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Dublin Loves DRAMA Sept 30 – Oct 17, 2010 CHAIRMAN IRISH THEATRE TRUST BENEFIT NIGHTS TITLE SPONSOR GRANT AIDED BY Peter Crowley Irish Theatre Trust was revived by Every year a group of corporate the Festival in 2010 to support, and individual patrons support the COUNCIL commission and develop works for Festival through their attendance Bobbie Bergin the stage by Irish artists. We would at our Benefit Nights.

Michael Colgan like to thank the following patrons for PRINCIPAL SPONSOR Declan Collier their generous support of the Trust: For more information contact Michael Collins [email protected]. Caroline Downey Founding Patrons Garry Hynes Peter Crowley, FL Partners VOLUNTEERS Gabriel J. Moloney Denis Desmond Every year the Festival is immensely Gavin Quinn Dermot Desmond grateful to its team of dedicated POLISH SEASON SPONSOR Gaby Smyth Moya Doherty & John McColgan volunteers. In return for volunteer Denis O’Brien participation we aim to provide ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Rosaleen O’Kane an involved and interesting experience. AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE Volunteers are required from September Loughlin Deegan Patrons and primarily for the duration of the OFFICIAL ACCOMMODATION PROVIDER Declan Collier & Jan Winter Festival, Sept 30 – Oct 17. DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMME Gay Moloney AND PRODUCTION For more information and an application Stephen McManus DIRECTORS’ CIRCLE form please contact the office on Michael & Jane Collins 01 677 8439, look up the website OFFICIAL MEDIA PARTNER GENERAL MANAGER Peter Crowley & Clodagh O’Brien www.dublintheatrefestival.com or email Tríona Ní Dhuibhir Gay Moloney [email protected]. Vincent O’Doherty MARKETING MANAGER Andrew & Delyth Parkes SPECIAL THANKS Shauna Lyons Darren Roddy 2010 Volunteers and interns Brian McDonald OFFICIAL TV MEDIA PARTNER DEVELOPMENT MANAGER PRODUCERS’ CLUB Chantelle Caffrey Gemma Duke Aisling Daly Chloe Cattrell Carmel Naughton Cohen Heenan ADMINISTRATIVE/RESEARCH Anthony Mourek & Dr Karole Schafer Darcie Conway CO-ORDINATOR (until Sept 2010) Diane Hurley OFFICIAL RADIO PARTNER Jessica Hilliard FRIENDS’ COUNCIL Dublin Bus Gabrielle Croke – Chair Frank & Ruby Kenny ADMINISTRATOR/BOX OFFICE MANAGER Dearbhail Shannon – Deputy Chair Fresh Design Maeve Whelan Dympna Murray – Secretary Hudson Killeen Lilian Chambers Isis Godfrey-Glynn OFFICIAL WINE SUPPLIER FAMILY SEASON CURATOR Peg Colgan Kate Kirby Muireann Ahern for The Ark Vincent O’Doherty Kelly Caffrey Andrew Parkes Magdalena Radzymin´ska Darren Roddy Marius Lindner Mary Stephenson Matthew Thompson Photography Sari Winckworth Noeline McMonagle Pauline Fleming Pawel Boros Seoirse MacCraith Stephen Hedron Toni Doyle CONTENTS

4 ENRON 18 THE RELISH 33 ONTROEREND 44 ACT WITHOUT Gaiety Theatre OF LANGUAGE GOED TRILOGY WORDS II Gate Theatre Smock Alley Theatre Meeting Point: The Westbury Hotel

6 CIRCA 22 PHAEDRA 36 THE AUTHOR 45 UNA SANTA Gaiety Theatre Project Arts Centre Project Arts Centre OSCURA Main Space at Smock Alley Theatre

8 THE SILVER TASSIE 24 JOHN GABRIEL 37 565+ 46 THE GIRL WHO Gaiety Theatre BORKMAN Project Arts Centre FORGOT TO Abbey Theatre SING BADLY Civic Theatre/The Ark/Draíocht

12 T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. 26 L’EFFET DE SERGE 38 THE WONDERFUL O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College Samuel Beckett Theatre WORLD OF HUGH 48 FAMILY SEASON HUGHES Studio Theatre at Smock Alley Theatre

14 FACTORY 2 28 THE REHEARSAL, O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College PLAYING THE DANE 40 DICIEMBRE 53 SPECIAL EVENTS Samuel Beckett Theatre Project Arts Centre

16 THE DANTON CASE 30 B FOR BABY Project Arts Centre Abbey Theatre on the Peacock stage 41 NO CHILD... 60 LOST IN axis: Ballymun TRANSLATION

2 3 www.dublin theatre festival.com UK A Headlong Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal Court Theatre Production ENRON By Lucy Prebble Design Anthony Ward Directed by Rupert Goold Lighting Design Mark Henderson Lyrics, Composition & Sound Design Adam Cork Video and Projection Design Jon Driscoll Choreography Scott Ambler Casting Director Joyce Nettles

TALKING THEATRE “All humanity is here. There’s Greed, there’s Fear, Joy, Faith, Hope... EXHILARATION Members of the company. And the greatest of these... is Money.” Oct 15, Post-show 9.45pm (approx.) Boasting a host of awards including an Olivier Award, the most talked TEMPTATION PANEL DISCUSSIONS about show of 2010 lands in Dublin direct from an extended run in GREED The Smartest Men in the Room? the West End. Oct 15, 5.30pm – 7pm. Gaiety Theatre In this energetic and exuberant production, one of the most infamous scandals in financial history is transposed into a unique theatrical No Way To Do Business. Oct 16, 5.30pm – 7pm. Gaiety Theatre experience. Inspired by real-life events and using music, movement and video, ENRON follows a group of flawed men and women in a narrative See Special Events Pgs 53-59 of greed and loss, reviewing the tumultuous 1990s and casting new light on the financial turmoil in which the world finds itself today.

Directed by Rupert Goold of the groundbreaking Headlong Theatre (winner of the 2010 Best Director Olivier Award for ENRON ), this uncompromising mix of political satire, modern morality and multimedia spectacle, gives an exhilarating answer to the sixty billion dollar question.

Presented in partnership with the British Council.

Contains strong language and a scene of a sexual nature. Venue Gaiety Theatre Dates Oct 12 – 16 “★★★★★ An era-defining, must-see Matinées Oct 14 & 16 theatrical event.” Daily Telegraph Times 7.30pm. Matinées 2.30pm

Price Range €15 – €40

Duration 2hrs 15mins (incl. interval) Proudly supported by © M a n

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CIRCA Directed by Yaron Lifschitz Created by Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa Ensemble.

IMMENSE TALKING THEATRE Following a triumphant international tour including a sell-out run in Yaron Lifschitz and members of Edinburgh, CIRCA comes to the Festival amidst a blaze of rave reviews ACROBATIC the company. and international public acclaim. Oct 1, Post-show 9.10pm (approx.) SEXY A brand new creation that remixes three previous works which have wowed audiences at Galway Arts Festival in recent years, CIRCA is movement at its most adventurous and dangerous. Combining acrobatics, dance, light, sound and video, seven performers move from highly complex tumbling sequences, to fast-paced flashes of great intricacy. Using a powerful soundtrack ranging from Leonard Cohen to Aphex Twin, this marks a new kind of circus, at once poetic, sensual and immense.

Circa’s signature style combines physical beauty, formidable circus skills and an integral use of sound, light and projection. By fusing contemporary dance with circus, combined with a mix of new technologies and theatrical flair, they have developed a style that eludes concrete definition. But what they do has amazed, astonished and thrilled audiences in over 18 countries around the world.

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THE SILVER TASSIE By Seán O’Casey Directed by Garry Hynes

PASSION TALKING THEATRE This sweeping play follows the lives of two young footballing heroes Members of the company. from the tenements of Dublin through the battlefields of France and MERRIMENT Oct 6, Post-show 10pm (approx.) their return home. FEAR Using all the resources of the theatre including live music and dance, this is an epic staging of one of Seán O’Casey’s great plays.

Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes directs a cast of 19 – Druid’s biggest ever company of actors – and welcomes back some Druid favourites including Aaron Monaghan, Eamon Morrissey and Derbhle Crotty.

Winner in 2009 of 12 major international theatre awards including Best Production, Outstanding Director and Outstanding Ensemble, Druid is back with a production you simply won’t want to miss.

The company will be joined by five young people recruited locally in Dublin.

“A world-class company.” The Irish Times Venue Gaiety Theatre

Dates Oct 5 – 10

Matinées Oct 7 & 9

Times 7.30pm. Matinées 2.30pm Oct 10 2.30pm I l l u Price Range s €10 – €35 t r a t i o n Duration 2hrs 30mins (incl. interval) Proudly supported by b y O

w For full festival timetable see page 70 e n S m i t h 8 9 www.dublin theatre festival.com DISPLACEMENT FAITH ACCEPTANCE POLSKI TEATR

After three years of extensive planning, the Festival is delighted to present a major showcase of Polish work in Dublin. With significant support from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, this survey of contemporary Polish work will include productions from the master of European theatre Krystian Lupa ( Factory 2 ), and two of his disciples Grzegorz Jarzyna ( T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. ), and Jan Klata ( The Danton Case ). The Festival, supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport, will also present Lost In Translation, a programme which will investigate contemporary Polish culture and its relationship with Ireland, featuring films, concerts, multi-media projects and a one-day symposium. For more information on Lost In Translation see page 60.

