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We are proud to share this Dublin is a fantastic city but there Be SpectACTive!, a four-year 04 The Playboy of the Western World 26 A Love Like That 46 Removed programme with you, three busy is a lot at stake for its culture right international project co-funded Dublin Theatre Festival Decadent Theatre Company Prime Cut Productions weeks of performances with now. The landscape is changing by the EU that focusses on and Lyric Theatre The Civic, Tallaght axis: Ballymun world premieres of bold new all around us. There are fewer promoting active spectatorship, Gaiety Theatre work and reimagined classic theatres in the city centre than as one of twenty partners. 28 Walking to Jerusalem 48 Redemption Falls texts, inspiring international there were twenty years ago, We have recruited a group 06 Last Orders At The Dockside Passion Pit Theatre, in association Moonfish Theatre, the Abbey projects and an expanded season studio spaces are closing and of young people and will be Abbey Theatre, on the Abbey Stage with Amos Trust, Hodder and Theatre and Galway International of Theatre for Children, taking club nights are being made inviting them to help to choose Stoughton and The New Theatre Arts Festival, in association with place all over the city. It’s a festival homeless. work for the festival. We will 08  The Alternative The New Theatre Town Hall Theatre Galway bursting with words, movement also be hosting international Fishamble: The New Play Company Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock and music, showcasing intense In the past decade, we have artists researching new works Pavilion Theatre and Draíocht 30 The Sleepwalkers Stage solo performances and exuberant become more confident about in collaboration with people in Pan Pan Theatre and large ensembles. asking politicians for proper Dublin. 10 How to Win Against History Dublin Youth Theatre 50 Collection of Lovers investment in culture. We’ve gone Áine Flanagan Productions axis: Ballymun Raquel André Running through the diverse beyond the idea that culture is a A festival is a collective act, made and Seiriol Davies Project Arts Centre (Cube) works in the festival is the luxury, towards an understanding by many people over countless The Civic, Tallaght 32 Total Immediate Collective common thread of our belief that it is essential for creating hours of imagining, planning and Imminent Terrestrial Salvation 52 Physics and Phantasma in the power of those moments sustainable communities. believing. We are grateful to the 12 Beckett’s Room National Theatre of Scotland in Iggy Lond Malmborg when an audience gathers to funders, sponsors and partners Dead Centre and Gate Theatre association with the Royal Court Project Arts Centre witness theatre, a group of What kind of city do you want to whose continuing support Gate Theatre Theatre, Teatro do Bairro Alto, (Space Upstairs) individuals in a shared exercise live in, what will a visitor see when makes our festival possible each Lisbon and Attenborough Centre of the imagination. Theatre offers they step out the front door of year. Thanks are also due to the 14 Piece for Person and for the Creative Arts 54 Sopro a community a safe, civic space their accommodation? It’s time to dedicated Dublin Theatre Festival Ghetto Blaster Samuel Beckett Theatre T iago Rodrigues/Teatro to engage in reflection and to speak up for Dublin to ensure that team who work determinedly so Nicola Gunn Nacional D. Maria II dialogue with itself, a refuge it can continue to be a place that that each festival is the best it can Samuel Beckett Theatre 34 Pike St. O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College from the current atmosphere of is diverse, creative and inspiring. be. More than anyone else we Nilaja Sun uncivil and sometimes violent We will get the city we ask for and thank the artists, without whom, 16 The Bluffer’s Guide to Suburbia Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space 56 BigKidLittleKid discourse. However, safety and I would like one that is made for there could be no festival and Ray Scannell with Once Off Anna Newell civility do not rule out provocation people and for the future. Given whose work we offer here for Productions in association 36 The Beacon The Ark and theatre can be at its most this, initiatives such as the newly you to enjoy. with Cork Midsummer Festival Druid and Gate Theatre powerful when it is not flattering formed Dublin City Council’s and The Everyman Gate Theatre 58 Stick by Me or consoling its audience but ambition to deliver 5% cultural, As the prompter, Christina, Project Arts Centre (Cube) Andy Manley and Red Bridge Arts challenging their way of seeing creative community space in the says in Sopro, Tiago Rodrigues’ 38 Your Words in my Mouth The Ark the world. Live performance is city is to be welcomed. celebration of plays and playing, 18 MÁM Anna Rispoli, Lotte Lindner and also a platform for the testimony ‘In the theatre we breathe the Teaċ Damsa Till Steinbrenner 60 Baba Yaga of those whose voices have been With increased investment same air’. Together, we share a O’Reilly Theatre, Various City Centre Venues Windmill Theatre Company left at the margins. The works in comes the responsibility to moment and of all of those that Belvedere College and Imaginate this year’s programme deal with invite more people to participate have gone before in this room. 40 Real Magic The Ark many contemporary topics but in our cultural life, to join the 20 Hecuba Forced Entertainment they also reach beyond these to a conversation and to be listened The performance is about Rough Magic Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) 62 The Haircut! poetic enquiry about who we are to. This year Dublin Theatre to begin. Take a deep breath. Project Arts Centre The Ark and what it means to be alive now. Festival is in its first year of (Space Upstairs) 42 Us/Them — BRONKS and Richard Jordan 65 Festival+ Willie White 22 Pasolini’s Salò Redubbed Productions with Theatre Royal Artistic Director Dylan Tighe and the Abbey Theatre Plymouth in association with Big 72 Accessibility Information Abbey Theatre, on the in Belgium and Summerhall Peacock Stage Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire 75 Visiting Dublin Information

24 Faultline 44 BURGERZ 76 Venue Details ANU Productions and Gate Theatre Travis Alabanza/ 11 Parnell Square East Hackney Showroom 78 Festival Schedule at a Glance Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space Dublin Theatre Festival and Lyric Theatre, Ireland and UK The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge

Pegeen is fed up. She’s not getting younger and is Directed by Oonagh Murphy desperate to escape the confines of a life stuck in the Set and Costume Design: Molly O’Cathain middle of nowhere. When the stranger Christy Mahon Lighting Design: Amy Mae arrives at her father’s shebeen, with a story that sets the Composer and Sound Design: village talking, he is welcomed with admiration by the Jane Deasy Movement Director: locals, even Pegeen. But all is not as it seems, and soon Paula O’Reilly the playboy’s past threatens to catch up with him. — Venue: Gaiety Theatre John Millington Synge is one of Ireland’s greatest Preview: 24 Sept, 7.30pm Dates: 25–27 Sept, 1, 2 & 4 Oct, 7.30pm, writers and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival. 28 Sept, 3 & 5 Oct, 2.30pm & 7.30pm, He rose from obscurity to international acclaim over 29 Sept, 4.30pm six intense years, before his untimely death at the age Tickets: €11–€46 Duration: Approx. 2 hrs 15 mins of 38. Met with controversy when it was first staged incl. interval. at the Abbey Theatre in 1907, his brutally hilarious — masterpiece, The Playboy of the Western World, Talking Theatre: 27 Sept, post-show. is about life on the margins and the lengths we go to, With Oonagh Murphy and to create a reality more exciting than the place we membersof the company. find ourselves. — Audio described performance: This production is funded by the Arts Council. 5 Oct, 2.30pm

Kindly supported by Image © Estate of Jack B Yeats. All Rights Reserved DACS 2019 DACS All Rights Reserved Image © Estate of Jack B Yeats. dublintheatrefestival.ie 5 Abbey Theatre, Ireland Last Orders At The Dockside by Dermot Bolger

Dublin Port, 1980 Directed by Graham McLaren Movement Director: Vicki Manderson Following the death of an elderly docker, Set and Costume Design: Alyson Cummins his friends gather in the local pub, The Dockside, Lighting Design: Paul Keogan to celebrate his life. Composer: Ray Harman Sound Design: Matt Padden Emotions run high, and a powder keg of friction Voice Director: Andrea Ainsworth — comes to a head as a dockland community Venue: Abbey Theatre, comes to terms with the challenge of building on the Abbey Stage new lives when old ways get swept away. Dates: 26, 27 & 30 Sept, 1–4 & 7–11 Oct, 7.30pm, 28 Sept, 5 & 12 Oct, 2pm & 7.30pm Over the course of an evening awash with Tickets: €13–€45 songs, sharp Dublin wit and tales of life on the Docks, hidden tensions expose fault lines in their complex relationships.

After the success of Ulysses, Dermot Bolger and Graham McLaren reunite for Last Orders At The Dockside.

