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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. 27 Sept, post-show. With Louis Vanhaverbeke. A living colour wheel is born out of the playful exploration of song, dance, and invention Vanhaverbeke orbits the world he creates, but can he escape this tsunami of words and objects? Are these the tools he needs to keep ahead of the flow, or will all this mess absorb him? Photo © Jolien Fagard dublintheatrefestival.com 9 Decadent Theatre Company, Ireland The Mai by Marina Carr

A major revival of Marina Carr’s award winning Directed by Andrew Flynn breakthrough play. Cast includes: Leslie Conroy, Derbhle Crotty, Maeve FitzGerald, Stella McCusker, Rachel O’Byrne, The Mai is an epic tale of three generations of a family Marion O’Dwyer, Aidan Redmond inspired by love but shattered by inescapable reality. and Joan Sheehy It is both wildly funny and humorously tragic. Set and Lighting Design: Ciaran Bagnall Costume Design: Niamh Lunny Music and Sound Design: Carl Kennedy The play centres on a formidable forty-year-old — woman, a teacher known as The Mai, whose husband Venue: Civic Theatre Robert, a musician, has always felt stifled by her ideals Previews: 25 & 26 Sept, 8pm Dates: 27 & 29 Sept, 8pm of perfection. After seventeen years he leaves her, 28 Sept, 3pm & 8pm whereupon she sets about decorating a dream house Tickets: €18–€22 in the hope that he will one day come back. From her Duration: 2 hrs 15 mins incl. interval. fairy-tale castle set in the midlands, on the banks of the legendary Owl Lake, the Mai waits by the window. The play opens in this world on the day of Robert’s return after an absence of four years.

Throughout the couple’s troubled reunion appear the memorable characters that comprise the three generations of her family. Her two sisters meddle in the affairs of her three daughters with comical tenacity while towering above them all is the irreverent matriarch, Grandma Fraochlan, who presides over all with her ‘ancient and fantastical memory’, reminding them that the past is looming over the present.

This production is funded by the Arts Council. — Presented by Civic Theatre in association with Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo © Ros Kavanagh Photo © Ros dublintheatrefestival.com 11 Rough Magic, Ireland A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, adapted by Arthur Riordan

From Rough Magic comes the world premiere Directed by Ronan Phelan of Arthur Riordan’s vibrant stage adaptation of Cast includes: Martha Breen, Amy Conroy, Peter Corboy, the seminal novel by James Joyce, brought to life Aoibhéann McCann, Karen McCartney, by a dynamic, new, creative ensemble of actors and Paul Mescal, Conor O’Riordan and designers under Ronan Phelan’s direction. Kieran Roche Set and Costume Design: Katie Davenport The spiritual rebellion of Stephen Dedalus and his Lighting Design: Sarah Jane Shiels restless search for self-expression will come alive in Sound Design and Composition: a thrilling theatrical odyssey. Denis Clohessy — Venue: Pavilion Theatre, Written during the political and artistic explosion of Dún Laoghaire the early twentieth century, this is Joyce’s manifesto; Previews: 26 & 27 Sept, 8pm the dazzling debut of Ireland’s epic reinventor and Dates: 28 & 30 Sept, 2–5 & 7 Oct, 8pm architect of the English language. 29 Sept & 6 Oct, 2.30pm & 8pm Tickets: €22–€27 Suitable for ages 12yrs+ Duration: Approx. 2 hrs 15 mins Contains strong language. incl. interval. — Supported by Dublin City Council. This production is funded by the Arts Council. — Presented by Pavilion Theatre with Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo © Ste Murray dublintheatrefestival.com 13 A performance of refined simplicity, insanely witty, and at times touching wyborcza.pl

