICE
Patrick Sutton Studio
FRINGE | 18 Sep
In Their Shoes: Live
Seanchoíche
Main Space
Ordinary people telling extraordinary stories.
FRINGE | 18 + 19 Sep
SOAPSTAR
Anna Clifford
Main Space
FRINGE | 20 Sep
Pick ‘n’ Mix!: An Improvised Youth Musical
Bum Notes
Main Space
A sweet, silly, interactive musical adventure where young folk are the writers. Shout out your wildest characters, games, dream sweets or whatever your imagination can cook up and watch eight fearless improvisers and a live piano turn them into a toe-tapping tale on the spot.
FRINGE | 20 Sep
Galavanter: A Life on the Road
Hector Ó hEochagáin
Main Space
THEATRE | 29 Oct – 1 Nov
Belfast Girls
Quintessence Theatre
Main Space
Set in 1850, Belfast Girls tells the story of five fierce young women who face their dark pasts on a ship bound for Australia, as they leave Belfast in search of a better life. Confined in close quarters in the belly of the ship, they embark on a tumultuous sea journey as they sail away from their homeland. Secrets are revealed, enemies made, and it becomes clear that no matter where they go, there is no escaping the past.
THEATRE | 12 – 15 Nov
Boyfriends
LemonSoap Productions
Main Space
Following a three month affair between two anonymous men, Boyfriends, charts the ups and downs and roundabouts of a modern situationship. As they swing through four million one hundred and ninety one thousand possibilities of what they might mean to one another, Boyfriends asks us to ponder on that age old question: what the f*ck is romance anyway?
COMEDY | 17 + 18 Nov
Historical Standup
Vladimir Raevskiy
Main Space
Historical Standup is a one-man show that blends sharp comedy with real archival material to retell Russian history through laughter. The performance combines stand-up timing with the depth of a lecture, challenging the idea that history must be solemn. Instead of glorifying or condemning, the show unlocks national memory by treating even its darkest chapters with wit, irony, and empathy.
The stand-up is held in Russian.
THEATRE | 21 Nov
Trawled
Eoin Ryan
Boys’ School
A story you will never forget…
A jaw-dropping story set on the Coral Sea, Australia. An Irish backpacker blags his way onto a prawn trawler. There he discovers a rarely seen world of hard labour and harder fishermen, where drinking, fighting, storms and hungry sharks are part of everyday life.