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Presenting Partner Official Accommodation Provider Official Media Partner Principal Funder Chairman Irish Theatre Trust Festival Partners Declan Collier The Trust funds projects and initiatives Abbey Theatre aimed at inspiring, cultivating and The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children Council celebrating emerging and established Culture Ireland Michael Colgan artists and enhancing the vitality of Gate Theatre Michael M. Collins Grant Aided by Presenting Partner Irish theatre. We would like to thank Peter Crowley the following patrons for their generous Volunteers Garry Hynes support of the Trust: Each year we recruit a team of Pauline McLynn enthusiastic volunteers who lend Terence O’Rourke Founding Patrons us their time and energy and help make Gavin Quinn Declan Collier and Jan Winter the festival happen. In return Peter Crowley we offer a lively, stimulating experience Official Accommodation Provider Artistic Director Denis Desmond and an insight into what it takes to and Chief Executive Dermot Desmond organise Dublin Theatre Festival. Willie White Moya Doherty and John McColgan Director of Programme Denis O’Brien For information and to and Production Rosaleen O’Kane apply to volunteer visit Stephen McManus www.dublintheatrefestival.com Official Media Partner Patron or email General Manager Gay Moloney [email protected] Tríona Ní Dhuibhir Caroline Williams (maternity cover) Festival Friends Special Thanks Directors’ Circle 2013 Volunteers and Interns Development Manager Peter Crowley and Clodagh O’Brien Business to Arts Official Broadcasting Partner Chloë O’Connor (until June 2013) Vincent O’Doherty Detail. Design Studio Sarah O’Dea (from July 2013) Andrew and Delyth Parkes Fusio Darren Roddy Hudson Killeen Marketing Manager Aoife Lucey Producers’ Club Gala Night Aisling Daly Each year individual and corporate Audience Development Helen McGovern patrons generously support Dublin Official Radio Partner and Sales Manager Anthony Mourek and Dr. Karole Schafer Theatre Festival through their Maeve Whelan Pat Moylan attendance at our Gala Night. For more information about this Administrator Friends’ Council Dearbháil O’Sullivan year’s event, which takes place Gabrielle Croke (Chair) on 3rd October, please email Production Manager Dearbhail Shannon (Deputy Chair) [email protected]. Online Media Partner David Spud Murphy Dympna Murray (Secretary) Ann-Marie Carroll Family Season Programmer Deirdre Dunny Maria Fleming Sharon McIntyre Madeleine Nesbitt Vincent O’Doherty Official Vehicle Partner Andrew Parkes Darren Roddy Mary Stephenson

Supported by contents In order of opening 01 performance

03 Voyage and Return 22 Three Fingers Below the Knee 40 The Hanging Gardens Festival Symposium Tiago Rodrigues / by Frank McGuinness Mundo Perfeito Abbey Theatre 04 Wunderkammer C!RCA 24 I’ve to Mind Her 42 The Rape of Lucrece by Shaun Dunne by William Shakespeare 06 Germinal Dublin Youth Theatre Royal Shakespeare Company Antoine Defoort and Halory Goerger 26 Waiting for Godot 44 The Bruising of Clouds by Samuel Beckett by Sean McLoughlin 08 Tom and Vera Gare St Lazare Fishamble: The New Desperate Optimists and Players Ireland and Play Company Dublin Theatre Festival Dublin Theatre Festival 46 This Is Not My Voice Speaking 10 Winners and Losers 28 Desire Under the Elms Ant Hampton and Britt Hatzius Theatre Replacement by Eugene O’Neill and Neworld Theatre The Corn Exchange 47 While You Wait Fuel, Roundhouse and 12 Maeve’s House 30 The Critic King’s Cultural Institute by Eamon Morrissey by Richard Brinsley Sheridan Abbey Theatre Rough Magic 48 Family Season

14 The Threepenny Opera 32 Ground and Floor 53 Festival+ by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill Toshiki Okada / Gate Theatre chelfitsch 61 Become a Friend

16 Dusk Ahead 34 Taramandal 65 Information junk ensemble by Neel Chaudhuri Tadpole Repertory Theatre 70 Schedule 18 The Events by David Greig 36 Margarete Actors Touring Company Janek Turkowski

20 riverrun 38 Neutral Hero TheEmergencyRoom and Richard Maxwell / Galway Arts Festival New York City Players

www.dublintheatrefestival.com 02-0302 02-03 How Voyage to Book and Return

Online: www.dublintheatrefestival.com Tickets are also available at The Gathering Inspired by the journeys of Irish theatre, old and new, Phone: +353 1 677 8899 most Dublin Theatre Festival Voyage and Return is a one-day Symposium presented In Person: Dublin Theatre Festival Box Office, venues (see page 67). Ireland Festival in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin as part of 44 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 The Gathering Ireland 2013. The Symposium comprises Symposium distinct morning and afternoon events.

July 10: Concessions and Groups Open House Date: Sept 28, morning Morning Seminar: Priority booking opens Discounts are available in person Register your community Venue: Trinity Long Room Hub Arts A series of new papers responding to ideas of Irish theatre, for Friends of the Festival for senior citizens, Actors’ Equity, organisation with us to avail of €10 and Humanities Research Institute (see page 61). unwaged, full time students with tickets for selected performances. Registration: €15 (includes diaspora and international exchange. Academics from Ireland valid ID, and groups of 11 people Welfare groups, parent support lunch and refreshments). and abroad will respond to the changing performance of a Priority booking line: or more for most performances. groups, special needs groups and Advance registration is advised nation as it is watched from near and far. +353 1 673 0606 Phone our Box Office for details. their carers and registered charities and can be booked online, in are eligible for the scheme. person at the festival Box Office Registration for the seminar is open to all, and will be of particular July 30: Special Assistance or by phone on +353 1 677 8899. interest to academics and students. Public booking opens by phone, If you or a member of your party is Phone: +353 1 677 8439 or email in person and online. a wheelchair user or needs special [email protected] assistance please let us know at the for details. Date: Sept 28, 2pm (panel Free Public Events: Festival Box Office time of booking your ticket. discussion), 4pm (guest lecture) Neither Here Nor There and Phone Lines Open: Please arrive on time Venue: Edmund Burke Theatre, Mon – Fri 10am – 6pm Final Call Latecomers will not be admitted Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin A panel of Irish theatre artists whose careers have taken them Sat 10am – 5pm We continue our standby scheme, and refunds are not available. Please Tickets: Free admission. abroad discuss the complexity of Irish identities on world stages. (Sept 21 – Oct 12 only) offering a limited number of €10 allow 30 mins before show time if Advance booking is available Sun 12pm – 3pm tickets for selected shows on the you are picking up your tickets at in person or by phone. Special Guest (Sept 29 – Oct 13 only) day of the performance. Tickets the box office of your venue. If you – can be purchased in person at the already have your tickets please Voyage and Return is part of the Lecture: Fiona Shaw festival Box Office 4pm–6pm on a arrive 15 mins before show time. Festival+ programme. For more Fiona Shaw, one of our first-come first-served basis. information see page 53. most celebrated actresses, will speak on the theme of theatre and the Irish diaspora. A graduate of UCC and RADA, Shaw’s Booking fees are charged on phone sales at €2 per ticket, helping to cover the cost Follow us on Twitter and Facebook award-winning career of our temporary Box Office. No booking fee is charged on tickets purchased in for information, ticket competitions person at Dublin Theatre Festival Box Office or online. We have a policy of no refund and special offers available throughout has spanned the globe, or exchange on all tickets purchased. the festival period. encompassed several @DubTheatreFest artforms and helped to Please note that all offers are subject to availability. Information is correct at the time Facebook.com/DublinTheatreFestival of going to print. Management reserves the right to change the cast or performance reimagine the canon from in the event of unforeseen circumstances. For full terms and conditions please visit Proudly supported by Synge to Shakespeare. www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 04-05 C!RCA, Australia White-hot, funny and sexy, 04-05 these are super-human acrobats masquerading as mere mortals The Stage