Anna Karasinska/TR Warszawa, Poland Fantasia

Fantasia deals with the subject of imagination and Directed by Anna Karasińska theatre as a place where the world of fiction is born. Dramaturgy by Magdalena Rydzewska and Jacek Telenga How does this unique agreement between the Choreography: Magda Ptasznik audience and artists arise, allowing actors to create Cast includes: Agata Buzek, Dobromir worlds on an empty stage? What is needed to make Dymecki, Monika Frajczyk, Anna Karasińska, Rafał Maćkowiak, Monika us believe in stage reality? Does the imagination Niemczyk and Adam Woronowicz have its limits? Are there things, phenomena, Set and Costume Design: characters that cannot be thought in the theatre? Paula Grocholska Lighting Design: Szymon Kluz — The author is present but invisible. In a live Venue: Project Arts Centre voiceover, she directs the actors in a rapid (Space Upstairs) succession of scenes that mix minimalism Dates: 28 Sept, 7.30pm 29 Sept, 2.30pm & 7.30pm with humour. The title invokes a type of music Tickets: €25–€30 composition with few formal constraints and a Duration: Approx. 55 mins. strong element of improvisation. No interval. — Talking Theatre: Anna Karasińska is a director, filmmaker, and 28 Sept, post-show. With Anna playwright. Her first play, Ewelina Płacze (Ewelina’s Karasińska and members of the Crying), was a sensation when it premiered at company.

TR Warszawa in 2015. Fantasia is her most recent With the support of production for this celebrated Polish company.

Performed in Polish and English, with English surtitles. Photo © Magda Hueckel dublintheatrefestival.com 15 This is storytelling for the current times. Jury Het Theaterfestival

The intelligence and musicality with which they’ve composed their material is simply breathtaking. Marijn Lems

Silke Huysmans & Hannes Dereere, Belgium Mining Stories

On the 5th of November 2015, a dam containing toxic Created by Silke Huysmans and mining waste collapsed in the mountains of the Brazilian Hannes Dereere Dramaturgical Advice: Dries Douibi mining region of Minas Gerais. A devastating flood of Performed by Silke Huysmans mud destroyed several villages and killed 19 people before Technical support: Christoph Donse flowing into the four hundred mile long river Rio Doce. — Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) In a region where more than three out of four people Dates: 28 Sept, 7.45pm work in the mining industry, the disaster had profound 29 Sept, 3.45 & 7.45pm environmental and social consequences. 30 Sept, 3.45pm Tickets: €20–€25 Duration: 60 mins. No interval. Silke Huysmans grew up in Minas Gerais, close to the place — where the disaster occurred. After twenty years away, she Talking Theatre: returned to Brazil accompanied by Hannes Dereere in 29 Sept, post-show (7.45pm). With Silke Huysmans and Hannes order to speak to people affected by the tragedy and try to Dereere. understand its far reaching consequences. The duo later conducted parallel interviews in Europe with specialists in economics and neurology.

Each interviewee tells the story of the disaster from their own perspective, with their own nuances and points of interest. Mining Stories is not a detective story or a reconstruction of the disaster, but an intriguing documentary theatre performance that journeys through a diverse collection of personal stories crossing topics such as memory, politics, religion and storytelling.

Performed in Portuguese, English and Dutch with English surtitles. — Produced by Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek Brussels, Bâtard Festival Brussels. Co-production Noorderzon Festival Groningen, KAAP Creative Compass Bruges. — Supported by Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Sabam for Culture. Photo © Hugo Cordeiro dublintheatrefestival.com 17 The company responsible for the most searing and innovative works of the past decade The Irish Times

ANU and the Abbey Theatre, Ireland The Lost O’Casey

Lost play. Lost language. Lost city. Directed by Louise Lowe Cast includes: Liam Heslin, Gillian Nannie’s Night Out is a lost Sean O’Casey play, taking its McCarthy, Sarah Morris, Michael Glenn Murphy, Robbie O’Connor, Thomas inspiration from real people and places of Dublin’s inner O’Reilly city, performed at the Abbey Theatre only once, in 1924. Set Design: Owen Boss Assistant Set Design: Dylan Farrell Reframing Nannie’s Night Out as a catalyst for urgent action, Lighting Design: Ciaran Bagnall Costume Design: Niamh Lunny this blistering production propels the lost Nannie into a Music and Sound Design: Carl Kennedy contemporary Dublin. A demented out of time Cathleen Ní Movement Director: Sue Mythen Houlihan, she is still lost and raging in our lost city. — Venue: Meeting point at the Gate Theatre Spinning outwards from the stage onto the streets, this Previews: 26–28 Sept, potent and timely project invites audiences into a thrilling from 3pm–7.30pm reimagining of the work, inside the places, language and Dates: 29 Sept, 6 & 13 Oct, from 1pm–7.30pm politic of the lost play in our changing capital. 1–5 & 8–12 Oct, from 3pm–7.30pm Tickets: €15–€25 ANU’s work delves into historical and contemporary Duration: Approx. 60 mins. events, with scalpel like precision and dreamlike intensity, No interval. bringing the voices of communities and untold stories to the fore; derived from historical events each project contains multi-narrative strands, inviting audiences to experience the work through a lens of now-then-now.​

