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Principal Funder buy tickets online dublintheatrefestival.com Grant Aided by phone +353 1 677 8899 in person Dublin Theatre Festival Box Office, Festival House, 12 Essex Street East, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 EH42 Opening hours Follow us for news, ticket Mon–Fri 10am–6pm competitions and special offers throughout the Accommodation Partner Media Partner Radio Partner Sat 10am–5pm festival. (22 Sept–13 Oct only) @DubTheatreFest Sun 12pm–3pm DublinTheatreFestival (30 Sept–14 Oct only) @dublintheatrefestival Broadcasting Partner Social Media Analysis Partner 24 July, 1pm Please note that our Box Priority booking opens Office and phone lines are for Friends of the Festival open at weekends only on 14 August, 10am the dates specified. Online Public booking opens by booking is available all day, phone, in person and online every day. — — Tickets for a selection Become a Friend of the of performances are Festival to avail of priority on public sale now at booking, no booking fees, dublintheatrefestival.com and discounted tickets — (see page 58). Tickets can also be — purchased at most Dublin Email boxoffice@ Theatre Festival venues or dublintheatrefestival.com on the door if available (see if you have any queries page 72). about your booking. welcome to contents Dublin Theatre Festival 2018 Whether this is your first time We are more outward looking as the theatre before. We’re here to 04 Hamlet 24 Company 44 Home Theatre (Ireland) seeing a festival show or you a country and beginning to take help you with questions about the Gate Theatre Company SJ Draíocht have been coming for years, better care of those who have programme, to give you practical Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) there’s something for you. There’s previously been marginalised information and to answer any 06 Multiverse 46 Rathmines Road a selection of brand new work, and neglected in our republic. concerns you may have. Louis Vanhaverbeke/CAMPO 26 ELIZA’S Adventures in the Fishamble: The New Play Company fresh versions of classic plays Nonetheless, I don’t think that Samuel Beckett Theatre Uncanny Valley and the Abbey Theatre and adventurous international we can presume that we are Our 2018 festival is the Pan Pan Theatre Civic Theatre and Abbey Theatre, productions, created by renowned immune here to the reactionary realisation of months of planning 08 The Mai Samuel Beckett Theatre on the Peacock Stage artists as well as emerging voices, populist tendencies that are and hours of conversation. Decadent Theatre Company and aimed at children, young flourishing across Europe and We’re pleased now to share it Civic Theatre 28 Everyone’s Fine With 48 St Nicholas people and adults. around the world. We need to with you. We acknowledge the Virginia Woolf Donmar Warehouse create new possibilities for Irish artists who have created the 10 A Portrait of the Artist as a Elevator Repair Service Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space The programme showcases identity that are connected to brilliant shows, the funders, Young Man O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College many different ways that artists our rich heritage but oriented sponsors and stakeholders who Rough Magic 50 Bluebeard’s Castle use theatre to engage with the towards the future. Culture is have supported and encouraged Pavilion Theatre, 30 DruidShakespeare: Richard III Irish National Opera world they’re living in. It’s a world just such a place where these us all along the way, and our Dún Laoghaire Druid in association with the Gaiety Theatre where individuals, communities new visions are worked out colleagues and partners who will Abbey Theatre and the environment are under and worked through. It’s not a make the festival happen over 18 12 Fantasia Abbey Theatre, on the Abbey Stage 52 My Name is Language threat but also one where the luxury for the good times but a exciting days. Anna Karasińska/TR Warszawa Nicoline van Harskamp desire for human connection necessity for creating an open, Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) 32 The Bystander Wood Quay Venue is strong and the radical tolerant, cohesive society. Finally, thank you, our audience. Junk Ensemble possibilities of imagination burn We couldn’t do it without you. 14 Mining Stories axis:Ballymun 54 Theatre for Children fiercely against the advancing Given this, the current Silke Huysmans & Hannes Dereere The Ark darkness. Government’s commitment to — Project Arts Centre (Cube) 34 The M House increasing investment in arts and Willie White Equinox Theatre Company 58 Support Us Festival productions take diverse culture is welcome. Ambitious Artistic Director 16 The Lost O’Casey axis:Ballymun forms, from intimate encounters plans for capital spending on ANU and the Abbey Theatre 61 Festival+ in found spaces to the grand buildings have been announced Meeting point at the Gate Theatre 36 Klosterhof physical and emotional scale of as part of Project