BLOCK 01 WED 12 FEB + THUR 13 FEB @ 6.15PM | 60mins MAIN SPACE €10 early bird €13 door

SKETCH COMEDY THEATRE Desperate Men The Throes of Tralee

Unlikely sketches to trouble the mind The Rose of Help Me No plot? No problem. A sketch show critics will call Marisa was a Rose in 2015. It was never part of the unfinished. A work so loose it’s been described as plan. But when shit hit the fan, she was willing to do ‘without belt’. Come on a journey with three weirdos anything to hit reset. It worked...kinda. as they try to win your hearts. CO-WRITTEN + PRODUCED BY: PRESENTED BY: Marisa Conroy + Sarah Richardson Kings of the Harpies PERFORMED BY: WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Marisa Conroy Rob Earley, Mark Griffin, Jamie Sykes DESIGNED BY: Áine O’Hara

BLOCK 02 WED 12 FEB @ 6.30PM | 60mins BOYS’ SCHOOL €10 early bird €13 door

MUSIC Vitamins & Wine

A lyrically loaded psychedelic folkrock experience If you like loaded lyrics dancing with raunchy riffs in an intimate setting, this is the gig for you! Launching Johnny Jude’s first solo album: Vitamins & Wine

WRITTEN BY: Johnny Jude PERFORMED BY: Johnny Jude, San Peric, Sean Connolly, Ingrid Lachia, Gareth Quinn Redmond, James Walmsley, Fin Divilly

01 BLOCK 03 WED 12 FEB + THUR 13 FEB @ 7.45PM | 60min BLOCK 05 WED 12 FEB + THUR 13 FEB @ 9.15PM | 60mins MAIN SPACE MAIN SPACE €10 early bird €10 early bird €13 door €13 door

THEATRE THEATRE SKETCH COMEDY Issues: An Important Play When I was young I never talked to Clouds It Iz Wot It Iz

Making a statement. No matter what. - now Clouds talk back. Reality Bites. And sometimes, it’s tasty. Feeling pressured to offer commentary on the issues A one woman show. This programme contains adult language and scenes in society today, a troupe of four self-righteous actors Only there’s two women and one of them isn’t real. of a sexual nature. And cheese puffs. make it their mission to say something important. This one craves questions. The other one needs A twenty minute cheap, car crash, fast paced, low Or anything at all. answers. This is not a love story. brow, explosive, full on bonkers look at what we can’t look away from: Reality TV. PRESENTED BY: PRESENTED + CREATED BY: Emma Finegan + Annachiara Vispi Oh!Scare Wilde Productions PRESENTED BY: DIRECTED BY: WRITTEN, DIRECTED + PERFORMED BY: Squad Annachiara Vispi Aaron O’Neill, Alice Moloney, Colm Sheppard, CAST: PERFORMED BY: Darragh Mulcahy, Patrick Lehane Lisa Heery, Áine Kelly, Lorna Costello, Sarah Wiley POSTER DESIGN BY: Emma Finegan Lorna McCarthy BLOCK 04 WED 12 FEB + THUR 13 FEB @ 8PM | 60mins BLOCK 06 WED 12 FEB + THUR 13 FEB @ 9.30PM | 60mins BOYS’ SCHOOL BOYS’ SCHOOL €10 early bird €10 early bird €13 door €13 door

THEATRE THEATRE SPOKEN WORD SPOKEN WORD An Evening with James Connolly UNDER THE TABLE Crash.Other Voices

Raising The Curtain On 1916 It’s 1969. Big hair is in, contraceptives are out. Voices of grief heard through poetry My voice, your voice, our voice Roll up and rebel! James Connolly, the searing socialist Thanks to Barbara and Pauline, the people of Dublin Breath arrives. Breath departs. Crash.Other presents a There are answers in the aftermath of rain. of satire, brings you a revolutionary show to die for. can get their bit worry-free while sporting the finest series of three interlinked poetic monologues exploring Marvel at the rising stars of 1916 in all their glory. blow dry this side of the river. life during and after tragedy, uncovering memories via A compilation of dreams, wishes, and moments in projection and unearthing voices of time… voiced to crack the mould and break the rules. PRESENTED BY: PRESENTED BY: Crackpot Productions grief in spoken word. Sketchy People WRITTEN BY: PRESENTED BY: After Midnight WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Sadhbh Mc Loughlin PRESENTED BY: Tartarus WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: Siobhán Hickey Gráinne McIvor, James W. Anderson, DIRECTED BY: WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: Robbie O’Raw PRODUCED BY: Ciaran Treanor Jason Flynn, Seamus Stackpoole, Aoife Connolly O’Sullivan Gemma Kane PRODUCED BY: Ema Foley COSTUME + SET DESIGN BY: Orla Reilly CAST: CAST: Susan Barrett, Carl Maher, Eoin O’Sullivan MUSIC BY: Marmaduke Dando Isobel O’Regan, Jack Gavin, Sadhbh Mc Loughlin

02 03 BLOCK 07 THUR 13 FEB @ 6.30PM | 60mins BLOCK 09 FRI 14 FEB @ 6.30PM | 50mins BOYS’ SCHOOL BOYS’ SCHOOL €10 early bird €10 early bird €13 door €13 door

MUSIC MUSIC Two Weeks Breaking Light

The mind’s music, real and imagined Finding beauty in the dark Falling in and out of dreams from a hospital bed, the boundary One woman forges a path through heartbreak and point of the real and imagined begins to blur. Featuring new trauma by transforming pain into song, discovering the music composed for violin, viola & electronics. healing power of rhythm and, ultimately making a radical choice that could change everything. PRESENTED BY: Ultan O’Brien - Bed Tea Company WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Ultan O’Brien PRESENTED BY: Little Oak Music PRODUCED BY: Emma Áine O’Leary WRITTEN BY: Doireann Brassil IMAGE BY: Alex Foster CAST: Doireann Brassil (Guitar + Vocals), Shane Casey (Drums) PRODUCED BY: Verity Combe

BLOCK 08 FRI 14 FEB @ 6.15PM | 60mins BLOCK 10 FRI 14 FEB + SAT 15 FEB @ 7.45PM | 60mins MAIN SPACE MAIN SPACE €10 early bird €10 early bird €13 door €13 door

LIVE ART THEATRE THEATRE Maximum Black Comedically Heartbroken textuality

real time creation: Sounds // Movements // Colours Love is hard, but it’s harder if you’re Tom. A tale of online romance...ish A shift between colours and shapes, directions and dynamics, Told with a self-deprecating charm, Comedically Our princess is ducking and diving her way through sounds and melodies, explored in an intimate relationship. Heartbroken is a bittersweet tale of love, loss and dating and dick picks. Social media is her fairy A multidisciplinary journey where dance and painting should drunken Instagram rampages. What happens when the godmother, and Prince Charming is about to arrive be heard; music should be seen. love of your life falls in love with someone else? from far far away...

