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This year’s festival has twenty critical thinking of people in Ireland, so do our audiences. Irish theatre 04 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 24 Ireland Shed a Tear? 42 Every Brilliant Thing eight shows that offer many great this cannot be left to chance continues to develop in exciting Lyric Hammersmith and The New Theatre Paines Plough days and nights out in the city this and must be shaped by policy new directions as, alongside our Filter Theatre Pavilion Theatre autumn. The programme is aimed and by more public, private and celebrated playwriting tradition, Bord Gáis Energy Theatre 26 Guerrilla – El Conde at all ages and devised to appeal philanthropic support. new forms and new approaches de Torrefiel 44 It’s Not Over – THEATREclub to those attending for the very first are being used to grapple with 06 Don Giovanni – Opera Theatre Project Arts Centre Samuel Beckett Theatre time as well as to seasoned theatre the complexity of contemporary Company (Space Upstairs) goers. Since I took up the role of Artistic experience. This year’s programme Gaiety Theatre 46 Donegal – Abbey Theatre Director in 2011 my continuing includes drama, opera, both 28 Swan Lake/Loch na hEala on the Abbey stage aim has been to present a broad classical and experimental, dance, 08 Ancient Rain – Far and Away Michael Keegan-Dolan The festival took shape against selection of artistically driven work performance art, documentary Productions and Brink OReilly Theatre, Belvedere 48 First Love – Gate Theatre a background of brutal and on large and small stages as well theatre and film. What is evident Productions OReilly Theatre, Belvedere unsettling events that brought as in places where there is no throughout the works are common The Olympia Theatre 30 The Circus Animals’ global conflicts much closer stage at all. While 2016 is a year concerns about how we live, how Desertion 50 This is Not a Love Story to home than usual. Like many that is strong in retrospection, I we make sense of the past and how 10 These Rooms – ANU and Brokentalkers Gunilla Heilborn Irish people, I have friends and am determined that the festival we can live together now and in the CoisCéim Dance Theatre Samuel Beckett Theatre Project Arts Centre colleagues in Paris and Brussels programme maintains a forward future. 85 / 86 Upper Dorset Street (Space Upstairs) and they shared their rawness and momentum. Our artists are 32 Death at Intervals distress with me in the aftermath immersed in the present day and 12 ZVIZDAL (Chernobyl – Kellie Hughes and Galway 52 The Last Siren – Ian Wilson of the attacks in November and alive to possibilities for the future. This programme is the culmination so far so close) – BERLIN International Arts Festival Project Arts Centre March. They also communicated They are confidently making work of plans and conversations that Samuel Beckett Theatre Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space (Space Upstairs) their wounded defiance to return to that is rooted in where they live and have spanned many years. Artists the café terraces and to continue that speaks to the world with their have imagined a future and now it’s 14 Crisis Meeting – Kriðpleir 34 Backstage in Biscuit Land 54 Theatre for Children to engage in artistic dialogue when own accent. We set out each year here. Their work will delight, inspire and LÓKAL Performing Arts Jess Thom / Touretteshero political discourse had failed. to make the best festival possible and challenge, as the best theatre Project Arts Centre (Cube) axis:Ballymun 58 Become a Friend of the Festival that feels authentically ‘of Dublin’, should, and I look forward to their presenting the city’s vibrant theatre being met by an adventurous 16 The Remains of Maisie Duggan 36 The Seagull – The Corn Exchange 59 Gala Night The stakes may not seem to scene, complemented by a keen public that is excited for the Abbey Theatre and Dublin Theatre Festival be as high in Ireland, for the international perspective. This possibilities of theatre in 2016 and on the Peacock stage Gaiety Theatre 60 Festival+ moment. However, this year of approach has been rewarded by beyond. Programme of special events commemoration, unfolding in a growing local and international 18 Helen and I – Druid 38 Alien Documentary new political reality of ‘uncharted audiences in the past five years. Civic Theatre Una McKevitt, Ireland 66 Accessibility Information waters’, affords a moment to reflect Thank you to the artists who have Project Arts Centre (Cube) on how culture can help to imagine conceived this festival, to the 20 The Father 69 Visitor Information a way through such testing and We are proud of the role that funders and stakeholders who have Gate Theatre 40 Wishful Beginings divisive times. Dublin Theatre Festival has played believed in it, to all our colleagues VERK Produksjoner 72 Venue Details in expanding the scope of Irish who will deliver it and to you, the 22 Breaking Rainbows – Orla Barry Project Arts Centre theatre since its inception in 1957. audience, who make the work Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (Space Upstairs) 74 Festival Schedule at a Glance If we neglect culture we put our For our 60th anniversary next year I complete. common future at risk. Culture is am ambitious to expand further the – key to our sense of who we are, reach of the festival, to see more how we communicate with each people participating for the first Willie White other and how we learn to embrace time and more artists creating bold Artistic Director difference. Thanks to concerted new work. We have a rich history advocacy work in recent years, but, rather than looking backwards, there is a greater appreciation of I am more interested in the future the value of arts and culture along that this legacy can propel us with an awareness of the need to towards. invest in Ireland’s capacity for these into the future. There is also an increased understanding that, if we The festival is a crescendo of wish to nurture the imaginations of theatre making in the city. Artists artists and the self-expression and use it as a platform to take risks and dublintheatrefestival.com Lyric Hammersmith Filter’s Dream is part rock Quite brilliant. 04-05 and Filter Theatre, gig, part exuberant joke, ««««« UK exploding the conventions of Independent on Sunday the form and remaking them in dazzling new shapes. «««« Metro

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Created by Filter This gleefully mischievous take on Shakespeare’s Co-Directed by Sean Holmes and best-loved comedy is knock-you-sideways funny Stef O’Driscoll with a heart of Shakespearean Gold. Design: Hyemi Shin Lighting Design: Oliver Fenwick In the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare’s death, this Sound Design and Original comic gem is given a fresh cut. The Lyric Hammersmith and Music: Chris Branch and Tom Filter Theatre have created a high-spirited jewel of a show Haines that’ll have you jumping out of your seat. – Venue: Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Every imaginable comic device is here, from spontaneous Dates: Sept 28 – 29, 7.30pm bursts of song and lycra-clad superheroes to Nerf guns and Sept 30 & Oct 1, 2.30pm & 7.30pm an epic food fight. The furious physical comedy is matched Tickets: €15 – €40 with an equally thrilling soundscape. A live band double as Duration: Approx. 1 hr 40 mins. the Mechanicals and exuberantly channel Barry White and No interval. The Ramones, from doo-wop to grunge and a tiny orchestra – of electronic tweets, buzzes and magical trills. Talking Theatre: Sept 30, post-show (7.30pm). A dazzlingly anarchic dream for our times, raucous and With Stef O’Driscoll and members irreverent and bursting with life. of the company. Captioned performance: Suitable for ages 14+ Oct 1, 2.30pm The production contains flashing lights. With the support of

Photo © Tristram Kenton Photo © Tristram dublintheatrefestival.com 06-0706 Opera Theatre Company, This company is driven Ireland’s premier 06-07 Ireland by ideas, takes risks, purveyor of and always a fresh and quality operatic interesting approach. productions. Sunday Business Post Opera Britannia

Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a new translation by Roddy Doyle

Directed by Gavin Quinn Don Giovanni is the greatest seducer of all time. He loves Conducted by Fergus Sheil women. Not individual women, no, he loves all women Cast: David Kempster, Máire regardless of their size, shape, age or marital status. Flavin, Tara Erraught, John Molloy, Alexander Sprague, Daire Halpin, One of Mozart’s operatic masterpieces, Don Giovanni tells the Brendan Collins, Jonathan May, tale of a ‘womaniser’, his thirst for pleasure and his complete Chorus of Opera Theatre Company lack of regard for human consequences. Dramatically gripping Featuring RTÉ Concert Orchestra. from the opening murder where Don Giovanni kills Donna Anna’s Design: Bruno Schwengl father as he escapes from a romantic conquest. The action Lighting Design: Sinéad McKenna – continues with bravado, seduction, betrayal and revenge. Venue: Gaiety Theatre Performed in a newly commissioned English translation Dates: Sept 29, Oct 1 & 2, 7.30pm by Roddy Doyle, this brand new production presents Don Tickets: €20 – €50 Giovanni through a uniquely Irish lens. The cast stars Welsh Duration: 3 hrs incl. interval. baritone David Kempster in the title role, together with an – outstanding cast of Irish and international opera stars, including Talking Theatre: mezzo soprano Tara Erraught as Donna Elvira, soprano Oct 1, 6.15pm pre-show. Máire Flavin as Donna Anna and bass baritone John Molloy With Roddy Doyle, Fergus Sheil, and Gavin Quinn as Leporello. The RTÉ Concert Orchestra and the Chorus of Opera Theatre Company are conducted by Fergus Sheil.