In association with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute.

Proudly supported by

10 11 www.dublin theatre festival.com EMBASSY OF POLAND IN DUBLIN Poland TR Warszawa

“A master of suspense, the heir of Hitchcock, T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. Jarzyna composes his performances like movies.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Written and Directed by Music Jacek Grudzien´ and Piotr Domin´ski. Grzegorz Jarzyna Set Design Magdalena Maciejewska Lighting Design Jacqueline Sobiszewski Cast Jadwiga Jankowska-Cies´lak, Danuta Stenka, Katarzyna Warnke, Jan Dravnel, Jan Englert, Rafał Mackowiak and Sebastian Pawlak. ´

TALKING THEATRE “Coming tomorrow” is all the perplexing telegram says. For a wealthy Grzegorz Jarzyna in conversation. industrialist and his family, it turns out to be a wildly inadequate warning Oct 1, Post-show 9.45pm (approx.) of the irresistible force that is about to rip through their structured lives. In a hypnotic series of near-wordless scenes, a mysterious visitor will seduce each member of the family one by one. Is this stranger a demon, or is he heaven-sent? Will he deliver salvation or destruction?

Inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 cult film Teorema , the trailblazing multi award-winning Polish director Grzegorz Jarzyna has crafted a poetic and provocative piece of theatre that takes its audience on an exquisite voyage into the heart of Pasolini's modern masterpiece.

Last seen in Dublin with Festen at the Abbey Theatre in 2004, Jarzyna’s work has been astonishing audiences in Edinburgh, LA and beyond. T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. , described as the standout work of the 2010 New Zealand International Arts Festival, is a hypnotically beautiful exploration of the social, political and religious ideologies which made Pasolini one of the revolutionary thinkers of his time.

A near wordless production performed in Polish with English surtitles. Venue O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College PASSION

Dates Oct 1 – 4 Contains nudity, scenes of a sexual nature and strong language. GUILT Matinée Oct 2 Times 7.30pm. Matinée 2.30pm LIBERATION Oct 3 1pm & 6pm

Price Range €22 – €33 ©

Duration 2hrs 10mins (no interval) A r t u r R

For full festival timetable see page 70 a w i c z 12 13 www.dublin theatre festival.com Poland National Stary Teatr, Kraków

FACTORY 2 Written and Directed by Dramaturgy Iga Gan´czarczyk and Magda Stojowska. Krystian Lupa Cast Piotr Skiba, Zbigniew W. Kaleta, Krzysztof Zawadzki, Adam Nawojczyk, Iwona Bielska, Sandra Korzeniak, Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Urszula Kiebzak, Piotrek Polak, Katarzyna Warnke, Bogdan Brzyski, Joanna Drozda, Małgorzata Zawadzka, Tomasz Wygoda, Łukasz Hołuj and Rafał Libner.

UTOPIA TALKING THEATRE The Festival is delighted to welcome to Dublin for the first time one of Europe’s theatrical giants Krystian Lupa, with his monumental award- Krystian Lupa in conversation. winning production, Factory 2 . This epic creation revolves around the Oct 7, 6pm. Project Arts Centre. COMMUNITY bohemian glamour of the notorious Andy Warhol Project and his MANIPULATION legendary loft in Manhattan’s 47th Street. Blending Warhol’s own video works with improvisation and performance, Warhol and his entourage’s exploits are meticulously re-imagined from a period of utopia to a stark present day reality. With staggering sequences that are both beautiful, intoxicating and desperately sad, Warhol himself is portrayed as a timid and omnipresent director – both exploiter and voyeur. Featuring the staggeringly talented actors of Kraków’s famous Stary Teatr, arguably Poland’s leading ensemble, this durational piece of total theatre is a profound meditation on the very process of making art.

Honoured with the French Order of the Fine Arts and Humanities amongst a plethora of awards, Krystian Lupa is widely regarded as the patriarch of Polish theatre and sits amongst the great theatre directors in history. With Factory 2 – winner of the illustrious Europe Theatre Prize – the Festival is proud to present one of the most astonishing pieces of theatre Dublin may ever experience.

Performed in Polish with English surtitles. Venue O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College

Dates Oct 9 & 10 Contains nudity, scenes of a sexual nature and strong language.

Times Oct 9 3.30pm, Oct 10 1pm Factory 2 will have two intervals, one of which is one hour long. Price €35 ©

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r “People who have seen Krystian Lupa’s work z y s z t o For full festival timetable see page 70 speak of it in hushed awestruck tones. ‘He is f B i e l i ń a god’ is a phrase that crops up frequently.” s k i 14 15 www.dublin theatre festival.com The Boston Globe Poland Teatr Polski in Wrocław

THE DANTON CASE By Stanisława Przybyszewska Directed by Jan Klata In a version by Jan Klata Dramaturgy Sebastian Majewski

TERROR TALKING THEATRE The ‘enfant terrible’ of Polish Theatre, Jan Klata, crashes his way to the Jan Klata in conversation Festival with this truly anarchic, playful and idiosyncratic adaptation of REVOLUTION Oct 13, Post-show 10.15pm (approx.) a renowned Polish play on the French Revolution. VIRTUE Set in Paris in the 1790s during the tumultuous days of revolt, The Danton Case mischievously plots the downfall of leader Danton by his arch rival Robespierre. In Klata’s hands this classic play becomes a theatrically rebellious investigation of post-communist Poland, using an historical prism to explore current political woes. With badly fitting wigs, bosom-busting costumes and chainsaw-wielding choruses, we watch the fall of one of the great leaders of the Revolution, in a series of grotesque cabaret-like scenes to a thumping punk rock soundtrack.

Winner of a staggering 25 awards worldwide including the Grand Prix at the Kontakt International Theatre Festival, The Danton Case is an electrifying and highly entertaining theatrical romp.

Performed in Polish with English surtitles.

Contains nudity, scenes of a sexual nature and strong language. Venue Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) Dates Oct 13 – 16 “One of the best shows I’ve seen in any language.” Matinee Oct 16 The Guardian Times 7.30pm. Matinée 2.30pm

Price Range €22 – €33

Duration 2hrs 40mins (no interval) © B

For full festival timetable see page 70 a r t o s z M a z 16 17 www.dublin theatre festival.com Ireland Gate Theatre

The Gate Theatre, in association with Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival, THE RELISH presents an exciting season of plays by three towering figures of twentieth century theatre – Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and David Mamet. The festival will showcase selected works by these authors including the world OF LANGUAGE première stage adaptation of Beckett’s novel, Watt . Also, to mark what would have been Harold Pinter’s eightieth birthday, the Gate will present a public interview with Lady Antonia Fraser and the Gate’s director, Michael Colgan. Don’t miss this unique celebration of three iconic wordsmiths who, united in their commitment to the priority of language, became the heart of a new wave of writing which shaped and inspired generations, presenting us with some of the most important works of modern times.

TALKING THEATRE Michael Colgan in conversation Beckett with Lady Antonia Fraser. Oct 10, 4pm. ENDGAME

Directed by Alan Stanford Cast David Bradley and Owen Roe.

ENDGAME Endgame by Samuel Beckett, tells the comical tale about the aged Opens Oct 14 and blind Hamm and his servant Clov, co-existing in a mutually Preview Oct 13 dependent and fractious relationship, with only Hamm’s parents, Matinée Oct 16 legless from a biking accident, for company. Times 7.30pm. Matinée 3pm Duration 1hr 30mins (no interval) WATT INSPIRATIONAL WATT Dates Oct 8 & 9, 15 – 17 Directed by Tom Creed MASTERFUL Preview Oct 7 Cast Barry McGovern Matinée Oct 17 Watt is the extraordinary story of an itinerant character who walks UNIQUE Times Oct 7, 15 & 16 10pm, one day from a train station to the home of a Mr. Knott whom he will Oct 8 8pm, Oct 9 6pm. Matinée 3pm serve. The bizarre adventures of Watt and his struggle to make sense of the world around him is told with verbal elegance, immense pathos Duration 55mins (no interval) and fierce humour.

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CELEBRATION Become a Friend from just €115 and help to bring Drama to Dublin! Dates Oct 6 – 10 Pinter Preview Oct 5 CELEBRATION Matinée Oct 9 SUPPORT Support the Festival and enable us Benefit with discounts on tickets, Times Oct 5, 6, 7, 9 & 10 8pm to present the world’s leading artists complimentary tickets to Festival Directed by Wayne Jordan alongside the best Irish work on shows and Priority Booking to ensure Oct 8 10pm. Matinée 2pm ENJOY Dublin’s stages. you get the best seats in the house. Duration 1hr (no interval) Celebration is Harold Pinter’s perfectly orchestrated black comedy. BENEFIT Heaving with dark humour and wicked satire, it follows two groups Enjoy the work on stage while For more information, see of diners at a London restaurant following a night at the theatre. helping the Festival to develop www.dublintheatrefestival.com Razor-sharp dialogue, playful anarchy and a few shocking twists new and emerging artists. or call 01 677 8439 make this celebration one they won’t forget.