PRESENTED BY: Three Eyes Collective WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Tom Moran PRESENTED BY: Little Red Theatre ARTISTIC DIRECTION: Emma Minarelli PRODUCED BY: SJ Woods WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Emily Perrott PERFORMED BY: Emma Minarelli, Rory Tangne, Shahab Coohe, Shayan Coohe ANIMATION BY: Lucy Jenkins DIRECTED BY: Thommas Kane Byrne PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Aarif Amod PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Tom Maher PRODUCED BY: Fiona Coughlan + Gemma Long PRODUCED BY: Verena Backhaus

04 05 BLOCK 11 FRI 14 FEB + SAT 15 FEB @ 8PM | 60mins BLOCK 13 FRI 14 FEB + SAT 15 FEB @ 9.15PM | 60mins BOYS’ SCHOOL MAIN SPACE €10 early bird €10 early bird €13 door €13 door

THEATRE STAND-UP COMEDY THEATRE THEATRE Boys to Men to Ladz Again I Don’t Normally Do This Salvatore DeWonderful: The Last LIVE! From The Copacabana Movie Star An insight into the Male Mind... Ok Google; how to be funny? 4 lads start a podcast to give a balanced voice to the Armed with a bottle of Lidl’s second cheapest white This Barman is a STAR, Man! Who needs those guys anyway? Male Mind but end up doing hard drugs and having an wine, Lisa thought she could write a stand-up set funny The Copacabana. New York City. The best acts in Dani Kann has finally made it. She’s the Queen of accidental orgy. A comedy about silly men. enough to avoid crying in the dressing room after. town. Unfortunately one of those acts cancelled last Hollywood, the Toast of Tinseltown, the leading light of minute so Sal the barman has been given their slot. the showbiz world... so how come she can’t book a gig? PRESENTED BY: PRESENTED BY: Head Above Water Theatre Company OXBO Theatre Oh Mama Mia. Charisma Check takes a view askew at the future of WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: the motion picture industry and what surprises might Conor Duffy Lisa Nally PRESENTED BY: Club Valentine be waiting for those with their names in lights. LIGHTING DESIGN BY: PRODUCED BY: WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Robbie Doyle Conor Burnell WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: Eoin Potts Niamh Ní Fhlatharta PRESENTED BY: Charisma Check LIGHTING DESIGN BY: Jess Fitzsimons Kane WRITTEN BY: Rory Knox + Jessy Danner DESIGN BY: Mae Leahy DIRECTED BY: James M. O’Connor PRODUCED BY: Mary Cahill BLOCK 12 FRI 14 FEB @ 7.45PM | 150mins BLOCK 14 FRI 14 FEB + SAT 15 FEB @ 9.30PM | 60mins BANQUET HALL BOYS’ SCHOOL €35 €10 early bird 3 course meal €13 door + show

DINNER + SHOW STAND-UP COMEDY STAND-UP COMEDY VALENTINE’S NIGHT BLACKOUT Cattlemania

Fill your belly with a 3 course meal straight out of the 1970’s Sure if you didn’t laugh, you’d cry. Whatcha ya gonna do, udder? followed by ridiculously fun Comedy Theatre Some would call Jo Heffernan a ‘slut’ but she prefers After fulfilling a lifelong dream of stepping between the ‘sex hobbyist’. In this darkly comic stand up show, Jo ropes, Davey’s sights are set on his next career goal - MENU: Sitting at 7.45PM contemplates the complex relationship women have and it involves cows. To Start: prawn cocktail / wild mushroom vol au vents with sex, vilification from a puritanical society and For Mains: chicken kiev with gratin + greens / veggie moussaka with seasonal salad necessary conversations about consent and abuse. New work from ‘one of Ireland’s funniest!’ (vegan feta option available) Also there’s some animal impressions...woof, woof. ~entertainment.ie To Finish: black forest gâteaux martini WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Jo Heffernan WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Davey Reilly BLOCK 14: Starting at 9.15PM PRODUCED BY: Gareth Lyons Salvatore DeWonderful: LIVE! From The Copacabana + The Last Movie Star ARTWORK BY: Emmet Kenny

DINNER BY: Chef Clune | COMEDY THEATRE BY: Club Valentine + Charisma Check

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REHEARSED READING REHEARSED READING The Tears That Fall Not SAFE.

Who weeps for the forgotten? Something is happening on this campus... Outcast and then forgotten, a grandfather and his Everyone knows what they want granddaughter struggle with their pasts as the voices (a safe space) of those they left behind swirl around them. But there are different ideas about what that means Based on real events and stories. (now what?) This is a play about what it means to be safe WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: come as you arts, eire (and what it takes) WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: Justin MacGregor PRODUCED BY: Gary White WRITTEN BY: Hugh Hick CAST: Fiona Brown, Paul Nugent, Jane Purcell, + others DIRECTED BY: Davey Kelleher PHOTOGRAPHY + DESIGN BY: Jane Fogarty + David Lunney

BLOCK 16 SAT 15 FEB + SUN 16 FEB @ 3PM | 45mins BLOCK 18 SAT 15 FEB + SUN 16 FEB @ 4PM | 60mins BOYS’ SCHOOL BANQUET HALL €10 early bird €10 early bird €13 door €13 door

THEATRE THEATRE The Atonement of Lesley Ann @CupanTaeBae

A ghost’s story based on real events #TasteTheDifference #CupanBae Possessed by the tape recording of her torture in Manchester, England in 1964, Ireland’s number one influencer @CupanTaeBae is the spirit of a murdered girl returns to revoice her dying script. making her first live appearance. Come and meet the Queen of Tae for a tea-tacular evening and if you’re Warning: This show contains graphic content that is disturbing and is for mature audiences only. lucky get her secrets to making the perfect cup!

PRESENTED BY: CupánTae Marc van Leeuwen PRESENTED BY: Solomon Productions MUSIC BY: WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Megan O’Malley Aksana Frayne WRITTEN BY: Síomón Solomon PRODUCED BY: PRODUCED BY: Muirenn Lyons DIRECTED BY: Larissa Brigatti COSTUME DESIGN BY: Anna McLoughlin SOUND DESIGN BY: Josh Roxby LIGHTING DESIGN BY: Georgia Piano

08 09 BLOCK 19 SAT 15 FEB + SUN 16 FEB @ 6.15PM | 60mins BLOCK 21 SUN 16 FEB @ 12PM | 50mins MAIN SPACE MAIN SPACE €10 early bird €10 early bird €13 door €13 door

Suitable for ages 10 - 110

THEATRE THEATRE CELEBRATION: SPOKEN WORD + MUSIC HAIFISCH Cycle of an Archaic Rhythm, Baby The Lightwave Residual