Contains strong language.

Funded through an Arts Council Opera Production Award.

Photo © Kip Carroll dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 08-0908 Far and Away Productions 08-09 and Brink Productions Australia

Ancient Rain

Directed by Chris Drummond Magnetic Irish chanteuse, Camille O’Sullivan, and iconic Design: Gaelle Mellis Australian singer-songwriter, Paul Kelly, perform in this – evocative new music theatre work. They are joined by Venue: The Olympia Theatre O’Sullivan’s long-time collaborator, songwriter, and pianist, Dates: Sept 29, 7.30pm Feargal Murray. Tickets: €25 – €35 Duration: Approx. 80 mins. Inspired by the works of W.B. Yeats and other great Irish No interval. poets, Ancient Rain combines the spoken word with a song-cycle of new compositions. Kelly and O’Sullivan, both mesmerising performers, inhabit a range of diverse characters as they reveal a tapestry of themes, from the cost of love and the price of independence to the inadequacy of faith and the power of forgiveness.

Ancient Rain sees O’Sullivan’s majestic vocal command unite with Kelly’s understated yet evocative lyricism here in the service of stories of love, loss and redemption.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

Co-commissioned by Melbourne Festival and Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Martin Philbey /

Photo © Sean and Yvette dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 10-1110 ANU and CoisCéim 10-11 Dance Theatre, Ireland

These Rooms

Directed by David Bolger ‘Like wild animals or things possessed’ and Louise Lowe Cast: Craig Connolly, Justine These Rooms is an immersive live performance that cross- Cooper, Una Kavanagh, Niamh pollinates contemporary dance, visual art and theatre. McCann, Jonathan Mitchell, Daniel Monaghan, Emma O’Kane Thrusting audiences into the events of one hundred years ago Production Design: Owen Boss using a lens of today, These Rooms explores the 1916 rebellion Lighting Design: Ciaran Bagnall through the eyes of civilians at the moment when the rising Costume Design: Niamh Lunny invaded their homes in North King Street with devastating Sound Design: Carl Kennedy consequences. Eye-witness testimonies from 38 female voices – are combined with newly released findings of the closed Venue: 85/86 Upper Dorset Street British military inquiry. This fearless and embodied physical Previews: Sept 27 & 28, 7.30pm performance investigates questions of dignity and cultural Dates: Sept 29, 7.30pm trauma, belonging and dispossession. Sept 30, Oct 4 – 7 & Oct 11 – 14, 7.30pm & 9.30pm These Rooms brings together two ground breaking companies Oct 1, 8 & 15, 4.30pm, 7.30pm & in an ambitious cross-media production. Firmly established 9.30pm within the Irish psyche, CoisCéim’s style of performance is Oct 2, 9 & 16, 4.30pm & 7.30pm contemporary and vibrant, with a knowing regard for the Tickets: €15 – €25 everyday. ANU delves into historical events and places, with Duration: Approx. 60 mins. scalpel-like precision and dreamlike intensity. No interval. – Funded through an Open Call National Project in ART: 2016, The Arts Council’s programme as part of Ireland 2016. Supported by National Museum of Ireland and Talking Theatre: National Archives of Ireland. Co-commissioned by 14–18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Oct 11, post-show (9.30pm). Commissions in the UK. With members of the company. Wheelchair accessibility limited. Capacity limited. Participatory in nature. Strong language and adult themes.

Photo © Ros Kavanagh Photo © Ros dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 12-1312 Berlin, Today’s state-of-the-art visual culture comes face 12-13 Belgium to face with the primeval forces of weed-infested nature and a raw survival instinct. De Standaard

ZVIZDAL (Chernobyl – so far so close)

With Nadia and Pétro ZVIZDAL (Chernobyl – so far so close) tells the story of Opanassovitch Lubenoc Pétro and Nadia, an elderly couple that refused to leave Concept: Bart Baele, Yves Degryse, their village during the evacuation from the forbidden Cathy Blisson zone in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster in 1986. Scenography: Manu Siebens and Ina Peeters Everyone else moved away, their plundered houses bear Interviews: Yves Degryse and witness to a former life. ZVIZDAL (Chernobyl – so far so Cathy Blisson close) shows us Pétro and Nadia holding on indestructibly Camera and Editing: Bart Baele, in the contaminated region in self-imposed solitude. Geert De Vleesschauwer Sound Recording: Toon Meuris, For 29 years, they led an isolated existence without Bas de Caluwé, Manu Siebens, electricity, running water or communication with the Karel Verstreken outside world. From 2011 and 2016, BERLIN travelled to Interpreter: Olga Mitronina Chernobyl to spend time with Pétro and Nadia, interviewing Soundtrack and Mixing: them, to see how people live, work, and survive in Peter Van Laerhoven – an environment where time seems to stand still. Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre With a documentary style approach to film and theatre, Dates: Sept 29 & 30, 7.30pm BERLIN tell a poignant story of survival, hope and love Oct 1, 2.30pm & 7.30pm in an abandoned town. Tickets: €20 – €25 Co-production: Het Zuidelijk Toneel (Tilburg), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Dublin Duration: Approx. 75 mins. Theatre Festival, Le CENTQUATRE (Paris), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Brighton No interval. Festival, BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am – Main, Theaterfestival Boulevard (Den Bosch), Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens). In Talking Theatre: collaboration with deSingel (Antwerp). With support of the Flemish Government. Oct 1, post-show (2.30pm). With members of the company.

Photo © BERLIN [berlinberlin.be] Photo © BERLIN [berlinberlin.be] dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 14-1514 Kriðpleir and LÓKAL 14-15 Performing Arts, Iceland

Crisis Meeting

Directed by Friðgeir Einarsson Oscillating between anarchy, sitcom and Beckettian gravity Concept: Kriðpleir the Kriðpleir Theatre Group takes on various and at times Cast includes: Árni Vilhjálmsson, completely unmanageable projects, driven by the members’ Friðgeir Einarsson, Ragnar Í. Bragason desperate longing for truth, social acceptance and respect. Text and Dramaturgy: Bjarni Jónsson In the midst of writing a major arts funding application and with Design: Sigrún Hlín Sigurðardóttir a deadline approaching, these true fans of open-door policies – and the culture of sharing, have decided to let the audience in Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) on the group’s working methods and inner dynamics. Dates: Sept 29 & 30, 7pm Crisis Meeting is an introduction to the strange world of Oct 1, 3pm & 7pm Kriðpleir; a golden opportunity for art enthusiasts and Oct 2, 3pm professionals to get on the same level as the performers, watch Tickets: €20 – €25 them at work and contemplate the mysterious ways of the Duration: Approx. 80 mins. No interval. performing arts. – Talking Theatre: Oct 1, post-show (7pm). With members of the company.

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The Remains of Maisie Duggan by Carmel Winters

Directed by Ellen McDougall Being dead is wonderful, Kathleen, it’s the best thing Cast includes: Cillian O’Gairbhi that ever happened to me! and John Olohan Set Design: Fly Davis Only Maisie’s funeral would bring her daughter back Costume Design: Sinéad Cuthbert to Ireland. But it’s a curious class of corpse that greets Lighting Design: Sarah Jane Shiels Kathleen on her arrival. Composer and Sound Design: Kathleen’s return brings old family troubles to the surface Alexandra Braithwaite in this riotous dark comedy. The Remains of Maisie – Duggan sees a turbulent family stuck in limbo – can they Venue: Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock stage escape the traumas of their past? Previews: Sept 26 – 28, 8pm A world premiere from the award-winning writer of B for Dates: Sept 29, 30, Oct 3 – 7 & Oct Baby, Carmel Winters’ explosive new play is a subversive 10 – 14, 8pm illumination of family bonds and the struggle to break Oct 1, 8 & 15, 2.30pm & 8pm them. Tickets: €13 – €20 Duration: Approx. 90 mins. The Abbey Theatre is funded through the Arts Council’s Regularly Funded No interval. Organisations funding programme.