Suitable for ages 15 + Contains strong language and adult content. Capacity limited. — Supported by Dublin Theatre Festival and the Abbey Theatre. This production is funded by an Arts Council Open Call Award. Photo © Pat CassinoniPhoto © Pat dublintheatrefestival.com 19 The Abbey Theatre and Gina Moxley, in association with Pan Pan Theatre, Ireland The Patient Gloria by Gina Moxley

Female desire is still a handful. The Patient Gloria is a Directed by John McIlduff new work by Gina Moxley, inspired by the 1965 films Choreography: Liv O’Donoghue Cast: Liv O’Donoghue and Gina Moxley Three Approaches to Psychotherapy, also known as Set Design: Andrew Clancy The Gloria Films. Costume Design: Sarah Bacon Sound Design: Adam Welsh 1964, California. A nine year old girl, Pammy, asks Lighting Design: Sinéad Wallace Music: Cáit O’Riordan the question, ‘Mommy, did you ever go to bed with — anyone besides Daddy?’ The child’s mother, Gloria, Venue: Abbey Theatre, on the recently divorced and struggling with her new Peacock Stage Free First Preview: 28 Sept, 8pm single status, lies ‘No, honey.’ Gloria later wrote in Dates: 29 Sept & 1–6 Oct, 8pm her diary ‘What was I supposed to say? Of course, Tickets: €25 dear. Everyone does. Oh shit.’ Duration: 70 mins. No interval.

Gloria’s discomfort with her own sexual desire, her trying to be good but wanting to be bad, became central to the 1965 films. The films were intended for academic purposes but given a cinema and TV release, betraying the privacy of the patient Gloria.

This is a timely meditation on female desire in a new political context where misogyny is the winning ticket. Things could get messy. Very messy indeed.

Contains adult themes. — This production is funded by the Arts Council. Photo © Luca Truffarelli Photo © Luca dublintheatrefestival.com 21 The Corn Exchange, Ireland The Misfits by Arthur Miller, reimagined for the stage by Annie Ryan

A woman walks out of a divorce court into a bar. Directed by Annie Ryan Cast includes: Emmet Byrne, Úna A rundown saloon on the outskirts of a desert town in the Kavanagh, Aidan Kelly, Aoibhinn McGinnity and Patrick Ryan American West. There’s no work. At least, not much worth Set and Light Design: Zia Bergin-Holly doing for a man. Composition and Sound Design: Alma Kelliher But a man is the last thing this woman is looking for. Costume Design: Saileóg O’Halloran Movement: Justine Cooper — It’s hot and dry. A place of few words and little growth. Venue: Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space The open sky still offers the promise of a better future. Previews: 27–29 Sept, 7.30pm Dates: 30 Sept, 6.30pm But all around them lie the broken remains of a 2, 3 & 5 Oct, 7.30pm 4 & 6 Oct, 2.30pm & 7.30pm damaged past. 7 Oct, 1.30pm Tickets: €20–€30 The Corn Exchange brings Arthur Miller’s iconic film Duration: Approx. 90 mins. The Misfits to the stage for the first time in this new No interval. — reimagining by Annie Ryan. Originally published as a Talking Theatre: novella in 1961 to coincide with the release of the iconic 2 Oct, post-show. With Annie Ryan film by John Huston, Miller’s language is intimate, visceral, and members of the company.

elemental, and the stage offers it the space to come into Proudly supported by its fullest expression.

The Misfits shows the disillusionment of the American Dream and the rage and longing it continues to foster with breathtaking contemporary resonance.