Commissioned by Dublin Port Company. — This production is funded by the Arts Council. Photo © Shane Connaughton dublintheatrefestival.ie 7 excellent Fishamble… Ireland’s terrific Fishamble. The Guardian

a global brand with international theatrical presence. The Irish Times on Fishamble: The New Play Company

Fishamble: The New Play Company, Ireland The Alternative by Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney

What if Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom? Directed by Jim Culleton What if Home Rule had passed? What if there was Cast includes: Karen Ardiff, Lorcan Cranitch, Maeve Fitzgerald, Fionntán no War of Independence? No Civil War? No partition? Larney, Rory Nolan, Rachel O'Byrne What if the island had only one soccer team? and Arthur Riordan Set Design: Maree Kearns ​The year is 2019 and it is the eve of the Referendum. Lighting Design: Mark Galione Costume Design: Saileóg O’Halloran British Prime Minister Ursula Lysaght is returning to Sound Design: Denis Clohessy her hometown of Dublin to convince voters to Remain. Video Design: Oisín Kearney The final debate is set to begin at BBC Dublin: Dramaturg: Gavin Kostick — Should Ireland leave the UK? Venue: Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire Previews: 24 & 25 Sept, 8pm Fishamble has chosen The Alternative by Michael Dates: 26, 27 & 29 Sept, 8pm Patrick and Oisín Kearney (My Left Nut) from its 28 Sept, 2.30pm & 8pm Tickets: €22–€28 ‘A Play For Ireland’ initiative. This new play from two — of Ireland’s most exciting emerging playwrights, Venue: Draíocht produced by Olivier Award-winning Fishamble, Dates: 4 Oct, 8pm 5 Oct, 2.30pm & 8pm is not to be missed. Tickets: €20 — Suitable for ages 14+ Duration: Approx. 2 hrs. Contains scenes with strong language and depictions of violence. — — Talking Theatre: In association with Draíocht, The Everyman, Lime Tree Theatre/Belltable, 27 Sept, post-show. With members of Lyric Theatre, Pavilion Theatre, and Town Hall Theatre. Fishamble’s A Play the company. For Ireland programme is supported by Tesco Finest and Transportation Partner Irish Rail.

This production is funded by the Arts Council. — Presented by Pavilion Theatre and Draíocht in association with Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo © Graphic design by Publicis Dublin design by Photo © Graphic dublintheatrefestival.ie 9 A work of genius ««««« The Telegraph

Comparisons to the Broadway smash 'Hamilton' are inevitable ««««« The Stage

Áine Flanagan Productions and Seiriol Davies, UK How to Win Against History

The 5th Marquis of Anglesey burned brightly, Written and Composed by briefly and transvestitely at the end of the 19th Seiriol Davies Devised by the company century, blowing his family’s colossal fortune on Directed by Alex Swift diamond frocks, lilac-dyed poodles and putting Cast: Matthew Blake, Seiriol Davies on simply amazing plays to which nobody came. and Dylan Townley Design: Verity Quinn After he died at 29, his family burned every record Lighting Design: Dan Saggars of him, and carried on as though he never was. Musical Direction: Dylan Townley — How to Win Against History is a hilarious, Venue: The Civic, Tallaght Preview: 25 Sept, 8pm ripped-up musical about expectations, manliness, Dates: 26 Sept, 8pm disappointment and being totally fabulous. A frothy, 27 Sept, 5pm & 8pm glossy costume drama about the stories we tell Tickets: €16–€25 Duration: 75 mins. No interval. to convince ourselves it’s all going well, and the — moments we realise it’s not. Talking Theatre: 26 Sept, post-show. With members Following a sell-out tour of the UK, two sell out of the company. Edinburgh Festival Fringes and an extended run at London’s Young Vic Theatre, this multi-award- winning production comes to The Civic.

Supported by British Council Wales. — Presented by The Civic in association with Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo © Damien Frost dublintheatrefestival.ie 11 Dead Centre and Gate Theatre, Ireland Beckett’s Room by Dead Centre with Mark O’Halloran

A writer in the resistance, a siege in the room – Directed by Bush Moukarzel Disembodied voices haunt the stage and Ben Kidd Voice Cast: Valentijn Dhaenens, To shed light on a vanishing world Christoph Gawenda, Brian Gleeson, Moritz Gottwald, Viviane De Muynck A play without performers, Beckett’s Room tells and Laurence Roothooft the story of the apartment in Paris where Samuel Dramaturgy: Nicholas Johnson French Translator and Assistant Beckett lived with his partner Suzanne during the Dramaturg: Céline Thobois Second World War. A story of Art and Resistance, German Translator and Assistant the audience listen through headphones and Dramaturg: Peter Krauch Set Design: Andrew Clancy gaze upon a spectacle of absence – the absence Lighting Design: Stephen Dodd of bodies on stage focuses us more intently on Sound Design: Kevin Gleeson their stories, on the world changing around us, Video Design: José Miguel Jiménez Design Assistant: Florentina Burcea and changed by us. — Venue: Gate Theatre From the makers of LIPPY, Chekhov’s First Play and Dates: 24–26 Sept, 7.30pm Hamnet, this is the biography of a room, and an 27 & 28 Sept, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets: €15–€35 invitation to bear witness to a world as it disappears. Duration: 75 mins. No interval.

Performed in English, French and German, with English surtitles. — Supported by the Goethe-Institut Ireland, Irish Arts Center and Warwick Arts Centre.

dublintheatrefestival.ie 13 Comic genius… Gunn’s text is intricate and often brilliant, full of unpredictable digressions and curious factoids. It’s the verbal equivalent of skimming stones over water. The Age

Nicola Gunn, Australia Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster

The story of a man, a woman and a duck. Concept, Text, Direction and Performance: Nicola Gunn The work has a simple premise – exploring in depth the Choreography: Jo Lloyd​​​ Sound Composition and Design: moral dilemma of what to do if you see a man throwing Kelly Ryall stones at a sitting duck – but gradually becomes more AV Design: Martyn Coutts and more complex. Lighting Design: Niklas Pajanti Costume Design: Shio Otani Script Dramaturg: Jon Haynes Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster dissects the — excruciating realms of human behaviour and Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre navigates the moral and ethical complexities of Dates: 26–28 Sept, 7.30pm 29 Sept, 4.30pm intervention in a frenzied monologue, accompanied Tickets: €20–€25 by an intense physical choreography and a rhythmic Duration: 70 mins. No interval. electronic score. — Talking Theatre: 26 Sept, post-show. Shifting from seemingly incongruous anecdotes With Nicola Gunn. through comedy to the unexpectedly profound, Gunn tackles weighty philosophical questions with a verbal dexterity and furious athleticism.

Contains lasers, haze and coarse language. — This project is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Photo © Norman JeanMaria Baranova Roy dublintheatrefestival.ie 15 part ferocious standup, part electronica gig, 100% theatre. «««« The Guardian

Ray Scannell with Once Off Productions in association with Cork Midsummer Festival and The Everyman, Ireland The Bluffer’s Guide to Suburbia

It’s nearly 20 years since Finn left his family home in the Written and composed by Dublin suburbs for a chance to be the next darling on Ray Scannell Directed by Tom Creed the indie circuit. But his music career has gone down the Performers: Ray Scannell, tubes, the blinding London lights have burned him out, Peter Power and Christiane O’Mahony and he’s on the ferry home with empty pockets and his Set and Lighting Design: Sinéad McKenna guitar strap between his legs. Sound Design and Additional Composition: Peter Power From the concrete jungle of the N31 to a painfully Costume Design: Saileóg O’Halloran hip music festival on the white sands of the Aran Video Design: Jack Phelan — Islands, The Bluffer’s Guide to Suburbia lovingly Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) exposes a generation of adult children living back Dates: 26, 27 Sept & 1–4 Oct, 7.45pm in the home, struggling to fit into the nuclear family 28 Sept & 5 Oct, 2.45pm & 7.45pm 29 Sept 2.45pm ideal, and trying to make music in the face of rental Tickets: €20–€25 crises and global catastrophe. Duration: Approx. 80 mins. No interval. Following the success of Mimic (2007), Alice in — Talking Theatre: Funderland, THISISPOPBABY and the Abbey Theatre 28 Sept, post-show (7.45pm). (2012) and Deep (2013), Ray Scannell makes his With Ray Scannell and members festival writing debut with this new apocalyptic of the company. black comedy with live music and original songs.

This production is funded by the Arts Council. Photo © Colm Hogan dublintheatrefestival.ie 17 Raw, raucous, redemptive, majestic, vital and empowering. ««««« The Irish Times on ‘Swan Lake/Loch na hEala’

It’s a show of terrible beauty and extraordinary craft. It melds music, text, storytelling and dance into one light-as-a-feather package that never shirks the ugliness and messiness of life. ««««« The Guardian on ‘Swan Lake/Loch na hEala’

Teac Damsa, Ireland MÁM

Mám 1 : Mountain pass. Mám 2 :Yoke. Faoi mhám Directed and Choreographed by an pheaca, under the yoke of sin. 2. Lit: Obligation, Michael Keegan-Dolan Music: Cormac Begley duty, function. Mám 3 : Handful. ~ mhilseán, of sweets. and s t a r g a z e Scaipeann sé ina mhámanna é, he throws it away Performers include: in handfuls. Imogen Alvares, Cormac Begley, Romain Bly, Tyler Carney, Kim Ceysens, Lisa De Boos, Aki Iwamoto, Bringing together the virtuoso, Irish traditional Zen Jefferson, Mayah Kadish, concertina player Cormac Begley, the European James O’Hara, Keir Patrick, classical, contemporary collective, s t a r g a z e and Rachel Poirier, Connor Scott, David Six, James Southward, Carys Staton, twelve international dancers from the Teaċ Damsa Aart Strootman, Maaike Van der Linde company, MÁM is a meeting place between soloist and Marlies Van Gangelen and ensemble, classical and traditional, the local Set Design: Sabine Dargent Lighting Design: Adam Silverman and universal. Costume Design: Hyemi Shin Sound Design: Helen Atkinson Following the success of his acclaimed re-imagining — of the world-famous ballet, Swan Lake/Loch na hEala Venue: O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College (2016), Michael Keegan-Dolan and Teaċ Damsa, return Previews: 25 & 26 Sept, 7.30pm to the festival with a new mythic yet timely production Dates: 27–29 Sept & 1–5 Oct, 7.30pm that acknowledges how life's polarities can on occasion Tickets: €30–€40 — come together and find resolution. Talking Theatre: 1 Oct, post-show. Co-produced by Dublin Theatre Festival; Sadler's Wells London and With Michael Keegan-Dolan and Wellington Festival, with support from NOMAD and NASC touring network. members of the company. — This production is funded by an Arts Council Open Call Award. Illustration © Dómhnal Ó Bric Illustration dublintheatrefestival.ie 19 Rough Magic, Ireland Hecuba by Marina Carr