Original Photograph: Fly Davis | Artwork: Mandy Horton | Artwork: Fly Davis Original Photograph: dublintheatrefestival.com 18-1918 Druid, 18-19 Ireland

Helen and I by Meadhbh McHugh

Directed by Annabelle Comyn ‘The dogs on the street’d know what you had for dinner around Cast: Cathy Belton, Rebecca here and yet the quiet that can be kept over some things, hah?’ O’Mara, Paul Hickey and Seána O’Hanlon With their father dying, Lynn and her older sister, Helen, Set and Lighting Design: return to their childhood home. Lynn’s husband, Tony, Aedín Cosgrove arrives uninvited while Helen’s teenage daughter, Evvy is Costume Design: intentionally summoned. The weather is hot and sticky and Doreen McKenna relationships soon tangle into an intractable mess. Sound Design: Philip Stewart – How far back do you have to go, in order to move forward? Venue: Civic Theatre Dates: Sept 27, 28 & 30, 8pm Meadhbh McHugh brings a sharply intelligent, fresh Sept 29 & Oct 1, 3pm & 8pm perspective to a familiar scenario, capturing the rivalries and Tickets: €23 – €25 frailties among a generation who have only themselves to Duration: 1 hr 45 mins. No interval. blame. – A unique seating arrangement, raised above the stage, Talking Theatre: Sept 30, post-show. provides audiences with a fly-on-the-wall perspective into With members of the company. this unraveling domestic setting.

Presented by the Civic Theatre.

Druid is funded through the Arts Council’s Regularly Funded Organisations funding programme.

Photo © Matthew Thompson Photo © Matthew dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 20 Gate Theatre, 20-21 Ireland

The Father by Florian Zeller in a translation by Christopher Hampton

Directed by Ethan McSweeny The Father looks inside the mind of Andre, a retired dancer Cast includes: Peter Gaynor, living with his adult daughter Anne and her husband. Or is Charlotte McCurry, Simon he a retired engineer receiving a visit from Anne who has O’Gorman, Sophie Robinson, Owen Roe moved away with her boyfriend? Why do strangers keep Set Design: Francis O’Connor turning up in his room? And where has he left his watch? Costume Design: Joan O’Clery The author of this intriguing and compelling black comedy, Lighting Design: Rick Fisher Florian Zeller, has been hailed as “one of the hottest Music and Sound Design: Denis literary talents in France” (Independent). The Father (Le Clohessy Père) receiving its Irish premiere, won Best Play 2014 in – the Molière Awards, France’s highest theatrical honour. Venue: Gate Theatre Dates: Sept 29, 30, Oct 3 – 7 & Oct The Gate Theatre is funded through the Arts Council’s Regularly Funded 10 – 14, 7.30pm Organisations funding programme. Oct 1, 8 & 15, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets: €27 – €30 Duration: Approx. 90 mins. No interval.

Photo © Linda Grove, Getty Images Photo © Linda Grove, www.dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 22-2322 Orla Barry, 22-23 Ireland

Breaking Rainbows

Written and Directed by Orla Barry From stories of a sheep farm to a consideration of what Collaborators: categories reveal about our minds. From singing competitions Einat Tuchman, Derrick Devine and in Ancient Greece to contemporary ecological issues. With Connor Cillian Madden – three performers and a year’s production of her own wool, Venue: Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Orla Barry addresses our problematic relationship with the Dates: Sept 29, 30 & Oct 1, 6pm & natural world. The result is a live performance and a video 8pm installation, that interweave coincidence, language, humour Tickets: €10 and a sense of despair at the direction we are taking the world. Duration: Approx. 60 mins. No interval. Orla Barry is a visual artist and a shepherd. She lived in – Brussels for 16 years and now runs a flock of pedigree Lleyn Video installation of work open to sheep in rural Wexford. A recurrent theme in her recent work is public in the gallery: Oct 6 – Nov 5, the human disconnection from the natural environment. Barry Tue – Sat, 11am – 6pm. – writes and makes performances, video and sound installations. Exhibition launch: She has shown work at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Breaking Rainbows SMAK and Tate Modern, amongst others, as well as taking part Oct 6, 6 – 8pm. in the Manifesta 2 European biennial of contemporary art. Free exhibition runs from Oct 6 – Nov 5, Tue – Sat, 11am – 6pm Contains strong language. – Commissioned and produced by Wexford Arts Centre and Temple Bar Gallery + Artist talk: Studios. Co-production Kaaitheater, ARGOS centre for art and media and Crawford Wim Cuyvers and Orla Barry Art Gallery. Oct 13, 6.30pm. Free but ticketed booking via Residency supported by IMMA. templebargallery.com Funded through the Arts Council’s Touring and Dissemination of Work scheme.

Photo © Orla Barry dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 24-2524 The New Theatre, 24-25 Ireland

Ireland Shed a Tear? by Michael Collins

Directed by Anthony Fox Written to commemorate the first anniversary of the Cast: Michael Collins and Carrickmines tragedy, Ireland Shed a Tear? is a new play by Johnny Collins acclaimed writer and actor, Michael Collins (Pavee Lackeen, Lighting Design: Cathy O’Carroll Killinaskully, Glenroe, King of the Travellers). Using song and Set Design: Lisa Krugel poetry, it portrays the life experiences of one Traveller family, – while engaging the wider community in a dynamic and light- Venue: The New Theatre hearted way. Previews: Sept 28 & 29, 7.30pm Dates: Sept 30 & Oct 5 – 7, 7.30pm In the aftermath of the fire that claimed the lives of ten Oct 1 & 8, 2.30pm & 7.30pm members of the Connors and Gilbert families, including a Oct 2 & 9, 2.30pm pregnant mother, Tom sees the introduction of a national fire Tickets: €10 – €20 safety audit of Traveller accommodation as an opportunity for Duration: Approx. 60 mins. a better life for his family. Living conditions, safety, and issues No interval. with his local council might finally be resolved. However, he – soon discovers that the battle is far from over. Talking Theatre: Oct 2, post-show. With Michael Collins and Anthony Fox.

Photo © Al Craig dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 26-2726 El Conde de Torrefiel, 26-27 Spain

Guerrilla

Conceived by El Conde de Torrefiel El Conde de Torrefiel are one of the most exciting and Cast Includes: Amaranta Velarde, provocative theatre companies to emerge from Spain in recent Dublin volunteers years. Their newest work, Guerilla, presents the confused and Direction and Dramaturgy: contradictory inner universe of a group of people that inhabit Tanya Beyeler and Pablo Gisbert the same moment in time, move through the streets of the Assistant: Nicolas Chevallier same city, share the collective consciousness of the same Text: Pablo Gisbert in collaboration with the performers continent, and are affected to a greater or lesser degree by Lighting Design: Ana Rovira the same consequences. Even so, they don’t know how to Set Design: Blanca Añón face a world that has changed too much since the beginning Sound Design: of the 20th century and that is in constant need of new rules, Adolfo García Fernández symbols, and tools for its interpretation. Choreography Assistant: Amaranta Velarde The piece is made up of three distinct parts; an electronic Music: Pink Elephant on Parade music concert, a Tai Chi class and a conference. The actions Dramaturgical Advice: take place in the near future in three different cities. The Roberto Fratini participants in these events dance, talk, and listen. A projected English Translation: Nika Blazer text, loaded with the most intimate thoughts of those present, – is compared to and superimposed upon the tableaus they Venue: Project Arts Centre make. (Space Upstairs) Warning: contains very loud, sustained noise. Dates: Sept 30 & Oct 1, 8pm Oct 2, 6pm Co-production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Steirischer Herbst Festival (Gratz), Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival (Groningen). Project co-produced Tickets: €25 by NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union. Duration: Approx. 85 mins. No interval. With the support of Graner, Centre de Creació Barcelona, ICEC - Generalitat de Catalunya, INAEM, Ministerio de Cultura de España.