BOSTON MARRIAGE Mamet Dates Sept 30 – Oct 3 Preview Sept 29 BOSTON MARRIAGE Matinées Oct 2 & 3 Times 8pm. Matinées 3pm Directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks Duration 2hrs (incl. interval) Boston Marriage , David Mamet’s classic comedy of manners, takes us into the world of two friends living on society’s fringe. As they articulate their skewed perceptions of life, the language ignites into deliciously vicious banter as we witness their jealousy, fear and desperation for love.

Venue Gate Theatre See all four plays €90 or see 3 plays for €70 Price Each play €27 (Sun-Thurs, subject to availability, available For full festival timetable see page 70 only through Gate Theatre Box Office)

SELECTED READINGS

Dates Oct 2, 3, 9, 10, 16 & 17 Selected Readings

Times Oct 2, 3 & 10 6pm Oct 9 4pm Central to the season will be a series of weekend readings which Oct 16 & 17 5.30pm will feature excerpts from other works by the three playwrights. By Price €10 presenting their writings side by side, these readings will highlight Duration 1hr (no interval) the symmetry and the relationship between their work while also exploring the playwrights’ use of language. .

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2 2 TE A F TYRNA Y N T US L Ireland Abbey Theatre

Henrik Ibsen’s JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN In a new version by Set Design Tom Pye Frank McGuinness Lighting Design Jean Kalman Directed by Costume Design Joan Bergin Sound Design Ian Dickinson James Macdonald Cast Cathy Belton, Lindsay Duncan, John Kavanagh, Amy Molloy, Marty Rea, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw PRIDE and Joan Sheehy. AMBITION John Gabriel Borkman was once a great man. Wealthy, powerful, DISGRACE revered. He gave up love for success and was handsomely rewarded.

But now, disgraced and destitute after a financial scandal and jail, the former director of the bank paces out each day, alone in an upstairs room, planning his comeback.

Downstairs his wife Gunhild lives a parallel life, plotting for their son to restore the family’s reputation.

The claustrophobia of their lives is shattered once and for all with the arrival of Gunhild’s twin sister Ella, the woman whose love Borkman gave away...

The Abbey Theatre presents Ibsen’s devastating and darkly comic play Venue Abbey Theatre in a new version by Frank McGuinness, with Alan Rickman as Borkman,

Opens Oct 13 Fiona Shaw as Gunhild and Lindsay Duncan as Ella.

Previews Oct 6 – 12

Matinée Oct 16

Times 7.30pm. Matinée 2pm

Price Range €18 – €40

Duration 2hrs 40mins (approx. incl. Interval)

For full festival timetable see page 70

24 25 www.dublin theatre festival.com France Philippe Quesne/Vivarium Studio

“This 80-minute slice of behavioral comedy and L’EFFET DE SERGE low-tech spectacle comes as a gust of fresh air.” Time Out New York Conceived, Directed and Designed by Philippe Quesne With Gaëtan Vourc’h, Isabelle Angotti, Rodolphe Auté and local guests.

TALKING THEATRE Phillippe Quesne and members of the company. Oct 14, Post-show 8.45pm (approx).

CREATIVITY On Sunday afternoons in his living room, Serge presents miniature performances for small groups of friends. Using low-tech special SOCIABILITY effects and a lovingly chosen soundtrack, these home-grown spectacles inadvertently communicate the very nature of art and ISOLATION the human desire to create it. In these delightful micro dramas, one somewhat eccentric man demonstrates how the simplest object, the merest gesture, can produce wonder.

French theatre maker Philippe Quesne has fast developed a significant international reputation and his work now comes to Dublin following runs around the world from New York to Brazil. L’Effet de Serge humorously investigates the implicit futility in our daily routines and the magic that can be found in the ordinary. It promises to be one of the most charming and funny shows in this year’s Festival.

Co-produced with ménagerie de verre, Paris with the support of Le Forum/Scène conventionnée de Blanc-Mesnil and Festival actOral montévidéo, Marseille.

Performed in English.

Venue Samuel Beckett Theatre

Dates Oct 13 – 17

Times 7.30pm. Oct 17 3pm

Price Range €25 – €30 Proudly supported by © A r g y r

Duration 1hr 15mins (no interval) o g l o C

For full festival timetable see page 70 a l l i a s B e y 26 27 www.dublin theatre festival.com Ireland Pan Pan

THE REHEARSAL, PLAYING THE DANE Text Hamlet by William Shakespeare Directed by Gavin Quinn Designed by Aedín Cosgrove

TRUTHFUL TALKING THEATRE There’s something strange in the neighbourhood of contemporary Gavin Quinn and members of Denmark. Who are you going to call? That is the question. FEARLESS the company. Oct 7, Post-show 10pm (approx.) In Pan Pan’s purgatorial presentation of Shakespeare’s classic FAKE tragedy, you the audience are faced with a choice: who is going to be, or not be, Hamlet?

Actors compete to play the title role but as we enter the graveyard world of this icon of individualism can anyone escape playing the ‘Great’ Dane? Aren’t we all the main part?

Hamlet, seen as representing the limits of human consciousness, is a man caught between the ages. He knows the old is obsolete, yet the new age has barbarian features he cannot stomach. But if he gets chosen to play the Dane, he’s going to have to – funeral meats and all.

To audition or not to audition? But the real question is: how the hell are you going to learn all those lines? Come find out with the Venue Samuel Beckett Theatre irrepressible Pan Pan... Dates Oct 5 – 10

Previews Oct 1 –3 ‘I ain’t afraid of no ghost’ – Hamlet Matinée Oct 9 Times 7.30pm. Matinée 2.30pm “You'll be delighted, discomfited and affected Oct 10 3pm by Pan Pan’s shows.” Irish Independent Price Range €20 – €30

Duration 2hrs 30mins (approx. incl. interval)

For full festival timetable see page 70

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B FOR BABY By Carmel Winters Directed by Mikel Murfi Set and Costume Design Sabine Dargent

DESIRE “It was like we were two children – two innocent children just… playing.” INNOCENCE Mrs C wants a baby not a Christmas tree. B wants a real hairdressers’ scissors and a wife. D wants a snow globe and “a big head of dirty auld JEALOUSY curls” . All of them want their own place in the world. And if they can’t find it, they’ll create one of their own…

Join B and D in the care home where they are residents, and where Mrs C is a carer, on their special – “very fecking special” – journey towards happiness.

A world première, presented by the Abbey Theatre, B for Baby is a sharp-witted new play that tenderly touches the taboo and invites you to rediscover the joy of make-believe.

B for Baby was originally commissioned by Theatre Lovett.

Venue Abbey Theatre on the Peacock stage

Opens Sept 30

Previews Sept 28 & 29

Matinées Oct 2, 6, 9, 13 & 16

Times 8pm. Matinées 2.30pm

Price Range €18 – €25

Duration 1hr 30mins (approx. no interval)

For full festival timetable see page 70

30 31 www.dublin theatre festival.com Belgium Ontroerend Goed in association with Richard Jordan Productions Ltd

The Festival is delighted to welcome back one of the leaders of WHAT ARE YOU Europe’s experimental performance scene Ontroerend Goed to Dublin after stunning audiences at last year’s sell-out show Once And For All We’re Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen. Challenge LOOKING AT? your expectations as the boundaries between audience and performer are blurred in this visionary award-winning trilogy in which productions can be enjoyed together or on their own. As part of a major thematic strand this year, WHAT ARE YOU Please note that all three productions are highly challenging and interactive and may contain material LOOKING AT?, the Festival will turn the mirror around and which some may find disturbing. shine a light on you, the audience, looking at the changing role of the audience in contemporary theatre. With THE SMILE Ontroerend Goed’s three immersive theatrical creations, OFF YOUR Tim Crouch’s The Author , and young Irish rising director GRATIFY

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Directed by Sophie De c extraordinary shows that reveal an entirely new approach h r e y e

Somere and Joeri Smet. CONFRONT n to how theatre is being presented now. Cast Alexander Devriendt, Aurélie Lannoy, Nicolaas Leten, Sophie De Somere, and Kristof Coenen. Enter a titillating world of scents and sounds, sharpen your instincts Music Sebastian Omerson and allow yourself to lose control. Sit in a wheelchair, put on a blindfold and indulge your imagination, as all your pleasures, fears, desires and memories are confronted. This intense and intimate experience bridges the point where performance art meets theatre. Everyone will have a unique response – but leaves feeling ultimately exhilarated.

Venue Main Space at Smock Alley Theatre Winning the Scotsman Fringe First and the 2008 Adelaide Fringe Award Dates Sept 30 – Oct 3 for Best Production, this exceptional production comes to Dublin after Times Sept 30 & Oct 1, every half hour taking the world’s festivals by storm. from 1pm – 3.30pm & 6pm – 8.30pm Oct 2 & 3, every half hour from Performed in English. PANEL DISCUSSION 2pm – 4.30pm & 7pm – 9.30pm WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? Price €15 “★★★★★ A disorientating but extraordinary performance… Oct 16, 1pm – 2.30pm, Project Arts Centre. Duration 30mins (approx. no interval) It leaves you feeling fantastic.” The Times See Special Events Pages 53-59. For full festival timetable see page 70

32 33 www.dublin theatre festival.com Belgium Ontroerend Goed Belgium Ontroerend Goed in in association with co-production with Richard Jordan Battersea Arts Centre Productions Ltd and Richard Jordan Productions Ltd INTERNAL A GAME

Created by OF YOU Alexander Devriendt, Sophie De Somere, Aurélie Lannoy, Nicolaas Created by Leten and Joeri Smet. Alexander Devriendt, Joeri Smet, Sophie De Somere, Nicolaas Leten, Maria Dafneros, Charlotte De Bruyne, Aurélie Lannoy, Kristof Coenen and Eden Falk.