Wunderkammer

Created by Yaron Lifschitz Following their acclaimed visit to the festival in 2010, and the Circa Ensemble Circa return with Wunderkammer, a sexy new cocktail Cast: Jarred Dewey, Freyja Edney, Scott Grove, Todd Kilby, Melissa of circus and burlesque, full of energy, passion and emotion. Knowles, Alice Muntz, Lewis West Director: Yaron Lifschitz In this electrifying production seven multi-talented Producer: Danielle Kellie performers accomplish amazing physical feats with control Technical Director and Lighting Design: Jason Organ and abandon, humour and charisma, beauty and lyricism. Costume Design: Libby McDonnell An exquisite cabaret of the senses, Wunderkammer offers – high entertainment that will leave audiences breathless. Venue: Gaiety Theatre Pre-festival performance: Blending bodies, light, sound and skill, it is a celebration Sept 25, 7.30pm of the possibilities of the human body at its extremes. Dates: Sept 26 – 28, 7.30pm Sept 29, 2.30pm Circa are world renowned for creating startling new ways Tickets: €15 – €35 Duration: 85 mins. No interval. to experience circus. Having thrilled audiences across five – continents, the company comes to Dublin this year following Talking Theatre: a month-long residency at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Sept 25, post-show. With members of the company. Suggested for ages 12+

Circa acknowledge the assistance of the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

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Germinal

Conceived by Halory Goerger In the beginning there was nothing. Then there was light. and Antoine Defoort Then darkness. And then light again… Cast: Arnaud Boulogne, Ondine Cloez, Antoine Defoort, Halory Goerger, Mathilde Maillard (Hotliner) Germinal is a playful and inventive production in which four Technical Direction: Maël Teillant performers draw from sources as diverse as philosophy, Lighting and Video: Sébastien Bausseron strategy video games and the films of Jacques Demy to conjure Sound: Robin Mignot Lighting Consultant: Annie Leuridan a universe in a black box. Using simple theatre tools – mixers, Production: l’Amicale de production microphones, intercoms – they discover telepathy and invent Production Manager, Outside Eyes: speech, moving quickly to construct the very foundations of Julien Fournet Production Assistant: Mathilde Maillard social interaction. The explorers map reality bit by bit in speech Administration: Sarah Calvez bubbles, on digital screens and in exuberant sing-alongs. – As their environment becomes increasingly complex, a Venue: Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) challenge is posed: in a world-system founded on categories Dates: Sept 26 – Sept 28, 7.30pm and classifications, how can they maintain togetherness? Tickets: €25 – €30 Duration: 80 mins. No interval. Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort move freely between visual – Talking Theatre: art, music and interactive performance, combining their eclectic Sept 26, post-show. interests to create constantly shifting visions of theatre. With members of the company. Performed in French with English surtitles. Performance briefly includes strong, flashing lights.

Co-production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, La Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, Le Phénix, Buda, Vooruit, Le Vivat, CECN, Alkantara Festival, TNBA, Théâtre de la Manufacture- With the support of CDN Nancy Lorraine, Baltoscandal Festival, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival, Rotterdamse Schouwburg. Project co-produced by NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

Photo © Alain Rico www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 08-0908 Desperate Optimists Audacious and distinctive 08-09 and Dublin Theatre Empire on Civic Life Festival, Ireland

Tom and Vera

Written and directed by Tom and Vera worked hard and played by the rules. Very much Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor in love and in the prime of their lives they saved and invested, Production Design: Dom Brennan Costume Design: Caroline Harrington bought health insurance and managed their pension contributions. Lighting Design: Stephen Dodd Their plans were measured and their future was solid. – Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre How quickly things change. Previews: Sept 24 & 25, 7.30pm Dates: Sept 26 & 27, 7.30pm Sept 28, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Cast adrift in an unfamiliar landscape of default notices, Sept 29, 2.30pm repossession procedures and stomach ulcers, Tom and Vera Tickets: €20 – €30 are pushed to the very edge. Not the kind of people to take Duration: Approx. 85 mins. No interval. – things lying down and feeling they have nothing left to lose, Talking Theatre: they don a disguise, arm themselves with a gun, and set out Sept 27, post-show. to right a great wrong. With Joe Lawlor. Desperate Optimists is a creative partnership between Irish- born artists Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, who create work together for film, the internet, galleries and live performance. With Tom and Vera they return to their geographic and artistic roots with this refreshing and darkly comic take on the impact of the financial crisis on two ordinary lives.

Contains strong language and scenes of an adult nature.

Supported by Irish Theatre Trust.

www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 10-10 Theatre Replacement Hands down, one of the most 10-11 and Neworld Theatre, innovative, interesting and brutal Canada theatre pieces I’ve ever seen Jo Ledingham

Winners and Losers

Written and performed by Winners and Losers begins as a conversation between lifelong Marcus Youssef and James Long friends. Theatre artists Marcus Youssef and James Long sit at Director: Chris Abraham Stage and Production a table and play a game they made up; naming people, places Management: Elia Kirby and things and debating if they are winners or losers. Lighting Design: Jonathan Ryder – But as the competition heats up things get personal. The focus Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) Dates: Sept 26 & 27, 7.45pm of debate shifts from Pamela Anderson, microwave ovens and Sept 28, 2.45pm & 7.45pm Goldman Sachs to social class and family histories, and the Sept 29, 2.45pm ruthless logic of capitalism that the players had embraced is Tickets: €20 – €25 Duration: 85 mins. No interval. brought to bear on their closest and most personal relationships. – Talking Theatre: Combining scripted and improvised performance, Sept 28 (evening), post-show. Winners and Losers questions how much a friendship With Marcus Youssef and James Long. can bear in the face of such stark honesty.

Contains strong language.

Produced in association with Crow’s Theatre.

Photo © Simon Hayter www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 12-13 Abbey Theatre ‘It was as if the magazine in my 12-13 World Première, hands had become a mirror.’ Ireland

Maeve’s House by Eamon Morrissey

Written and performed by Step inside Maeve’s House in this delightful one-man show Eamon Morrissey, featuring extracts by Eamon Morrissey, one of Ireland’s best-loved actors. from the writing of Maeve Brennan Director: Gerard Stembridge – Maeve Brennan was one of our greatest short story writers. Venue: Abbey Theatre, Although she lived in New York, many of her finest stories on the Peacock stage are set in 48 Cherryfield Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin where she Previews: Sept 24 & 25, 6pm Dates: Sept 26 – Oct 12, 6pm grew up. By coincidence Eamon Morrissey was brought up in No performance on Mon Sept 30 the same house. While performing on Broadway, Eamon was Tickets: €13 – €25 surprised to discover his family home depicted in Maeve’s Duration: 70 mins. No interval. – vivid writing in The New Yorker. He was compelled to meet Talking Theatre: this enigmatic and mysterious woman. Oct 8, post-show. With Eamon Morrissey. This beautiful, poignant story features extracts from Maeve – Sign-language interpreted Brennan’s writing and presents a moving portrait of two performance: artists in conversation across generations. Oct 10, 6pm Three of Eamon’s one-man shows, The Brother, Patrick Gulliver and Joyceman, have premiered on the Peacock stage. Eamon is also a well-known face on RTÉ’s Fair City.

An Abbey Theatre Commission. Maeve’s House will travel to the Irish Arts Center, New York following its run at Dublin Theatre Festival.

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The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill

Translated by Mark O’Rowe Brutal, scandalous and raunchy, the Gate Theatre presents Director: Wayne Jordan the world première of Mark O’Rowe’s new translation of Musical Director: Cathal Synnott – The Threepenny Opera, the epic masterpiece of 20th Century Venue: Gate Theatre musical theatre. This savage satire on bourgeois society tells Previews: Sept 26, 27, 28 & 30, 7.30pm the tale of the villainous but irresistible Macheath (‘Mack Dates: Oct 1 – 4 & 7 – 11, 7.30pm Oct 5 & 12, 2.30pm & 7.30pm the Knife’) – a notorious thief, pimp and murderer – and his Tickets: €25 – €35 entourage of criminals. Duration: Approx. 2 hrs 45 mins incl. interval. The Threepenny Opera caused an immediate sensation when it – Talking Theatre opened in Berlin in 1928, changing the shape of musical theatre Oct 2, post-show. forever. It is now one of the best-loved musicals of all time. With members of the company. – Brecht’s sardonic tale of beggars, thieves and prostitutes is Thursday Talks at the Gate Lab: Oct 3, 6.30pm: In conversation a fierce social and political critique, vividly complemented with Mark O’Rowe, translator by Weill’s amazing score which is an exhilarating fusion of The Threepenny Opera. of American jazz and German cabaret. With an instantly- – Oct 10, 6.30pm: An interview with recognisable catalogue of musical numbers, featuring a the team behind The Threepenny Opera; live orchestra alongside some of Ireland’s most exciting Director Wayne Jordan and Musical singers and actors, The Threepenny Opera promises to Director Cathal Synnott. – be an intoxicating and unforgettable theatrical event. For more information about For a limited run only. Thursday Talks and to reserve a place visit www.gatetheatre.ie Presented in association with Dublin Theatre Festival.