Happy families are an early heaven. It’ll never work- but it might Hopeful Human! This is Our Religion! Six individuals meet at a funeral. Each has their own A disgraced theatre maker has one last chance at Ascending star of spoken word, acclaimed musician, artist, and spiritual physicist, story about the man in the coffin, each more horrifying redemption. His method is madness. Birdwoman, holds the space for a mass gathering; a return to ritual, a celebration than the last. Watch them dance these memories to A story of fear, failure, inspiration and love. of imperfection! Are you prepared for anything? We are. life. Warning: contains strobe lighting, strong language Accompanied by live jazz and no words. and scenes of a disturbing nature. PRESENTED BY: Birdwoman WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Kellie Marie Reynolds PRODUCED BY: Verity Combe PRESENTED BY: SUNSTRUCK PRESENTED BY: Squad Theatre Company CELLO: Frieda Freytag WRITTEN BY: Hiram Harrington WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Adam Isla O’Brien SOUND DESIGN BY: Simon Cullen DIRECTED BY: Hiram Harrington + Aaron Finnegan DIRECTED BY: Leah Moore PLUS VERY SPECIAL GUESTS: Ages 10 to 110 STAGE MANAGEMENT BY: Sophie Furlong Tighe PRODUCED BY: Aoibhin Murphy IMAGERY BY: Margaret Gibbons LIGHTING BY: Nathanael O’Leary | SET BY: Conor Kelly DESIGNED BY: Jamie Lloyd Belton ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY BY: Lainey O’Sullivan BLOCK 20 SAT 15 FEB + SUN 16 FEB @ 6.30PM | 60mins BLOCK 22 SUN 16 FEB @ 1PM | 60mins BOYS’ SCHOOL BANQUET HALL €10 early bird €15 €13 door

Suitable for ages 16+

THEATRE MUSIC + THEATRE FOOD EVENT Cove Creek Boys and Summer Girls Ukuleles on a Ledge Break Bread With Us!

For those searching for home. If you’re going down, go down singing. Replenish, Restore + Refill Between Ireland and Appalachia, a river flows. A A mirthful exploration of suicidal ideation and Choose one of our bliss bowls: boy and a girl call the river home. An exploration of traumatic pasts, which combines catchy and upbeat the physical, musical, and mythical elements of two melodies with dark and sombre themes. A morose yet . sweet potato chickpea buddha bowl mysteriously connected worlds. uplifting ukulele musical. Warning: deals with themes . falafel with roasted veg and tahini maple dressing of suicide, sexual abuse and childhood trauma. PRESENTED BY: iii States Collective . banana + walnut bread SCENIC DESIGN BY: Carrie Ferrelli PRESENTED BY: The United Bafflement . coffee, mint, green or ginger tea SOUND DESIGN BY: Conrad JB DIRECTED BY: Adrian O’ Connell | WRITTEN BY: Peter Melrose WRITTEN BY: Julia Marks CAST: Peter Melrose, Rachel Walshe PRESENTED BY: Scene + Heard PERFORMED BY: Julia Marks + Kevin Keogh PRODUCED BY: Arianne Hutch CULINARY DELIGHTS BY: Chef Clune DIRECTED BY: Liam Halligan SET DESIGN + COSTUME BY: Katt Horzela | SOUND BY: Aoife McHale POSTER DESIGN BY: Niamh Hegarty LIGHTING + VIDEO BY: Will Smith | DESIGNED BY: Jamie Lloyd Belton

10 11 BLOCK 23 SUN 16 FEB @ 2PM | 60mins BLOCK 25 SUN 16 FEB @ 7.45PM | 60mins MAIN SPACE MAIN SPACE €6 early bird €6 early bird €8 door €8 door

REHEARSED READING REHEARSED READING Live Giallo! Now!! Clever Hans

Bear witness to a brainwashing A comedy about a clever horse. Joe knows there’s something they’re not telling us. Clever Hans is very clever – or is he? Bart has all the answers. A visceral, hypnotic story A story about maths, intuition, and a horse who just of conspiracy theories and necessary fictions, urban happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. legends and lost opportunities. WRITTEN BY: WRITTEN BY: Miriam Needham Jim Connell-Moylan PRODUCED BY: DIRECTED BY: Eoin Madsen Samantha Cade PRODUCED BY: Charli Mathews

BLOCK 24 SUN 16 FEB @ 4PM | 60mins BLOCK 26 SUN 16 FEB @ 8PM | 72mins MAIN SPACE BOYS’ SCHOOL €6 early bird €6 early bird €8 door €8 door

REHEARSED READING REHEARSED READING The Viceroy Basin Ducks

Unwelcome to the Jungle Where was I? After suffering an emotional breakdown, a man devises A peek into our fantasies and the stories we choose to an unconventional method of recovery. He decides tell. Presented through the completely original medium to take control of the Congo in order to stabilise the of a few men and a park bench. region and, by extension, himself. But don’t worry, this isn’t a love story.

WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Heber Hanly WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: PRODUCED BY: Ronan Carey Tiernan Kearns DIRECTED BY: Eimear Keating CAST: SOUND DESIGN BY: Kevin Brennan Aidan Crowe, David Fennelly, David O’Meara POSTER DESIGN BY: Annika Hallerberg ORIGINAL ARTWORK BY: Ona Bričkutė

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THEATRE THEATRE STAND-UP COMEDY THEATRE HOOKED SEEN Funny T-shirts The Last Man in Ireland

Nah I wouldn’t call it a problem Who are you really online? XL T-shirts, XXL Problems Irish kitchen-sink realism meets Waterworld A fresh new script that explores three twenty Welcome to the world inside your laptop. The evolution of one man’s funny t-shirt collection. Due to climate change, Ireland now sits beneath the something year-olds and their attitude and culture A world with its own set of rules, expectations and The highs, the lows, from ascendancy to dependency Atlantic Ocean. Except for one man and his farm. towards addiction. Fast-paced, light-hearted and norms. With every post and view, a horror of the and ultimately, what happens when the laughter stops. With returning siblings, revelations from the past interactive this piece will leave you questioning internet is revealed. collide with pints in the present leaving a trail of your own opinions on what it means to be hooked. WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: devastation ensuring none of them ‘will ever be the Colin Chadwick same again’. WRITTEN BY: Ali Dempsey McMahon WRITTEN BY: Eibhleann Caffrey CAST: Ali Dempsey McMahon, Peter Newington and Eanna Hardwicke PRODUCED BY: Niamh Ní Fhlatharta PRESENTED BY: Monkey Backstage PRODUCED BY: Dominic O’Brien DESIGNED BY: Kevin Murphy WRITTEN BY: Keith-James Walker IMAGE DESIGN BY: Conor Sealy CAST: Anna Fanning + Eibhleann Caffrey PERFORMED BY: Ian Bermingham, Keith-James Walker + Kieran Roche

BLOCK 28 TUE 18 FEB + WED 19 FEB @ 6.30PM | 60mins BLOCK 30 TUE 18 FEB + WED 19 FEB @ 8PM | 60mins BOYS’ SCHOOL BOYS’ SCHOOL €10 early bird €10 early bird €13 door €13 door

PHYSICAL THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE The Many Faces of Her Confession LEGS WIDE SHUT Sun Bear