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INTIMACY e ALIENATE e n S t c e h r g r e h y e e m EXPOSURE n TRUST

Winner of the 2008 Scotsman Fringe First and Herald Angel Award, In this brand new show, which marks the final part of the company’s this sequel to The Smile... performed to just five people at a time, is a trilogy of immersive theatre, seven strangers crave to spend some time performance that invites you to leave the beaten tracks of traditional with you, the audience. To get under your skin. To get to know you theatre and surrender to an intimate, individual experience. Drinks better than they know themselves. Some say they’re forward, inquisitive, are offered, mandolins are playing and eyes meet as the conversation manipulative or downright evil. Some claim they can’t be trusted. deepens. The question is: can you build up a meaningful relationship with a stranger in 25 minutes? Rest assured, they are wrong. These strangers are players with sincere intentions whose sole purpose is to let you find out who you might be. Equally challenging and treacherously profound, Internal explores the Get entangled in the game and you’ll know that they’re doing it for you. formats of speed-dating and group therapy in a clever game of give and take and will be quite unlike anything you’ve experienced in a Performed in English. Venue Studio Theatre at Smock Alley Theatre theatre before. Venue Main Space at Smock Alley Theatre Dates Oct 6 – 10 Dates Oct 13 – 17 All three productions are proudly supported by the Belgian Embassy, Times Oct 6 – 8, every half hour from Performed in English. Times Oct 13 – 15, every half hour from Dublin. 1pm – 3.30pm & 6pm – 8.30pm 1pm – 3.30pm & 6pm – 8.30pm Oct 9 & 10, every half hour from Oct 16 & 17, every half hour from 2pm – 4.30pm & 7pm – 9.30pm Contains nudity. 2pm – 4.30pm & 7pm – 9.30pm A Game of You is supported by the National Theatre Studio. All three productions are supported by The Flemish Community, the Price €15 Price €15 “An experience not to be missed.” The Independent Province of East-Flanders and the City of Ghent. In cooperation with Duration 30mins (approx. no interval) Duration 30mins (approx. no interval) Vooruit, KC België and Inkonst. For full festival timetable see page 70 For full festival timetable see page 70

See all three shows for €36! 34 35 www.dublin theatre festival.com UK news from nowhere/ Ireland Úna McKevitt The Royal Court Theatre Production

THE 565+ AUTHOR Conceived and Directed by Úna McKevitt By Tim Crouch Cast Marie O’Rourke Directed by Karl James and Lighting and Set Design a smith. Ciarán O’Melia Music and Sound Ben Ringham Costume Design Kiki Beamish and Max Ringham. BRITTLE Creative Producer Áine Beamish LOSS Lighting Matt Drury © S t e

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OPTIMISTIC y HOPE

TALKING THEATRE “I have the choice to continue. I have the choice to stop”. TALKING THEATRE 565+ is about survival. There comes a time in all our lives when we look for help, when we reach crisis, when we will try anything Tim Crouch and members of Marie O'Rourke and Úna McKevitt Settle back into the warmth of your seat. Relax as the story unfolds. that helps. For some it is therapy, for others it is medication. For the company. in conversation. For you. With you. Of you. A story of hope, violence, togetherness and Marie O’Rourke it is the theatre. Oct 17, Post-show 2.20pm (approx.) Oct 2, Post-show 7pm (approx.) exploitation. Laugh with the actors, tap your feet to the music, take a PANEL DISCUSSION chocolate, turn to your neighbour. You’re here. PANEL DISCUSSION Marie O’Rourke is a school teacher who began attending the theatre seven years ago on the advice of her doctor. Since then she has seen WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? The Festival is delighted to welcome back Tim Crouch who captivated over 565 plays. Marie credits the theatre with saving her life. Oct 16, 1pm – 2.30pm, Project Arts Oct 16, 1pm – 2.30pm, Project Arts Dublin with his sell-out hit ENGLAND in 2008. Performed within its Centre. See Special Events Pgs 53-59. Centre. See Special Events Pgs 53-59. audience, it tells the story of another play: a shocking and abusive Following the success of her sell-out show Victor and Gord , Úna play written by a playwright called Tim Crouch who oversteps the line. McKevitt continues her practice of making theatre from everyday The Author is a highly original and terrifyingly seductive journey into life, and illustrates how the celebration of theatre can enable us, the horror of our mediated world. the audience, to express our longings and needs with dignity and humour, redemption and forgiveness. Contains material that may be disturbing. Recommended for ages18+. Venue Project Arts Centre (Cube) Venue Project Arts Centre (Cube) Úna McKevitt is part of Project Catalyst, a Project Arts Centre initiative. Dates Sept 30 – Oct 3 Dates Oct 12 – 17 “This is a dazzling theatrical experience that lets nobody off the 565+ is supported by Irish Theatre Trust and Project Arts Centre. Previews Sept 28 & 29 Times 9.30pm. Oct 16 6pm & 9.30pm hook, opening our eyes to what should be blindingly obvious: Oct 17 1pm we all have a choice.” Times 6pm. Oct 3 4pm & 7pm The Guardian “★★★★★ McKevitt and her compatriots have crafted a piece Price Range €20 – €30 Price Range €15 – €20 of theatre that artfully celebrates the everyday and finds Duration 1hr 20mins (no interval) Duration 1hr (approx. no interval) unexpected resonance in the simplest of exchanges.” For full festival timetable see page 70 For full festival timetable see page 70 Irish Theatre Magazine on Victor and Gord

36 37 www.dublin theatre festival.com UK Hoipolloi

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF HUGH HUGHES Created and performed by Hugh Hughes and friends

FLOATING Welcome to the wonderful world of Hugh Hughes. An utterly charming ILLUMINATING and entrancing world committed to celebrating the imagination. Hugh Venue Studio Theatre at Smock Alley Theatre Hughes – a self-described emerging artist from Anglesey – has developed REFRESHING Dates Oct 14, 16 & 17 a devoted following worldwide with his refreshing, unpredictable and vibrant Times Oct 14 6pm. Oct 16 & 17 1pm performances. Over three different productions, he invites Dublin to share ECCENTRIC Price Range €22 – €25 his extraordinary life stories. With a host of awards under his belt including a Total Theatre Award and Fringe First, don’t miss this unique opportunity to Duration 1hr 30mins (no interval) catch the most uplifting, funny and heart-warming shows you’ll see this year. For full festival timetable see page 70

STORY OF A RABBIT FLOATING “★★★★ Mesmerising… “★★★★ This is “★★★★ One of the Venue Studio Theatre at Smock Alley Theatre The remarkable story about the day when the Isle of Anglesey floated an extraordinary sight, heartfelt and insightful most magical journeys.” Dates Oct 13, 16 & 17 away from mainland Wales, drifted into the Atlantic and up to the Arctic. A comic exploration of the impossibility of leaving the place we come from. hilarious yet touching stuff… Highly 360 , Financial Times Times Oct 13 6pm. Oct 16 & 17 5pm in the human fragility recommended.” Price Range €22 – €25 STORY OF A RABBIT it conveys…” Story of a Rabbit, Evening Standard Duration 1hr 30mins (no interval) When Hugh finds his neighbour’s rabbit lying dead in his garden, the only For full festival timetable see page 70 Floating , The Guardian sensible thing to do is to put it in a box. But it doesn’t fit. As he puzzles 360 over what to do with the body he starts to wonder how much of life disappears once we die… Venue Studio Theatre at Smock Alley Theatre Dates Oct 12, 16 & 17 360 Times Oct 12 6pm. Oct 16 9.30pm. Oct 17 8pm A story about friendship and sharing just about everything. Hugh returns to his childhood home to meet his best friend Gareth and climb Snowdon. Price Range €22 – €25 But as the journey to the summit descends into a farce, it leads Hugh to Duration 1hr 20mins (no interval) ask some big questions about fantasy, first loves and bottling things up. For full festival timetable see page 70

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r For more on Hugh Hughes, see Special Events pages 53-59. 38 39 www.dublin theatre festival.com Chile Teatro en el Blanco USA Barrow Street Theatre in association with axis: Ballymun

DICIEMBRE NO CHILD...

Written and Directed by By Nilaja Sun Guillermo Calderón Directed by Hal Brooks Cast Trinidad González, Cast Nilaja Sun Jorge Becker and Mariana Muñoz.