Ireland Turkowski & Nowacka 66 Accessibility Information Shakespearean drama, ballet 2040, which will need to be 18 The Patient Gloria Project Arts Centre (Cube) and opera. There are portraits of complemented by greater The Abbey Theatre and Gina 69 Visiting Dublin Information individuals corrupted by power, support for the programming Moxley, in association with 38 Les Ballets Trockadero testimonies from dissenting of these and other spaces Pan Pan Theatre de Monte Carlo 72 Venue Details voices and challenges to received throughout the country. In the Abbey Theatre, Dance Consortium narratives. Some plays teem with past decade the arts sector has on the Peacock Stage Bord Gáis Energy Theatre 74 Festival Schedule at a Glance words and others are stripped become more organised, more back to the essentials. What articulate and more successful 20 The Misfits 40 The End of Eddy connects each is the need for an in making the case for the The Corn Exchange The Unicorn Theatre (London) audience to gather together in a value of culture. We will only be Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space and Untitled Projects shared time and space. At a live stronger if you can lend your Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) performance we are alone with voice to speaking up for what 22 NASSIM our private thoughts but also participating in a festival like Nassim Soleimanpour/ 42 The Fever participants in the public act that ours means to you. Bush Theatre 600 HIGHWAYMEN makes theatre happen. Project Arts Centre (Cube) Samuel Beckett Theatre This programme is full of What I really like about theatre moments where you can laugh, is that it is such a sociable cry or have your mind blown. artform and the more sociable A festival is the time to take we are, I believe, the stronger chances. Go and see something our communities will be. Ireland you might not otherwise. Talk to has been transformed in recent someone after the show and ask decades and great progress has them what they thought of it. been made. Bring a friend who’s never been to Gate Theatre, Ireland Hamlet by William Shakespeare ‘The time is out of joint. O cursèd spite, Cast includes: Fiona Bell, Gavin That ever I was born to set it right!’ Drea, Aoife Duffin, Nick Dunning, Peter Gaynor, Steve Hartland, Mark Huberman, Gerard Kelly, Conor A murdered King. A remarried Queen. A state on the Madden, Barry McKiernan, Ruth Negga, precipice. When society starts to collapse, do we fight Owen Roe and Gerard Walsh or flee? Directed by Yaël Farber Set and Costume Design: Susan Hilferty Hamlet is one of the most revived Shakespeare plays Lighting Design: Paul Keogan in the Gate’s 90 year history (1928–2018). In celebration Sound Design: Tom Lane of the theatre’s pioneering founders, Hilton Edwards Movement Director: Muirne Bloomer Voice Director: Andrea Ainsworth and Micheál Mac Liammóir, Shakespeare’s iconic Associate Director: Marc Atkinson story of politics, vengeance, madness and murder Textual Advisor: Ben Power is reimagined in a ground-breaking, visionary Gate — Venue: Gate Theatre Theatre production for today’s audience. Dates: 27 & 28 Sept, 1 & 2, 4 & 5, 8 & 9, 11 & 12, Oct, 7pm Oscar-nominated Irish actress, Ruth Negga, makes her 29 Sept, 3, 6, 10, 13, Oct, 1.30pm & 7pm Gate stage debut in the title role of Hamlet, joined by Tickets: €25–€55 Duration: Approx. 3 hrs. incl. interval. a cast of Ireland’s finest actors. Award-winning director — Yaël Farber heads an exciting creative team including Irish Sign Language Tony Award-winning set and costume designer Susan interpreted performance: 13 Oct, 1.30pm Hilferty, lighting designer Paul Keogan and composer Tom Lane. ‘The dilemma “to be or not to be” has held us in its thrall for centuries – and has never seemed more potent and urgent. A Hamlet for our time.’ — Yaël Farber, Director This production is funded by the Arts Council. Photo © Norman Jean Roy dublintheatrefestival.com 7 The overwhelming majesty of the subject and the crappy aesthetic of the means, give great poetic force to this mute and minimal heroic comedy Libération Louis Vanhaverbeke/CAMPO, Belgium Multiverse In the beginning there was nothing, and then that Created and performed by too exploded. Louis Vanhaverbeke Dramaturgy: Dries Douibi Advisor: Matias Daporta In this marvellously inventive and humorous piece, Technical Design: Bart Huybrechts Louis Vanhaverbeke plays a multifunctional DJ, Technical Support: who needs little more than turntables and a myriad Simon Van den Abeele — of colourful household objects to bring his music Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre and creations to life. He samples and resamples, Dates: 27 & 28 Sept, 7.30pm incorporating sources as diverse as Baywatch, Elton 29 Sept, 6pm Tickets: €20–€25 John and the story of creation into his performance. Duration: Approx. 65 mins. Vanhaverbeke pumps out the hits and brushes No interval. references off them until the thoughts bounce and — Talking Theatre: blow the audience into a new dimension.