Shaped by the gaze of others Forgive our Father, he has sinned Not another ‘smear campaign’! ‘Fuck off Sharon, I’m fine!’ Parallel stories told simultaneously explore the world A dark comedy of blackmail unravels in the confines Socks on or socks off??? Something is happening under the surface. of mental institutions: the artist paints on the back wall of a rural Irish confessional box. Erin & Catherine receive letters for their first cervical An uncontrollable wave is starting to bubble. of the stage revealing her interpretation of experiences screening. Glow sticks, trampolining, and blue roll Anything could tip the balance. as performed by the actor. (LOTS of blue roll) ensue... But what started this fire? An absurdist comedy. And can Katie hold it in? PRESENTED BY: PRESENTED BY: The Experience Fleet of Feet PRESENTED BY: Rumination Productions PRESENTED BY: Sarah Richardson CREATED BY: DEVISED + PERFORMED BY: WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Sarah Richardson Mikey Fleming, Paul Hoey + Ben Razy Claire Prouvost, Stella Godmet Jayne McKenzie + Anna Celine Gonzalez PRODUCED BY: Marisa Conroy LIGHTING DESIGN BY: DIRECTED BY: Emily Foran DESIGNED BY: Áine O’Hara Evan Connolly

14 15 BLOCK 31 TUE 18 FEB + WED 19 FEB @ 9.15PM | 60mins BLOCK 33 WED 19 FEB @ 6.45PM + WED 26 FEB @ 8.15PM | 120mins MAIN SPACE BANQUET HALL €10 early bird €25 €13 door wings, beer + comedy

THEATRE THEATRE FOOD + COMEDY A Surprise Out of Touch Comedy, Craft Beer + Wings Wednesdays

He sees you when you’re sleeping... How do you communicate when you can’t? Sniggers... and SAUCE! #spiceupyourlife | Be rude not to Jay and Martin are having a few beers. That’s all. Luke is a young man who can’t read or write. While he . hot’n’spicy chicken wings with blue cheesy trimmings + craft beer No harm. Getting into the festive spirit. Drowning blames society, society blames him. Angry at the world . sweet and sticky sesame chicken wings + craft beer out the dark. ‘Cause you know what happens at he takes dance lessons where he’s paired with Katie, Christmas? Don’t ya? the only issue is she’s deaf. Unable to communicate the WED 19 FEB: Sitting at 6.45PM + BLOCK 29: Starting at 7.45PM pair go to great lengths to understand one another. PRESENTED BY: Mental Magpie Productions Funny T-shirts + The Last Man In Ireland WRITTEN BY: Patrick O’Sullivan PRESENTED BY: Jack of all Trades Productions DIRECTED BY: Richard Lombard Vance WRITTEN BY: Craig Gahan WED 26 FEB: Sitting at 8.15PM + BLOCK 57: Starting at 9.15PM CAST: Craig Gahan + Shauna Coffey WIRED + Watching Paint Dry Developed during a Mentorship Programme run by Fishamble: The New PRODUCED BY: Niamh Hopper Play Company at Pavilion Theatre. Patrick O’Sullivan is a recipient of playwrighting support from axis, Ballymun. PRESENTED BY: Scene + Heard | CULINARY DELIGHTS BY: Chef Clune BLOCK 32 TUE 18 FEB + WED 19 FEB @ 9.30PM | 60mins BLOCK 34 THUR 20 FEB + FRI 21 FEB @ 6.15PM | 60mins BOYS’ SCHOOL MAIN SPACE €10 early bird €10 early bird €13 door €13 door

THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE PHYSICAL THEATRE Page of Swords Kebabs & Hookers A Woman Under A Roof For Rent

Meet a stranger who’s stranger than fiction. A downtrodden writer finds his voice. Take care not to be forgotten For Rent: A Ruin. Your Home? See what happens when someone who’s trying to have One aspiring writer is down on his luck, waiting for the A ghost story (like most stories); a woman contacts The absurdity of searching for a home in Dublin, everything and it’s not enough meets someone with day that his scribbles on napkins come together. A gut- someone she lost long ago, who travels through time through a deeper exploration of the idea of a home. nothing but offers a little bit more. punching piece that explores friendship, intimacy, and and space to reveal what happens in this life All of this brilliantly encapsulated in a passionate finding your voice. and the next. physical theatre piece.

PRESENTED BY: Nineteneleven Productions PRESENTED BY: Weird Gravy Theatre Collective DIRECTED + PERFORMED BY: Laoise Murray PRESENTED BY: Seventh Land Theatre WRITTEN BY: Conor Sheehan WRITTEN BY: Shane O’Neill WRITTEN + COMPOSED BY: Sam Killian DIRECTED BY: Aggie Baral CAST: Ray Malone, Elaine Purdue, Conor Sheehan DIRECTED BY: Luke Frawley STAGE/PRODUCTION MANAGER/COSTUME BY: Annachiara Vispi PRODUCED BY: Olaf Samuel PRODUCED BY: Stacey Malaniff PERFORMED BY: Ronan Deegan SET DESIGN BY: Natasha Duffy CAST: Anna Fox, Alice Stands, Dmitry Vinokurov, Elitsa Dimova, LIGHTING BY: Ting Yo Guo PRODUCED BY: Annie Brown LIGHTING BY: Matt McGowan | AV BY: Choy-Ping Clarke Ng Philip Arneill, Saoirse Siné DESIGNED BY: Brendan Moore PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Jimmy Kavanagh | PRODUCED BY: Grace Morgan STAGE MANAGEMENT BY: Anne-Charlotte Gerbaud SPECIAL THANKS: Mitsue Jimi Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival

16 17 BLOCK 35 THUR 20 FEB + FRI 21 FEB @ 6.30PM | 60mins BLOCK 37 THUR 20 FEB + FRI 21 FEB @ 8PM | 60mins BOYS’ SCHOOL BOYS’ SCHOOL €10 early bird €10 early bird €13 door €13 door

THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE Nurse, me Calling In Sick Parts Unknown CASH POINT MEET

Define it. Define nurse. Define me. It could be you! Brothers wrestle with their dead dad Girls just wanna have funds ‘Nurse’, a hyper-idealistic young woman in 80’s Ireland, What’s luck got to do with healthcare? A hell of a lot. The sons of a wrestling legend clash over his legacy Emma and Sinéad know all that glitters isn’t gold, but believes she is destined to change the world; much like A fun fibromyalgia gameshow for all the family! and the Good Friday referendum. The debut play from when given the opportunity to go from €3.99 wine to her hero Florence Nightingale. comedian Davey Reilly, starring Dermot Ward (GoT) Louboutins and limos, maybe happiness is just a swipe But this nurse might be destined for damnation. WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: and Peter O’Hanlon (Rocketman). away? Warning: contains references to sex. Áine O’Hara PRODUCED BY: WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: PRESENTED BY: ArtIsHard PRESENTED BY: Seventh Land Theatre Marisa Conroy Aoife Martyn WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: Davey Reilly WRITTEN BY: Niamh Murphy | DIRECTED BY: Cara Mani DRAMATURGY BY: CAST: Peter O’Hanlon, Dermot Ward CAST: Jess Dunne Perkins, Niamh Murphy Sarah Richardson PRODUCED BY: Zoë Reynolds LIGHTING & SOUND DESIGN BY: Colin Doran STAGE MANAGEMENT BY: Borg Dóra Benediktsdóttir IMAGE BY: Bailey Hayden BLOCK 36 THUR 20 FEB + FRI 21 FEB @ 7.45PM | 60mins BLOCK 38 THUR 20 FEB @ 9.15PM | 60mins MAIN SPACE MAIN SPACE €10 early bird €10 early bird €13 door €13 door