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From the rolling imagination of writer-director Guilermo Calderón, comes TALKING THEATRE Following a 12-month sold-out New York run, and a major North this politically charged, haunting drama about a near-future war in Chile. American tour, Nilaja Sun’s OBIE Award-winning No Child … makes Nilaja Sun in conversation. its Irish debut at axis: Ballymun during the 2010 Festival. Peppered with large doses of pitch-black comedy, Diciembre takes place Oct 15, Post-show 9.20pm (approx.) on Christmas Eve 2014 in Santiago, a city besieged by Peruvian forces. Inspired by Sun’s years as a teaching artist at high schools in the Bronx, Young soldier Jorge returns home on leave to celebrate the holiday with his pregnant twin sisters. When they discover his plans to defect, both this tour de force is an insightful and often hilarious look into New York react sharply revealing their fiercely entrenched opposing views of the war. City’s public education system. Her lightning-quick portrayals of the many characters inhabiting the city’s school structure – including Fast, funny and intense, Calderón strips away the conceits of war and teachers, students, parents, administrators, janitors and security guards gives us a bracing look at racism, nationalism and pacifism. Coming direct – provide a touching and humorous examination of the universal from the Edinburgh International Festival, Teatro en el Blanco is certain challenges facing education everywhere. Offering hope and belief in a to captivate Dublin with its emotive, visceral and razor-sharp theatre. better, more caring society, this multi award-winning production is a highly original and inspiring work from an extraordinary performer. Performed in Spanish with English surtitles. Venue axis: Ballymun A captioned performance will take place on Oct 16, 8pm. Contains strong language. Dates Oct 13 – 16 Venue Preview Project Arts Centre (Cube) “Explores the reality of war and its power to transform Oct 12 “Sun brings us not her world but the world... Sun and Brooks Dates Oct 6 – 10 collective consciousness and domestic life.” Caras y Caretas Matinée Oct 14 provide an object lesson in what should not be missing from Times 9.30pm. Oct 10 4pm Times 8pm. Matinée 2pm any life curriculum: hope.” The New Yorker Price Range €22 – €25 Proudly supported by Price Range €18 – €22

Duration 1hr 15mins (no interval) Duration 1hr 10mins (no interval)

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40 41 www.dublin theatre festival.com ZEAL SCORN DESIRE REVIEWED

ReViewed is a showcase initiative of Culture Ireland, Irish Theatre Institute and Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival. This curated programme will be presented during the Festival to an invited delegation of international programmers and presenters from key festivals and venues worldwide. ReViewed offers an opportunity to promote Irish theatre as well as reviving successful Irish work for Festival audiences.

This year four very different Irish productions from the last 12 months will be presented. A stirring permutation of sound and visuals Una Santa Oscura ; one of Samuel Beckett’s most versatile plays, Act Without Words II is taken to the streets; and a show for all the family, the joyful The Girl Who Forgot To Sing Badly , will travel to three different venues as part of the Festival’s ongoing commitment to bring theatre where you live. To top it all off the irreverent Ponydance will perform their outrageous hit Where Did It All Go Right? late night at the Odessa Club (see page 65).

42 43 www.dublin theatre festival.com Ireland Company SJ Ireland Playgroup and Ian Wilson in association with Project Arts Centre

ACT UNA SANTA WITHOUT OSCURA

WORDS II Music by Ian Wilson Directed by Tom Creed By Samuel Beckett Performed by Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin) Directed by Sarah Jane SIMPLE Stage, Lighting and Costume SOLITUDE Design Ciarán O’Melia

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REVIEWED With two contrasting characters living in separate sacks, Act Without REVIEWED Somewhere in a city, a young woman sits in a bedsit, alone with her A showcase of successful Irish Words II is one of Samuel Beckett’s most universal and versatile plays, A showcase of successful Irish violin. Thoughts race through her mind as she goes about her day. productions restaged in partnership and Beckett specialist Sarah Jane Scaife is bringing it to the streets – productions restaged in partnership with Culture Ireland and Irish literally. Set in the stage-door laneway of one of Dublin’s most famous with Culture Ireland and Irish This multi-sensory performance is a collaboration between some of the Theatre Institute. theatres, in the present day with all the problems of homelessness and Theatre Institute. most exciting artists in contemporary Irish music and theatre. Originally drug addiction, this play resonates with a power that is both chilling and inspired by the life and music of 12th century visionary Hildegard of all too familiar. TALKING THEATRE Bingen, this evocative combination of sound and visuals creates a tangible sense of a life explored on stage. Tom Creed and Ian Wilson Following its runaway success at the 2009 Absolut Fringe, Scaife’s in conversation. expertise in movement, and intimate experience of the subject matter, Like an opera without singers, this meditative and moving wordless Oct 10, Post-show 1.45pm (approx.) makes Beckett’s Act Without Words II a stirring, provocative piece which performance combines virtuoso violin with a haunting electronic is performed by Raymond Keane (Barabbas Theatre Company) and soundscape. Created by leading Irish composer Ian Wilson, performed Bryan Burroughs (The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards Best Supporting by acclaimed violinist Ioana Petcu-Colan, and directed by rising star Actor 2009), two of Ireland’s most talented physical theatre artists. Tom Creed, Una Santa Oscura delves into one woman's solitude and loss, creating a truly original and memorable experience. Please note that this performance is staged outdoors – appropriate Venue Main Space at Smock Alley Theatre Meeting Point The Westbury Hotel dress recommended. Dates Oct 8 – 10 Dates Oct 6 –9 Times Oct 8 10pm. Oct 9 1pm “A composer of imaginative resource and a sure formal sense... Times 8pm & 9.30pm “A powerful poignant vignette of human existence...” The Irish Times Oct 10 1pm & 6pm has the gift of making even the barest ideas interesting.” Price €15 Price Range €20 – €25 Gramophone Magazine Duration 30mins (no interval) Duration 45mins (no interval)

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44 45 www.dublin theatre festival.com Ireland The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children in association with Theatre Lovett

THE GIRL WHO FORGOT TO SING BADLY

By Finegan Kruckemeyer Directed by Lynne Parker DARING Performed by Louis Lovett Set Design Paul O’Mahoney RIOTOUS Lighting Design Sinéad Wallace Costume Design Joan O’Clery INSPIRED Sound and Music Design Carl Kennedy Producer Muireann Ahern

Sometimes it takes a girl sized human to solve an adult sized problem.

Peggy O’Hegarty and her parents are packers. They squeeze fruit into

t while Peggy sings with the voice of an angel – a grossly unfortunate r i c k

R angel, who can’t sing at all. e d m o n d But one day work stops working, and the jobs stop coming, and Peggy steps outside to find Winter has arrived… and everyone in her city gone!

REVIEWED Venue Civic Theatre Booking and Information As Peggy desperately tries to save the day, the audience is led on an Please see the grid at the back of the untamed adventure that crosses snowy lands and wild seas. Through A showcase of successful Dates Oct 4 & 5 brochure for times and a breakdown of one plucky little girl, we learn about love, loss, the reassurance of goats, Irish productions restaged in Price €10 school/public performances. All schools and the courage to sing gloriously on or off-key. partnership with Culture Ireland should contact the venue box offices Venue The Ark directly. Tickets for all public performances and Irish Theatre Institute. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience the combined, celebrated are available from Festival and venue box Dates Oct 7 – 10 offices. Box Office details on page 66. talents of director Lynne Parker, performer Louis Lovett and playwright FESTIVAL ON TOUR Price €10 Finegan Kruckemeyer. Theatre where you live. Schools €6.50 Age 7+ Venue Draíocht

Dates Oct 14 & 15 “An absolute gem of a production… Why can’t all theatre be like this?” The View, RTÉ Price €5

Duration 55mins (no interval)

46 47 www.dublin theatre festival.com LOVE PATIENCE STRENGTH FAMILY SEASON

Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival and The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children, team up once again to present a season of acclaimed international productions for families. Hear the stories of a little old guinea pig in the sunset of his life; come on magical journeys deep beneath the earth’s crust; and lie down in an ocean of mattresses dreaming your wildest dreams. As always, the Family Season, whether you’re little or not, will enthral, delight and entertain.

BOOKING AND INFORMATION Please contact The Ark on 01 670 7788 or visit www.ark.ie . All school performances €6.50 and public performances €10. For public bookings, you can also contact the Festival Box Office. Please see the grid at the back of the brochure for times and a breakdown of school/public performances.

48 49 www.dublin theatre festival.com Belgium Studio ORKA Netherlands BonteHond

LAVA LYING Concept Studio ORKA DOWN Cast Ilse De Koe, Brenda Bertin and Dominique Van Malder. Concept and Direction Noël Fischer Cast Feike Looyen, Paméla Menzo and Charlene Schmeltz. THRILLING Music Jolle Roelofs MAGICAL © © B

CHARMING S DREAMY e n t u v d a i o n O D u r k i n DARING a JOYOUS

Two soil investigators discover something quite wonderful while When you’re lying on your back, the world looks, sounds and smells constructing a subterranean car park deep under Dublin castle. Fifteen totally different… metres into the ground, they suddenly hear strange, inexplicable sounds. Scratchy, creaky noises, hushed murmurings, snippets of piano music. Three cheeky sisters live in a magic house, a house where nothing is what it seems and sometimes the most unlikely things come alive! Using fibre-optic cameras, they soon have proof that somewhere Lying Down is about small fears, big dreams and the power of beneath the earth’s crust, amongst the moles and worms, something imagination. An enchanting, thrilling fairytale for everyone who loves (or someone?) is ALIVE! The award-winning Studio ORKA invites you exciting bedtime stories, wild goodnight songs and a little magic in on a unique journey into a special world somewhere between reality their life. and imagination. Lie flat on your back, doze off with your eyes open and let your dreams Please note that this performance is site-specific and staged outdoors carry you away with this deliciously lazy show. in a purpose-built wooden tent – appropriate dress recommended. The Ark will have a big bed of mattresses so children can watch this Age 6+ show sitting up or lying down!