Photo © Titanne Bregentzer Photo © Titanne dublintheatrefestival.com 28-2928 Michael Keegan-Dolan, Keegan-Dolan has one of the most boggling 28-29 Ireland and fertile dance imaginations on the planet. The Guardian

Swan Lake/ Loch na hEala

Director and Choreography: From the imagination of one of Ireland’s foremost dance and Michael Keegan-Dolan theatre-makers, Michael Keegan-Dolan, comes a magical new Set Design: Sabine Dargent adaptation of one of the most famous story ballets in the world, Lighting Design: Adam Silverman Swan Lake. Costume Design: Hyemi Shin – Featuring beautiful dancing and powerful imagery, this new Venue: OReilly Theatre, Belvedere interpretation of Swan Lake will be rooted in the Midlands of Previews: Sept 29 & 30, 7.30pm Ireland where ancient mythology and the modern world meet. Dates: Oct 1, 2 & 4 – 8, 7.30pm Dublin-based band Slow Moving Clouds have created a new Oct 9, 6.30pm score which combines roots in Nordic and Irish traditional music Tickets: €20 – €35 with minimalist and experimental influences. The music is played Duration: Approx. 90 mins. No interval. live on fiddle, cello, nyckelharpa, bass and electronics. Talking Theatre: Oct 4, post-show. Using traditional story-telling as its basis, the performance will With members of the company. be interwoven with text and song, with a company of fourteen performers led by one of Ireland’s finest actors, Mikel Murfi.

Co-production by Michael Keegan-Dolan, Sadler’s Wells London, Colours International Dance Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival and Theatre de la Ville Luxembourg with support from Civic Theatre Tallaght and South Dublin Council.

Supported by Irish Theatre Trust.

Michael Keegan-Dolan is funded through the Arts Council’s Regularly Funded Organisations funding programme

Proudly supported by

Image © Colm Hogan dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 30-3130 Brokentalkers, 30-31 Ireland

The Circus Animals’ Desertion

Written and Directed by Feidlim A major new dance theatre performance from the Cannon and Gary Keegan makers of The Blue Boy and Have I No Mouth. Music: Sean Millar Choreography: Jessica Kennedy The Circus Animals’ Desertion is a poetic response to – the imagining of nations, inspired by the Automatic Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre Script experiments of Georgie and William Butler Yeats Preview: Oct 4, 7.30pm in which they called upon the spirit world to assist with Dates: Oct 5 – 7, 7.30pm their creativity. It juxtaposes the romantic notions of Oct 8, 2.30pm & 7.30pm nationhood put forth by Yeats and other early 20th Tickets: €15 – €25 Century poets and revolutionaries with brutal realities Duration: Approx. 70 mins. No of extreme nationalism in the light of the radicalisation, Interval. xenophobia and oppression engulfing the world today. – Talking Theatre: The Circus Animals’ Desertion takes the form of a Oct 6, post-show. collective dream, abstract, contradictory but ultimately With members of the company. a true expression of human nature. Through the use of mask, a panoply of characters, creatures and objects populate the stage to create an otherworld that is at once strange and devastatingly familiar.

Sampling texts and imagery from Yeats’ plays and poetry as well as archive recordings and interviews, the piece is performed by an international cast of dancers and musicians.

May contain nudity.

Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award.

Photo © Fionn McCann Photo © Fionn dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 32-3332 Kellie Hughes and 32-33 Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland

Death at Intervals

Adapted and Directed by Kellie ‘Each of you has his or her own death, you carry it Hughes with you in a secret place from the moment you’re Cast: Olwen Fouéré and born, it belongs to you and you belong to it’. Raymond Scannell Sound Design: Alma Kelliher For millennia, death, with chilling precision, has Music Composition: brought an end to those selected to meet their Raymond Scannell and Alma destiny. But what would happen if death put away her Kelliher emblematic scythe and withdrew from everyday life? Lighting and Set Design: Michael Cummins Inspired by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago’s darkly Costume Design: Niamh Lunny humorous novel and developed in collaboration Furniture Design Consultant: with an award winning creative team, Death at Cillian Ó Súilleabháin Intervals combines theatre, music and original – song lyrics in an unconventional and touching Venue: Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space duet between death and her musician. Preview: Oct 4, 7.30pm Death at Intervals has been adapted by Kellie Hughes Dates: Oct 5 – 7, 7.30pm from José Saramago’s novel As Intermitências da Morte Oct 8, 2.30pm & 7.30pm (translator Margaret Jull Costa) in collaboration with Tickets: €15 – €25 Olwen Fouéré, Raymond Scannell and Alma Kelliher. Duration: Approx. 70 mins. No interval. Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award. – Talking Theatre: Oct 5, post-show. With members of the company.

Photo © Ros Kavanagh Photo © Ros dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 34-3534 Touretteshero, You’ll definitely laugh, Delightful. 34-35 UK you may cry, you’ll Stephen Fry probably get a biscuit. ««««« The Public Review

Backstage in Biscuit Land

Co-Created by: Jess Thom has Tourettes syndrome, a condition that Jess Thom, Jess Mabel Jones makes her say ‘biscuit’ 16,000 times a day. Her unusual and Matthew Pountney neurology gives her a unique perspective on life; one Produced by: Matthew Pountney – she’s unleashing on the world. This two-woman solo- Venue: axis:Ballymun show weaves comedy, puppetry, singing, and incredible Dates: Oct 5 & 6, 8pm tics to explore spontaneity, creativity, disability, and Tickets: €15 things you never knew would make you laugh. Jess is Duration: Approx. 60 mins. neurologically incapable of staying on script, so no two No interval. shows can be the same. And that’s when the fun begins. – All Touretteshero’s performances are relaxed. This means you’re Audio described and ISL interpreted performance: welcome to move around and make noise during the show. Oct 6, 8pm. Please advise box office of your access requirements Jess is one of the 10% of people with Tourettes (see page 66). Syndrome who has swearing tics, so this performance may include the involuntary use of words that some audience members may find offensive.

Suitable for ages 14+

Supported by Unlimited, Graeae & Battersea Arts Centre

Presented by Arts & Disability Ireland and axis: Ballymun.

Photo © Jonathan Birch dublintheatrefestival.com 36-3736 The Corn Exchange 36-37 and Dublin Theatre Festival, Ireland

The Seagull by Anton Chekhov in a new version by Michael West and Annie Ryan

Directed by Annie Ryan The teacher loves the housekeeper’s daughter, who Set Design: Paul O’Mahony loves the young artist, who loves the girl next door, Lighting Design: Sinéad Wallace who loves the famous writer, who is the lover of the Music and Sound Design: great actress — who had an affair with the doctor, who Tom Lane the housekeeper still loves after all these years. Costume Design: Saileóg O’Halloran In the first of his great masterpieces, Chekhov sets this Casting Director: parade of unrequited love on a summer estate where, Anne McNulty, CDG with a meticulous eye and unsentimental clarity, he Cast includes: Derbhle Crotty, exposes the ridiculousness of our longing. Here, the Genevieve Hulme-Beaman – young clash with the old, the artists with the civil Venue: Gaiety Theatre servants, and the traditional with the shock of the new. Preview: Oct 5, 7.30pm This new version by The Corn Exchange shows Dates: Oct 6, 7 & Oct 11 – 14, 7.30pm how deeply relevant, radically contemporary and Oct 8 & 15, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Oct 9, 2.30pm exquisitely funny Chekhov remains. The Seagull is Oct 16, 1.30pm & 6.30pm a wonderful celebration of love and art – a study of Tickets: €15 – €45 what we aspire to most and how easily we keep our Duration: Approx. 2 hrs 30 mins. happiness just out of reach. incl. interval. – Audio described performance: 15 Oct, 2.30pm. A touch tour will also be available pre-show (page 66) Talking Theatre: Oct 8, post-show (7.30pm). The Corn Exchange are funded through the Arts Council’s Annual Programming With Michael West, Annie Ryan and Grant funding programme. members of the company.