The Irish premiere of a major work by Marina Carr. Directed by Lynne Parker Cast: Frank Blake, Martha Breen, Hecuba is a passionate re-imagining of the aftermath Gillian Buckle, Brian Doherty, Zara Devlin, Ronan Leahy, Karen McCartney, of the Trojan War and the events surrounding its iconic Aislín McGuckin and Owen Roe. characters; a series of intense, dangerous personal Set and Costume Design: encounters and impossible choices, described by Sarah Bacon Lighting Design: Sarah Jane Shiels those who witnessed and experienced them. Sound Design and Composition: Carl Kennedy We are encouraged to think the unthinkable – what if it AV Design: John Galvin was me being asked to do these things, or suffering their — Venue: Project Arts Centre consequences? In the time of the devastation of Syria (Space Upstairs) and the global refugee crisis, when climate change Previews: 25 & 26 Sept, 7,30pm is every day bringing catastrophe closer to the shores Dates: 27 Sept & 1–4 Oct, 7.30pm 28, 29 Sept & 5 Oct, 2.30pm & 7.30pm of the West, it’s a disturbingly appropriate question. 6 Oct, 2.30pm Tickets: €25–€35 This drama of a complex and powerful woman is also Duration: 90 mins. No Interval. a depiction of the effect of war and its emotional cost — Talking Theatre: to the individual. 2 Oct, post-show. With Marina Carr, Lynne Parker and members of the Recommend age 16+ company. The show contains themes of an adult nature. — This production is funded by the Arts Council. Photo © Ros Kavanagh Photo © Ros dublintheatrefestival.ie 21 Tighe continually suggests new possibilities Time Out

'Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom' has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic... It’s also a masterpiece Criterion

Dylan Tighe and the Abbey Theatre, Ireland Pasolini’s Salò Redubbed

A live redubbing of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s controversial Directed and Adapted by Dylan Tighe 1975 film 'Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom' Cast includes: Thomas Collins, Lauren Larkin, Niamh McCann, Gina Moxley, Will O’Connell and Pasolini’s Salò Redubbed daringly transposes Pasolini’s Daniel Reardon notorious final film to Ireland. Lighting Design: Aedín Cosgrove Video Design: José Miguel Jiménez This radical adaptation by Dylan Tighe explores the Set Design: Aedín Cosgrove and Dylan Tighe beliefs and values behind ‘coercive confinement’ Post-Production Sound Design: and their enduring impact on the power relations Kevin Gleeson and injustices of contemporary Ireland. Sound Engineer and Additional Design: Alexis Nealon Costume Supervisor and Stylist: Pasolini’s Salò Redubbed is a fearless allegory of Ellen Kirk abuses of power, structural violence, masculinity Assistant Director: Grace Morgan and class supremacy. — Venue: Abbey Theatre, Suitable for ages 18+ on the Peacock Stage Contains graphic scenes of a violent and sexual nature. Previews: 26 & 27 Sept, 8pm — Dates: 28 & 30 Sept, 1–4 Oct, 8pm Development funded by Trinity Creative Challenge 2018. Supported by 5 Oct, 2.30pm & 8pm the Italian Cultural Institute and Mermaid Arts Centre. Tickets: €22–€25 Funded through an Arts Council Project Award. Duration: Approx. 2 hrs 15 mins. No interval. — Irish Sign Language interpreted performance: 3 Oct, 8pm Photo © Park Circus/MGM Studios Circus/MGM Photo © Park dublintheatrefestival.ie 23 ANU Productions and Gate Theatre, Ireland Faultline

A Love Story. Directed by Louise Lowe An Investigation. Cast includes: Nandi Bhebhe, Domhnall Herdman, Matthew An Exodus. Malone, Stephen Quinn and Matthew Williamson In 1982 a series of unrelated events ruptured Ireland’s Set Design: Owen Boss and LGBTQ+ community with catastrophic consequences. Maree Kearns Costume Design: Jack Scullion 1,500 people were investigated and details of their Lighting Design: Ciaran O’Melia intimate lives were divulged to families, friends and Composer: Carl Kennedy employers. Under pressure from Church and State, Sound Design: Sinéad Diskin — a faultline formed – resulting in a mass exodus from Venue: 11 Parnell Square East Ireland in search of anonymity and refuge. Previews: 26 & 27 Sept, 8pm & 9.30pm 28 Sept, 5.30pm, 8pm & 9.30pm Audiences will be propelled through a living history, Dates: 29 Sept, 5, 6, 12 & 13 Oct, 5.30pm, 8pm & 9.30pm based on source materials contained in the Irish Oct 1–4 & 8–11, 8pm & 9.30pm Queer Archive, encountering those at the heart of Tickets: €15–€28 this upheaval as they grapple with the threat of public Duration: 75 mins. No interval. perception of their very private lives.

Multi-award-winning Irish theatre company ANU, co-directed by Louise Lowe and Owen Boss, have been Artists in Residence at the Gate Theatre since 2018.

Developed as part of Live Collision International Festival 2018. This production is funded by the Arts Council.

dublintheatrefestival.ie 25 Decadent Theatre Company, Ireland A Love Like That by Billy Roche

A bittersweet new play by Billy Roche (The Wexford Directed by Andrew Flynn Trilogy and The Cavalcaders) set in a provincial library Lighting Design: Ciaran Bagnall Sound Design: Carl Kennedy on the cusp of its transfer to new premises. — Venue: The Civic, Tallaght A Love Like That tells the story of Ellen, a senior librarian Dates: 1–3 & 5 Oct, 8pm coping with the advice and warnings of an ambitious 4 Oct, 3pm & 8pm Tickets: €21–€24 younger colleague. Together they bear the upset Duration: 2 hrs 15 mins incl. interval. suffered by the library staff and their loyal readers – in — particular John-Joe, a down-at-heel homeless man and Talking Theatre: 3 Oct, post-show. With members Aidan, a sensible widower – at the impending move. of the company.

In a time of disruption, Ellen finds escape by reuniting with her old flame Lance, a charming wanderer who has returned home from his travels. Ellen faces betrayal on all sides but her warrior self finds hope and light in the process of change.

This production is funded by the Arts Council. — Presented by The Civic in association with Dublin Theatre Festival. Image © Brendan Foreman Design Herrity Foreman Photo © Aoife Image Brendan dublintheatrefestival.ie 27 So impressive... interweaving face-to-face experiences and political realities, displays the kind of unusual empathy essential in that tangled and tragic situation. Brian Eno — Artist and Musician

Incredibly moving and fascinating, a powerful pilgrim’s tale of love, humour and solidarity. Rosalind Nashashibi — 2017 Turner Prize Nominee

Passion Pit Theatre, in association with Amos Trust, Hodder & Stoughton and The New Theatre, UK and Ireland Walking to Jerusalem

2017 marked three major anniversaries for the Palestinian Written and performed by people: the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, Justin Butcher Directed by Matilda Reith the fiftieth year of Israel’s military occupation of the Music and Sound: Jack C. Arnold Palestinian Territories, and the tenth year of the blockade Video Design: Damian Hale of Gaza. To change the record after a century of injustice, and David Shepherd — a pilgrimage set out to walk from London to Jerusalem – Venue: The New Theatre in penance, solidarity, and hope. This was the inspiration Dates: 1–4 Oct, 7.30pm of award-winning playwright, actor, and musician Justin 5 Oct, 3pm & 7.30pm 6 Oct, 4.30pm Butcher (Scaramouche Jones, The Madness of George Tickets: €20–€25 Dubya, The Devil’s Passion), who worked with human rights Duration: Approx. 80 mins. No interval. charity Amos Trust to mount the Just Walk to Jerusalem, from June to November 2017. Calling for equal rights for all in the Holy Land, more than one hundred walkers took part. Nine walked the whole way.

Along Roman roads and refugee routes, with occasional outbreaks of blisters, tear gas and desert spirituality, in a feat of virtuoso storytelling accompanied by a video montage created by award-winning artists Damian Hale and David Shepherd from live footage along the route, Justin Butcher traces the perils, pratfalls and marvels of the path to Jerusalem. A chronicle of serendipity: happenstances hilarious, infuriating and occasionally numinous – or, as pilgrims might say, encounters with the Divine.