Photo © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, Photo © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, www.dublintheatrefestival.com San Francisco Gallery, Fraenkel courtesy www.dublintheatrefestival.com 16-1716 junk ensemble, junk ensemble have 16-17 Ireland guts and ingenuity The Irish Times

Dusk Ahead

Concept and choreography by junk ensemble are a multi award-winning company, creating Jessica Kennedy and Megan Kennedy bold productions that stretch the boundaries of dance theatre. Performers: Justine Cooper, Miguel do Vale, Ramona Nagabczynski, Ryan O’Neill, Jaiotz Osa Exploring blindness and invisibility, Dusk Ahead expresses the Visual and Costume Design: murky fading light of dusk – that hour between dog and wolf, Sabine Dargent domestic and wild – when it is difficult to discern what is real Sound Composition and Design: Denis Clohessy from what is imaginary. Throughout the performance, a talented Lighting Design: Sarah Jane Shiels cast of international and Irish performers also act as the band, Musician: Zoe Reardon playing live music from an original score. – Venue: Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) Creators of 2012’s festival sell-out Bird with boy and artists-in- Dates: Oct 1 – 3, 6.30pm residence at Tate Britain last year, junk ensemble fuse dance, Oct 4 – 6, 6pm music and theatre in dynamic and imaginative ways. Tickets: €20 – €25 Duration: 60 mins. No interval. junk ensemble are part of Project Catalyst, an initiative of Project Arts Centre. Dusk Ahead is a co-production with Kilkenny Arts Festival and Project Arts Centre. Supported through an Arts Council Dance Project Award.

Photo © Fionn McCann Photo © Fionn www.dublintheatrefestival.ie www.dublintheatrefestival.com 18-1918 Actors Touring ‘For some time now I have 18-19 Company, UK reflected on the events. In an effort to understand them. In an effort to understand him. In an effort to understand. Yesterday, I met the boy. Now, I think, I understand.’

The Events by David Greig

Directed by Ramin Gray A forest rings with the sound of gunfire. Screams echo Composer: John Browne Designer: Chloe Lamford through corridors. At Claire’s choir rehearsal, something Lighting: Charles Balfour terrible happens… Sound: Alex Caplen – David Greig’s daring new play is an exploration of community Venue: Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock stage and its capacity to re-adjust. Questioning just how far forgiveness Dates: Oct 1 – 4, 8.30pm will stretch in the wake of tragedy, The Events brings to light our Oct 5, 2.30pm & 8.30pm destructive but inescapable desire to fathom the unfathomable. Tickets: €20 – €25 Duration: 90 mins. No interval. – One of Scotland’s most prolific and adventurous contemporary Talking Theatre: playwrights, David Greig has garnered international acclaim Oct 1, post-show. with recent work including Midsummer, Dunsinane, The Strange With Ramin Gray and members of the company. Undoing of Prudencia Hart and the new musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Premiering at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, his latest play features a soaring soundtrack brought to life at each performance by a local choir.

Contains strong language.

Presented by Dublin Theatre Festival in association with the Abbey Theatre.

With the support of

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riverrun

Adapted and performed by …Soft morning, city! Lsp! I am leafy speafing. Lpf! Olwen Fouéré through the voice of the river in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Folty and folty all the nights have being falling on Director: Olwen Fouéré Co-director: Kellie Hughes to long my hair. Not a sound, falling… Sound Composition and Design: Alma Kelliher One of Ireland’s leading theatre-makers, Olwen Fouéré has Costume Design: Monica Frawley been intrigued by James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake for many Lighting Design: Stephen Dodd – years. Inspired by the extraordinary musicality of the text and Venue: Project Arts Centre by the voice of the river running through it, she has created this (Space Upstairs) powerful new adaptation of Joyce’s famous ‘book of the night’. Dates: Oct 2 – 4, 9.30pm Oct 5, 1pm & 9.30pm, Oct 6, 1pm Tickets: €20 – €25 A force of constant renewal, the river ‘Life’, Anna Livia Plurabelle, Duration: 70 mins. No interval. ALP, becomes a universal call to wake up, surrender the past and – confront the betrayals that might lie at the heart of our histories. Talking Theatre: Oct 3, post-show. Together with an exciting creative team, riverrun will give With Olwen Fouéré. audiences an opportunity to witness Fouéré’s unique approach to Joyce’s extraordinary ‘sound-dance’.

Production support provided by Rough Magic. Supported through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award.

Photo © Colm Hogan www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 22-2322 Tiago Rodrigues / An extraordinary moment 22-23 Mundo Perfeito, for reflection on the present Portugal dangers to freedom of thought Jornal Público

Three Fingers Below the Knee

Written and directed by Tiago Rodrigues Can words be dangerous? Cast: Isabel Abreu, Gonçalo Waddington Research and Dramaturgy: Joana Frazão Prompted by this question, Tiago Rodrigues delved into the Lighting and Technical Direction: André Calado archives of the censorship commission operating in Portugal Costumes: Magda Bizarro under the rule of António de Oliveira Salazar. Of the thousands and Tiago Rodrigues of plays ripped apart in censorship reports – both classic and Set Design: Magda Bizarro, Rita Barbosa and Tiago Rodrigues new works – it is not what was left that interested Rodrigues, Translation to English: Kevin Rose but rather what was cut and why… Surtitling: Rita Mendes – Three Fingers Below the Knee exposes the oppression of Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) Dates: Oct 2 – 4, 7.45pm, artistic and political freedom felt in Portugal during the 48-year Oct 5, 2.45pm & 7.45pm dictatorship that governed the country. Drawing directly from Tickets: €20 – €25 censorship reports for his play text, Rodrigues interrogates Duration: Approx. 75 mins. No interval. – and subverts the hidden histories of his country, transforming Talking Theatre: censors into playwrights and probing what was left unsaid. Oct 3, post-show. Moving seamlessly between poetry, narration and documentary, With Tiago Rodrigues and members of this is a penetrating work from one of the most influential young the company. artists in Portuguese theatre.

Performed in Portuguese with English surtitles.

Co-production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Alkantara Festival, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Stage-Helsinki Theatre Festival, Rotterdamse Schouwburg. Project co-produced by NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

Photo © Magda Bizarro www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 24-2524 Dublin Youth DYT has proved itself to be an 24-25 Theatre, Ireland invaluable creative outlet for young people in Dublin and is a consistently exciting producer of innovative theatre Mark O’Halloran

I’ve to Mind Her by Shaun Dunne

Directed by Gary Keegan Exploring the world of young carers, I’ve to Mind Her is a new Cast: Paul Harris, Alice Murphy, play examining the responsibilities we have to our family and Cathal Duignan, Hazel Clifford, Nevin Robinson, Martha Breen, to ourselves. It’s a story about parents and their children, their Brian Gallagher, Angel Li hearts, their genetic hardware and what would happen if one – or both stopped caring. Venue: Smock Alley Theatre Black Box Preview: Oct 1, 7.30pm Dates: Oct 2 – 4, 7.30pm Written by playwright Shaun Dunne (Death of the Tradesmen, Oct 5, 2.30pm & 7.30pm I am a Homebird) and directed by Gary Keegan (The Blue Boy, Oct 6, 2.30pm Have I No Mouth), this new collaboration features an ensemble Tickets: €10 – €15 Duration: Approx. 60 mins. No interval. cast of emerging performers from Dublin Youth Theatre. – Talking Theatre: Now in its 35th year, Dublin Youth Theatre has built an enduring Oct 2, post-show. reputation for producing high-quality, exciting and challenging With Shaun Dunne and Gary Keegan. theatre for audiences of all ages, working with young people aged 14 to 22 from across Dublin City and County.

Contains strong language.