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Photo © Sean and Yvette Photography Photo © Sean and Yvette dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 38-3938 Una McKevitt, An extraordinarily the wit and 38-39 Ireland uplifting experience to considerable witness wisdom add up to Irish Times on ‘565+ an existential treat Sunday Independent on ‘Victor & Gord

Alien Documentary

Written and Directed by “Who’s that down there in that little blue planet down there? Una McKevitt Ah look. It’s those savages, at it again.” Set and Lighting Design: Aedín Cosgrove Three men are talking. Same as every other day. Sound Design: Denis Clohessy Cycle lanes, convicted footballers, Dylan Thomas, alien Design Associate: John Crudden invasions, the price of mackerel... Cast: PJ Gallagher, Molly But it’s the stories in between that make this a day they O’Mahony, James Scales won’t forget. – Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) In a departure from her earlier documentary practice Una Previews: Oct 4 – 5, 7.45pm McKevitt blends fiction and reality to create characters Dates: Oct 6, 7 & Oct 12 – 14, 7.45pm who, through their everyday conversations and the Oct 8 & 15, 2.45pm & 7.45pm personal histories they share, demonstrate the power of Oct 9, 2.45pm companionship and courage. Tickets: €14 – €20 Alien Documentary considers the possibilities of a new Duration: Approx. 75 mins. No Interval world, where the mysteries of the universe have started to – unravel and there is nothing left to hide. Talking Theatre: Oct 8, post-show (2.45pm). “There were 4 billion stars discovered last year. Do the math. With members of the company. It is next to impossible that we are alone.”

Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award.

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Wishful Beginnings

With and by: Fredrik Hannestad, Maybe it is about tabula rasa, about starting over. Maybe Saila Hyttinen, Tilo Hahn, it is about the sensation of being on a sinking ship. There Signe Becker, Solveig Laland Mohn, Håkon Mathias Vassvik, Per Platou, is a sneaking feeling that we have constructed a society Anders Mossling, Espen Klouman which is based on a set of expectations for the future Høiner, Pernille Mogensen, that turn out to be false and life-threatening. Could it be Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk, Jon Refsdal Moe, Agnes Gry that the ruling system is running at a hazardous speed, – and nobody knows how to turn the ship around? Venue: Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) With this as a backdrop, we have embarked on a journey of Dates: Oct 6 – 8, 7.30pm gathering stories. We have had countless discussions, we have Tickets: €20 – €25 wandered, we have told, we have recorded, collected, retold and Duration: Approx. 90 mins. let our minds spin. We have banged our heads against the wall, No interval. looked sideways, we have read into the shadows and we have – attempted to give a voice to the quiet reverberations. Maybe it Talking Theatre: Oct 7, post-show. is about conjuring up a ghost, about evoking the unfamiliar. With members of the company. Verk Produksjoner are known for their epic and vaudevillesque style of acting with satirical and political undertones that changes swiftly between performance, storytelling and improvisation. In this, their newest work, they look ahead from a year of revolution and unrest into our uncertain future.

Contains loud noises.

Co-production by Black Box Teater, BIT-Teatergarasjen and Teaterhuset Avant Garden.

Supported by Arts Council Norway.

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Every Brilliant Thing

Directed by George Perrin The Irish premiere of the worldwide smash hit. Written by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done Performed by Jonny Donahoe something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy. – You make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Venue: Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire Everything worth living for. Dates: Oct 11 – 14, 8pm Oct 15 & 16, 5pm & 8pm 1. Ice Cream Tickets: €19 – €21 2. Kung Fu Movies Duration: Approx. 60 mins. No interval. 3. Burning Things

4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose

5. Construction cranes

6. Me

A play about depression and the lengths we go to for those we love.

Suitable for ages 14+

Supported by Anne McMeehan and Jim Roberts. Developed with the support of nabokov and the Jersey Arts Trust.

Presented by Pavilion Theatre.

Photo © Richard Davenport Davenport Photo © Richard dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 44-4544 THEATREclub, 44-45 Ireland

It’s Not Over

Written, Directed and Designed by “It’s not an easy thing to take up a gun and go out and kill Grace Dyas and Barry John O’Connor some person without strong convictions or justification” Cast includes: Pat McGrath, – IRA Green Book Neili Conroy, John Cronin, Jason Byrne, Doireann Coady, Rebecca “It is, an’ it isn’t; it’s both bad an’ good…” – Mrs. Gogan Guinnanne, Ruairi O’Donovan. Costume Design: Emma Fraser Nora Clitheroe lives in a tenement house with other ordinary Lighting Design: Eoin Winning people. Their lives are about to be rocked by the Rising. Sound Design: Rob Moloney THEATREclub’s production of Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and Therapeutic Advisor: the Stars – It’s Not Over – will bring back rioting like it’s 1926. Mari Kennedy Pyrotechnics Design: ‘It will take place in a theatre, but it is not a play. It is a Se Purcell (Black Powder Monkeys) campaign. You will watch a re-enactment of the past 50 – years of violent political conflict. We are working with Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre former IRA Volunteers. It’s four and a half hours long. Preview: Oct 11, 6pm There’ll be a bar and a live band, maybe bingo.’ Dates: Oct 12, 14 & 15, 6pm In a year of revisionism, whitewashing, apologies and double Oct 16, 2pm speak; We refuse to commemorate 1916. It’s not over. It never Tickets: €15 – €25 started. Let’s look at 1966. Duration: Approx. 4 hrs 30 mins. incl. interval. Warning: Do not talk about it.

Contains strong language. Loud sound effects, high intensity lighting and video effects including strobe lighting in the production.

Supported by the Lyric Theatre Belfast and Project Arts Centre.

Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award.

Photo © Babs Daly/Sarah Fox Photo © Babs Daly/Sarah dublintheatrefestival.com 46-4746 Abbey Theatre, 46-47 Ireland

Donegal A musical play by Frank McGuinness Music by Kevin Doherty

Directed by Conall Morrison We are who you come from. We are who you’ll go to. Cast includes: Deirdre Donnelly, Killian Donnelly, Ruth McGill, The Day family are Irish country music royalty and Irene Eleanor Methven, Megan Riordan, is their queen. Her relatives are completely dependent on John Kavanagh, Siobhan McCarthy her success. But as Irene’s star fades the Days are facing Set Design: Liam Doona financial destruction. Costume Design: Joan O’Clery Lighting Design: Ben Ormerod When the heir to her musical throne, Jackie Day, returns from Sound Design: Alexis Nealon the States with a new girlfriend, resentments simmer. Does Musical Director: Conor Linehan Irene have the strength to hold the clan together? Movement Director: And will Jackie save them with the gift of a song? Muirne Bloomer A world premiere from one of Ireland’s greatest Audio Visual Design: Arnim Fries playwrights, Donegal is a musical play about family, place – and country music. Venue: Abbey Theatre, on the Abbey stage The Abbey Theatre is funded through the Arts Council’s Regularly Funded Previews: Oct 6 – 11, 7.30pm Organisations funding programme. Dates: Oct 12 – 14, 7.30pm Oct 15, 2pm & 7.30pm Tickets: €13 – €45 Duration: Approx. 2 hrs 30 mins incl interval.

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First Love by Samuel Beckett

Directed by Michael Colgan After the death of his father, a man finds himself homeless, Cast: Barry McGovern sharing a canal-side bench in Dublin with a young woman. Set Design: Eileen Diss As she pursues him lustfully he unwillingly falls in love. In Lighting Design: James the ensuing relationship, he ruthlessly refuses to engage McConnell emotionally with her, except when, despite his reluctance, – she arouses his desires. Written in 1946, Beckett’s novella Venue: OReilly Theatre, Belvedere First Love is full of his rich, lyrical prose. This darkly comic Dates: Oct 12 – 14, 8pm story explores how love fails us and how we fail love. Oct 15, 3pm & 8pm Oct 16, 3pm Starring Barry McGovern, regarded by many as one of the – leading interpreters of Samuel Beckett’s work, and directed Tickets: €20 – €25 by Michael Colgan, Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre.

Duration: Approx. 60 mins. The Gate Theatre is funded through the Arts Council’s Regularly Funded No interval. Organisations funding programme. – Talking Theatre: Oct 14, post- show. With members of the company.

Photo © Reg Lancaster, Getty Images Lancaster, Photo © Reg dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 50-5150 Gunilla Heilborn, A huge feel-good experience. 50-51 Sweden Cecilia Djurberg, Kulturnytt Cultural News, Swedish Radio

This is Not a Love Story

Staging by Gunilla Heilborn This is Not a Love Story is a tale of two reluctant heroes – Cast: Johan Thelander, Kowalski and Vera. Kristiina Viiala Choreography and Text: At least those are their names in one of the scenes. With Gunilla Heilborn in collaboration a disarming simplicity, they switch between dance and with Johan Thelander, Kristiina Viiala scattered questioning: Who did what? When? Where? And Set and Costume Design: why? Is there any specific period in the history that I should Katarina Wiklund focus on? Have you ever worked in the fishing industry? Lighting Design: Miriam Helleday Music: Kim Hiorthøy A delicate search for context and connections, which always Sound Design: Johan Adling seem to be slightly beyond our reach, the journey becomes – not about the destination, but the transformation and Venue: Project Arts Centre reflection along the way. The journey keeps starting over. (Space Upstairs) Again and again as in a choreographic road movie. Dates: Oct 12 – 14, 7.30pm Tickets: €20 – €25 Gunilla Heilborns’ unique approach to combining text, Duration: 55 mins. No interval. movement, video and imagery, always spiced with dry – humour and filmic timing, has established her reputation Talking Theatre: Oct 13, post- as one of Sweden’s most interesting performance and film show. With Gunilla Heilborn and artists. members of the company. Contains strobe lighting.

