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THEATRE | 9 – 14 Jun

TABOO

Red ‘n Blue Theatre Company

Boys’ School

Following sold out runs in Cork and Waterford Red ‘n Blue Theatre Company present John Morton’s dark comedy TABOO.

In the modern world, dating is a surprisingly complex thing with a lot of unwritten rules. There are certain things you shouldn’t do on a first date. And then there are certain things you shouldn’t do at all.


CLASS OF 2025 GRADUATION PLAY | 17 – 21 Jun

Counting Puffins

Gaiety School of Acting

Main Space

Innis Puffin, a craggy rock nine miles off the Kerry coast is poised for the annual invasion of puffins. Instead, it gets a visit from not one, but two groups of somewhat bewildered humans.

There’s no wifi, only half enough beds and a mysterious man with binoculars. Then there’s the fog. When there’s no way out, no way home, and no way you should’ve come here in the first place … can you count on yourself? Can you count on your friends? Can you count puffins when you can’t see your hand in front of your face?

*Please note that tickets are not being sold through the Smock Alley Theatre box office


THEATRE | 17 – 21 Jun

The Burke Sisters

Basement Productions

Boys’ School

For exactly a year, after the death of one of their husbands, the Burke sisters have refrained from seeing, talking to or even texting each other. That is all going to change today, as the sisters meet in the dead husband’s local to celebrate the end of the mourning period. The recently widowed, much changed, guilt-ridden, Carmel Burke, has a potentially life changing plan that could alter her younger sisters lives forever.


THEATRE | 22 Jun

Table Read

Irish Theatre Institute

Main Space

Table Read is a new actor-focused initiative that creates space for theatre artists to explore contemporary plays, develop their practice, and engage in meaningful dialogue with peers. Conceived and designed by Shane O’Reilly, this initiative focuses on performance and creative exchange, centring the actor’s voice while welcoming collaboration across disciplines.


MUSICAL THEATRE | 26 – 28 Jun

Friends From The West End

PW&Co

Main Space

This June, three Friends From the West End reunite — sharing nostalgic, heartwarming, and hilarious stories from their time in some of the world’s biggest musicals. With rich vocals and a lot of heart, this is a thoughtfully curated programme of close harmony & storytelling — with a pinch of theatrical mischief.


THEATRE | 1 – 5 Jul

The Grönholm Method

No Drama Theatre

Boys’ School

Four candidates arrive to what seems to be an unorthodox interview. As things unravel, they find themselves part of a claustrophobic exercise which takes them to dark places. They can leave anytime they want; yet, they do not.

How far would you go?


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.


IMPROV / MUSICAL | 4 Jul

Bum Notes: The Improvized Musical & Auto-Correbt

Bum Notes

Main Space

Bum Notes (and a very special guest) are back in Smock Alley with a 4th of July improvized musical! And no it won’t be about Hamilton… well it could be. It is improv after all.


THEATRE | 7 – 12 Jul

Mosaic

Louis Deslis

Boys’ School

Following on from a Dublin Fringe run and a Fishamble New Writing Award nomination, Louis Deslis brings his show Mosaic, back to Smock Alley where it all started. A Franco-Irish tale of craic, joie de vivre, and everything in between.


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.


An office scene of 6 people huddled togather with a central female character sprawled out on a table with a seductive look on her face.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?


THEATRE | 1 + 2 Aug

LUGHNASA

TeoChroí Productions

Boys’ School

TeoChroí Productions in association with Poetry Ireland present an evening of original music, poetry, prose and monologues to celebrate the Irish Lughnasa. Lughnasa marks the beginning of the harvest season.


SKETCH COMEDY | 4 Sep

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2025

The Cambridge Footlights

Boys’ School

The Cambridge Footlights are back with five of Cambridge’s best student comedians putting on a brand-new show featuring their funniest sketches!


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.