Photo © Sean Kennedy www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 26-272626-26 Gare St Lazare Players Having seen nearly all of their 26-27 Ireland and Dublin profoundly moving interpretations Theatre Festival, of Beckett, all attempts at restrained Ireland objectivity go out the window Emer O’Kelly, Sunday Independent

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett ‘…at this place, at this moment in time, all mankind is us, Cast includes: Conor Lovett whether we like it or not.’ – Venue: Gaiety Theatre Preview: Oct 2, 7.30pm On a country road towards the end of day two friends wait for Dates: Oct 3 & 4, 7.30pm a man named Godot to arrive. Their comical efforts to pass the Oct 5, 2.30pm & 7.30pm time parody the human condition and the everyday language Oct 6, 1pm & 6pm Tickets: €15 – €35 of their exchanges takes on a universal significance. Duration: Approx. 2 hrs 30 mins incl. interval. Waiting for Godot was named ‘the most important play of – the 20th Century’ by The New York Times. Beckett’s first and Talking Theatre: Oct 4, post-show. funniest play, it brought the writer fame and introduced his With Judy Hegarty Lovett, work to a worldwide audience. Conor Lovett and members of the company. Gare St Lazare Players Ireland rank among the foremost – Audio-described performance: interpreters of Beckett’s work. They have performed their Oct 5, 2.30pm stage presentations of his prose in over 25 countries across six continents, to great international acclaim. They mark their return to Ireland with this major new production of Waiting for Godot, bringing their unique experience to bear on the Nobel Laureate’s theatrical masterpiece.

In association with ArtsEmerson, Boston, and Cork Midsummer Festival. Supported by Irish Theatre Trust and through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award.

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Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill

Directed by Annie Ryan ‘Before O’Neill, America had entertainment; Cast includes: Janet Moran, after him it had drama.’ John Lahr Lalor Roddy, Fionn Walton Music and Sound Design: Mel Mercier Set and Costume Design: Maree Kearns On a rough, stony farm in 1850s New England, old Ephraim Cabot Lighting Design: Sinéad Wallace brings his third wife back to the family home. When his youngest – son meets her sparks fly – with devastating consequences. Venue: Smock Alley Theatre Main Space Previews: Oct 2 & 3, 7.30pm Dates: Oct 4, 8 & 10 – 12, 7.30pm In this early masterpiece of American drama, Eugene O’Neill Oct 5 & 9, 2.30pm & 7.30pm draws on both Greek tragedy and his Irish roots to tell a story Oct 6, 2.30pm, Oct 13, 6.30pm soaked with greed, repressed desire and the yearning for escape. Tickets: €15 – €30 Duration: 1 hr 40 mins. No interval. Together these elements present a deeply disturbing portrait of – the American psyche stirred by the rage of the Old Country. Talking Theatre: Oct 6, post-show. Creators of last year’s festival hit Dubliners, the acclaimed With Annie Ryan and members of the company. Corn Exchange company, under the direction of Annie Ryan, – strip a modern classic down to its bare bones. Desire Under Captioned performance: the Elms promises a theatrical experience of raw humour, Oct 12, 7.30pm shocking intimacy and incredible power.

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Photo © Amelia Stein www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 30-3130 Rough Magic, The play whoops wickedly 30-31 Ireland and splendidly under Lynne Parker’s direction Sunday Independent on Travesties

The Critic by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Directed by Lynne Parker The Critic is Sheridan’s sparkling exposé of the follies and Cast includes: Peter Daly, Darragh Kelly, joys of making theatre. Ronan Leahy, Eleanor Methven, Rory Nolan, students from the Gaiety School of Acting, DU Players Mr Dangle loves the theatre. Loves the intrigue, the glamour, and UCD Dramsoc loves TALKING theatre with his fellow critic Sneer, his writer Costume Design: Bláithín Sheerin friend Fretful Plagiary and the arch-charlatan Mr Puff. Mrs Dangle Lighting Design: Sarah Jane Shiels Composer and Sound Design: doesn’t love the theatre one bit. What’s the POINT of all this Carl Kennedy entertainment if it doesn’t improve people’s thinking? – Venue: The Culture Box, Follow these vivid characters on a conversational odyssey, concluding at The Ark Previews: Oct 2 & 3, 7pm & 9pm and see them stumble into a rehearsal of Puff’s preposterous Dates: Oct 4, 5 & 8 – 12, 7pm & 9pm historical play conducted by 21st Century drama students. Oct 6 & 13, 6pm & 8pm This new production by Rough Magic fuses 18th Century Tickets: €20 – €30 Duration: Approx. 80 mins. No interval. characters with modern techniques to create an explosion of style and a celebration of theatre across four centuries.

Festival favourites Rough Magic bring the legendary author of The Rivals and The School for Scandal into the heart of Temple Bar.

Please note that this performance will require the audience to walk from The Culture Box to The Ark (100 metres).

Photo © Ros Kavanagh Kavanagh Photo © Ros www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 32-333232-32 Toshiki Okada / Mr. Okada… is celebrated as a 32-33 chelfitsch, Japan chronicler of Japan’s ‘Generation Y’ The New York Times

Ground and Floor

Written and directed by Toshiki Okada Ground and Floor is a moving metaphor for contemporary Japan Cast: Taichi Yamagata, Makoto Yazawa, from Toshiki Okada, one of the leading voices of his generation. Yukiko Sasaki, Mari Ando, Izumi Aoyagi Music: Sangatsu Set Design: Shusaku Futamura Deeply affected by the huge earthquake that struck the country Dramaturgy: Sebastian Breu in 2011, the economic crisis and the catastrophe at Fukushima, Costumes: Yuko Ikeda (Luna Luz) Okada uses art as a means to confront his apprehension about Stage Direction: Koro Suzuki Sound Direction: Norimasa Ushikawa life, politics, and Japanese society. Inspired by the ancient Lighting Direction: Tomomi Ohira Japanese art of Noh and featuring original music by Tokyo Video Direction: Shimpei Yamada musicians Sangatsu, this lyrical production from acclaimed – Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre Japanese collective chelfitsch sketches out a female character Dates: Oct 4 & 5, 7.30pm, Oct 6, 2.30pm as she attempts to confront the silence around her. Taking up Tickets: €25 – €30 the relationship between the living and the dead so keenly Duration: 90 mins. No interval. – felt in in the wake of disaster, Ground and Floor questions the Talking Theatre: possibility of thinking differently in a Japanese society paralysed Oct 5, post-show. by fear, distrust and conformism. With Toshiki Okada and members of the company. Performed in Japanese with English surtitles.

Production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts. Executive production: chelfitsch. Associate production: precog. Co-production: Festival d’Automne a Paris, Les spectacles vivants du Centre Pompidou, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, La Batie – Festival de Geneve, KAAT (Kanagawa Arts Theater), Kyoto Experiment, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Dublin Theatre Festival, Theatre Garonne, Onassis Cultural Center. Special thanks to Steep Slope Studio, Nao Kusumi. Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan 2013.

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Taramandal by Neel Chaudhuri

Directed by Neel Chaudhuri Taramandal is based on Satyajit Ray’s short story, Cast: Andrew Hoffland, ‘Patol Babu, Film Star’, which tells of a chance Bikram Ghosh, Kriti Pant, Mallika Taneja, Neel Debdutt Paul, Tarun Sharma opportunity to fulfil a lifelong dream. Lighting Design: Rahul Rai Stage Design: Vaibhavi Kowshik At fifty or so, Patol Babu has led a rather unglamorous Sound Design and Original Music: life. His one passion, acting, has never really amounted Samar Grewal – to anything other than a few theatre performances in his Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) local community group as a child or at school. So when Dates: Oct 8 – 11, 7.45pm one day the possibility of a part in a Bengali film opens Oct 12, 2.45pm & 7.45pm Tickets: €20 – €25 up, Patol embraces the chance with open arms. Duration: 1 hr 50 mins incl. interval. – Humorous and melancholy, Taramandal tells stories that seem Talking Theatre: to be about people we have met and known in our own lifetime. Oct 9, post-show. With Neel Chaudhuri and Devised and performed by The Tadpole Repertory, one of members of the company. Delhi’s most prominent and prolific theatre groups, this is a play which captures the sincerity and ardour of human dreams and the courage and determination it takes to follow them.

Performed in English, Hindi and Bengali with English surtitles.

Presented with the assistance of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi.