Co-production: Gunilla Heilborn, NorrlandsOperan, Göteborgs Dans och Teaterfestival with the support of the EU’s culture program through NXTSTP and Dansens Hus. Supported by the Swedish Arts Council, the Culture Committee of Stockholm and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Photo © Stefan Bohlin Photo © Stefan dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 52-5352 Ian Wilson, 52-53 Ireland

The Last Siren

Concept, Libretto and Music Long fascinated by the contemporary resonances of Direction: Ian Wilson ancient myths, composer Ian Wilson has been particularly Director: Ksenija Krnajsk drawn to the Greek story of the Sirens. The Last Siren, Voice: Lauren Kinsella an experimental opera, centres on a hermit-like woman Sound Art: Danny McCarthy and who believes that she is the last of the Sirens – she lives Mick O’Shea (The Quiet Club) – on a beach, recounts her conquests and laments the Venue: Project Arts Centre unexplained loss of her sister, all within a continuous (Space Upstairs) monologue mostly concerned with quotidian minutiae. Date: Oct 15, 7.30pm Acclaimed Irish singer and Jazz FM’s Vocalist of the Tickets: €20 Year Lauren Kinsella takes the role of the Siren with Duration: Approx. 60 mins. No interval. Ireland’s leading sound art collective The Quiet Club – (Danny McCarthy and Mick O’Shea) providing the work’s Talking Theatre: Oct 15, post- soundscape. McCarthy and O’Shea also represent the show. With Ian Wilson and characters of Orpheus and Odysseus, whom the Siren members of the company. attempts to seduce from time to time in order to procure at least an acknowledgement of her presence.

The text explores themes of isolation, loss and the line between memory and delusion, while musically and sonically The Last Siren embraces improvisation and electronica.

By turns moving and dramatic, this is a memorable sonic and theatrical experience.

Funded through an Arts Council Opera Project Award.

Photo © Patricia Klich Photo © Patricia dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 54-5554 Mary-Frances Doherty 54-55 In association with Young at Art, UK

Theatre Katie’s for children Birthday Party

Dublin Theatre Festival and The Ark have Venue: The Ark Created by Mary-Frances Doherty There will be truths, there will be dares, there will be Tickets: €12 (public performances) with Young at Art presents and there will be cake! You are invited to celebrate once again joined together to present – Performed by Mary-Frances Katie’s birthday as she explores what it’s like to be 12 years Doherty internationally acclaimed work for children. Tickets available from the old and moving from primary to secondary school. Festival Box Office: – Online: Dates: Oct 1 – 4, Solo performer Mary-Frances Doherty explores notions of www.dublintheatrefestival.com Duration: 30 mins. childhood on the approach of adolescence, looking at the Phone: +353 1 677 8899 No interval. trials and tribulations of what children go through as they Did you ever wonder what happened to Hansel and Gretel? You In person: Festival House, 12 Essex – Street East, Dublin 2, D02 EH42 move up from their primary school world – exams, results, might find out as Johannes and Margarethe welcome you into a Something new… To avail of discounted tickets for experimental one-woman new school, new friends, and thoughts for the future. world full of strange tales and magical objects. schools bookings and early-bird schools rates please contact show… in the form of an Ages 10–14 Or fall in love with Aston – a little dog with a very big heart – as The Ark: interactive birthday party. he shows us just how valuable even the smallest object can be. Online: ark.ie «««« Phone: +353 1 670 7788 Belfast Telegraph And don’t miss the party of the year as Katie turns 12 years In person: 11a Eustace Street, old! Alongside some interactive fun and games, share Katie’s Temple Bar, Dublin 2 excitement (and anxiety) about that life-changing move into For show times and details of secondary school. schools and public performances see the full performance schedule Three fresh and engaging shows created for children, that on page 74. adults will also delight in. Theatre for Children Programmer Maria Fleming Theatre Programmer, The Ark

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Johannes and

Margarethe Back Photo © Karolin Aston’s Stones Photo © José Figueroa

Whatever did happen to Hansel and Gretel? Directed by Brigitte Dethier From a Book by Lotta Geffenblad Aston is a little dog who wants to take care of Scenography: Marion Hauer Adaptation by Bára L Magnúsdóttir all the stones he can find. Some are big and Meet Johannes and Margarethe as they open the door of Music: Frank Kuruc together with the ensemble some are small. One is sad, another one feels their little cottage—for one day only—to mark a very special Cast: Sabine Zeininger and Direction & Stage Set: cold. All of them need to be taken care of. celebration. Inside, strange things occur and every now and Peter Rinderknecht Peter Engkvist then, the wind blows through the room – just like it used to in – Cast: Ulf Eriksson, Magnus Every stone gets to follow Aston home and is the deep dark woods. Dates: Oct 6 – 9 Lundblad, Bára L Magnúsdóttir greeted with a warm and cosy bed. His two Translation Eva C Johansson Duration: 60 mins. parents, although very patient and understanding, It’s all rather exciting. The music, the scent, the pickle Music: Ulf Eriksson No interval. gradually get more and more worried about the jars. And a chest full of gold and diamonds. That all once – Costume Design: Lotta L Danfors increasing number of stones in their living room. belonged to the witch. JES Ensemble whisks and Light Design: Anton Sjöstrand churns the Hansel and – This story is about how easy it is to love and It’s time to tell what really happened back then. Dates: Oct 13 – 16 Gretel story and lets it rain the ability to see and to appreciate the value How they finally made their way home. Duration: 30 mins. down full of ideas onto the No interval. in small things – even in a little stone. Ages 6+ audience like confetti, it’s – Ages 3–7 Co-production: Theater Winterthur (CH) and Theater für simply magical to watch. Autism Friendly Performance: ein wachsendes Publikum (CH). Esslinger Zeitung Oct 14, 12.15pm. For further information please phone The Ark on +353 1 670 7788 With the support of or email [email protected]

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In Development Funded through an Arts Council Dublin City Arts Office and San Dublin Theatre Festival is Theatre Project Award. Jose Stage, in association with committed to supporting Irish Venue: The Chocolate Factory Irish Theatre Institute - festival + artists in creating ambitious Date: Oct 6, 5.30pm The Memory Stick by Donal and high-quality new O’Kelly work. Our In Development Rough Magic, in Two soldiers, Lakota Sioux programme offers theatre- association with Glór Native American Lako from Get more from the festival with Festival + makers a platform to stage Wood.Stone.Spider South Dakota and Seth their works-in-progress by Feargal McElherron fromNew Jersey chance their A series of panel discussions, critical events for Irish and international “Some stones have the ghosts of way to founding a Native and work-in-progress showcases. Details of presenter and interested old animals in them. People are American sweatlodge at the the same. We are full of fossils.” our post-show Talking Theatre events can be members of the public. back of aUS army base in Audiences will have an Afghanistan. When Bridget found on individual show pages. A dark, funny, folkloric tale of opportunity to see pieces two sisters bringing up a child joins them Native American at a critical phase in their in a peripheral rural community. and Irish history mix in a Tickets Booking and information development, while artists, Lynne Parker directs an extract magical realist way. Part Admission to Festival+ events is phone: +353 1 677 8899 writers and directors will use political, partmythical, secrets free but ticketed unless otherwise in person: Dublin Theatre from Fergal McElherron’s poetic specified. Advance booking is Festival Box Office, Festival the space to try out new ideas. exploration of the Irish psyche, are revealed that turn Lako advised as seats are limited. House, 12 Essex Street East, performed by Simone Kirby into a whistleblower suspect. Dublin 2, D02 EH42 Past In Development presentations have gone on to and Penny Layden. Venue: Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space enjoy successful productions Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre Date: Oct 8, 11am as part of Dublin Theatre Date: Oct 7, 1.15pm Festival and have toured at Doireann Coady/THEATREclub home and abroad to critical Talking Shop Ensemble and – I’m Not Here and public acclaim. Shaun Dunne – Rapids A world famous superstar has Rapids explores instances of lost her voice. Her co-star (a Loose Canon/Jason Byrne – disclosure and the presence dying swan) is already dead INLAND(S) of stigma in the lives of men and is refusing to help. She’s Stranded between and women who are HIV+ in trying her best to read the lines landscapes and time curves Ireland today. For this new but she’s wearing very large two actors try to make their work, writer and theatre-artist sunglasses. Watch her try and way through an unknown Shaun Dunne is collaborating find her voice again. LIVE. script, pre-programmed with with HIV+ activist Robbie risky encounters. All they Lawlor. Cast: Doireann Coady have is their mission brief Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) Please note that this performance and their acting skills. The Date: Oct 7, 4.15pm may contain nudity and themes of an adult nature conventions of live action role-playing games crosses Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award. paths with the worlds of Hieronymus Bosch, David Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) Date: Oct 8, 12pm Lynch and space travel. dublintheatrefestival.com festival62-6362 + festival + festival + 62-63 Artist Development Critical Events Critical Events and Networking