“A divine example of theatre played on location, for young and Age 5+ Venue Dubh Linn Garden, Dublin Castle. Enter by the Pedestrian Entrance old... Unpretentious, honest and humoristic theatre.” De Standaard of Dublin Castle on Palace St. off Dame St. Venue The Ark “played superbly with the slippage between wakefulness Dates Oct 1 –3 Dates Oct 14 – 17 and snooziness.” The Herald Duration 55mins (no interval) Duration 50mins (no interval)

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50 51 www.dublin theatre festival.com Denmark Teater Refleksion and De Røde Heste SPECIAL EVENTS GOODBYE IN DEVELOPMENT

The Festival will again provide audiences with an opportunity to see major MR. Irish theatrical works in development before they reach full production on the stage – possibly in future Festival programmes. Presented by some of Ireland’s leading theatre companies, In Development will feature rehearsed MUFFIN readings, open rehearsals and semi-staged performances.

Man of Valour Events are free but booking through the Festival Box Office is essential.

GENTLE SILENT Fishamble Venue Project Arts Centre Silent TENDER Date Oct 7 Directed by Jim Culleton Time 1pm Following the unstoppable success of Forgotten (over 40 Irish venues, POIGNANT 8 European countries and 3 US cities), Fishamble and Pat Kinevane combine forces again on a very special new work. In Silent Corkonian down-but-not-out romantic Tino McGoldrick explores the wounds of his past through the golden era of Rudolph Valentino. The Festival is delighted to welcome Mr. Muffin after he got lost on the high seas somewhere between Ireland and Japan on the way to THE BLUE BOY Brokentalkers the 2009 Festival! Venue Temple Bar Gallery & Studios The Blue Boy Date Oct 7 Directed by Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keegan Once Mr. Muffin was young, strong and proud, but now is old, grey Time 5pm Brokentalkers latest project deals with the experiences of men and women and tired. He sits alone in his house reminiscing about the good times, who were incarcerated as children in catholic residential care institutions. and sometimes about the not so good times: His kind and wise wife, Using recorded interviews, live performance, music and film, The Blue Boy his four little furry ones and his little house at the bottom of the garden. attempts to give fresh theatrical voice to recently revealed stories of childhood abuse in Ireland. Using puppetry, animation and music, Goodbye Mr. Muffin tells THE MINISTRY OF DELIVERANCE the charming and uplifting story about the last days in the life of Richard Wakely presents Venue Project Arts Centre a much loved guinea pig. It was awarded Best Children’s Theatre The Ministry Of Deliverance Performance 2005/06 by the Association of Danish Theatre Date Oct 9 Written and Directed by Conall Morrison Societies, and is sure to warm your heart. Time 11.30am Attending the exorcism of a house leads a group of old friends to question everything they thought they could believe in. A fierce but funny look at faith in contemporary Ireland. Age 6+ MAN OF VALOUR The Corn Exchange “★★★★★ Children’s theatre at its best.” The Scotsman Venue Project Arts Centre Man of Valour Venue The Ark Date Oct 8 Developed by Michael West, Annie Ryan and Paul Reid Dates Oct 11 – 13 Time 1pm A heart-pumping, almost wordless, one-man action movie based Duration 35mins (no interval) on the interior life of a Walter Mitty-like office drone, whose internal For full festival timetable see page 70 adrenaline-filled alternative universe threatens to take over his everyday reality. Performed by Paul Reid.

52 53 www.dublin theatre festival.com THE NEXT STAGE PANEL DISCUSSIONS © © All panel discussions are free and not ticketed.

P Presented in association with Theatre Forum. H a e t r l i e c

n Please arrive on time. k M R e a d y b m Described by past participants as “career changing,” a “rare amount of a o n n k d inspiration” and “a once in a lifetime opportunity,” The Next Stage is the s The Smartest Men in the Room? artist development strand of the Festival. This challenging programme, Addressing issues raised by Lucy Prebble’s ENRON , leading Irish and THE NEXT STAGE spanning all 18 days of the Festival, is an intense combination of THE SMARTEST MEN IN THE ROOM? international commentators and activists, discuss the implications and

Dates Sept 30 – Oct 17 exposure to the highest quality theatre and active participation. In Venue Gaiety Theatre opportunities for a New World Order presented by the recent addition to a nearly exhaustive schedule of performances, there turbulence in the World economy. Times 10am – 6pm daily with Date Oct 15 performances most evenings. is a series of talks and workshops led by some of the world’s leading Time 5.30pm – 7pm Participation Fee €250 (including at least theatre makers. Past workshop leaders/speakers include Stephen Rea, The Smartest Men in the Room? will be broadcast on Arts Tonight, 15 shows and all workshops and talks) Lloyd Newson, Declan Donnellan, Anne Bogart and Tim Crouch. Up NO WAY TO DO BUSINESS RTÉ Radio 1 on Oct 18, 10pm.

Closing date Aug 27 5pm to sixteen Irish theatre practitioners from all disciplines will be chosen to Venue Gaiety Theatre participate in this intimate programme. Participation is by application only. Further info www.theatreforumireland.com Date Oct 16 No Way To Do Business Time 5.30pm – 7pm Supported by Irish Theatre Trust. Building on the The Smartest Men in the Room? discussion, business leaders and campaigners-for-change discuss the ethical, environmental and social responsibilities of supernational companies in an increasingly PROJECT BRAND NEW globalised world. The Smartest Men in The Room? and No Way To Do Business – THE MAGIC IF are proudly supported by

In a world of budgets, deadlines, and designs, the spark of imagination can falter. Project Brand New wants to delve into the dreams of our theatre makers and find out where it all starts… © V i k t o r WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? C From a tiny stage, with a single chair, let them tell you their fantasy: If i b u l k Artists involved in the WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? season talk a they could make a performance anywhere, with anyone, or anything, and a guarantee of success, what would it be? about you, the audience, and why their work is increasingly influenced by your physical, emotional and intellectual presence in the room. PROJECT BRAND NEW

Venue The New Theatre practitioners we know, and over one inspiring day they will present h e n

you with their answers. C u

Date Oct 16 m m i s k

Times Hourly from 2pm – 7pm e y with tea and cake. Supported by Irish Theatre Trust.

Price €2 per hour at the door – WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? no advance booking. Venue Project Arts Centre

Date Oct 16

Time 1pm – 2.30pm

54 55 www.dublin theatre festival.com DRAMA IN THE AIR THE WONDERFUL

Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival in association with RTÉ Radio WORLD OF HUGH Drama brings you an audio drama experience: two plays, two playwrights, two live audiences. Sean Rocks of RTÉ Radio 1’s arts programme, Arena, HUGHES Thomas Kilroy interviews Thomas Kilroy and Gary Mitchell about writing drama for radio followed by an airing of their recent works for RTÉ. Stories from an Invisible Town IN THE GARDEN OF THE ASYLUM STORIES FROM AN INVISIBLE TOWN Hugh wants to find a way of creating his next show with an audience. All Venue The New Theatre In The Garden Of The Asylum Venue Studio Theatre at Smock Alley Theatre he needs is for you to come along to help. Join him in his rehearsal room. Date Oct 5 By Thomas Kilroy Date Oct 14 Time 1pm – 2.30pm Time 8pm How I Got Here Ian Really Likes Mary “I can’t believe this”, says Hugh, “they’re making a documentary about me IAN REALLY LIKES MARY HOW I GOT HERE By Gary Mitchell and the journey I’m on”. Why not watch it with him? He’ll be staying for Venue The New Theatre Venue Studio Theatre at Smock Alley Theatre questions afterwards. Date Oct 12 These events are free and not ticketed. Please arrive on time. Date Oct 15 Time 1pm – 2.30pm Time 6pm These events are free and not ticketed. Please arrive on time.

YELLOW THEATRE CENSORSHIP

Featuring Olwen Fouéré, Deirdre Roycroft, Victoria McCormack, CONFERENCE Ann Maria Healy, Anna Berdston and Amanda Coogan. ‘Art made tongue-tied by authority’: A woman dressed in a large yellow dress, continuously washes Theatre Censorship around the World. her enormous skirt in a bucket of soap water over 4 hours, to the This international conference brings together playwrights, directors © J o intermittent strains of a piano composition by Franz Schubert. h and academics to discuss theatre censorship in a global context, from n R o Originally authored by the performance artist Amanda Coogan, Yellow c the restrictions imposed by authoritarian regimes in twentieth-century h S © i m examines the frail and yet indomitable nature of the human spirit, and A Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, to the challenges to freedom o G n A s will be interpreted individually by six women over consecutive days. of expression still present in democratic societies today. The conference will also include a number of events that are open free to the public. YELLOW This powerful live performance draws all the power of the past into the THEATRE CENSORSHIP CONFERENCE

Venue St. Mary’s Abbey (off Capel Street) visceral present in a collective experience of endurance on the border Venue Various Venues between performance art and theatre. Dates Sept 30 – Oct 5 Dates Sept 30 – Oct 2

Further info www.dublintheatrefestival.com Times 6pm – 10pm. Visitors are free to These events are free and not ticketed. come and go throughout the performance. Booking www.dur.ac.uk/mlac/tcs/