This production is funded by the Arts Council. ’ the painting ‘ Bang Roses from Wylie Photo © Trish dublintheatrefestival.com 23 Surprising, disarming, and ultimately moving, Nassim is a cleverly constructed theatrical game that forges a delicate connection between strangers in real time. The Sydney Morning Herald

Nassim Soleimanpour/Bush Theatre, UK NASSIM

Dear performer. I want to show you something. Written and Performed by Nassim Soleimanpour Did you know, in Farsi my name is written like this: Directed by Omar Elerian Set Design: Rhys Jarman ‘.ROUPNAMIELOS MISSAN si eman yM’? Sound Design: James Swadlo Lighting Design: Rajiv Pattani From Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour comes — an audacious new theatrical experiment. Each night Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) Dates: 2–5 Oct, 7.45pm a different performer joins the playwright on stage, 6 Oct, 3.45pm & 7.45pm while the script waits unseen in a sealed box… 7 Oct, 4.45pm Tickets: €20-€25 Touchingly autobiographical yet powerfully Duration: Approx. 70 mins. No interval. — universal, NASSIM is a striking theatrical Talking Theatre: demonstration of how language can both divide 3 Oct, post-show. With Nassim and unite us. Soleimanpour.

NASSIM follows Soleimanpour’s globally acclaimed White Rabbit Red Rabbit, which has been translated into over 25 different languages and performed more than 1,000 times by names including Stephen Fry, Ken Loach and Whoopi Goldberg.

Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First Award at Edinburgh Fringe 2017. Photo © David Monteith-Hodge Photo © David dublintheatrefestival.com 25 Scaife proves herself a theatre artist of breath-taking talent and compass Sunday Independent

Company SJ, Ireland Company by Samuel Beckett

‘A voice comes to one in the dark. Imagine.’ Adapted and directed by Sarah Jane Scaife Opening with this tantalising directive, Samuel Performed by Raymond Keane Projection Design: Kilian Waters Beckett’s Company reads almost as an experiment Lighting Design: Stephen Dodd into the notion of being itself. This is an intensely Costume Design: Sinead Cuthbert moving and lyrical work, which interrogates the Sculptural Figure/Puppet Design: Roman Paska truthfulness of memory and finds company in the Sound Recording and Mixing: haunting sculpture of, ‘one on his back, in the dark’. Tim Martin Additional Sound Editing: Company strips down human existence to the body Ciaran Byrne — in space and time. Sculpted from the darkness, Venue: Project Arts Centre Raymond Keane explores Beckett’s prose through the (Space Upstairs) use of projected text, live and recorded voice, and the Preview: 3 Oct 7.30pm Dates: 4 & 5 Oct, 7.30pm body in movement and stillness. Beckett’s words draw 6 Oct, 2.30pm & 7.30pm us into a sensory world of memory and imagination. 7 Oct, 2.30pm Tickets: €15–€25 Supported by Dublin City Council and Irish Theatre Institute. Duration: Approx. 80 mins. No Interval. This production is funded by the Arts Council. — Talking Theatre: 5 Oct post-show. With Sarah Jane Scaife and Raymond Keane. Photo © Futoshi Sakauchi Photo © Futoshi dublintheatrefestival.com 27 More than any other theater troupe I can think of, Pan Pan finds the soul-muddling angst in the Internet age, when computers with cameras and microphones instantly serve up private lives for public consumption The New York Times

Pan Pan Theatre, Ireland ELIZA’S Adventures in the Uncanny Valley

In the early 1960s, MIT developed artificial intelligence Text by Eugene O’Brien and Gavin software called ELIZA, its title a direct reference to Shaw’s Quinn Directed by Gavin Quinn Pygmalion. ELIZA made certain kinds of natural language Cast includes: Andrew Bennett, conversations between humans and computers possible. Genevieve Hulme-Beaman, Jane But of course, intelligent response is a trick. It all has to be McGrath, Amy Molloy, Dylan Tighe Design: Aedín Cosgrove scripted. So how can a robot write poetry? Music: Si Schroeder Dramaturgy by Nicholas Johnson This Eliza is sent into an anonymous motel, where she — interacts with four characters who are all mysteriously Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre Preview: 3 Oct, 7.30pm booked into the same room. Some of them seem to be Dates: 4 & 5 Oct, 7.30pm barely alive, others too much so, and others may not 6 Oct, 2.30pm & 7.30pm be real. We are observers to a test: Eliza is both learning 7 Oct, 2.30pm Tickets: €20–€30 from and assessing these individuals. In a series of Duration: Approx. 1 hr 40 mins. scripted scenes, they explore love, death, metaphysics, No interval. evil and evolution, probing the points in our society — Talking Theatre: where boundaries may be on the verge of disintegrating: 6 Oct, post-show (7.30pm). between technology and organic life, or between With Gavin Quinn and members consciousness, non-consciousness and unconsciousness. of the company.