The Next Stage International Theatre Blast: International Young Critics’ Panel Supported over a six month The artist development strand eXchange 2016 Critics’ Forum The Young Critics’ Panel period, the 16 participants of the festival, The Next Irish Theatre Institute presents The space for engaging with returns for a 13th year. One see quality productions while Stage is open to national its 23rd International Theatre performance is shrinking of NAYD’s most popular developing their critical and international theatre and eXchange (ITX), a vibrant fast. Critical coverage is programmes, it is open to skills. They will see a number dance practitioners. programme of showcasing disappearing, star ratings youth theatre members who of national and international and networking events just won’t cut it, and online Over 18 immersive days are interested in watching productions and you are designed for arts presenters sharing is a simply a speedy participants are exposed to theatre and discovering how invited to hear them discuss and producers from around and cost-effective way of world-class art, talks with and why theatre is made. their findings in a public forum, the world to see Irish work in a talking only to ourselves. How renowned directors, producers After a nationwide selection chaired by Dr. Karen Fricker. festival context. about a fresh perspective? and artists and master-classes process, the Young Critics Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) learn how to critically discuss, Date: Oct 9, 1pm and workshops led by leading Presented in partnership with As part of our annual analyse and review theatre. theatre-makers. Past speakers Culture Ireland, ITX includes season of panels and public and workshop leaders include a programme of Pitching discussions, the makers of Anne Bogart, John Collins, Tim Sessions*, ‘in development’ ‘Blast’, a new platform for Crouch, Declan Donnellan, presentations and an conversations about Irish Richard Gregory, Garry Hynes, International Networking theatre, will host a lively Ruth Little, Stephen Rea, Lunch for Irish artists critical discussion about the Tiago Rodrigues, Fiona Shaw, programmed in the festival to context for this year’s work, its Colm Tóibín, Enda Walsh and meet international guests so impact, and the talking points Debrorah Warner. The Next they can develop international of the festival. Stage also creates valuable connections, collaborations Bringing together Irish and Festival Club at Project Arts Centre opportunities for enriching and promote their productions international critics, this engagement with visiting for touring abroad. forum considers performance The Festival Club is open to all our artists and artists, with past programmes from several angles and audiences on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights sparking successful artistic Registration for ITX is essential welcomes audience feedback. during the festival. Join friends and fellow theatre- collaborations. as capacity is limited. If there’s nothing more goers for pre and post-show drinks and a bite. Participation in the 2016 irishtheatreinstitute.ie deadly than consensus, programme is by application this new discussion also Opening times: Project Arts Centre only, from 26 July. Find out *Selection for inclusion in the provides an opportunity for Monday – Thursday until 11.30pm 39 East Essex Street Pitching Sessions is by means more information on the spirited debate, challenge Friday and Saturday until 12.30pm Temple Bar of application to an open call Dublin 2 programme and how to apply managed by Culture Ireland. See and something rarer still – a – D02 RD45 cultureireland.ie for details. on: chance to change your mind. *Bar will be closed during performances – www.dublintheatrefestival.ie Kindly supported by the Arts Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) projectartscentre.ie and www.theatreforum.ie Council and Culture Ireland. Date: Oct 11, 3pm Presented in partnership Venue: Various with Theatre Forum. Funded Date: Oct 7 by the Arts Council Theatre Development Fund.

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‘Raising one foot Eight European festivals have In addition, the festivals and bringing it down joined forces to stimulate offer artists’ residencies somewhere else’ the co-production and to emerging European transnational circulation of new and non-European artists, works by the great European providing further means artists of tomorrow and in so to advance the performing doing to encourage the artistic arts scene in Europe. renewal of the contemporary The first term of NXTSTP ran performing arts in Europe. from 2007 to 2012. Dublin The artists we want to Theatre Festival joined the support through this network for its second edition, collaboration have already which began in November demonstrated their potential 2012, supported by an award in their first artistic works. of funding for five years Now they are ready to take from the Culture Programme an important next step in of the European Union. their careers, taking on projects on a larger scale NXTSTP 2 (2012-2017) is a joint project by Kunstenfestivaldesarts, that will circulate in Europe project leader (Brussels), Alkantara and reach a wider audience. Festival (Lisbon), Baltoscandal Festival (Rakvere), Dublin Theatre Festival, The NXTSTP network co- Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival produces the creation of (Gothenburg), Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival (Groningen), steirischer new works, giving artists herbst festival (Graz), Théâtre National valuable financial support. de Bordeaux en Aquitaine (Bordeaux). The works are presented in different festivals, ensuring a www.nxtstp.eu real transnational circulation and a high visibility amongst international audiences. accessibility66-6766 Discounts, concessions 66-67 and special offers

Assisted Performances please ask for seats suitable Relaxed performance It is important for us to reach as wide Tickets and information We’re committed to making for captioning. This is useful Backstage in Biscuit Land an audience as possible with the phone our events accessible to for people who are hard of (page 34) +353 1 677 8899 audiences with disabilities hearing or who are deaf. axis:Ballymun work we stage each year. To facilitate email and those who require Oct 5 – 6, 8pm access to festival events we offer [email protected] Captioned performance assisted services. A Midsummer Night’s a range of discounts and booking Autism friendly performances Dream (page 04) options for selected performances. Audio description is are aimed at families whose Bord Gáis Energy Theatre a live verbal commentary children are on the spectrum Oct 1, 2.30pm providing information on the or those who have sensory visual elements of a production sensitivities. They are relaxed Irish Sign Language as it unfolds, from sets, props performances for the whole Interpreted and costumes to actors’ facial family, tailored for the comfort Performances expressions and movements. of your child. These performances are Final Call Open House Concessions Audio description is delivered interpreted by an Irish Sign Autism friendly performance through a personal headset. Language (ISL) interpreter. Aston’s Stones (page 54) This is useful for people with The Ark We continue our standby Register your community Discounts are available to visual impairments or people ISL performance Oct 14, 12.15pm scheme in 2016, offering a organisation with us to avail senior citizens, Actors’ Equity, who are blind. Backstage in Biscuit limited number of €10 tickets of €10 tickets for selected unwaged and full-time students Land (page 35) Audio described performances Booking and Information for selected shows on the performances. Welfare groups, with a valid ID. Concession axis:Ballymun will include programme notes To enable us to give you the day of the performance. registered charities, special tickets can be booked in Oct 6, 8pm and touch tours, for more best Dublin Theatre Festival Tickets can be purchased needs groups and their carers, person only. information please contact the experience possible please in person from 4pm – 6pm and parent support groups are Relaxed Performances Festival Box Office. notify us of your access at the festival box office, all eligible for the scheme. Relaxed performances are requirements by contacting on a first-come first-served The Seagull (page 34) aimed at people who will our Box Office. basis. Final Call tickets are Gaiety Theatre benefit from a more relaxed Phone: +353 1 677 8899 announced daily on Facebook Oct 15, 2.30pm performance environment, Email: info@ and Twitter during the festival. including people on the dublintheatrefestival.com Backstage in Biscuit autism spectrum, people with Land (page 34) sensory and communication Assisted performances of axis:Ballymun impairments, and people with Donegal and ISL performances Oct 6, 8pm intellectual disabilities. The of The Remains of Maisie Duggan Volunteer at Dublin Theatre Festival and Donegal are available audience is welcome to move outside festival dates. Please Each year we recruit a team of enthusiastic volunteers Captioning is similar around and make noise during visit abbeytheatre.ie for further who give generously of their time, energy and expertise. information. to television subtitling the show. In return we offer a stimulating and engaging work and converts the spoken word Audio described and captioned performances are provided by environment, an insight into the business of organising into text, which is displayed Arts and Disability Ireland with the festival and a chance to see selected shows in the on a screen on or next to funding from the Arts Council/An programme. For more information and to apply email the stage. When booking, Chomhairle Ealaíon. [email protected] dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com Westbury-Dublin Theatre Festival-v7.pdf 1 28/06/2016 16:27