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Margarete

Video: Margarete Ruhbe, In 2008, Janek Turkowski discovered a cardboard box containing Martyna Głowacka, Adam Ptaszyński, 64 8mm film reels in a market in the north of Germany, close Marcin Piątkowski, Janek Turkowski Set Design: Wiesława Turkowska, to the Polish border. Each of the films had images of the same Martyna Głowacka, Janek Turkowski woman, Margarete Ruhbe. Music: Roger Anklam, Przemek Radar Olszewski Captivated by the subject of these home movies, he embarked Translators: Jeannette Boettcher, Marcin Piątkowski, Andrzej Wojtasik on an artistic reconstruction of the life of a woman he didn’t – know. Margarete tells the story that unfolded from this curiosity- Venue: Goethe-Institut driven purchase, and how it prompted one man’s private Dates: Oct 8 – 12, 2pm & 4.30pm Tickets: €15 investigation into the identity of a person who left only a slight Duration: Approx. 55 mins. No interval. mark on silent film.

In intimate surroundings, Turkowski leads his audience on a journey of discovery, set against images of the Communist Bloc. Using digital and 8mm projections, he presents his reflections on memory and how it is recorded.

Presented in association with the Goethe-Institut Irland. With the support of the Polish Embassy in Ireland.

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Neutral Hero

Written and directed by Richard Maxwell Richard Maxwell has assembled twelve characters to tell a story Cast: Lakpa Bhutia, Janet Coleman, of epic ordinariness concerning a young man searching for his Keith Connolly, Alex Delinois, Bob Feldman, Jean Ann Garrish, father in the wide open landscape of the American Midwest. Rosie Goldensohn, Paige Martin, Journeying through gas stations and drive-ins, family routines, James Moore, Philip Moore, work schedules, small-town dreams and desires, his Neutral Hero Andie Springer, Andrew Weisell Set and Lighting Design: unearths an ancient stream of humanity. Sascha van Riel Costume Design: Kaye Voyce Listed as one of The New York Times’ top 10 shows of 2012, – Neutral Hero undertakes the seemingly impossible feat of Venue: Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) portraying neutrality on stage. Maxwell employs the elemental Dates: Oct 9 – 11, 7.30pm materials of the theatre – text, movement, and music – and asks Oct 12, 2.30pm & 7.30pm us to consider a world in which even the most humble existence Tickets: €25 – €30 Duration: 90 mins. No interval. is charged with something mythic and extraordinary. – Talking Theatre: A leading ensemble of the experimental downtown scene, Oct 10, post-show. New York City Players are celebrated for their unique style, With Richard Maxwell and members of championing the downbeats, the anti-heroes, the alienated the company. and the outlaws.

Contains strong language.

Neutral Hero was originally commissioned and produced by Kunstenfestivaldesarts.

With the support of

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The Hanging Gardens by Frank McGuinness

Directed by Patrick Mason The Hanging Gardens is an unflinching and familiar vision of Cast: Cathy Belton, Barbara Brennan, the Irish family from Frank McGuinness, one of the country’s Niall Buggy, Declan Conlon, Marty Rea Set Design: Michael Pavelka most important playwrights. Lighting Design: Davy Cunningham Costume Design: Joan O’Clery A writer and his wife sit together in their garden. They are Original Music and Arrangements: surrounded by a lifetime’s work; their home, their gardens Denis Clohessy – and their children. Rachel wants to be congratulated on her Venue: Abbey Theatre, pregnancy, Maurice is struggling for his father’s acceptance on the Abbey stage and Charlie needs his sacrifices to be acknowledged. A crisis has Previews: Oct 3 – 8, 7.30pm Opens: Oct 9, 7.30pm drawn this family together, but will their honesty pull them apart? Oct 12, 2pm & 7.30pm Tickets: €13 – €45 The Hanging Gardens is Frank McGuinness’ first new play Duration: Approx. 2 hrs 30 mins at the Abbey Theatre in 14 years, following the great success incl. interval. – of his recent adaptations of John Gabriel Borkman and The Dead. Performances continue until Nov 9. Booking for performances after the festival is through the Abbey Theatre box office only.

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The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare

Adapted by Elizabeth Freestone, Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece is a provocative, politically- Feargal Murray and Camille O’Sullivan charged thriller. In the hands of internationally acclaimed Performed and sung by Camille O’Sullivan singer Camille O’Sullivan, this epic poem is brought to life Music composed by Feargal Murray through storytelling and song. and Camille O’Sullivan Piano: Feargal Murray O’Sullivan relates the tragic tale of Tarquin and Lucrece, Director: Elizabeth Freestone Design: Lily Arnold accompanied by an original score performed live by – Feargal Murray on piano. Inhabiting their souls she expresses Venue: OReilly Theatre, Belvedere the tremendous range of human experience at play in this Dates: Oct 10 – 12, 7.30pm Tickets: €25 – €30 dark episode – a story as monstrous as it is beautifully written. Duration: 75 mins. No interval. – A hit at the Edinburgh and Sydney festivals and winner Talking Theatre of the prestigious Bank of Scotland Herald Angel Award, Oct 11, post-show. With members of this Royal Shakespeare Company production is a compelling the company. blend of music and verse.

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Festival on Tour The Bruising of Clouds by Sean McLoughlin

Directed by Jim Culleton Kelly thinks Martin is a strange but lovely youngfella. Deano – thinks Martin is definitely not a youngfella, and that he should Venue: axis:Ballymun Previews: Sept 25 & 26, 8pm keep his paws off his girlfriend. Martin thinks bad karma is Dates: Sept 27 & 28, 8pm going to destroy everything around him, including Kelly… Tickets: €12 – €18 – And maybe Deano. Venue: Pavilion Theatre Dates: Oct 1 & 2, 8pm Tickets: €18 This new play from Fishamble tells the story of an unlikely – couple falling into each other, falling over each other and Venue: Draíocht trying to help each other back up. Dates: Oct 4 & 5, 8pm Tickets: €18 – Fishamble has captured the hearts and imaginations of Venue: Civic Theatre audiences with major international hits including Sebastian Dates: Oct 8 – 12, 8pm Barry’s The Pride of Parnell Street, Pat Kinevane’s Silent, and Tickets: €10 (Oct 8 only) – €18 – recently with the hugely popular Tiny Plays for Ireland. Duration: 90 mins. No interval. – The Bruising of Clouds will be their third production of a play Talking Theatre: by Sean McLoughlin, following on from the great success Sept 28, post-show. Oct 8, post-show. of Big Ole Piece of Cake and Noah and the Tower Flower With Sean McLoughlin (Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best New Play). and Jim Culleton. Contains strong language and scenes of an adult nature. Suitable for ages 16+

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This Is Not My

Voice Speaking Photo © Britt Hatzius While You Wait Photo © Sheila Burnett

This Is Not My Voice Speaking considers the phenomenon of A collaboration between Venue: Dublin Airport While You Wait is a series of 10 minute podcasts created by artists recorded voices and images and asks how our relationship Ant Hampton and Britt Hatzius Dates: Sept 26 – Oct 13 and theatre companies from the UK and internationally. Each – Available free of charge. to them is changing as they shift to a more solid state. Creative Producer: Katja Timmerberg – a different meditation on the idea of waiting, the podcasts are With thanks to: Mischa Twitchin, Podcasts include: designed to surprise, delight and intrigue you while you wait. The audience, re-named One and Zero, enter a room and find Edward Novill, Nina Wakeford Waiting… to be born it filled with devices: a turntable, a slide projector, a 16mm film. – By Lewis Gibson in collaboration Throughout 2013 one podcast per month has been released Venue: Temple Bar Gallery and Studios with Debra Bick and Sarah Beake To some they will be old friends, to others completely alien. Dates: Sept 30 – Oct 12, every 30 mins – on the Fuel, SoundCloud and Run Riot websites. September’s Digital tourists in an analogue arcade, One and Zero are led from 1pm – 5.30pm Waiting… with Rachel and Peter podcast, commissioned by Dublin Theatre Festival, is by through this interactive installation by a guide that alternates Closed on Sunday Oct 6 By Stefan Kaegi in collaboration with The Company in collaboration with Dr Jonathan Reades Tickets: €10 Anna Jordanous and Niki Neecke between human voice, written manual and recordable media. Duration: 30 mins – (King’s College London). Waiting… for the late Miguel Romeo In the pressing of a button, the dragging of a finger to slow By Chris Fittock with input from In addition to the podcasts being available online, a listening a record and in the unsettled clatter of so many frames of Dr Maria Alverez station will be installed at Dublin Airport for the duration of the – film passing per second, the audience-performer will find Waiting… in a Queue festival. Visitors and travellers are free to pick up a headset themselves closer to the clumsiness and limitations of their By Victoria Melody in collaboration and listen to all nine podcasts so far, including The Company’s own not-so-digital bodies. with Dr Alan Latham Waiting… Are We? ahead of its online launch on 30th September. – Waiting… Now This is a non-seated performance. By Paul Clark in collaboration with The Company is a collective of theatre artists based in Dublin. Bill Brewer and Susan Stebbing In their podcast they chart the different attitudes of young and Commissioned by Vooruit (Gent) for Almost Cinema 2011. older people to waiting, exploring questions of ageing, travelling, human relationships and technology.

www.fueltheatre.com/projects/while-you-wait Funded by Arts Council England and a Wellcome Trust Arts Award. The Company’s podcast is created with the support of Culture Ireland.