The concept of the uncanny valley suggests that humanoid objects which appear almost, but not exactly, like real human beings elicit uncanny, or strangely familiar, feelings of eeriness and revulsion in observers.

ELIZA’S Adventures in the Uncanny Valley is the search for a perfect, ‘scripted’ performance.

This production is funded by the Arts Council. Photo © Ros Kavanagh Photo © Ros dublintheatrefestival.com 29 consistently hilarious Financial Times

bubbles with a love of theater at its most brazenly theatrical The New York Times

Elevator Repair Service, USA Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf by Kate Scelsa

From the Obie-award winning company that Directed by John Collins created Gatz, a new play, written by long-time Cast includes: Lindsay Hockaday, Mike Iveson, Vin Knight, April Matthis company member Kate Scelsa and directed by and Annie McNamara Artistic Director John Collins, fresh from its world Set Design: Louisa Thompson premiere in New York. Lighting Design: Ryan Seelig Costume Design: Kaye Voyce Sound Design: Ben Williams Tailor-made for this moment, Everyone’s Fine with Properties Design: Amanda Villalobos Virginia Woolf is, in turns, loving homage and fierce — feminist take-down of Edward Albee’s drama Who’s Venue: O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The power dynamics of the Dates: 4 & 5 Oct, 7.30pm original play’s not-so-happy couple are subverted, 6 Oct, 2.30 & 7.30pm and no one is left unscathed by the ferocity of 7 Oct, 2.30pm Tickets: €30–€35 Martha’s revenge on an unsuspecting patriarchy. Duration: 75 mins. No interval — Contains strong language and adult themes. Talking Theatre: 4 Oct, post-show. With John Collins and members of the company. Photo © Joan Marcus dublintheatrefestival.com 31 Brazenly Irish ... A huge achievementIrish Independent on DruidShakespeare

I’ve never before found these plays so easy to follow or so gripping The New York Times on DruidShakespeare

Druid in association with the Abbey Theatre, Ireland DruidShakespeare: Richard III by William Shakespeare

When peace descends, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, Directed by Garry Hynes is not a happy man. Cast includes: Garrett Lombard, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen, Rory Nolan and Marty Rea Crippled from birth and intensely ambitious, he sets Design: Francis O’Connor about bending the world to his own desires. No Lighting Design: James F. Ingalls bond is too sacred, no blood too thick – nothing will Sound Design: Gregory Clarke Movement Director: David Bolger stand between Richard and the crown. Co-Costume Design: Doreen McKenna Dramaturg: Thomas Conway Shakespeare gives us one of the great villains in Assistant Dramaturg: Eleanor White Richard III, in a chilling and darkly comic story of Casting Consultant: Maureen Hughes — power and ambition. Druid continues its exploration Venue: Abbey Theatre, on the of Shakespeare’s kings with the acclaimed creative Abbey Stage team and members of the Druid Ensemble who Free First Preview: 3 Oct, 7.30pm Dates: 4, 5 & 8–12 Oct, 7.30pm worked on DruidShakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV 6 & 13 Oct, 2pm & 7.30pm (Pts. 1 & 2) and Henry V. Tickets: €13–€45

This production is funded by the Arts Council. Photo © Myles Shelly dublintheatrefestival.com 33 Combines visual eloquence with the gut-punch of a victim impact statement «««« The Irish Times on ‘Dolores’

Provocative and unapologetically brilliant «««« The Arts Review on ‘Dolores’