56 57 www.dublin theatre festival.com OPEN HOUSE YOUNG CRITICS’ PANEL

Application Form OPEN HOUSE Venue Samuel Beckett Theatre YOUNG CRITICS’ PANEL [email protected] Time 12pm The National Association for Youth Drama (NAYD) presents the Further info 01 677 8439 With the support of Ulster Bank, the Festival is delighted to continue Date Oct 10 www.ulsterbank.com/arts/openhouse Young Critics’ Panel involving young people from youth theatres around this access initiative designed to ensure everybody can enjoy world- Price Free Ireland. This will provide a platform for youth theatre members to discuss class theatre, irrespective of their social or financial circumstances. Further info www.nayd.ie . and articulate their views on selected Festival productions. Chaired by Karen Fricker. Open House offers significantly reduced ticket prices for selected Festival shows, to community groups and organisations including welfare groups, parent support groups, refugee associations, disadvantaged children and their guardians, special needs groups INTERNATIONAL CRITICS’ FORUM INTERNATIONAL and their carers, and registered charities. Venue Samuel Beckett Theatre

Date Oct 14 CRITICS’ FORUM The Festival will extend a number of €10 tickets to Open House Time 4pm – 6pm participants, on a first-come first-served basis. In association with Irish Theatre Magazine. Price Free

Further info www.irishtheatremagazine.ie Irish Theatre Magazine hosts its annual International Critics' Forum, at which leading theatre critics from home and abroad offer lively IRISH THEATRE discussion and analysis of the highlights of the Festival programme. The panel will be chaired by the academic and critic, Patrick Lonergan. INSTITUTE Audience participation welcome. INTERNATIONAL

THEATRE EXCHANGE ABSOLUT FRINGE 2010 ABSOLUT FRINGE 2 010 Dates Sept 11 – 26 Since its inception in 1994, Irish Theatre Institute has led the way in Further info www.fringefest.com Dublin Fringe Festival’s 16th outing will, as always, present work by the international networking and promotion for Irish theatre companies new and the next, the bold and the daring, the young and the restless. and artists. This year ITI will present its 17th annual International From its opening weekend outdoor spectacle to the closing night awards ceremony, you won’t be able to miss the carefully curated programme IRISH THEATRE INSTITUTE Theatre Exchange – a three day gathering of influential international INTERNATIONAL THEATRE EXCHANGE presenters and producers who will meet with Irish companies and of work that will entertain, inspire and provoke. Among the best of new Irish talent, watch out for international shows like Trilogy by Nic Green, Venue Various Venues artists that have work ‘ready for export’ or, who are working on projects Giséle Vienne’s Jerk and The Next Two Days of Everything by a smith. Dates Oct 7 – 9 with an attractive international dimension. Comprising one-to-one meetings, pitching sessions, panel discussions, networking events, Full details on the programme will be live on www.fringefest.com from Further info www.irishtheatreinstitute.ie showcase and in-development performances, this event is a must August 18. Book early as spaces are limited for all Irish producers of professional theatre who have an eye to international platforms. In the past two years alone, as a result of this event, companies have been invited to perform in Cape Town, New York, Tampere, London, Wiesbaden, Johannesburg, Toronto, Edinburgh, Paris and Portland – can you afford to miss it?

58 59 www.dublin theatre festival.com LOST IN TRANSLATION

Building on the Polski Teatr season, Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival in partnership with various arts organisations, presents a city-wide celebration of contemporary Polish culture and investigation of the cultural impact of migration.

Zero

Venue Liberty Hall Małe Instrumenty & Mariusz Wilczyn´ ski Venue IFI Death of Civility Date Oct 15 Music for Mariusz Wilczyn´ski’s Films Dates Oct 15 – 17 New Polish Cinema at the IFI Time 8pm Times and further info Price €15 Presented in association with ArtPolonia. www.dublintheatrefestival.com Reflecting issues addressed in the Polish shows in the Festival, the www.ifi.ie Booking www.dublintheatrefestival.com IFI and the Festival are delighted to present a season of new Polish Booking www.ifi.ie Małe Instrumenty (Small Instruments) is a band exploring new cinema, curated by Polish film critic and scholar, Michal Oleszczyk. sounds using a wide array of (very) small instruments, strange musical Taking as his theme a perceived social crisis within Polish society, inventions, children’s toys and anything they can find that makes a Oleszczyk has selected four contemporary Polish films, including Zero sound. In this highly visual multi-media concert, Małe Instrumenty (2009), that when seen together, form a fascinating narrative about the responds to the internationally renowned work of Mariusz Wilczyn´ski, effect Poland’s extraordinary political transformations through the 20th a leading Polish animation filmmaker. The concert will include live century have had on its citizens. animation by Wilczyn´ski and improvisation by Małe Instrumenty. Venue Whelan’s Chopin Balkan Style – Sarakina in Dublin Chrysanthemums and the Full Moon Date Sept 30 Male Insturmenty & Mariusz Wilczyn´ski Time 7.30pm Sarakina, a group of young, classically-trained musicians, will perform Presented in association with Ireland Literature Exchange in Price €10 their latest Chopin-inspired album Fryderykata - marking the 200th Venue Dublin Unitarian Church. co-operation with Poetry Ireland. Booking www.tickets.ie anniversary celebrations of the birth of Chopin. Date Oct 12 Time 6pm Throughout the Festival period, Ireland Literature Exchange will host Venue City Wall Space, Wood Quay Venue Lost and Found in Translation Price Free and not ticketed a Polish literary translator who will work on a series of Irish poetry in Date Oct 16 Further Info www.dublintheatrefestival.com translation. The residency will culminate in a public event at which Irish Time 10am – 4pm The Forum on Migration and Communications (FOMACS) and Ulster www.irelandliterature.com Price Free but advance registration required Bank Dublin Theatre Festival present a day-long symposium exploring www.poetryireland.ie and Polish poets will read from their work and discuss contemporary poetry practice. The reading will be followed by a debate on the Booking www.fomacs.org the cultural and creative impact of immigration in Ireland and the role cultural and linguistic challenges experienced by poetry translators. and responsibilities of artists and arts organisations in achieving social justice in the context of transcultural dialogue.

Lost In Translation is presented with the support of

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OPENS CONCESSIONS PLEASE ARRIVE ON TIME! Public Booking August 18, 9.30am Concessions are available in person If you are picking up your tickets Priority Booking July 28, 1pm for senior citizens, actors’ equity, at the venue’s Box Office on the unwaged, and full-time students night, please ensure you do so 30 ONLINE with appropriate ID. minutes before show time. We will www.dublintheatrefestival.com do everything possible to ensure GROUPS efficiency at the Box Office but CALL IN A group discount is available Festival shows are busy and you Festival Box Office (to groups of 11+) to most may need to queue. If you already 44 East Essex Street performances. Please contact have your tickets please arrive Temple Bar the Box Office for details. at the venue 15 minutes before Dublin 2 show time. Latecomers will not GIFT VOUCHERS be admitted and refunds are not BY PHONE Gift vouchers are available at available. Public Booking Line the Festival Box Office in person, 01 677 8899 (from Aug 18, over the phone and online. BOOKING FEES public opening hours below) Booking fees are charged on Priority Booking Line CAPTIONING phone sales at €2 per ticket and 01 673 0606 (from July 28, Captioning is similar to television partly help cover the costs of our priority opening hours below) subtitling and gives deaf, deafened temporary Box Office. Booking and hard of hearing people access fees can be avoided if tickets OPENING HOURS to live performance. The actors’ are bought online, in person at Public Booking Period words appear on a display unit the Festival Box Office, or if you Mon – Thu: 9.30am – 7pm within view of the stage at the same are a Friend of the Festival. Fri: 9.30am – 5.30pm time as they are spoken. Speaker Sat: 10am – 5pm names, sound effects and offstage NO REFUND/EXCHANGE Sun: 12noon – 3pm, noises are also shown. A captioned The Festival has a policy of no (3, 10, 17 Oct only) performance of No Child … at refund or exchange on all tickets Priority Booking Period axis: Ballymun will take place on purchased. Mon – Fri: 10am – 6pm Saturday Oct 16 at 8pm. These services are provided by the Festival NOTE PRIORITY BOOKING and axis: Ballymun, and facilitated All offers are subject to From July 28 at 1pm. Priority by Arts & Disability Ireland with availability, and all information Booking is available online and funding from the Arts Council. is correct at the time of going Lights, camera, action! Terminal 2 – Opening this November. over the phone (01 673 0606) to print. Management reserves from Mon – Fri 10am - 6pm for SPECIAL ASSISTANCE the right to change the cast or DAA looks forward to welcoming you to your new terminal. Friends of the Festival. Please If a member of your party is a performance in the event of any see page 21 for details on the wheelchair user or needs special unforeseen circumstances. Friends of the Festival. assistance in the auditorium please inform Box Office at the point of booking.