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Booking and information Performer: Mette Rosleff Dublin Theatre Festival and The Ark Please see schedule at the back of A string of short poetic sketches illustrate moments in a little Direction and Set Design: the brochure for times and a break- person’s world. Mummy and Daddy. Granny and Granddad. are delighted to present a season Giacomo Ravicchio down of schools/public performances. of acclaimed Irish and international Technician: Sigurd Røge Dissing A snail and a tree by the side of the road. Playschool filled Composer: Martin Vognsen with little friends. A bicycle, a small bed and a night-time story. productions for families and schools. Props: Poul Arne Kring An umbrella and the hope for rain. Set Painter: Trine Holtoug Workshop: Steen Mols and Mads Rasmussen Little Steps is the story of a small person in a big world. Tickets: €6.50 (schools performances) / Visit a French restaurant filled with curious characters in Costumes: Helene Thygesen €12 (public performances) Wrapped in a universe full of memories the audience is – Theatre Lovett’s musical fable A Feast of Bones; embark on Phone The Ark: +353 1 670 7788 suspended in a cosy, safe space surrounded by beautiful Venue: The Ark a special adventure with a curious new friend called Beastie; Visit: www.ark.ie Dates: Sept 27 – 30 stories and moments of recognition told through music and drift away in a hammock beneath the magical canopy of a Public performances can also be Duration: 30 mins. No interval. lighting, pictures and poetry, puppets, objects and sound. dark forest in Gruppe 38’s A True Tall Tale; explore a world booked through the festival Box Office. – for the very small sketched out in poetry, puppetry and Autism friendly performance: Specialising in plays for the very smallest of us, Teater My Sept 28, 12pm music on a giant sand pit in Little Steps from Teater My. For further information please phone dedicate their charming and magical performances to little The Ark on +353 1 670 7788 or email people on their journey into the world. [email protected] Recommended for ages 2–5.

Not just storytelling, not just theatre, not just magic – but all of it combined The Children’s Theatre Newspaper

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A Feast of Bones

Beastie Twin Photo © Lone by Frances Kay Canada and Archives Photo © Library

In cities and towns across the country people have been Created by Gary Winters Directed by Muireann Ahern A gentleman dines at a fine French restaurant – but at seeing a mysterious creature. Some say they’ve seen it and Gregg Whelan and Louis Lovett Le Monde Bouleversé you never get quite what you expect. With Darryl Worbey, Libby Curley, Cast includes: Martin Brunsden, Louis on the bus. One boy said it eats shoes! But one thing is Bob Karper, Dvora Liberman, Lovett and introducing Oscar Ó Luain Underneath their human exteriors, beastly greeds and needs for certain – nobody knows what it is… Steven Loader Composer and Musical Director: are crouching, awaiting their chance to pounce! And in times Costume Design: Darryl Worbey Nico Brown of war and social chaos, how easily they become unleashed. Beastie is a magical adventure for children inspired by the – Lighting Design: Søren La Cour Venue: The Ark (Teatret Gruppe 38) imagination of young explorers. In a dynamic performance the Dates: Oct 2 – 6 – A Feast of Bones is a musical fable from Theatre Lovett, creators audience share a jaw-dropping secret and take charge as they Duration: 90 mins. No interval. Venue: The Ark of last year’s festival hit The House that Jack Filled and of The create their own stories and explore their surroundings hand- Preview: Oct 1 Girl who Forgot to Sing Badly (The Ark/Theatre Lovett). In a new Dates: Oct 2 – 6 in-hand with a very special new friend. The result is a playful, Duration: 60 mins. No interval. play featuring live music and an original score, they bring their active and engaging experience for small groups of children. characteristic playfulness to Walter de la Mare’s retelling of a tale by the Brothers Grimm. Under the direction of acclaimed theatre-makers and children’s television writers Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters, Lone Twin So let the merry music strike up, let hunger be satisfied and let is known for creating projects that entertain and inspire hope. the laughter be so loud you cannot hear the distant thunder.

If you come face-to-face with Beastie, what will you do? Recommended for ages 9+ and adults of all ages.

Suitable for ages 6–10. Supported through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award.

Parents and carers are asked to leave their children in the care of the company for the duration of the performance. With true comic spirit, Theatre Lovett defies all age groupings to appeal to everybody Commissioned by barbicanbite10; Kunstenfestivaldesarts, steirischer herbst, Corn Exchange Newbury. Supported by The National Lottery through Arts Irish Independent Council England; The Basement, Brighton; Chichester Festival Theatre.

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Every Christmas night the Goringe Forest is transformed Created by Sara Topsøe-Jensen, Get more from the festival with Festival + into a blossoming summer garden. Or at least that is Bodil Alling, Søren Søndberg, Kim Glud, Søren la Cour, Lars K. Olesen A series of talks, critical events, exhibitions, what the old robber-wife tells the Abbot Hans. Co-writer: Li Have Lehmann Co-sewer: Richard Lehner tours and work-in-progress showcases. On an icy winter’s day, he and his apprentice Johannes set off Co-builder: Lumen Most public events are free but booking is deep into the trees to witness this great miracle. But as they Costumes: Betina Møller – advised. Details of our series of post-show continue on their journey the comrades discover that the Venue: Smock Alley Theatre Goringe Forest is not just a place of beauty. It is filled with fairy Banquet Hall Talking Theatre events can be found on tales, robbers and thieves, lying-in-wait for unwelcome guests… Dates: Oct 10 – 13 Duration: 50 mins. No interval. individual show pages. Very freely adapted from Selma Lagerlöf’s ‘The Legend of the Christmas Rose’, A True Tall Tale is a beautifully told bedtime story from one of Denmark’s most highly regarded children’s theatre companies. Having captivated children and adults alike with their presentation of A Sonatina in the 2011 festival, Teatret Gruppe 38 and Carte Blanche present this special new tale of adventure and exploration.

Audiences will be seated in specially-designed hammocks for the duration of the performance.

Recommended for ages 8+

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Festival Lecture Reading the drama alongside That Was Us: Contemporary Panel Discussions Play On with Simon Critchley other writers, philosophers and Irish Theatre and Chaired by Vincent Woods, Play On is the festival’s artist The Hamlet Doctrine: psychoanalysts he will explore Performance these panel discussions will development programme Knowing Too Much, a play that is as much about Edited by Fintan Walsh, this address some of the themes to discover and encourage Doing Nothing ourselves as Shakespeare’s new collection of critical at play in this year’s festival new playwrights. Led by The figure of Hamlet haunts imagination. Beyond the essays and artistic reflections, programme. Both panels are international playwriting our culture like the Ghost usual moral clichés about the profiles and analyses some of open to the public and will mentor Graham Whybrow, haunts him. Arguably, no timelessness of the Bard he the richest developments to be recorded for broadcast more than 20 talented literary work is more familiar will show the power of Hamlet take place in Irish theatre and on RTÉ Radio One. playwrights were offered to us than Shakespeare’s to cast light on the dilemmas performance in recent times. – a playwriting course and tragedy. Everyone knows at of human existence in a world Focusing on work made by Theatres of Politics: mentoring this year, with least six words from Hamlet that is rotten and out of joint. artists connected to Dublin A range of international a view to conceiving and and most people know He will also offer a wholly Theatre Festival, the book and Irish shows in the writing a new play. original interpretation of the many more. Yet, the play – features essays by academics festival address tough This public reading showcases action on stage: that it is a play Shakespeare’s longest – is and critics which examine political and civic issues. the quality and range of the about nothing. more than ‘passing strange’ some of the most significant How does contemporary playwrights, with excerpts and becomes deeply Venue: Smock Alley Theatre Main Space innovations and interventions Irish theatre measure up Date: Sept 27, 4pm from new plays and works-in- unfamiliar when considered Free admission. Advance booking is to take place in Ireland’s to its international peers in progress. Play On is a catalyst: closely. available in person at the festival Box cultural landscape. Shorter confronting current crises? it aims to get new plays written Office or by phone on +353 1 677 8899. Simon Critchley is the Hans reflections by theatre and Venue: Project Arts Centre and to get new plays on. Date: Sept 27, 2pm Jonas Professor of Philosophy performance makers explore Date: Oct 12, 1pm – at the New School for Social the influence that the festival Venue: Project Arts Centre The Artists Are Not at Home: Free admission Research, a best-selling author has had on their own practice. Many great writers have and frequent contributor to The That Was Us will be available preferred to imagine Ireland New York Times. In this lecture at the special price of €15 for from elsewhere. The work of he will share his analyses of a limited period through the James Joyce, Eugene O’Neill Hamlet, drawing on material festival Box Office and other and Samuel Beckett features from his new book, ‘Stay select outlets from September. in this year’s programme, in Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine’, Commissioned by Dublin Theatre productions by artists who written with Jamieson Webster. Festival, published by Oberon Books. Paperback ISBN 9781783190355 / £16.99 have also moved between eBook 9781783195343 / £15.00 cultures and countries. Does a creative distance from home help to make good theatre? Venue: Project Arts Centre Date: Oct 4, 2pm