THEATRE THEATRE MUSIC THEATRE Dead End Clearance DIGITAL_RITUAL Breaking Sense

Cause of death? Life choices. Everything must go; including this lot! A mind-expanding music and multimedia work Seven meet to unleash the unsaid A by-the-book medical examiner is forced to reckon The mas are sorting the last few bits on their breaks, Recalibrate attention to the fullness of now Seven women gather. Each must speak of things with her priorities when the autopsy she is performing the lads are a little too merry for work. The auld ones /// Reset the operating system unsaid. Life stories fizz, seethe and erupt with humour, takes an unexpected turn in this fast-paced and funny all swore last Christmas was their last and Deirdre’s /// Expect the inexplicable. longing, anguish and joy. noir thriller. still in the grips of an existential crisis. It’s Christmas A pivotal new work that speaks to all. Eve in retail and this year’s bonus has an WRITTEN BY: unsettling downside. PRESENTED BY: PRESENTED BY: The Michael Chekhov Studio Dublin David A. Smyth GOLDEN_PROFIT CAST: Brigitte Trein, Caitríona Ní Threasaigh, Emer Casey, CREATED + PERFORMED BY: Helena Browne, Mary McCarthy, Mary Pat Moloney, Moninne Dargan PRESENTED BY: Queer Moon Productions Paul Gilgunn DIRECTED BY: Sarah Kane WRITTEN BY: Bríd Ní Chomáin + Síofra O’Meara DIRECTED BY: Leah Moore | PRODUCED BY: SJ Woods CAST: Bríd Ní Chomáin, Clodagh Phelan, Ella Maria Carmen + Síofra O’Meara IMAGE BY: Lucy Jenkins 18 19 BLOCK 39 THUR 20 FEB + FRI 21 FEB @ 9.30PM | 60mins BLOCK 41 SAT 22 FEB + SUN 23 FEB @ 11AM | 45mins BOYS’ SCHOOL MAIN SPACE €10 early bird €6 early bird €13 door €8 door

Suitable for ages 4-6

THEATRE THEATRE CHILDRENS’ THEATRE Follower Count ALVA Unicorns are Real!

Jesus - some clients just won’t listen. Ed is thirteen days from Earth The most epic sleepover EVER. Jesus is back, and he wants to spread the good news. An astronaut fights for his life as an alien race take ‘They are, they’re not, they are, they’re not, they ARE... But there’s only one way to reach people in this over his ship. His only help comes from ALVA, the on- how do you know if they are real?’ smartphone obsessed age: he’s going to need a board computer. A unique blend of horror and sci-fi. Two friends embark on a quest to find out if unicorns are real. social media strategist. PRESENTED BY: Polliwog Theatre Collective PRESENTED BY: JELLYBELLY WRITTEN BY: WRITTEN BY: Seán Mac Dhonnagáin WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Andrea Bolger + Helen McGrath Ella Skolimowski DIRECTED BY: Ciaran Gallagher DIRECTED BY: Chris Kelly CAST: SOUND DESIGN BY: Conall Mac Dhonnagáin PRODUCED BY: Sarah O’Rourke Danny O’Leary, Ella Skolimowski DRAMATURGY BY: Cuán de Barra PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Dominik Turkowski PRODUCED BY: PHOTOGRAPHY BY: James Healy DESIGN BY: Erin Barclay Arianne Hutch PRODUCED BY: Joe Murphy DESIGN ASSISTANT: Chris Merton STAGE MANAGEMENT BY: Ryan Fishwick BLOCK 40 FRI 21 FEB + SAT 22 FEB @ 9.15PM | 60mins BLOCK 42 SAT 22 FEB + SUN 23 FEB @ 12PM | 55mins MAIN SPACE BOYS’ SCHOOL €10 early bird €6 early bird €13 door €8 door Suitable for ages 8+

THEATRE THEATRE CHILDRENS’ THEATRE Big Break Finding Chemo Eithne

So, what are you up to now? A song and dance about cancer. By the hand of Eithne, Balor will fall... You are invited to the school reunion of St. Anthony’s A fantastical, whimsical and musical rendition of a Eithne is a ferocious young cailín, whose courage is class of ’09. Share a cocktail sausage with a fellow true-life experience, Finding Chemo is a darkly comic tested when she is banished to the woods and has to classmate, tear open old wounds, and brace yourself but sincerely encouraging antidote to fears and find her way home. A twist on a classic Celtic tale... for the inevitable question… frustrations surrounding cancer and its treatments. PRESENTED BY: PRESENTED BY: Lost Train Theatre PRESENTED BY: SEANCHAÍ WRITTEN BY: Niall Lane Duked Productions & Grand Stretch in Co-Production WRITTEN BY: ASSOCIATE WRITERS: Lewis Quigley, Ciara Gleeson STORY BY: Ailish Leavy Catriona Moloney DIRECTED BY: Ciara Gleeson DIRECTED BY: Darren Yorke DESIGN BY: PR + MARKETING BY: Aoife O’Donoghue DEVISED WITH: Colm Lennon, Grace Healy, Iseult Deane LIGHTING + SOUND DESIGN BY: Colin Doran Nora Kelly Lester, Ricky McCormack PRODUCED BY: IMAGE BY: Katie O’Byrne Charli Mathews

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CHILDRENS’ THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE Made from Paper OCCUPIED Long Way Down

Whatever you do, don’t go outside. Periods are a bloody nightmare. An Odyssey of Oddballs Where should you look when you’ve forgotten what Gore. Epic tales. Rollercoaster emotions. Some call it Two mates on a mission. A hermit with a secret. you’ve lost? A lonely librarian and a girl, made from Game of Thrones; we call it menstruation. Yep, this is a The structures of society and nature are breaking paper, are NOT looking for adventure. bloody great if-you-don’t-laugh-you’ll-cry play. Period. down, but the Premier League is intact. And they’re definitely NOT going outside. A tragicomedy about a pact. WRITTEN BY: Kirby Thompson + Orla Graham WRITTEN BY: Clodagh Mooney Duggan CAST: Aoife Browne, Orla Graham PRESENTED BY: Beluga Theatre DIRECTED BY: Nessa Matthews DIRECTED BY: Kirby Thompson WRITTEN BY: Oisín Robbins PRODUCED BY: Richie O’Sullivan LIGHTING DESIGN BY: Aoife Browne CAST: Conor Quinlan, Denis Haugh, Gerard Howard ARTWORK BY: Jill Matthews STAGE MANAGEMENT BY: Caoimhe McGee PRODUCED BY: Sarah Reid

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CHILDRENS’ THEATRE REHEARSED READING Bookworm Influenced

Something’s about to happen in Little-Happens Insta-fame, is it worth it? In the town of Little-Happens, Pandora Allweather lives In West Cork, Daragh Dundon is accused of murdering his out her days buried in a good book. Until the sudden influencer girlfriend. His sister Liz, becomes insta-famous arrival of a backward clock that will change her life in a bid to prove his innocence and solve the murder. forever. WRITTEN BY: PRESENTED BY: Illustrated Productions Cara Christie WRITTEN BY: Katie McCann PRODUCED BY: DIRECTED BY: Jeda de Brí Lisa Nally CAST: Louis Deslis + Katie McCann CAST: INCLUDES: Cara Christie