The New Theatre is funded by the Arts Council. — Presented by The New Theatre in association with Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo © Mark Kensett dublintheatrefestival.ie 29 Pan Pan Theatre and Dublin Youth Theatre, Ireland The Sleepwalkers

‘Oh how hard it is when pretense falls! But it falls, Directed by Gavin Quinn it falls! I am so alone in the world now.‘ Assistant Director: Sibéal Ní Mhaoileoin Designer: Aedín Cosgrove During an unknown natural catastrophe, Assistant Designer: seventeen members of Dublin Youth Theatre (DYT) Fenna von Hirschheydt find themselves trapped in an abandoned building. Movement Director: Aoife McAtamney Every time they try to leave and go outside, they Music: Simon Kenny fall asleep and wake up back where they started, Costume Design: Ciara Fleming rehearsing the same scene from Arthur Miller’s The Dramaturgy by Nicholas Johnson Assistant Dramaturg: Aoife Daly Crucible. Along the way they try to solve the world’s Performed by members of Dublin problems, just in case they ever wake up to find that Youth Theatre the world still exists. Think classic horror movie plots, — Venue: axis: Ballymun teenage angst, and the natural wisdom of the young, Dates: 2–4 Oct, 8pm all given a voice that you can’t help listening to. 5 Oct, 3pm & 8pm Tickets: €18 Collaboratively created from ideas Duration: 75 mins. No interval. — generated by DYT members as well as found Talking Theatre: texts, the production will ask the question: 5 Oct, post-show (3pm). what does it mean to be awake? With members of the company.

The Sleepwalkers is a leap into the void. Are we sleepwalking towards Armageddon? Should we really fear the world changing?

Suitable for ages 12+ — Supported by CDYSB and Dublin City Council. This production is funded by the Arts Council. — Presented by axis: Ballymun in association with Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo © Aoife Herrity Photo © Aoife dublintheatrefestival.ie 31 National Theatre of Scotland in association with the Royal Court Theatre, Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisbon and Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, UK and Portugal Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation by Tim Crouch

The writer leads his followers towards the end of Directed by Karl James and this world and the start of a new one. The book he’s Andy Smith Illustrator: Rachana Jadhav written predicts it all – the equations, the black hole, — all the words we’ll speak till then. Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre Dates: 2–4 Oct, 7.30pm On this last day, at this last hour, a defector finds 5 Oct, 3.30pm & 7.30pm 6 Oct, 2.30pm & 6.30pm her voice and returns. Tickets: €20–€25 Duration: 75 mins. No interval. Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial — Salvation is a new play by Tim Crouch, presented Talking Theatre: 3 Oct, post-show. With Tim Crouch through combined stage action and illustrated text. and members of the company. It tells the story of a man who manipulates a group of people to sit in a place together and believe in something that isn’t true. Audience and actors turn the book’s pages together, study the images, and sometimes share the words.

Actor, director, writer and experimental theatre maker Tim Crouch pushes at the boundaries of metatheatre, constructing dazzling, complex, profoundly moving plays that strip the theatrical event down to its purest form – an encounter between actor and audience. Among his internationally acclaimed works are ENGLAND, The Author and what happens to hope at the end of the evening, which were previously presented at Dublin Theatre Festival.

Suitable for ages 14+ Audience members will be invited to read aloud during the performance. Photo © Michaela Bodlovic dublintheatrefestival.ie 33 Nilaja Sun, USA Pike St.

Following the remarkable success of No Child..., Written and performed by Nilaja Sun which ran for a year at Barrow Street Theatre in New Direction and Sound Design by Ron Russell York and was presented as part of Dublin Theatre Set Design: Megan Raham Festival, OBIE Award-winning Nilaja Sun returns with Lighting Design: Tyler Micoleau her one-woman show, Pike St. fresh from critical Costume Design: Clint Ramos — acclaim in the U.S. Venue: Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space Set in a diverse neighbourhood in the shadow of Dates: 2-4 Oct, 7.30pm Manhattan Bridge, Pike St. tells the story of a desperate 5 Oct, 2.30pm & 7.30pm 6 Oct, 2.30pm mother unable to move her stricken daughter down Tickets: €20–€25 five flights of stairs during an approaching hurricane. Duration: 75 mins. No interval. As she works to keep the electricity flowing into her — Talking Theatre: daughter’s respirator, an entire community of colourful 4 Oct, post-show. With Nilaja Sun. characters – a decorated war veteran, her ne’er-do-well father, and her octogenarian downstairs neighbour – offer their help, casting new light on the phrase ‘it takes a village.’

This production is funded by Dublin City Arts Office.

Photo © Teresa Castracane Photo © Teresa dublintheatrefestival.ie 35 Druid and Gate Theatre, Ireland The Beacon by Nancy Harris

A mysterious accident. A dead husband. People Directed by Garry Hynes are talking. Secrets are resurfacing from the depths. Cast includes: Jane Brennan, Rae Is the past ever truly dead? Gray, Cillian Ó’Gairbhí and Marty Rea Set and Costume Design: Francis O’Connor Beiv, a celebrated artist, has moved from suburban Lighting Design: James F. Ingalls Dublin to her holiday cottage on an island off the Sound Design: Gregory Clarke coast of West Cork. But a dark shadow from the — Venue: Gate Theatre past hangs over her. When her estranged son and Preview: 2 Oct, 7.30pm his new young wife arrive to stay, she is faced with Dates: 3, 4, 7, 8, 10 & 11 Oct, 7.30pm some difficult questions. 5, 9 & 12 Oct, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets: €15–€42 The Beacon is a new play commissioned by Druid and marks Nancy Harris’s Druid debut and her welcome return to the Gate Theatre stage after her brilliantly dark comic adaptation of The Red Shoes in 2017.

This production is funded by the Arts Council.

dublintheatrefestival.ie 37 Anna Rispoli, Lotte Lindner and Till Steinbrenner, Belgium Your Words in my Mouth

What happens if people get together to talk about love? Concept by Anna Rispoli, Lotte Lindner and Till Steinbrenner Your Words in my Mouth is a group discussion that Directed by Anna Rispoli Artistic Collaboration: immerses us in the private lives of several residents Céline Estenne of Brussels. Among them a polyamorist, a football- Dramaturgy: Bart Capelle mad teenage girl, a notary specialised in matrimonial Text written in collaboration with: A. Brussels, B. St-Gilles, C. Schaerbeek, contracts, a sex assistant for people with disabilities. D. Molenbeek, E. Ixelles, F. Uccle, G. Their relationships with love are radically different, St-Pieters-Leeuw, H. Anderlecht but each attempts to find his or her place in the city’s — Venue: Bohemian FC, Dalymount Park cosmopolitan nature. Dates: 1 Oct, 6pm & 8pm — Anna Rispoli and her two collaborators offer a Venue: The Natural Cut reconstruction of this unlikely encounter in a series of Dates: 2 Oct, 6pm & 8pm — venues usually reserved for an in-crowd: a hairdresser's, Venue: Freemasons’ Hall a council chamber and a Freemasons' Hall... Members Date: 3 Oct, 6pm & 8pm of the audience are invited to lend their voices to other — Venue: Council Chamber, City Hall people’s words and play them. How do these 'alien' Date: 4 Oct, 6pm & 8pm words sound in our own mouths? How should we live — and come to terms with these differences? Tickets: €20 Duration: 65 mins. No Interval. Right in the heart of the city, Your Words in my Mouth is a conversation based on profound citizenship in which love might just open up new political perspectives.

Audience members will be invited to read aloud during the performance. Photo © Till Steinbrenner Photo © Till dublintheatrefestival.ie 39 Devilishly simple, fiendishly intricate The Guardian

Brilliant and painfully searching show from Forced Entertainment The Scotsman

Forced Entertainment, UK Real Magic

Real Magic creates a world of absurd disconnection, Conceived and devised by struggle and comical repetition. To the sound the company Directed by: Tim Etchells of looped applause and canned laughter, three Devised with and performed by: performers take part in an impossible illusion – part Jerry Killick, Richard Lowdon and mind-reading feat, part cabaret act, part nightmare Claire Marshall Created with input from: game show – in which they are thrown back Robin Arthur and Cathy Naden again and again to moments of hope and defeat. Lighting Design: Jim Harrison Caught in a world of second-chances and second- Design: Richard Lowdon Sound Technicians: guesses, variations and changes, distortions and Greg Akehurst, Doug Currie transformations, Real Magic takes the audience on a Project Assistant: Anna Krauss hallucinatory journey, creating a compelling virtuoso Music Electronics & Sound Editing: John Avery performance about big systems, small traps and Loops: Tim Etchells yearning for change. ‘Grave’, from Telemann Fantasia Number 1 in B-Flat Major Aisha Real Magic sees regular Forced Entertainment Orazbayeva — performers Richard Lowdon and Claire Marshall, Venue: Project Arts Centre (Space joined by Jerry Killick, who has worked with the Upstairs) group on numerous projects including Bloody Dates: 8 & 9 Oct, 7.30pm Tickets: €25 Mess and And On The Thousandth Night… Duration: Approx. 90 mins. No interval. — Flashing lights are used throughout the performance. Talking Theatre: — 8 Oct, post-show. With members Co-produced by: PACT Zollverein Essen, HAU Hebbel Am of the company. Ufer Berlin, Künsterlhaus Moustonturm Frankfurt, Tanzquartier Wien Vienna, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex and the Spalding Gray Consortium – On the Boards Seattle, PS122 NYC, Walker Art Center Minneapolis and Warhol Museum Pittsburgh. Photo © Hugo Glendinning dublintheatrefestival.ie 41 Startling. Remarkable. Playful as well as moving ««««« The Guardian An innovative piece of theatrical storytelling ««««« The Times

BRONKS and Richard Jordan Productions with Theatre Royal Plymouth in association with Big in Belgium and Summerhall, Belgium and UK Us/Them by Carly Wijs

Following sell out runs at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Directed by Carly Wijs London’s National Theatre, this multi-award-winning Cast: Gytha Parmentier and Roman Van Houtven production comes to Pavilion Theatre. — Venue: Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire In September 2004, the greatest of evils (terrorists) Dates: 8, 9 & 11 Oct, 8pm chose the greatest of good (a group of children) as their 10 Oct, 10am & 8pm 12 Oct, 4pm & 8pm victim. For three days, 1,200 people were held hostage 13 Oct, 4pm by terrorists in a school in Beslan, a small town near the Tickets: €24–€27 Russia and Chechnya border. Duration: Approx. 60 mins. No interval.