Junk Ensemble, Ireland The Bystander

‘I didn’t want to get involved.’ Created, Directed and Choreography — Anonymous Neighbour by Jessica Kennedy and Megan Kennedy in collaboration with the cast Performers include: Stephanie Dufresne, The Bystander is an intriguing and adventurous Stephen Moynihan, Tilly Webber production by multi-award winning dance theatre Set Design: Sabine Dargent innovators Junk Ensemble. Taking its name from the Lighting Design: Zia Bergin-Holly Costume Design: Sarah Foley ‘bystander effect’ phenomenon of the murder of Kitty Music and Sound Design: Genovese outside her apartment in New York City in Denis Clohessy 1964, whereby thirty-eight witnesses saw or heard the — Venue: axis:Ballymun attack, yet none of them called for help, The Bystander Dates: 4–6 Oct, 8pm brings to the surface some of the murkier and complex Tickets: €18 behaviours of contemporary society. Duration: Approx. 60 mins. No interval.

Performed by an internationally acclaimed cast and drawing on the expertise of a psychologist, The Bystander gets under the skin of how we behave as individuals and groups. What makes us help someone and what makes us simply stand by?

‘The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.’ — Albert Einstein

Junk Ensemble are Project Artists, an initiative of Project Arts Centre.

This production is funded by the Arts Council. — Presented by axis:Ballymun in association with Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo © Luca Truffarelli Photo © Luca dublintheatrefestival.com 35 Equinox Theatre Company, Ireland The M House

My name is Marcie. I’ve been here for ten years, three Directed by Medb Lambert months and two days. Here all our names begin with Cast includes: Shane M. Byrne, Gary Comerford, Janice de Bróithe, M. There’s Max, Melissa, Mary, Mark, Michael and Malcolm. Sighile Hennessy, Belinda Henzey, This is the M house. There’s also an A house, a B house, Susie Lamb, Mairéad Maguire, a C house, a D house…. you get the picture. Ray O’Neill, Andrew Pike and Jim Rohan Design: Medb Lambert Lighting Design: Adrian Mullan We’re supposed to sit and watch TV all the time but we Movement: Cindy Cummings have other ideas… Paintings: Diane Chambers — and we’ve got questions Venue: axis:Ballymun Dates: 8 Oct, 8pm …lots of questions. 9 Oct 11.30am & 8pm Tickets: €16 The M House is an adventure story. Duration: Approx. 55 mins. No interval. It’s a satirical look at the legacy of institutional Ireland. Relaxed performance: It’s a scramble to make sense of our one-size-fits-all culture. 8 Oct, 8pm It’s a parable of our times about the treatment of our 9 Oct, 11.30am & 8pm vulnerable. Audio described performances: 8 & 9 Oct, 8pm Equinox Theatre Company is part of KCAT Arts Centre, Kilkenny who have been pioneering and championing inclusive arts practice for over twenty years.

The M House is a play for anyone who’s ever been put in a box.

Open captioning on all performances. — This production is funded by the Arts Council. — Presented by axis:Ballymun and Arts & Disability Ireland in association with Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo © Evelyn McNamara Photo © Evelyn dublintheatrefestival.com 37 an abiding sense of transience and fragility. «««« The Irish Times on ‘Margarete'

Turkowski & Nowacka, Poland Klosterhof

Klosterhof is the historical name of the oldest part of Created and performed by the Polish city of Szczecin. The artists live and work Iwona Nowacka and Janek Turkowski Advisor: Adam Ptaszyński there in a building erected in 1909 that was the only ­­— one to survive the Allied aerial bombardment in 1944. Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) In 2009 Janek Turkowski started to observe, film and Dates: 9–12 Oct, 7.45pm 13 Oct, 3.45pm & 7.45pm document everyday life in Klosterhof, joined by Iwona Tickets: €20–€25 Nowacka four years later. Duration: 60 mins. No interval. — The performance invites viewers on a virtual trip Talking Theatre: 13 Oct, post-show (3.45pm). through time, the starting point for which is the With Janek Turkowski and imagined opening of a time capsule found in 2109. Iwona Nowacka. The capsule contains a collection of stories documenting With the support of its creators’ changing neighbourhood, a film record of their own private universe. There are also instructions included, a set of possibilities for how the stories can be pieced together for the audience.

Klosterhof is a dream to stay unforgotten, a testament that hopes the finders of the capsule will remember its creators so that they can be reborn through the footage. And finally, it is also a reflection on why we record our lives and the human dream of immortality.