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THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE MUSIC + THEATRE Then They Came For Me TIDAL CAKE You Can Be a Menace Too

Without remembrance, there is no future. As rivers rise, so must we The incomparable joy of feeling OK WW4 will be fought with slingshots. A look at the subject of Holocaust denial, exploring If our rivers could talk, what would they tell us? Part storytelling and part documentary about Georgia In this original musical satire, post-apocalypse, a how this controversial topic lends itself to a modern The River Lee is under threat from the construction of and Sionnán’s quest to find ok...ness? gaggle of mad-cap youths band together, fashioning culture of ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts’. damaging flood walls along its banks. Interviews with Not happy; just ok. their own society on the great literature of yesteryear: activists and Cork residents will tell the story of a city Their brains don’t work. The Beano. WRITEN + DIRECTED BY: fighting for the river which flows through its heart. But they seem to be coping fine... right? Scout Black PRESENTED BY: JokerThief PRODUCED BY: WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: Marcus Bateson WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: WRITTEN, DIRECTED + MUSIC BY: Patrick Conneely Meadhbh Nolan PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT BY: Alice Bellamy Georgia Doorley, Sionnán Ní Nualláin MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Katie Feeney STAGE MANAGEMENT BY: Emily Cooke PRODUCED BY: Alice Bellamy CAST: Claudia Glavey, Conor Gormley, Davin McGowan, PRODUCED BY: Zara Fitzgerald | PUBLICITY BY: Hiram Harrington Meadhbh Lyons and Chorus. STAGE DESIGN BY: Rían Hamill | LIGHTING DESIGN BY: Matt McGowan CHOREOGRAPHY BY: Áine Cooney + Micheal Healy AV DESIGN BY: Philly Holmes | COSTUME DESIGN BY: Kiah Ronaldson COSTUME BY: Nicole Denning BLOCK 48 SAT 22 FEB + SUN 23 FEB @ 6.30PM | 60mins BLOCK 50 SAT 22 FEB + SUN 23 FEB @ 8PM | 60mins BOYS’ SCHOOL BOYS’ SCHOOL €10 early bird €10 early bird €13 door €13 door

THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE Frigid ALMOST 40 & SINGLE Maggie & Máire Gods & Fighting Men

You’re 14, you’re a friget, you’re a loser. No husband. No children. No problem...right? A neo-noir in Nad, Co. Cork. A comedy about being stuck in life Niamh is 14... And a friget! How? Niamh’s gal pals are An unflinching look at the obstacles a mature, Máire is running for her life. Loafer, Bomba and Mickey Dadd piss away their hours on a mission to help Niamh lose her frigidity at the unmarried, childless woman of color faces while living Maggie is hiding from hers. drinking pints in the local pub, looking out at the world underage disco- whether she wants to or not! and dating in today’s society. A dark comedy that will It’s harder than you’d think to not make a complete beyond and wondering why they don’t do anything Frigid is a dark comedy about frenemies, fingering resonate with anyone who’s ever felt alone and unlucky balls of things. more with their lives. Like honestly, what’s stopping and figuring it all out. in love. Warning: contains explicit language/themes. them? No, seriously. Warning: contains strong language and violence. A comedy about young men who fear change. WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Rosa Bowden WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Cynthia Dallas DIRECTED BY: Hildegard Ryan DIRECTED BY: L. Haston WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: Eoin O’Donovan PRESENTED BY: Escape Pod Media PRODUCED BY: Joe Murphy IMAGERY BY: Scott Danzig PRODUCED BY: Michael Ryan WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: Paudie Baggott STAGE MANAGEMENT BY: Sarah Byrne PRODUCED BY: Maggie Ryan

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SPOKEN WORD THEATRE THEATRE The Seven Ages - Like it or Not Skinny Omalia DOLL

Infancy to dotage; birth to death. Experimental sitcom reading She leaves at the end. Take Jacques’ Seven Ages of Man speech in Shakespeare’s An experimental sitcom reading by comedian, writer Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House premiered 141 years ago. As You Like It. Use it as a frame to support the seven ages and cyberpsychologist James Moran. As we continue to re-stage the same issues, are we journey from birth to death. Signpost it with original poetry Featuring characters drawn from online comment progressing past or simply perpetuating the problems and Elizabethan song. We’ve all started the journey sections and social media. Ibsen originally dramatised? If the internet is our collective unconscious, what PRESENTED BY: We Honest Troubadours would its favourite sitcom look like? DIRECTED BY: Alan O’Brien + Berni Dwan PRESENTED BY: Cloudburst WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Berni Dwan, Jimmy O’Connell + Michael J Whelan WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: James Moran DEVISED BY: Rua Barron, Luke Dalton, NARRATION + SINGING BY: Alan O’Brien PRODUCED BY: Matthew Tallon Cian Malin, Dominic O’Brien, Hannah Power IMAGE BY: Emily O’Callaghan DIRECTED BY: Dominic O’Brien | PRODUCED BY: Jack Farrell COSTUME DESIGN BY: Iseult Deane STAGE + PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT BY: Sophie Coote BLOCK 52 SUN 23 FEB @ 4PM | 60mins BLOCK 54 TUE 25 FEB + WED 26 FEB @ 6.30PM | 60mins MAIN SPACE BOYS’ SCHOOL €6 early bird €10 early bird €8 door €13 door

REHEARSED READING THEATRE THEATRE Animals It’s Always the Quiet Ones Forgive Us Our Trespasses

They sold newspapers, they made headlines! Only the good die young! Communion, Confessions, Dublin 1934 - When all you have is nothing, you have What would you do to save the one you love? Millenial Transgressions: The Workout nothing to lose - hear the untold story of Francis Lawless, In a brightly lit cottage on a dark stormy night; three Suzanne let her village down. Ciara traded in her altar founder and sole surviving member of Dublin’s infamous strangers make a decision to change their lives forever. gown for a big city job and nights out on the town. Animal Gang! The flock find them at fault. Do we?