Retold from the perspective of two fictional characters, a young boy and girl, Us/Them is not a straightforward account of this tragedy but is about the entirely individual way children cope with extreme situations.

A thrilling piece of international theatre that uses both humour and a matter-of-fact approach combined with dynamic, physical storytelling and breathtaking choreography to strikingly show that for children, things which seem incomprehensible to adults, have their own logic.

Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First Award for New Writing at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016.

Presented by Pavilion Theatre in association with Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo © FKPH dublintheatrefestival.ie 43 A terrific, tricky and layered show Lyn Gardner, Stagedoor

Absolutely vital The Stage

Travis Alabanza and Hackney Showroom, UK BURGERZ

Hurled words. Thrown objects. Dodged Burgers. Written and Performed by Travis Alabanza After someone threw a burger at them and shouted Directed by Sam Curtis Lindsay Set and Costume Design: a transphobic slur, performance artist Travis Alabanza Soutra Gilmour became obsessed with burgers. Associate Designer: Isabella van Braeckel How they’re made, how they feel, and smell. How they Lighting Design: Lee Curran and Lauren Woodhead travel through the air. How the mayonnaise feels on Sound Design: XANA your skin. Movement: Nando Messias — This show is the climax of their obsession – exploring Venue: Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space how trans bodies survive and how, by them reclaiming Dates: 9 & 11 Oct, 7.30pm an act of violence, we can address our own complicity. 10 & 12 Oct, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets: €15–€25 Carving out a place for themselves as one of the Duration: 70 mins. No interval — UK’s prominent trans voices, Alabanza presents a Talking Theatre: performance that is timely, unsettling and powerful. 9 Oct, post-show. With Travis Alabanza.

Suitable for ages 14+ Real meat is used on stage. Contains haze, loud noises and themes of harassment and assault — Developed in association with Ovalhouse & Marlborough Theatre. Supported by Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund & Bishopsgate Institute.

Photo © Elise Rose dublintheatrefestival.ie 45 Prime Cut Productions, Northern Ireland, UK Removed by Fionnuala Kennedy

Removed is a funny and affecting fictional story, Directed by Emma Jordan told by a character called ‘Adam’, that offers insight Performed by Conor O’Donnell Set Design: Ciaran Bagnall into the experiences of growing up in the Northern Lighting Design: Paul Keogan Irish care system. Sound Design: Conor Mitchell AV Design: Conan McIvor ‘Adam is OK to share his story - really it’s alright – — Venue: axis: Ballymun it's OK that his life was turned upside down – and the Dates: 9 & 11 Oct, 8pm social workers were nice, kinda – and the foster homes, 10 Oct, 11.30am & 8pm well... and his baby brother Joe?’ 12 Oct, 3pm & 8pm Tickets: €15 Duration: 60 mins. No interval. Removed is not based on one individual, but rather an amalgam of the many interviews gathered by Fionnuala Kennedy with Voice Of Young People In Care, a group of people with care experience who are campaigning for changes to the system in Northern Ireland. Through this collaboration, they seek to learn from these young people and their experiences.

Funded by Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Creative Europe. — Presented by axis: Ballymun in association with Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo © High Jump Design dublintheatrefestival.ie 47 Moonfish Theatre, the Abbey Theatre and Galway International Arts Festival, in association with Town Hall Theatre Galway, Ireland Redemption Falls freely adapted from the novel by Joseph O’Connor

Every last one of us got our own tune inside them. Devised and performed by If you stay real quiet you can hear it. Listen... the Moonfish Ensemble Ensemble: Morgan Cooke, Pat Hargan, Grace Kiely, Zita Monahan McGowan, A bleak and beautiful story, told through the folk music Ionia Ní Chróinín, Máiréad Ní Chróinín of Ireland and America. and Seán T. Ó Meallaigh Set Design: Lian Bell 1865 – The end of the US Civil War. Eliza Duane Mooney, Lighting Design: SJ Shiels Costume Design: Cherie White daughter of an Irish emigrant, walks across America — in search of her brother Jeddo, a child soldier in the Venue: Abbey Theatre, Confederate army. As Eliza and Jeddo’s stories unfold, on the Peacock Stage Free First Preview: 9 Oct, 8pm they shine a light on the stark realities of war, its invisible Dates: 10 & 11 Oct, 8pm rise, and what is left in its wake. 12 Oct, 2.30pm & 8pm Tickets: €25 Moonfish Theatre follow their acclaimed adaptation Duration: Approx. 1 hr 45 mins incl. interval. of Joseph O’Connor’s novel Star of the Sea with a unique re-imagining of O’Connor’s sequel, Redemption Falls. Presented as a theatre-gig, Redemption Falls weaves together traditional folk song and music, visceral imagery and evocative storytelling in a breath-taking and intense theatrical experience.

This production is funded by the Arts Council. Photo © Marta Barcikowski dublintheatrefestival.ie 49 Raquel André, Portugal Collection of Lovers

Raquel André is a collector of rare things. Across 20 Co-Created by António Pedro Lopes, cities around the world she has collected more than Bernardo de Almeida and Raquel André Music: Noiserv 200 ‘lovers’ to date. People of all nationalities, genders Lighting Design: Rui Monteiro and and ages, have agreed to meet her in an unfamiliar Carin Geada apartment, to build a fictional intimacy within the Sound Design: João Neves — span of an hour. In each city she encounters more Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) lovers and the collection grows. These encounters are Dates: 10 & 11 Oct, 7.45pm documented in photographs, to serve as content for 12 Oct, 2.45pm & 7.45pm Tickets: €20–€25 an ever-evolving performance. Duration: 60 mins. No interval. — Each time the door opens for a new lover, Talking Theatre: Raquel André dives into an abyss that is the other, 10 Oct, post-show. With Raquel André. and reality and fiction merge. Each encounter is real. The flirtation is real. The intimacy may feel more real than fiction. And Raquel, the obsessive collector, holds on to the moments of each meeting, the rare objects of her peculiar collection, ephemeral and infinite.

Strobe lighting is used during the performance. — Co-production Teatro Nacional D.Maria II (PT) and TEMPO Festival das Artes (BRA). — Supported by Apoio Pontual 2015 - República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direcção Geral das Artes, Fundação GDA, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, FLAD and apap-Performing Europe 2020 – a project co-founded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Photo © Tiago Jesus Brás Jesus Brás Photo © Tiago dublintheatrefestival.ie 51 a totally engrossing and brilliantly structured piece of theatre… a disruptive, startling, and multifaceted triumph of performance tanzschreibe.de

Iggy Lond Malmborg, Sweden/Estonia Physics and Phantasma

Even before we enter the theatre, our imagination is at Written and Performed by work, anticipating what is to come. We are already doing Iggy Lond Malmborg Dramaturgical Team: Erik Berg, Johan so reading this text. Jönson and Maike Lond Malmborg Lighting Design: Maike Lond Malmborg We encounter the stage as an empty space – a blank Mechanics: Kalle Tikas canvas for artists to create and audiences to imagine. A Text by Johan Jönson Graphic Design: Jaan Evart This potential is usually celebrated, but not by Iggy Lond — Malmborg. For him, this anxiety-making emptiness must Venue: Project Arts Centre be filled with something. He fills the void with fantastical (Space Upstairs) Dates: 11 Oct, 7.30pm theatre magic, bringing the audience to the unknown and 12 Oct, 2pm & 7.30pm dark corners of the imagination where this performance Tickets: €20–€25 takes place. Duration: 90 mins. No interval. — Talking Theatre: This is the crux of the piece – the power of our imagination 11 Oct, post-show. With and its ability to traverse the barrier between good and Iggy Lond Malmborg. evil, to challenge the laws of physics and to protect us from inexplicable inconsistencies of life. At the same time, fantasy is at the very foundation of xenophobia and the power structures inherent in language.

Physics and Phantasma is a study in the artist’s relationship with an audience, and the space in between.