At the heart of every Festival lies FESTIVAL MOVIE CLUB the Festival Club. After immersing Throughout the Festival, the Odessa Club’s ever yourself in the world’s best theatre, popular Movie Club will screen two movies suggested by the Festival programme. this is where to go to unwind, eat, drink and most importantly, dance! Tickets Free and ticketed on the door. Info www.odessaclub.ie Now in our fourth year at the THE ODESSA SESSIONS Odessa Club, we are thrilled to For the opening and closing Thursday nights during partner with the city’s most exciting the Festival, radio media partner Phantom 105·2 will artists on an eclectic range of showcase the best of new and emerging Irish artists. events at the Festival Club. Keep Sept 30 & Oct 14, 8.30pm. Tickets €10 an eye on the Festival website for Info www.odessaclub.ie more details. THE ODESSA CLUB PONYDANCE – WHERE DID IT ALL GO RIGHT? Located in the heart of the city centre, the Odessa The madcap dance hit of last year’s Fringe returns for Club has it all: a comfortable setting where members one night only as part of the ReViewed programme, can eat, drink, network and party. If you are a small presented in association with Culture Ireland and Irish or large party, the club caters for all; with intimate Theatre Institute. corners to lose the night away in and two large event rooms with a capacity of 200. Oct 7, 10.30pm. Tickets €10 Admission to the Festival Club is restricted to KALEIDOSCOPE sponsors, visiting companies, invited guests, and Odessa Club’s monthly music soirée, which has Friends of the Festival. For more information on already achieved cult status, presents a special late- Friends of the Festival, please see page 21. Festival night programme inspired, in part, by Festival artists. Club passes are required for entry.

Oct 12, 10pm. Tickets €8 Admission to the club events are ticketed by the Info www.kaleidoscopenight.com Odessa Club and available to the general public THE IRISHISH TIMESTIMES on 01 670 3080. irishtimes.com.com www.dublin theatre festival.com 65 Tickets can be booked at the Festival Box Office or through the box office in theatres VENUES 2 010 where numbers/websites are provided. Festival Box Office booking information and booking fees are detailed on page 63. Venue box office booking fees vary and should be confirmed directly with the venue box office at the point of booking.

1. ABBEY THEATRE 10. GATE THEATRE 20. TEMPLE BAR GALLERY & STUDIOS 26 Lwr Abbey St, Dublin 1 Cavendish Row, Parnell Sq, Dublin 1 5-9 Temple Bar, Dublin 2 01 878 7222 01 874 4045/874 6042 www.abbeytheatre.ie www.gatetheatre.ie 21. DUBLIN UNITARIAN CHURCH 112 St. Stephen’s Green West, Dublin 2 2. THE ARK, A CULTURAL CENTRE 11. IRISH FILM INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 22. THE WESTBURY HOTEL 11a Eustace St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 01 679 3477 2 Grafton St. Dublin 2 01 670 7788 www.ifi.ie www.ark.ie 23. WHELAN’S 12. LIBERTY HALL 25 Wexford St. Dublin 2 3. AXIS: BALLYMUN Eden Quay, Dublin 1 www.tickets.ie Main St, Ballymun, Dublin 9 01 883 2100 13. ST. MARY’S ABBEY PARKING Meeting House Lane, Mary’s Abbey Park Rite is offering a special evening rate 4. CITY WALL SPACE, (off Capel St) Dublin 1 of €5 from 6pm onwards in all Park Rite WOOD QUAY VENUE car parks listed below which conveniently Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 8 14. THE NEW THEATRE serve most of the Festival venues: 43 East Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 5. CIVIC THEATRE • Park Rite Christchurch Car Park Tallaght, Dublin 24 15. ODESSA CLUB (Werburgh St) 01 462 7477 13 Dame Ct, Dublin 2 • Park Rite Drury Street Car Park 01 670 3080 (Drury St) 6. DRAÍOCHT • Park Rite Fleet Street Car Park The Blanchardstown Centre, Dublin 15 16. O’REILLY THEATRE (Temple Bar) 01 885 2622 Belvedere College, 6 Great Denmark St, • Park Rite IFSC Car Park www.draiocht.ie Dublin 1 • Park Rite Irish Life Car Park (Lwr Abbey St) 7. DUBH LINN GARDEN, DUBLIN CASTLE 17. PROJECT ARTS CENTRE • Park Rite Parnell Centre Car Park 2 Palace St, Dublin 2 39 East Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 (Parnell St) 01 881 9613 • Park Rite Smithfield Car Park 8. FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE www.projectartscentre.ie (Queen St) 44 East Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 01 677 8899 18. SAMUEL BECKETT THEATRE Park Rite is the Official Parking Provider www.dublintheatrefestival.com Trinity College, Dublin 2 for the Festival. Sat/Sun after 6pm, enter through 9. GAIETY THEATRE Nassau St entrance. The following theatres have their own car 53/54 South King St, Dublin 2 01 896 2461(from Aug 30) parking facilities: 01 677 1717 www.ticketmaster.ie/www.gaietytheatre.ie 19. SMOCK ALLEY THEATRE • axis: Ballymun Exchange St. Lwr, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 • Civic Theatre • Draíocht • Gate Theatre

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68 69 Preview Schools Running On TIMETABLE OF EVENTS Performance

Show Page Venue Tue 28 Wed 29 Thu 30 Fri 01 Sat 02 Sun 03 Mon 04 Tue 05 Wed 06 Thu 07 Fri 08 Sat 09 Sun 10 Mon 11 Tue 12 Wed 13 Thu 14 Fri 15 Sat 16 Sun 17 Duration

ENRON Gaiety Theatre 2.30pm 2.30pm 4 2hrs 15mins 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm CIRCA Gaiety Theatre 4.00pm 6 1hr 35mins 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm THE SILVER TASSIE Gaiety Theatre 2.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 8 2hrs 30mins 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. O’Reilly Theatre, 2.30pm 1.00pm 12 2hrs 10mins Belvedere College 7.30pm 7.30pm 6.00pm 7.30pm FACTORY 2 O’Reilly Theatre, 3.30pm 1.00pm 14 7hrs 30mins Belvedere College THE DANTON CASE Project Arts Centre 2.30pm 16 2hrs 40mins 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm ENDGAME Gate Theatre 3.00pm 19 1hr 30mins 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm WATT Gate Theatre 3.00pm 19 55mins 10.00pm 8.00pm 6.00pm 10.00pm 10.00pm CELEBRATION Gate Theatre 2.00pm 20 1hr 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 10.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm BOSTON MARRIAGE Gate Theatre 3.00pm 3.00pm 20 2hrs 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm PHAEDRA Project Arts Centre 1.00pm 2.30pm 1.00pm 22 2hrs 30mins 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 6.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 6.00pm JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN Abbey Theatre 2.30pm 24 2hrs 40mins 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm L’EFFET DE SERGE Samuel Beckett Theatre 3.00pm 26 1hr 15mins 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm THE REHEARSAL, Samuel Beckett Theatre 2.30pm 3.00pm 28 2hrs 30mins PLAYING THE DANE 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm B FOR BABY Peacock Stage 2.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 30 1hr 30mins Abbey Theatre 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm THE SMILE OFF YOUR FACE Main Space 1 – 3.30pm 1 – 3.30pm 2 – 4.30pm 2 – 4.30pm 33 30mins Smock Alley Theatre 6 – 8.30pm 6 – 8.30pm 7 – 9.30pm 7 – 9.30pm INTERNAL Studio Theatre 1 – 3.30pm 1 – 3.30pm 1 – 3.30pm 2 – 4.30pm 2 – 4.30pm 34 30mins Smock Alley Theatre 6 – 8.30pm 6 – 8.30pm 6 – 8.30pm 7 – 9.30pm 7 – 9.30pm A GAME OF YOU Main Space 1 – 3.30pm 1 – 3.30pm 1 – 3.30pm 2 – 4.30pm 2 – 4.30pm 35 30mins Smock Alley Theatre 6 – 8.30pm 6 – 8.30pm 6 – 8.30pm 7 – 9.30pm 7 – 9.30pm THE AUTHOR Project Arts Centre 6.00pm 1.00pm 36 1hr 20mins 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 565+ 37 Project Arts Centre 4.00pm 1hr 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 7.00pm THE WONDERFUL WORLD 38 Studio Theatre 1.00pm 1.00pm OF HUGH HUGHES Smock Alley Theatre 6.00pm 1hr 30mins Floating THE WONDERFUL WORLD 38 Studio Theatre OF HUGH HUGHES Smock Alley Theatre 6.00pm 5.00pm 5.00pm 1hr 30mins Story Of A Rabbit THE WONDERFUL WORLD 38 Studio Theatre OF HUGH HUGHES Smock Alley Theatre 6.00pm 1hr 20mins 360 9.30pm 8.00pm DICIEMBRE Project Arts Centre 4.00pm 40 1hr 15mins 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm NO CHILD... axis: Ballymun 2.00pm 41 1hr 10mins 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm ACT WITHOUT WORDS II Meeting Point: 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 44 30mins The Westbury Hotel 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm UNA SANTA OSCURA Main Space 1.00pm 1.00pm 45 45mins Smock Alley Theatre 10.00pm 6.00pm THE GIRL WHO FORGOT 46 Civic Theatre 11.00am 11.00am TO SING BADLY 50mins THE GIRL WHO FORGOT The Ark 12.00pm 12.00pm 12.00pm 12.00pm 46 50mins TO SING BADLY 3.00pm THE GIRL WHO FORGOT 46 Draíocht 11.00am 11.00am TO SING BADLY 50mins LAVA 50 Dubh Linn Garden 12.15pm 12.00pm 2.00pm Dublin Castle 6.00pm 2.00pm 4.00pm 55mins 4.00pm 12.15pm 12.15pm 2.00pm 2.00pm LYING DOWN 51 The Ark 50mins 6.00pm 6.00pm 4.00pm 4.00pm 12.15pm 12.15pm GOODBYE MR. MUFFIN 52 The Ark 35mins 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm

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