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01 85/86 Upper Dorset St 08 Dublin Theatre 15 Project Arts Centre Dominick St Lwr 85/86 Upper Dorset St, Festival Box Office 39 East Essex St, Dublin 1 Festival House, 12 Essex Street Temple Bar, Dublin 2 East, Dublin 2, D02 EH42 +353 1 881 9613 Bolton St 10 Gardiner St 02 Abbey Theatre +353 1 677 8899 www.projectartscentre.ie

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26 Lwr Abbey St, Dublin 1 www.dublintheatrefestival.com James Joyce St +353 1 878 7222 16 Samuel Beckett Theatre O’Connell St Foley St www.abbeytheatre.ie 09 Gaiety Theatre Trinity College, Dublin 2 Constitution Hill South King St, Dublin 2 Entrance is via Nassau St on The Ark 0818 719388 Saturdays and Sundays 03 Parnell St 11a Eustace St, www.gaietytheatre.ie N King St 06 Temple Bar, Dublin 2 17 Smock Alley Theatre +353 1 670 7788 10 Gate Theatre Exchange St Lwr, Talbot St www.ark.ie Cavendish Row, Temple Bar, Dublin 8 P Parnell Sq, Dublin 1 +353 1 677 0014 Henry St

04 axis:Ballymun +353 1 874 4045 / +353 1 874 6042 www.smockalley.com Capel St Main St, Ballymun, Dublin 9 www.gatetheatre.ie Mary St Abbey St Lwr +353 1 883 2100 18 Temple Bar Gallery and Studios 02 www.axis-ballymun.ie 11 The New Theatre 5-9 Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Mary St Little 43 East Essex St, Temple Bar, Eden Quay 05 Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Dublin 2 Grand Canal Square, +353 1 670 3361 07 Ha’penny Brg Docklands, Dublin 2 www.thenewtheatre.com Ormond Quay Lwr 0818 719 377 Burgh Quay

www.ticketmaster.ie 12 The Olympia Theatre Ormond Quay Upr 72 Dame Street, Dublin 2 06 The Chocolate Factory 0818 719 330 Wellington Quay 26 Kings Inn Street, Dublin 1 www.olympia.ie 18 P Essex Quay www.chocolatefactory.ie Temple Bar Pearse St 05 13 O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere Wood Quay 07 Civic Theatre Belvedere College, 6 Great 17 Tallaght, Dublin 24 Denmark St, Dublin 1 +353 1 462 7477 Dame St Trinity College 16 www.civictheatre.ie 14 Pavilion Theatre Exchequer St Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin Nassau St +353 1 231 2929 www.paviliontheatre.ie

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Wellington Quay Grafton St P Dawson St 09 08 South King St Tickets for all festival shows can be booked at the Festival Park Rite car park. Kevin St Upr Kildare St Box Office or through the box office in theatres where phone Discounted parking is Fownes St Lwr

numbers or websites are provided. Booking fees at festival available to ticket holders Eustace St East Essex St Kevin St Lwr

15 St Sycamore venues vary and should be confirmed directly with the venue throughout the festival dates, 11Patrick St 03 at the point of booking. Locations for any venue not listed on on presentation of a valid Crane Lane Parliament St St Stephen's Green this map can be found at www.dublintheatrefestival.com. show ticket at the car park Merrion Row office. For full details, terms and conditions see page 69. 12

Dame St 14 dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 74-75 schedule74 pr – preview ap – assisted performance – running on How to Book: dublintheatrefestival.com 74-75 tt – talking theatre a series sp – schools performance +353 1 677 8899 / Festival Box Office: of post-show discussions af – autism friendly performance Festival House, 12 Essex Street East, Dublin 2, D02 EH42

SEPT OCT show venue pg mo 26 tu 27 we 28 th 29 fr 30 sa 01 su 02 mo 03 tu 04 we 05 th 06 fr 07 sa 08 su 09 mo 10 tu 11 we 12 th 13 fr 14 sa 15 mo 16

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Bord Gáis Energy Theatre 04 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm ap 1h 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 40m

Don Giovanni Gaiety Theatre 06 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 3h

Ancient Rain The Olympia Theatre 08 7.30pm 80m

These Rooms 85/86 Upper Dorset Street 10 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 4.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 4.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 4.30pm 60m 9.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 9.30pm tt 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm

ZVIZDAL (Chernobyl – Samuel Beckett Theatre 12 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm tt 75m so far so close) 7.30pm

Crisis Meeting Project Arts Centre 14 7.00pm 7.00pm 3.00pm 3.00pm 80m (Cube) 7.00pm tt

The Remains of Maisie Duggan Abbey Theatre, 16 8.00pm pr 8.00pm pr 8.00pm pr 8.00pm 8.00pm 2.30pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 2.30pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 2.30pm 90m on the Peacock stage 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm

Helen and I Civic Theatre 18 8.00pm 8.00pm 3.00pm 8.00pm tt 3.00pm 1h 8.00pm 8.00pm 45m

The Father Gate Theatre 20 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 90m 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Breaking Rainbows Temple Bar Gallery + 22 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 60m Studios 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm

Ireland Shed a Tear? The New Theatre 24 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 60m 7.30pm 7.30pm

Guerrilla Project Arts Centre 26 8.00pm 8.00pm 6.00pm 85m (Space Upstairs)

Swan Lake/Loch na hEala OReilly Theatre, Belvedere 28 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 6.30pm 90m

The Circus Animals’ Desertion Samuel Beckett Theatre 30 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 2.30pm 70m 7.30pm

Death at Intervals Smock Alley Theatre, 32 7.30pm pr 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 70m Main Space 7.30pm

Backstage in Biscuit Land axis:Ballymun 34 8.00pm 8.00pm ap 60m

The Seagull Gaiety Theatre 36 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm ap 1.30pm 2h 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 6.30pm 30m

Alien Documentary Project Arts Centre 38 7.45pm pr 7.45pm pr 7.45pm 7.45pm 2.45pm tt 2.45pm 7.45pm 7.45pm 7.45pm 2.45pm 75m (Cube) 7.45pm 7.45pm

Wishful Beginnings Project Arts Centre 40 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 90m (Space Upstairs)

Every Brilliant Thing Pavilion Theatre 42 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 5.00pm 5.00pm 60m 8.00pm 8.00pm

It’s Not Over Samuel Beckett Theatre 44 6.00pm pr 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 2.00pm 4h 30m

Donegal Abbey Theatre, 46 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.00pm 2h on the Abbey stage 7.30pm 30m

First Love OReilly Theatre, Belvedere 48 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm tt 3.00pm 3.00pm 60m 8.00pm

This is Not a Love Story Project Arts Centre 50 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 55m (Space Upstairs)

The Last Siren Project Arts Centre 52 7.30pm tt 60m (Space Upstairs)

Katie’s Birthday Party The Ark 55 2.00pm 2.00pm 10.15am sp 10.15am sp 30m 4.00pm 4.00pm 12.15pm sp 12.15pm sp

Johannes and Margarethe The Ark 56 10.15am sp 10.15am sp 2.00pm 2.00pm 60m 12.15pm sp 12.15pm sp 4.00pm 4.00pm

Aston’s Stones The Ark 57 10.15am sp 10.15am sp 2.00pm 2.00pm 30m 12.15pm sp 12.15pm 4.00pm 4.00pm sp af booking76-376 information 76- 3

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