Suitable for ages 18+ Contains explicit language. — Co-production Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Tallinn), Teaterhuset Avant Garden (Trondheim) In collaboration with: Inkonst (Malmö), MIMstuudio (Tallinn). — Supported by Swedish Arts Council, Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Malmö City, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Valmiermuiza Brewery. Photo © Renee Altrov Photo © Renee dublintheatrefestival.ie 53 a radiant show of beauty and intelligence Le Monde

Tiago Rodrigues/Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Portugal Sopro by Tiago Rodrigues

Cristina Vidal has been a prompter at Lisbon’s Teatro Directed by Tiago Rodrigues Nacional D. Maria II for the past 40 years. Tonight, Cast includes: Isabel Abreu, Beatriz Brás, Carla Bolito, Romeu Costa, she reluctantly steps out of the shadows and shares Marco Mendonça and Cristina Vidal. stories from her decades of working in the theatre, not Stage and Lighting Design: whispered from the prompt box, but on stage in full view Thomas Walgrave Costume Design: Aldina Jesus of the audience for the first time. Stage action makes way Sound Design: Pedro Costa for this usually unseen person to take the spotlight. Rather Assistant Director: than prompting the actors for their lines, she prompts Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro Light Operation: Daniel Varela them for their memories. — Venue: O’Reilly Theatre, Tiago Rodrigues, the theatre’s artistic director, explores Belvedere College the literal and metaphorical space the prompter inhabits, Dates: 11 & 12 Oct, 7.30pm in between the stage and backstage. He weaves 13 Oct, 3.30pm Tickets: €35 together excerpts from classic texts and anecdotes from Duration: 1h 45 mins. No interval. backstage life to pay homage to the prompters who have — become the embodiment of the memory of the theatre Talking Theatre: 12 Oct, post-show. With Tiago but are on the brink of extinction. Rodrigues and members of the company. ‘Sopro’ is the Portuguese word for breath. The production premiered at the Festival d’Avignon in 2017 and was acclaimed by critics and the public for its celebration of theatre, those who make it and those who watch it.

Performed in Portuguese with English surtitles. — Co-production ExtraPôle Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre de la Bastille, La Criée Théâtre national de Marseille, Le Parvis Scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées, Festival Terres de Paroles Seine-Maritime – Normandie, Théâtre Garonne scène européenne, Teatro Viriato. — Supported by Onda (Office National de Diffusion Artistique). Photo © Christophe Raynaud de Lage Photo © Christophe Raynaud dublintheatrefestival.ie 55 Theatre for Children in partnership with The Ark

Anna Newell, Ireland BigKidLittleKid

Are you a big kid or a little kid? Or both? Created by Anna Newell Music: David Goodall BigKidLittleKid is a quirky, playful, energetic and engaging Costume Design: Cherie White Performed by Nicky Harley and look at being on your own and being with someone else; Mary-Louise McCarthy and how size can really matter. — Venue: The Ark BigKidLittleKid promises to delight and enchant its Tickets: €12.50 Duration: 30 mins. No interval. audiences with its unique and wordless take on the — complicated world of sibling rivalry. Schools performances: Date: 27 Sept, 10.15am & 12.15pm Created by Anna Newell, described by The Guardian as ‘a — Public performances: hero of children’s theatre‘ and by the Irish Times as an ‘early Dates: 28 & 29 Sept, 2pm & 4pm years theatre pioneer’, with music by David Goodall, with — whom Anna has created shows for early years audiences To avail of discounted tickets for schools bookings and early-bird that have been seen on 5 continents and off-Broadway. school rates, please contact The Ark directly (see p. 76). Ages 3–6 — In partnership with The Civic, Tallaght; the Mermaid, Bray and Draíocht, Blanchardstown. Initial R&D funding by the Pavilion, Dún Laoghaire and the Mermaid, Bray.

This production is funded by the Arts Council.

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Andy Manley and Red Bridge Arts, UK Stick by Me

‘It’s a stick. It’s just a stick.’ Co-created by Andy Manley and Ian Cameron But for one, all alone, this stick has something Directed by Ian Cameron Design: Katherina Radeva special. And soon the two are the best of friends. Music and Sound Design: They run, play, hide and rest… and stick together Will Calderbank when things get tough. Movement: Christine Devaney Lighting Design: Craig Fleming — Beautifully crafted, making treasure from everyday Venue: The Ark objects, Stick by Me is a joyful show about Tickets: €12.50 friendship and play, and the importance Duration: 50 mins. incl. 10 mins. play time. No Interval. of treasuring little things. — Schools performances: Created by the duo behind critically acclaimed Date: 2 & 3 Oct, 10.15am & 12.15pm White – Andy Manley and Ian Cameron – Stick — Public performances: by Me builds on their vast experience of creating Dates: 1 & 2 Oct, 3pm performances for very young children. — To avail of discounted tickets for Ages 3–6 schools bookings and early-bird — school rates, please contact Winner of Best Production for Children and Young People The Ark directly (see p. 76). 2019 CATS Awards. — Originally commissioned by Gulbenkian. Relaxed Performance: 2 Oct, 12.15pm Photo © Mihaela Bodlovic Photo © Mihaela Bodlovic dublintheatrefestival.ie 59 A brilliant new version of the alluring Theatre for Children old Russian fairytale in partnership with The Ark The Scotsman

A Windmill Theatre Company and Imaginate Production, Australia and UK Baba Yaga by Christine Johnston, Rosemary Myers and Shona Reppe

Vaselina lives the quiet life, working as a receptionist in Directed by Rosemary Myers a very tall apartment block. But all that changes when Cast: Elizabeth Hay and Christine Johnson she is forced to confront a terrifying resident who plays Dramaturg: Julianne O’Brien her music far too loudly and eats jelly babies with her Movement: Carol Wellman Kelly mouth open. Sound Design and Composition: Peter Nelson Lighting Design: Richard Vabre Who is this mysterious neighbour? Will she ever Costume Design: Selene Cochrane turn the music down? And what exactly is she planning — for dinner? Venue: The Ark Tickets: €12.50 Duration: 50 mins. No Interval. Direct from critically acclaimed seasons at the 2018 — Edinburgh International Children’s Festival and 2019 Schools performances: Adelaide Festival, Baba Yaga is a brand new take on an Date: 4 Oct, 10.15am & 12.15pm — old Russian folktale co-created by director Rosemary Public performances: Myers and two unique and celebrated artists from Dates: 5 & 6 Oct, 2pm & 4pm opposite ends of the globe - Shona Reppe (Scotland) — To avail of discounted tickets for and Christine Johnston (Australia). Joining Christine schools bookings and early-bird in Dublin will be Elizabeth Hay, recently seen at The Ark school rates, please contact in Slingsby’s Emil and the Detetctives. The Ark directly (see p. 76).

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The Ark, Ireland The Haircut! by Wayne Jordan and Tom Lane

Labhraidh Loingseach has a secret. He wears Written and Directed by his hair long and he has it cut only once a year. Wayne Jordan Composed and Directed by Once a year on the same night in the same place Tom Lane and in the same style. But never by the same barber. Cast includes: Thommas Kane Byrne, Nicola Ciccarelli, Lioba Petrie and The Haircut! is a cautionary tale with a live musical Berginald Rash — soundtrack. The Haircut! is a fairytale remixed and Venue: The Ark retold. The Haircut! is a play about secrets and Tickets: €9.50–€12.50 about creativity stifled. About fighting for what you Duration: Approx 50 mins. No Interval. believe in and standing up to power. About music — and magic and hair. Schools performances: Previews: 10 Oct, 10.15am & 12.15pm Set in a magical modern day Ireland, The Haircut! 11 Oct, 12.15pm — is a new commission from The Ark, written by Public performances: by Wayne Jordan, delivered with ineffable charm Preview: 12 Oct, 2pm by bright new talent Thomas Kane Byrne and Dates: 12 Oct, 4pm 13 Oct, 2pm & 4pm accompanied by Tom Lane’s vibrant score played — by three outstanding musicians. To avail of discounted tickets for schools bookings and early-bird Ages 8+ school rates, please contact — The Ark directly (see p. 76). This production is funded by the Arts Council. Photo © Ros Kavanagh Photo © Ros dublintheatrefestival.ie 63 festival+

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Rat King by They are lonely. They want to Transmission by Caitríona Ní THISISPOPBABY - New Play, Irish Theatre Genevieve Hulme-Beaman, start a band. Both have good Mhurchú, in collaboration with Conversations After Sex Awards 2011). in collaboration with Ronan quality thick hair. Both have Gina Moxley and Raymond by Mark O’Halloran Presented with the support of Dublin Phelan and Kate Ferris a strong look. Will you listen? Keane Strangers meet through City Council and developed at FRINGE Written and performed by one Can you hear them? They are Discovering footage dating apps, websites or LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival. of the sharpest dynamos of vanishing. They are gone. online of her long-dead random hook ups at the Irish stage, Genevieve Hulme- A new collaboration between grandfather led performer, supermarket. They couple Venue: Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) Beaman, Rat King observes Doireann Coady and Jane writer and ex-television in cars, hotel rooms and Date: 6 Oct, 4.30pm the darkly comic lives of Deasy. presenter, Caitríona Ní anonymous apartments.