WRITTEN + PRODUCED BY: Dylan Henvey WRITTEN BY: Niall Carmody PRESENTED BY: Cáca Dána: The Collective DIRECTED BY: Jack Lowe DIRECTED BY: Daragh Goan WRITTEN BY: Niamh Ryan CAST: Craig Gahan, Cat Williams, Jack Lowe, Peter Ormonde CAST: Eleanor O’Brien, Johanna O’Brien, Mark Griffin PRODUCED BY: Niamh Ní Fhlatharta PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Brenda Fitzsimons PRODUCED BY: Vicky Moonan GRAPHIC DESIGN BY: Dara Denise O’Donnell PHOTO MODEL: Mannix Flynn DESIGN BY: Marie Hegarty

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Suitable for ages 16+

PHYSICAL THEATRE THEATRE AERIAL / THEATRE SKETCH COMEDY Grotesque Bodies YARA WIRED Watching Paint Dry

Life as a carnival. A grotesque one. A tale of courage & chicken fillet rolls. Two aerial artists compete for top spot! Does what it says on the tin. Step into the anarchic world of playful abandon. An Arab teenager in Ireland navigates life, the craic, Young Phoenix’s career in the circus is taking flight while ‘Oh so you’ll have the 14 days in Tenerife rather than the A topsy-turvy mirror, full of colour, distortion, rhythm, new love, traditional family, peer pressure, Irish stew, Olympia is on her way out. It’s tight at the top but might 10? Lovely to have the extra few days.’ cruelty and ritual. and an unwelcome visitor from her past. there be space for two? Let the audience decide... ‘So you’ll have to change the dentist appointment to the Are you on the right side of the glass? You may be done with the past but the past may not Tuesday instead is it?’ be done with you. PRESENTED BY: Idir Mná PRESENTED BY: Baubo WRITTEN BY: Olivia Morahan | DIRECTED BY: Yvonne Ussher ‘And would you wear the jacket now for such a short DIRECTED BY: Liza Cox CAST: Cara Christie WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Suzie Seweify walk?’ PRODUCED BY: Elissavet Chatzinota SET DESIGN BY: Jenny Owens | SOUND DESIGN BY: Sam Hardiman DIRECTED BY: Bryan Burroughs COSTUME DESIGN BY: Alex Herring COSTUME DESIGN BY: Yvonne Kelly PRODUCED BY: Connor Dudley-Fergus PRESENTED BY: MEELAGOOLA | PRODUCED BY: Gill Chapman IMAGE BY: Therese Rafter DRAMATURGY BY: Siobhán Mannion | IMAGERY BY: Martin Dunne WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: AERIAL CONSULTANT: Ria Murphy | Special thanks to Taking Flight Amy Kellett, Laura Prendergast + Sorcha Dawson

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THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE Kingdom Of The Mad Shrouded It’s More Like Train Tracks Than a Sandbox The Only Way

Three famous poets. One psych ward. Of the dead, speak no ill. One life. One death. The only way I knew how Where is the line between genius and madness? Shrouded ; A young man wanders Dublin alone. He’s drunk, and he A story about how one woman’s choice left another This play imagines the famous poets Sylvia Plath, *to veil under another appearance has nowhere to be. All he wants to do is stop thinking with none. Anne Sexton, and Robert Lowell sharing the same *to dress for burial about his own death. But he knows it intimately. Based on true events. ward of a psychiatric hospital. It’s 2am. Rebecca’s gone. And the vodka is open. PRESENTED BY: Tristero PRESENTED BY: Switch Theatre WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Tom Jordan WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Fiona Coughlan + Hannah Carnegie Jo and Fiona are swapping stories. PRESENTED BY: DIRECTED BY: Aaron Finnegan PRODUCED BY: Yvonne Ussher Subbacultcha Productions And the dead stay silent. COSTUME BY: Anna McLoughlin PHOTOGRAPHY BY: Michael Mullen WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: DESIGN BY: Conor Kelly Derek Flynn WRITTEN BY: Jennifer Laverty SOUND BY: Andrew Dunne CAST: DIRECTED BY: Colm O’Brien | PRODUCED BY: Eoghan Ryder Abi McCormick, Ciara O’ Connor, Derek Flynn CAST: Jennifer Laverty & Nessa Matthews

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MUSIC + SPOKEN WORD THEATRE Here Now Know A Professor’s and Personal Trainer’s Private Apocalypse

Poetry and Sound Design A raucous roadtrip brings galactic consequences Poet Stephen James Smith and Composer Gareth Quinn Best friends Professor Dietrich Von Doink, and Marcel ‘The Muscle’ Adonis, go on vacation through the USA, Redmond present their latest works in progress, blending causing an STI-fueled zombie outbreak and the possible death of the entire universe…. instrumental pieces, poems and prose. PRESENTED BY: WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Head Above Water Theatre Company Gareth Quinn Redmond + Stephen James Smith WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: Conor Duffy LIGHTING DESIGN BY: Conor Burnell CAST: Jordan Begley, Carla Burke, Luke Collins, Gavan O‘Connor-Duffy, Rachel Walshe

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THEATRE THEATRE MUSIC STAND-UP COMEDY MILKED Humans Discuss Being - live podcast Jack takes a Noise for a Walk Overnight Failure

Love and sacrifice - a post birth story Eve Darcy and a fellow human discuss being. Where is the line between noise + music Achieving this little took a lifetime. Who am I? Where did I go? Am I lost forever? A Comedian Eve Darcy and a human guest meet to play Jack came by Dublin some moons ago via Sligo, One day you’re writing a sitcom for Comedy Central woman post birth struggles with the complexity of her Twister, have a mock date and discuss being human, Galway + Saturn (slight return). He holds an MPhil in USA, the next you’re cutting your own hair. In his stand- emotions, loss of identity and the physical pain living this life, the sorrows and joys of the journey, and Music + Media Technology from TCD. He plays several up special, Brian suddenly finds himself middle-aged of breastfeeding. Warning: contains descriptions of what makes us happy! instruments and can even write music with dots and after decades of screw-ups. childbirth and breastfeeding. everything. This evening he may use some of these skills, but more than likely he won’t. Jack likes treading WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Brian Cheatle WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Helen McGrath HOST: carefully on the line between noise and music- at some PRODUCED BY: Caroline Swords DIRECTED BY: Martha Fitzgerald Eve Darcy PRODUCED BY: Elaine Carroll + Special Guest! point a song might even break out, who knows? IMAGE BY: Carmen Dorothee He likes barbecued halloumi, and words like ‘fricative’. SET DESIGN BY: Erin Barclay WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Jack Cawley

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THEATRE IMPROV LIVE ART THEATRE The Storm Histrionix Art Against The Odds Show Me Your Wallets

A comedy to blow your socks off! A true tale told by idiots. You don’t do it for the money. The future’s not great. Send money. As a storm approaches two men, a woman and a horse An improvised comedy show where a historian tells a Join us for a night of live art exploring what it means An underground religion worshipping capitalism shelter in the local church for the night but it’s the lesser-known story from history which is re-enacted to survive as an artist in Dublin today. in climate-crisis tomorrow. Money! Paying water storm inside which threatens to do the most damage. by improvisers who don’t know the story and don’t 4D Space is a curatorial collective focused on charges!! Giant insects enslave everyone!? Warning: contains flashing lights and loud noises. know what they’re talking about. promoting performance and live art in Ireland. A comedy about interrupting apathy towards climate crisis and its irrefutable link with capitalism. PRESENTED BY: Far Out West PRESENTED BY: PRESENTED BY: 4D Space WRITTEN BY: Claire Millane Histrionix CURATED BY: Áine O’Hara PRESENTED BY: ŠITE DIRECTED BY: Mark O’Reilly IMPROVISERS: PRODUCED BY: Marisa Conroy WRITTEN BY: James Ireland CAST: Ciaran Conboy, Claire Millane, Aidan O’Sullivan Luke Benson, Mark Cantan, Richie Earley, ARTIST ASSISTANT: Sarah Richardson PRODUCED BY: Cathal Feeney Aoife Moore, Kelly Shatter With thanks to The Pluralist Magazine, Attention Anthology PHOTOGRAPHY + COSTUMES BY: Silvana Benedetto 4D Space is Áine O’Hara + Tara Carroll and RCA Writing.