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In Development Bernardo – Manuela Infante, Future Forecast – Brokentalkers Architectural Walking Tour of the Abbey Theatre’s The Actors’ Salon Dublin Theatre Festival is José Miguel Jiménez, Taking inspiration from the Tour of Dublin Theatres Historic Portrait Collection at the Gate Theatre committed to supporting Irish Dylan Tighe tradition of future forecasting, Past and Present Explore the Abbey Theatre’s The Actors’ Salon will offer artists in creating ambitious The first steps of a this latest project from Architecture writer and historic portrait collection eight emerging actors the and high-quality new collaboration between Irish Brokentalkers features a cast researcher Lisa Cassidy will on this exclusive, access all chance to spend two days in work. The In Development and Chilean theatre artists, of older people who try to lead a walking tour around areas tour. Be amongst the the Gate Lab working with a programme offers theatre- inspired by the distant figure predict the future in text, the city, looking at the first to see two new portraits voice coach, a casting agent, makers a platform to present of Bernardo O’Higgins – the movement and song. history and development of of celebrated playwrights a director and seasoned works-in-progress to Irish Irish ‘liberator’ of Chile. Supported through an Arts Dublin’s performance spaces. Sebastian Barry and Tom actors to enhance their skills Council Theatre Project Award. and international public and Supported through an Arts Council The tour will examine the Mac Intyre by leading and knowledge through Theatre Project Award. Date: Oct 5, 12pm functional and aesthetic professionals. Audiences Venue: Smock Alley Theatre contemporary visual artists practical and theoretical Date: Oct 4, 3pm forms of venues to the will have an opportunity to Venue: Smock Alley Theatre – Colin Davidson and Mick sessions with experts. present day, and consider see pieces at a critical phase – Vardo Corner – ANU O’Dea. With renowned RHA The Actors’ Salon is aimed the social and performance in their development, while The Death by Fire of Productions artist Mick O’Dea as your at actors at the beginning aspects of the buildings. artists, writers and directors Giordano Bruno – META Developing the final instalment guide, this intimate tour will of their professional career. will use the space to try out Composer Roger Doyle’s first of the acclaimed Monto Stops along the walk reveal an eclectic collection Venue: Gate Theatre new ideas. opera is based on the life of Cycle, ANU highlights the new will include examples of featuring artists such as Date: Oct 7 & 8 architecturally significant Norah McGuinness, Sean For information and to apply email Past In Development Giordano Bruno, a Renaissance communities and cultures that [email protected] presentations have gone genius whose heretical ideas live, work and worship here theatres, exploring how O’Sullivan, James Sleator on to enjoy successful foreshadowed the modern from a contemporary vantage existing buildings became and John Butler Yeats. Transformations: A productions as part of Dublin world and resulted in his being point and examine how they theatre spaces, the advent Venue: Abbey Theatre Date: Oct 2, 1pm photographic exhibition Theatre Festival, and to burned at the stake by the will realise their shared future. of cinema in former live Tickets: €10. Capacity is limited to 25. to mark 50 years of receive critical and public Church. Supported through an Arts Council venues, and how the Please book early. Focus Theatre acclaim at home and abroad. Supported by an Arts Council Theatre Project Award. functional requirements of Booking: Online, by phone or in person at the Abbey Theatre or festival Box Office. – Opera Project Award. Date: Oct 4, 1.30pm & 3.30pm live performance are reflected Transformations will display Venue: Oonagh Young Gallery www.abbeytheatre.ie Americanitis – Pan Pan Date: Oct 5, 1pm in theatre architecture. rare and newly-restored Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre Tours will meet outside the festival Box images that chart the early LISTEN: Nervous, Anxious? Admission to all In Development Office and involve 90 minutes walking at development of a young You’ve got ‘Americanitis’ and presentations is free, but booking a moderate pace in the city centre. Please there’s a cure. Audiences are is essential as capacity is limited. dress appropriately for the weather. company at the cutting edge Booking: In person at the festival Box of theatrical art in Ireland. The invited to join Pan Pan for the Office or by phone on +353 1 677 8899 Date: Sept 28, Oct 5 & 12, 2.30pm first stages of rehearsal of Tickets: €10. Capacity is limited exhibition will include images to 25 per tour. Please book early. from the 1970s to the 1990s, their latest work: made by Booking: Online, by phone on the people for the people. +353 1 677 8899 or in person at and reflect the changing nature Date: Oct 4, 5pm the festival Box Office . of Stanislavski-based Irish Venue: DanceHouse theatre in the current decade. The public are also invited to attend Venue: The Culture Box rehearsals at any stage from Sept 16 – Date: From Oct 1, 9am–4pm Oct 3 (Mon–Fri). Details from Aoife White (closed on Sundays) at +353 1 633 4493 or email Free admission [email protected]

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International Critics’ Forum Younger Critics’ Panel NCFA Colloquy #3 20th Annual International The Next Stage Irish Theatre Magazine hosts The Younger Critics’ Panel The NCFA Colloquia: Theatre Exchange In association with Theatre Forum its annual International hosted by The Ark will see five Conversations about the 2013 marks Irish Theatre Critics’ Forum, where critics, 8 to 12 year old children review Arts and Arts Policy have Institute’s 20th consecutive The Next Stage is an artist artists and audiences from productions in the festival’s been devised to challenge International Theatre development strand of the home and abroad are invited Family Season. Aided by a and change how we generally Exchange (ITE), a one-day festival, open to national to discuss the highlights of mentor, and with support from think and speak about the gathering of influential and international theatre the 2013 programme. the team at The Ark, the critics arts, especially the funded worldwide arts presenters and and dance practitioners. Presented in association will attend the four Family arts sector in Ireland. The third producers which offers Irish Over 18 immersive days with Irish Theatre Magazine Season shows and through colloquy in the series, curated theatre-makers an exciting participants are exposed Venue: Project Arts Centre facilitated workshops explore by independent cultural opportunity to build strong Date: Oct 10, 4pm to world-class art, talk their themes and techniques. manager and researcher Tara international touring networks. with renowned directors, The critics will be encouraged Byrne, will take place during Young Critics’ Panel ITE is a bespoke platform for producers and artists and to compare and contrast the the festival. The special guest Irish companies and artists participate in masterclasses Young Critics is a programme shows, looking at issues of age speaker will be Jim McGuigan, to promote current shows and workshops led by of the National Association appropriateness, engagement Professor of Cultural Analysis or works-in-development distinguished theatre-makers. for Youth Drama (NAYD). of audience and cultural at Loughborough University with view to international Past speakers and workshop Audiences of all ages are differences of presentation. and author of titles such as touring and collaboration. leaders include Ruth Little, invited to join this year’s 16 Venue: The Ark Cool Capitalism. Connections made at ITE in Colm Tóibín, Stephen Rea, participants to discuss and Date: Oct 12, 1pm Venue: Smock Alley Theatre the past two years alone led to Fiona Shaw, Deborah Warner, critique some of the Irish Booking for this event is available directly Date: Oct 7, 2pm – 5pm Irish work being presented in Anne Bogart, Tim Crouch and international work in the through The Ark box office in person or Free admission by phone on +353 1 670 7788. To reserve a place email [email protected] the UK, Hong Kong, Brisbane, and Garry Hynes. The Next festival. For further information www.ark.ie www.ncfa.ie Sydney, Paris, Reykjavik, Berlin Stage also creates valuable visit our website or see and New York. Can you afford opportunities for enriching www.nayd.ie to miss it? engagement with visiting Venue: Project Arts Centre Date: Oct 6, 1pm Venue: Wood Quay Venue artists, with past programmes Date: Oct 4, 9.30am – 5pm sparking successful artistic For details and to register visit www.irishtheatreinstitute.ie collaborations. Limited capacity, please book early. Participation in the 2013 programme is by application only, from July 10. www.theatreforumireland.com Supported by Irish Theatre Trust and the Arts Council Theatre Development Fund.