David and Chrissy, a pigeon- Supported by The Arts Council and Mhurchú to explore the They f*ck furiously, fulfilling hearted duo clambering to the Pan Pan International Mentorship nature of obsolescence in perceived physical desires Decoys by Shaun Dunne make sense of the world in programme. a changing world. Part ode and needs in one another - Decoys is a new work by which they exist. In 2014, Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) to the lighthouse keeper, the need to forget themselves, documentary theatre artist Genevieve’s debut play Date: 4 Oct, 2.15pm & 4pm part personal history and feel, control or submit. Shaun Dunne, looking at the Pondling was a recipient part enquiry into evolving reintegration of sex offenders Their shared physical intimacy of a Scotsman Fringe First technology, Transmission into mainstream community. Father’s Day by Richard becomes a catalyst for Award Edinburgh, Stewart is an inventive and playful Walsh, Offer Egozi and Nora shocking communication. Written and performed Parker Trust Award, New York meditation on what our Chipaumire Their belief in the shield of by Shaun, this piece is Times Critic Pick and Best futures might hold and Father’s Day is three fathers anonymity allows them to heavily informed by a Female Performer at Dublin how our histories might airing their dirty laundry. reveal parts of themselves period of time he spent in Fringe Festival. be recorded. The playtext is co-authored hidden from friends, family the UK, volunteering with 'A glittering gem of a show' by three artists born in Ireland, Transmission brings together or lovers. The conversations, organisations that work to The Irish Times on 'Pondling' Israel and Zimbabwe and the creative team of Zia held in the shadow of guilt, equip convicted offenders Supported by a Dún Laoghaire- directed by New York based Bergin-Holly (Design), Bird regret or shame, are darkly towards community living. Rathdown Emerging Artist Bursary. in Snow’s, Niall Toner Jr and comedic and troubling, John Jesurun. 'A sophisticated and bracing Les Keye (Sound Design) and revealing a devastatingly Venue: Project Arts Centre piece on living with HIV in (Space Upstairs) Set in a laundromat, it looks Jason Byrne (Video Design). honest portrait of a society. Date: 4 Oct, 1pm at three fathers who came of Ireland. A work as involving This project received development Tom Creed directs the and compassionate as age in the politically charged funding from An Chomhairle Ealaíon sixties and seventies, and how and Project Arts Centre. Developed at latest piece from multi- 'Rapids' could be the Vanishing by Doireann these men now relate to their FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin award-winning writer Mark beginning of an antidote.' Coady, in collaboration Fringe Festival. children, their mortality and O'Halloran (Viva, Garage, Irish Times on 'Rapids' with Jane Deasy the contemporary world. Supported by Irish Theatre Institute Adam and Paul) and the team Supported by an Arts Council bursary Can we listen to each other? and Coiscéim. behind Trade (Winner, Best towards developing solo performance Can you hold our hands Funded by the Arts Council and and the Pan Pan International supported by Irish Arts Center, NYC. Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) together? A thin girl and a less Date: 5 Oct, 11.45am Mentorship programme. Venue: The All American Launderette thin girl are sad and would like Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) to disappear. Date: 5 Oct, 10am, 11am & 12pm Date: 12 Oct, 12pm

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The Next Stage 26th International Theatre Creative Europe Desk The Futures of Irish Theatre: Blast: International Critics’ Youth Theatre Ireland Young Presented in partnership with eXchange (ITX) Ireland, EU Arts and Looking to the past for new Forum Critics’ Panel Theatre Forum, the Next Stage Irish Theatre Institute presents Culture Funding: Case ways forward When you watch a The Young Critics are back. is the artist development its annual ITX weekend Study BeSpectACTive! A During the last decade, performance, what is it that Get a different perspective on strand of Dublin Theatre programme of pitching, European Network for Active Irish theatre companies and you are looking for? Join this year’s festival programme Festival. Over the 18 days of showcasing and networking Spectatorship artists have opened up their the makers of Blast, a new as 16 young people from the festival, participants are events designed for Irish Join us for a free seminar archives in new ways – so platform for conversations across Ireland share their immersed in the programme theatre artists and companies, on Creative Europe funding that we’re now seeing the about theatre, where critical response in a session and given access to an array to develop their international for the arts and culture publication of books and our panel of Irish and chaired by Dr. Karen Fricker. of leading artists in a packed connections and explore sectors with a case study articles that tell us fascinating international theatre critics Since April, the Young Critics schedule of talks, interviews, potential collaborations with of Be SpectACTive!, a large new things about our dramatic will take a fresh perspective have been honing their critical group time and workshops. programmers interested in scale European cooperation past. As Irish theatre grapples on this year’s Dublin Theatre skills through workshops and The Next Stage has been presenting Irish work to their project. with new challenges – from Festival programme. online discussion with the lauded by alumni as ‘a rare audiences. funding to politics to the The seminar is open to An informed and lively critical support of professional theatre amount of inspiration’ and climate crisis – we ask whether The invited international arts organisations who wish discussion, Blast addresses critics and facilitators. They ‘career changing’. our history can offer any presenters and producers to learn about European the work, the context for its have also been seeing lots guidance for the future. This Past speakers and workshop experience a diverse range support for culture projects creation and its impact on of theatre and creating their public debate features the leaders include Tim Crouch, of Irish work including a and will be followed by the audience, to help identify own criticism in familiar and authors of three recently Garry Hynes, Michael Keegan- curated Pitching Session, a networking reception. the talking points of the unusual forms… published books: Barry Dolan, Ruth Little, Mikel Murfi, a series of rehearsed works festival. And isn’t that what Visit dublintheatrefestival.ie Houlihan (Navigating Ireland’s Find out more, join the Thomas Ostermeier, Vivi Tellas ‘In Development’ and a it's all about? for booking information. Theatre Archive), Patrick Young Critics as they review and Enda Walsh. The Next programme of Irish festival Lonergan (Irish Theatre and Bringing together critics with productions from the festival Stage also creates valuable productions. Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) Date: 8 Oct, 4pm Drama Since 1950) and Melissa a wealth of experience and in their own unique way. opportunities for enriching Artists programmed during the Sihra (Marina Carr: Pastures a breadth reference of engagement with visiting Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) festival must register to attend of the Unknown), with Tanya different theatre cultures, Date: 13 Oct, 1pm artists, with past programmes ITX (4th October). Registration Dean as moderator. this forum considers sparking successful artistic includes attendance at the performance from several collaborations. Venue: Royal Irish Academy morning pitching sessions*, Date: 2 Oct, 4pm angles and welcomes Participation in the 2019 followed by the International audience reflection and programme is by application Networking Lunch. Capacity feedback. If there’s nothing only, from 25 July. Deadline is is limited. more deadly than consensus,

16 August. *Selection to participate in the here is an opportunity for Pitching Session is by open call. See spirited debate, challenge Find out more and apply cultureireland.ie/irishtheatreinstitute.ie and perhaps something rarer through dublintheatrefestival.ie for further details. still – a chance to change or theatreforum.ie ITX is presented in partnership with your mind. Culture Ireland and supported by the Arts Council. Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) Date: 7 Oct, 4pm Venue: Various – Dublin city centre Date: Oct 4 Registration: €30/1 person, €50/2 people from the same organisation Registration opens 26 Aug For further information on the International Theatre eXchange visit irishtheatreinstitute.ie

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Irish Society of Stage and Theatrical Walking Tour her search for justice ever Screen Designers - Design Join urbanist and Fáilte since. You Can Leave at Any & Destroy: An exploration Ireland tour guide Sam Time is a powerful indictment of Irish design through the Ford as he explores the of Official Ireland and a medium of virtual reality fascinating histories of moving piece of social history, Presented in Virtual Reality, Dublin theatre. This walk but it’s also an inspirational this exhibition of Irish stage meanders through three piece of story-telling. design is curated by Jo and half centuries of Venue: The Little Museum of Dublin Mangan, Artistic Director of performance in the city, Dates: 29 Sept-5 Oct, 11am, 12pm, Carlow Arts Festival and The from candlelit riverside 1pm, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm Tickets: €10. Capacity limited to Performance Corporation. revels to this year's festival Enjoy free and discounted tickets, 1 person per showing. Early booking the most priority booking, special events and We meet designers and their and various riots and advised. much more while supporting the festival. work within a Virtual Reality ruptures in between. Join today with memberships world – in their studios, on Tours will meet outside Blue Blue Walls vital starting at just €10 per month stage, in 360 visualisations, the Festival Box Office Blue Blue Walls is an evocative and during the inevitable and involve 90 minutes audio journey through 14 destruction of their creations. walking at a moderate pace Henrietta Street, a unique We experience the reality role in the city centre. Please building thick with the history that stage design exists for dress appropriately for the and stories from the Georgian short and beautiful periods of weather. Attendees may era to the present day. time and we bear witness to you can become wish to come armed with the difficulty of capturing the Artists Sonya Kelly, Shaun an orange or two with which essence of live experience. Dunne and Paula Meehan, to pelt their guide. working with the curatorial Featured designers are: John play a friend Date: 28 & 29 Sept, 5, 6, 12 & 13 Oct, 1pm team at 14 Henrietta Street, Comiskey, Peter Power, Katie Tickets: €10. Capacity is limited to 25 have created a captivating Davenport, Sarah Jane Shiels, per tour. Please book early. Booking: Online, by phone on soundtrack - a collage of Ciaran Bagnall, Niall Rea and +353 1 677 8899 or in person at voices - in a house full of Catherine Fay. the Festival Box Office. complex and competing This installation is support by the narratives that mirror the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland. You Can Leave at Any Time history of our city.