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MUSIC + DANCE THEATRE THEATRE Nostalgia KATS : The Green Room Musical BAD GHOST

Flamenco music + dance in a dialogue with contemporary dance + uilleann pipes Whiskers lost. Paws wiped. Dreams destroyed. Putting the ‘Unfinished’ back in ‘Business’ Nostalgia is a tale of survival, of what makes us human, told through the language of Flamenco and dance. What do a Rose of Tralee, PLC in Childcare, and a lady With his company in peril, a 9-to-5 spirit medium Evoked by Federico Garcia Lorca’s poetic language, through the female characters in The House of Bernarda with severe OCD have in common? needs to prove his worth solving horrible murders Alba (1945) and Yerma (1934), interlaced with music from Lorca’s collected popular songs Canciones Populares A green room of Graham’s mam’s theatre in Tralee. by channeling a ghost. Hope it’s not a bad one! Antiguas (1922), Flamenco music and Uilleann Pipes OH WAIT

PRESENTED BY: Stage Whispers PRESENTED BY: PRESENTED BY: Club Valentine DIRECTED + CHOREOGRAPHED BY: Lola Ros Gordon No Desserts WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: CAST + MUSICIANS: Ana Belen Lopez Rodriguez (Flamenco Dancer), Dave Fadden (Uilleann Pipes), John Walsh (Flamenco Guitarist) DIRECTED BY: Jimmy Kavanagh, Robbie Doyle, Sam Killian Joyce Richardson (Flamenco Dancer), Laura Tato (Flamenco Dancer), Pache (Contemporary Dancer), Rebeca Sanchez (Flamenco Singer), Eoghan Collins ALSO STARRING: Zoltan Laszlo (Hungarian Zither) DEVISED + PERFORMED BY: Ciara Berkeley, Ellen Finnerty, Eoin Potts, Mazzy Ronaldson Aoife Martyn, Gemma Kane, Sadhbh McLoughlin, Kieran Roche DIRECTED BY: Amelia McConville

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THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE THEATRE Floozie STJÄLKAR The Middle Of Somewhere The Actor and the Über-Marionette

...in the jacuzzi A relentless hunt for answers This is her last night here. The boy who designed his own shadow ‘Do you ever feel like Dublin’s a massive party that It’s 2017. Civil servant John Chesterton thinks he’s got How does somebody accept that they simply don’t The ‘Über-Marionette’ was Edward Gordon Craig’s we’re all invited to? Yeah, me neither.’ life dotted, crossed, and filed alphabetically, but he’s know? A mother tries to answer the biggest question dream of the actor without weakness. But can we The story of Dublin’s most notorious lady. about to discover that not everything can be solved of her lifetime. Why? How? Where?...and Who! divide the artist from the art? A biographical sketch of with exceptional administrative skills. one of the 20th Century’s most controversial PRESENTED BY: Freshly Ground Theatre PRESENTED BY: Nth Degree Productions theatre directors. WRITTEN BY: CN Smith | DIRECTED BY: Michelle Henry PRESENTED BY: Pud House WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: Ronan Dempsey CAST: Bronwen Barrett PRODUCED BY: Nicole Mersey WRITTEN + PERFORMED BY: Dylan Tonge Jones + Jack Murphy WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: Chris Moran AD: Jenny Oleinik | DRAMATURGY BY: Megan Thompson MUSIC BY: Martin Corcoran DIRECTED BY: Daniel Monaghan SET DESIGN BY: Rodolfo Villalobos PRODUCED BY: Martha Knight SET DESIGN BY: Rachel Stout PRODUCED BY: Emily Fox PUPPETRY BY: Josh Roxby LX DESIGN + STAGE MANAGEMENT BY: Shannon Cowan STAGE MANAGEMENT BY: Rachel Stout DRAMATURGY BY: Stephanie Dufresne LIGHTING DESIGN BY: Fenna Von Hirschheydt SOUND DESIGN BY: Conrad JB SOUND DESIGN BY: Gavin Hennessy MUSIC BY: Dylan Tonge Jones PRODUCED BY: Vincent Moran (Wilde Shamrock Touring Theatre) VIDEOGRAPHY BY: Tom Maher Presented with the kind support of the Edward Gordon Craig Estate BLOCK 68 SAT 29 FEB @ 1PM | 60mins BLOCK 70 SAT 29 FEB @ 4PM | 60mins MAIN SPACE MAIN SPACE €10 early bird €6 early bird €13 door €8 door

THEATRE REHEARSED READING Shamrock Hill The Absolute State

I’m still me, no matter what True stories. Word for word. A piece of theatre exploring one man’s psychosis Forty-five young people living in Ireland between the through the expression of movement and stylised ages of eighteen and twenty-two were interviewed on theatrical performances to empower the words of the topic of their relationship with alcohol. those marginalised and stigmatised by mental health. This is what they had to say.

PRESENTED BY: Little Shadow Theatre Company WRITTEN + DIRECTED BY: WRITTEN BY: Colette Wrafter Luke Shanahan DIRECTED BY: KathyAnn Murphy CAST: CAST: Joe O’Neill, David Roper Nolan, Kolm Cearns, Scott Leeson, Darragh Lawlor, Emma Moloney, Andrew Cuzack and Conor Christian Georgia Clarkson Kelly, Oisin O’Donoghue PRODUCED BY: Sean Roper Nolan

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You’ve got an extra day! A unique opportunity to meet with the best in the industry The chance of a lifetime to SPLURGE! (well, once ever four years anyway). HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK TO VENUES + FESTIVALS On this special LEAP DAY nothing counts so let loose with our delicious delectable delicacies. TUES 25 FEB First up, get your soakage in with a bucket of Dirty Nachos. with axis Ballymun, The Abbey Theatre, The Ark, The Civic, Draíocht, Dublin Fringe Festival, Dublin Theatre Festival, The Everyman Theatre, First Fortnight, The Gate Theatre, Lyric Theatre, Mermaid Arts Centre, Then, choose your poison: Black Forest Gâteaux Martini / Encore Une Fois Project Arts Centre, Smock Alley Theatre, TownHall Theatre

What happened here, never happened... FIND OUT ABOUT RESOURCES FOR ARTISTS PRESENTED BY: Scene + Heard WED 26 FEB SMOCKTAILS + DECADENT DELIGHTS BY: Chef Clune with Theatre Forum Ireland, The Ark, Fishamble: The New Play Company, ITI, GapDay, Lian Bell

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IMPROV PLAYBACK Comedy

We play back your stories A form of improv that replays your stories before your eyes. For audiences who love ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’

PRESENTED BY: PLAYBACK COMEDY PERFORMERS: Ailish McCarthy, Amy Walsh, Felix O’Connor, Gillian Fitzgerald, Jack McKenna, Seamus Stackpoole

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