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special assistance Dublin Theatre Festival is committed to providing access for audiences with disabilities. Our programme this year includes an Irish Sign Language interpreted performance of Maeve’s House (page 13), an audio-described performance of Waiting for Godot (page 27) and a captioned performance of Desire Under the Elms (page 29).

Signing: Audio description: Captioning: Irish Sign Language interpreted Audio description gives Captioning gives deaf and performances give audiences audiences who are blind hard of hearing people access who are Deaf ISL-users access and visually impaired a live to live performances and to live performances. The commentary on the visual screenings. It is similar to actors’ dialogue is interpreted elements of a performance television and film subtitling. simultaneously or immediately through individual headsets. Booking: afterwards on stage by an These services are provided by Dublin Phone: +353 1 677 8899 interpreter. Theatre Festival and facilitated by Arts Email: [email protected] & Disability Ireland, with support from Visit: www.dublintheatrefestival.com The Irish Sign Language interpreted The Arts Council. performance of Maeve’s House is provided by the Abbey Theatre.

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O’Connell St Foley St 11a Eustace St, +353 1 677 8899 Co. Dublin Constitution Hill Temple Bar, Dublin 2 www.dublintheatrefestival.com +353 1 231 2929 +353 1 670 7788 www.paviliontheatre.ie Parnell St www.ark.ie 10 Gaiety Theatre N King Street 53/54 South King St, Dublin 2 17 Project Arts Centre P axis:Ballymun 0818 719 300 39 East Essex St, Talbot St 03 Ballymun, Dublin 9 www.ticketmaster.ie / Temple Bar, Dublin 2 P +353 1 883 2100 www.gaietytheatre.ie +353 1 881 9613 Henry St www.axis-ballymun.ie www.projectartscentre.ie

Capel St Mary St 11 Gate Theatre Abbey St Lwr 04 Civic Theatre Cavendish Row, 18 Samuel Beckett Theatre 01 Tallaght, Dublin 24 Parnell Sq, Dublin 1 Trinity College, Mary St Little Eden Quay +353 1 462 7477 +353 1 874 4045 / Dublin 2 www.civictheatre.ie +335 1 874 6042 Sat after 6pm entrance www.gatetheatre.ie is on Nassau St 04 05 The Culture Box Ormond Quay Lwr Burgh Quay 12 East Essex St, 12 Goethe-Institut 19 Smock Alley Theatre Temple Bar, Dublin 2 37 Merrion Sq, Dublin 2 6/7 Exchange St Lwr, Ormond Quay Upr Dublin 8 06 DanceHouse 13 Odessa +353 1 677 0014 Essex Quay P 1 Foley St, Dublin 1 13 Dame Court, www.smockalley.com Dublin 2 Wood Quay Temple Bar Pearse St 07 Draíocht 20 Temple Bar Gallery 19 The Blanchardstown 14 Oonagh Young Gallery and Studios Centre, Dublin 15 1 James Joyce St, 5 – 9 Temple Bar, Dame St 13 Trinity College 18 +353 1 885 2622 Liberty Corner, Dublin 1 Dublin 2 08 www.draiocht.ie Exchequer St

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East Essex St EustaceKevin St St Lwr Parking Sycamore St Sycamore Patrick St 17 Park Rite is offering festival customers 09 02 Crane Lane a special evening rate of €4 from 6pm Parliament St St Stephen's Green Merrion Row onwards in all Park Rite car parks, many of 16 which conveniently serve festival venues. To avail of this offer visit the ticket office in the relevant car park. www.parkrite.

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SEPT OCT show venue page tu 24 we 25 th 26 fr 27 sa 28 su 29 mo 30 tu 01 we 02 th 03 fr 04 sa 05 su 06 mo 07 tu 08 we 09 th 10 fr 11 sa 12 su 13 duration

Wunderkammer Gaiety Theatre 04–05 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 1h25m tt

Germinal Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) 06–07 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 1h20m tt

Tom and Vera Samuel Beckett Theatre 08–09 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 1h25m pr pr tt 7.30pm

Winners and Losers Project Arts Centre (Cube) 10–11 7.45pm 7.45pm 2.45pm 2.45pm 1h25m 7.45pm tt

Maeve’s House Abbey Theatre, on the 12–13 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 1h10m Peacock stage pr pr tt ap

The Threepenny Opera Gate Theatre 14–15 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2h45m pr pr pr pr tt 7.30pm 7.30pm

Dusk Ahead Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) 16–17 6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 1h00m

The Events Abbey Theatre, on the 18–19 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm 2.30pm 1h30m Peacock stage tt 8.30pm

riverrun Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) 20–21 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 1.00pm 1.00pm 1h10m tt 9.30pm

Three Fingers Below the Knee Project Arts Centre (Cube) 22–23 7.45pm 7.45pm 7.45pm 2.45pm 1h15m tt 7.45pm

I’ve to Mind Her Smock Alley Theatre Black Box 24–25 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 1h00m pr tt 7.30pm

Waiting for Godot Gaiety Theatre 26–27 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm ap 1.00pm 2h30m pr tt 7.30pm 6.00pm

Desire Under the Elms Smock Alley Theatre Main Space 28–29 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 6.30pm 1h40m pr pr 7.30pm tt 7.30pm ap

The Critic The Culture Box 30–31 7.00pm pr 7.00pm pr 7.00pm 7.00pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 6.00pm 1h20m 9.00pm pr 9.00pm pr 9.00pm 9.00pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 9.00pm 9.00pm 9.00pm 9.00pm 8.00pm

Ground and Floor Samuel Beckett Theatre 32–33 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 1h30m tt

Taramandal Project Arts Centre (Cube) 34–35 7.45pm 7.45pm 7.45pm 7.45pm 2.45pm 1h50m tt 7.45pm

Margarete Goethe-Institut 36-37 2.00pm 2.00pm 2.00pm 2.00pm 2.00pm 55m 4.30pm 4.30pm 4.30pm 4.30pm 4.30pm

Neutral Hero Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) 38–39 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 1h30m tt 7.30pm

The Hanging Gardens Abbey Theatre, on the Abbey stage 40–41 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.00pm 2h30m pr pr pr pr pr 7.30pm

The Rape of Lucrece OReilly Theatre, Belvedere 42–43 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 1h15m tt

The Bruising of Clouds Festival on Tour 44–45 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 1h30m axis pr axis pr axis axis tt pavilion pavilion draíocht draíocht civic tt civic civic civic civic

This is Not My Voice Speaking Temple Bar Gallery and Studios 46 1.00pm – 1.00pm – 1.00pm – 1.00pm – 1.00pm – 1.00pm – 1.00pm – 1.00pm – 1.00pm – 1.00pm – 1.00pm – 1.00pm – 30m 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm

While You Wait Dublin Airport 47 all day all day all day all day all day all day all day all day all day all day all day all day all day all day all day all day all day all day

Little Steps The Ark 49 10.15am 12.00pm af 12.00pm 10.15am 30m 12.15pm 2.00pm 2.00pm 12.15pm 4.00pm 4.00pm

Beastie The Ark 50 10.15am sp 10.15am sp 10.15am sp 12.00pm 12.00pm 1h30m 12.15pm sp 12.15pm sp 12.15pm sp 2.30pm 2.30pm 5.00pm 5.00pm

A Feast of Bones The Ark 51 6.00pm 12.00pm 10.30pm sp 12.00pm sp 2.00pm 2.00pm 1h00m pr 6.00pm 12.30pm sp 5.00pm 4.00pm 4.00pm

A True Tall Tale Smock Alley Theatre Banquet Hall 52 10.15am sp 10.15am sp 2.00pm 2.00pm 50m 12.15pm sp 12.15pm sp 4.00pm 4.00pm 72-PB72

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