This project is funded by the Arts Mary Merritt spent 14 years in Venue: 14 Henrietta Street Council. High Park Magdalene laundry. Dates: 4-6 & 11-13 Oct, 5.30pm, Venue: Project Arts Centre Foyer In this remarkable new 6pm & 6.30pm Tickets: €10 Dates: 28 Sept, 5 Oct & 12 Oct, installation, Mary remembers 11.30am-7pm Duration: 45 mins. her time in the laundry and

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+353 1 878 7222 Box Office Belvedere College Marlborough St abbeytheatre.ie Festival House, 12 Essex Street 6 Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1 01

East, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 oreillytheatre.com O’Connell St 03 The All American Launderette +353 1 677 8899 40 South Great George's dublintheatrefestival.ie 19 Pavilion Theatre Constitution Hill Foley St Street, Dublin 2 Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire, Parnell St +353 1 677 2779 11 Gaiety Theatre Co. Dublin N King Street allamericanlaunderette.com South King Street, Dublin 2 +353 1 231 2929 Talbot St 0818 719 388 paviliontheatre.ie P 04 The Ark gaietytheatre.ie 11a Eustace Street, 20 Project Arts Centre Henry St P Temple Bar, Dublin 2 12 Gate Theatre 39 Essex Street East, Mary St +353 1 670 7788 Cavendish Row, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Abbey St Lwr ark.ie Parnell Square, Dublin 1 +353 1 8819613 +353 1 874 4045 projectartscentre.ie P Capel St 02 Mary St Little Abbey St Upr 05 axis: Ballymun gatetheatre.ie Main Street, Ballymun, Dublin 9 21 Royal Irish Academy Eden Quay +353 1 883 2100 13 Fr eemasons' Hall A cademy House, axisballymun.ie 17 Molesworth St, Dublin 2 19 Dawson Street Dublin 2 Burgh Quay +353 1 676 1337 +353 1 609 0600 Ormond Quay Lwr 06 Bohemian FC freemason.ie ria.ie Dalymount, Park, Phibsborough, Ormond Quay Upr Dublin 7 14 11 Parnell Square East 22 Samuel Beckett Theatre bohemianfc.com Dublin 1 Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2 Wellington Quay Pearse St +353 1 670 4733 (Entrance to TCD is via the P 07 The Civic irishheritagetrust.ie Nassau Street gate after 6pm Essex Quay Tallaght, Dublin 24 on Saturdays and Sundays) +353 1 462 7477 15 The Little Museum of Dublin Wood Quay 23 Temple Bar civictheatre.ie 15 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2 23 Smock Alley Theatre +353 1 661 1000 6/7 Exchange Street Lower, 22 08 Council Chamber, City Hall littlemuseum.ie Temple Bar, Dublin 8 Trinity College Dame St, Dublin 2 +353 1 677 0014 08 Dame St Wicklow St +353 1 222 2918 16 The Natural Cut smockalley.com dublincity.ie 34 Wicklow St, Dublin 2. 03 +353 1 679 7130 16 Nassau St thenaturalcut.ie

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Wellington Quay 11 Dawson St 21 South King St 10 Tickets for all festival shows can be booked at the Festival Park Rite car park. Fownes St Lwr Kildare St

Box Office or through the box office in theatres where Discounted parking is Essex St East Eustace St 15

phone numbers or websites are provided. Booking fees at available to ticket holders 20 St Sycamore 17 04 festival venues vary. Locations for any venues not listed on throughout the festival

Crane Lane this map can be found at dublintheatrefestival.ie. dates, on presentation of a Parliament St St Stephens Green 19 valid show ticket at the car Please arrive on time. Latecomers will not be admitted Merrion Row park office (see page 75). and refunds are not available. Please allow 30 mins before show time if you are picking up tickets at the box office. If you already have your tickets please arrive at least 15 mins Dame St before show time. 07 schedule pr – preview ap – assisted performance – running on How to Book: dublintheatrefestival.ie / +353 1 677 8899 / tt – talking theatre a series sp – schools performance Festival Box Office: Festival House, 12 Essex Street East, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 EH42 of post-show discussions rp – relaxed performance

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The Playboy of the Gaiety Theatre 04 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 2.30pm 4.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm ap 2h 15m Western World 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

The Last Orders Abbey Theatre, 06 7.30pm 7.30pm 2pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2pm At The Dockside on the Abbey Stage 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

The Alternative Pavilion Theatre, 08 8pm pr 8pm pr 8pm 8pm tt 2.30pm 8pm 8pm 2.30pm 2h Dún Laoghaire pavilion pavilion pavilion pavilion 8pm pavilion draíocht 8pm Draíocht pavilion draíocht

How to Win Against History The Civic, Tallaght 10 8pm pr 8pm tt 5pm 75m 8pm

Beckett's Room Gate Theatre 12 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 75m 7.30pm 7.30pm

Piece for Person and Samuel Beckett Theatre 14 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 4.30pm 70m Ghetto Blaster

The Bluffer's Guide Project Arts Centre 16 7.45pm 7.45pm 2.45pm 2.45pm 7.45pm 7.45pm 7.45pm 7.45pm 2.45pm 80m to Suburbia (Cube) 7.45pm tt 7.45pm

MÁM O’Reilly Theatre, 18 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Belvedere College

Hecuba Project Arts Centre 20 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 90m (Space Upstairs) 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Pasolini's Saló Redubbed Abbey Theatre, 22 8pm pr 8pm pr 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm ap 8pm 2.30pm 2h 15m on the Peacock Stage 8pm

Faultline 11 Parnell Square East 24 8pm pr 8pm pr 5.30pm pr 5.30pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 75m 9.30pm pr 9.30pm pr 8pm pr 8pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 8pm 8pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 8pm 8pm 9.30pm pr 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm

A Love Like That The Civic, Tallaght 26 8pm 8pm 8pm tt 3pm 8pm 2h 15m 8pm

Walking To Jerusalem The New Theatre 28 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 3pm 4.30pm 80m 7.30pm

The Sleepwalkers axis: Ballymun 30 8pm 8pm 8pm 3pm tt 75m 8pm

Total Immediate Collective Samuel Beckett Theatre 32 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 3.30pm 2.30pm 75m Imminent Terrestrial Salvation 7.30pm 6.30pm

Pike St. Smock Alley Theatre, 34 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 2.30pm 2.30pm 75m Main Space 7.30pm

The Beacon Gate Theatre 36 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

Your Words in my Mouth Bohemian FC, 38 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 65m Dalymount Park 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm The Natural Cut bohemian natural cut freemasons' city hall Freemasons' Hall fc hall Council Chamber, City Hall

Real Magic Project Arts Centre 40 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 90m (Space Upstairs)

Us/Them Pavilion Theatre, 42 8pm 8pm 10am 8pm 4pm 4pm 60m Dún Laoghaire 8pm 8pm

BURGERZ Smock Alley Theatre, 44 7.30pm tt 2.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 70m Main Space 7.30pm 7.30pm

Removed axis: Ballymun 46 8pm 11.30am 8pm 3pm 60m 8pm 8pm

Redemption Falls Abbey Theatre, 48 8pm pr 8pm 8pm 2.30pm 1h 45m on the Peacock Stage 8pm

Collection of Lovers Project Arts Centre 50 7.45pm tt 7.45pm 2.45pm 60m (Cube) 7.45pm

Physics and Phantasma Project Arts Centre 52 7.30pm tt 2pm 90m (Space Upstairs) 7.30pm

Sopro O’Reilly Theatre, 54 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 3.30pm 1h 45m Belvedere College

BigKidLittleKid The Ark 56 10.15am sp 2pm 2pm 30m 12.15pm sp 4pm 4pm

Stick by Me The Ark 58 3pm 10.15am sp 10.15am sp 50m 12.15pm sp rp 12.15pm sp 3pm

Baba Yaga The Ark 60 10.15am sp 2pm 2pm 50m 12.15pm sp 4pm 4pm

The Haircut! The Ark 62 10.15am pr sp 12.15pm pr sp 2pm pr 2pm 50m 12.15pm pr sp 4pm 4pm Chairperson General Manager Marketing & Terence O’Rourke Maria Fleming Development Manager Sinéad McHugh (until 5 July) Board Assistant General Manager Derval Mellett (from 1 July) Catriona Crowe Dearbhail O’Sullivan John Cronin Development Executive Eithne Harley Bookkeeper Fiona Garvan Bríd Horan Áine Sheehan Pauline McLynn Marketing Assistant Pat Moylan Office Assistant Marisa Conroy David Nolan Órla Fiona Wittke Show Programmes Editor Artistic Director & Volunteers Coordinator Rachel Donnelly Chief Executive Clodagh Mooney Duggan Willie White Audience Engagement Runner & Sales Manager Director of Programme Diandra Xavier Vlatka Jeh & Production Stephen McManus Auditors Assistant Box Office Manager Byrne O’Byrne & Company Sharon White Production Manager Niall M Hogan Ltd David “Spud” Murphy Box Office Supervisors Solicitors Holly Anna Furey Programme Coordinator Egan O’Reilly Solicitors David Roper Nolan Mitzi D’Alton Box Office Specialists Talking Theatre Host Lauren Colhoun Kate Ferris Arianne Dunne Lorna Kettle Artistic Intern Olivia Songer Public Relations O'Doherty Communications Kean Lanyon PR, UK DTF Futures DTF Futures is a new fundraising Design Detail Design Studio initiative from Dublin Theatre Festival, created to support the Volunteers next generation of contemporary To our 100 + volunteers – Thank You! Irish theatre artists through commissioning, developing and co-producing new work, creating Festival Friends Producers’ Club Friends’ Council a more sustainable infrastructure Directors’ Circle Douglas Elliot Gabrielle Croke (Chair) for the practitioners of today and Cinzia Hardy Peter Crowley & Dearbhail Shannon (Deputy Chair) future generations. Vincent O’Doherty Clodagh O’Brien Ann-Marie Carroll Andrew & Delyth Parkes Anthony Mourek & Sharon McIntyre Dr. Karole Schafe Madeleine Nesbitt Pat Moylan Vincent O’Doherty Terence O’Rourke Andrew Parkes Jefferson Smurfit Foundation Edward Soye Mary Stephenson

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