Janek Turkowski’s Margarete was performed at Dublin Theatre Festival in 2013.

Supported by a Creative Grant of the City of Szczecin and a grant from the Creativity Promotion Funds of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. Photo © Piotr Nykowski dublintheatrefestival.com 39 If you’re looking for a happy night out, it’s hard to beat the Trocks ««««« The Times

All hail the drag queens of ballet! They are drop-dead fabulous and an international treasure ««««« The Stage

Dance Consortium, UK Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

For more than 40 years, the all-male comedy Cast and Creative Team ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Swan Lake Act II Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Carlo (affectionately known as the “Trocks”) have Choreography after Lev Ivanovich Ivanov been delighting audiences of all ages at sell-out Costumes by Mike Gozales performances featuring their fabulous sense of fun Décor by Jason Courson Lighting by Kip Marsh and their flawless dance. Pas de Deux/Patterns in Space Established in New York, the Trocks are now loved Choreography after Merce Cunningham world-wide for their sassy spoofs and hilarious Taped Music by Andrew Franck Live Music after John Cage homages to classical ballet, where 18 dancers each Costumes by Ken Busbin transform into two personas, both male and female! Lighting by Tricia Toliver

Every performance frivolously froths with tutus and Esmeralda Music by Cesare Pugni testosterone, blush-pink ballet pumps, fierce false Choreography after Marius Petipa eyelashes and prima ballerina attitude however, what Staged by Elena Kunikova makes this company extraordinarily special is their Costumes by David Tetrault Lighting by Kip Marsh immaculate technique, daring physicality, surpassed only by their impeccable comic timing. Paquita Music by Ludwig Minkus Presented by Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in association with Choreography after Marius Petipa Dublin Theatre Festival. Stage by Elena Kunikova Costumes and Décor by Mike Gonzales Lighting by Kip Marsh — Venue: Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Dates: 9 & 10 Oct, 7.30pm Tickets: €25 - €48.50 Duration: Approx. 2 hrs 20 mins incl. interval. Photo © Zoran Jelenic Photo © Zoran dublintheatrefestival.com 41 The Unicorn Theatre (London) and Untitled Projects, UK The End of Eddy

‘My crime wasn’t doing something. My crime was Based on the book En finir avec being something. Being different in a way everyone Eddy Bellegueule by Édouard Louis Adapted­­ by Pamela Carter else could see.’ Directed by Stewart Laing Cast: Alex Austin and Kwaku Mills Born into poverty in an isolated village in rural Design: Hyemi Shin France, a boy grows up amongst hard men Video Design: Finn Ross Lighting Design: Zerlina Hughes and women living hard and violent lives. Bullied Sound Design: Josh Anio Grigg relentlessly for being gay, this is the story of Eddy’s Assistant Director: Nima Séne struggle to understand who he is, who he might — Venue: Projects Arts Centre become, and of his fight to escape. (Space Upstairs) Dates: 9 & 10 Oct, 7.30pm Written when he was just 21 and combining vivid 11–13 Oct, 2.30pm & 7.30pm storytelling with frank reflections on sexuality, Tickets: €15–€25 Duration: Approx. 90 mins. class and power, Édouard Louis’ acclaimed No interval. autobiographical novel of hope, love, lust and anger is — both unflinchingly honest and hugely entertaining. Talking Theatre: 9 Oct, post-show. With Stewart Laing This new stage adaptation is a co-production from and members of the company. London’s Unicorn Theatre, the UK’s leading theatre for young audiences, and Scotland’s pioneering En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule Copyright © 2014, Édouard Louis Untitled Projects team, reuniting visionary director, All rights reserved designer Stewart Laing and writer Pamela Carter First published by Editions du Seuil whose Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner in 2014 was at Dublin Theatre Festival 2014.

Suitable for ages 16+. Contains strong language and explicit sexual references. — Supported by Arts Council England, the National Lottery through Creative Scotland’s Open Project Fund and by a Federation of Scottish Theatre Assistant Director Bursary with funding from Creative Scotland. Photo © Hugo Glendinning dublintheatrefestival.com 43 A lovely, haunting meditation on human connection, and disconnection … a poetic evocation of our mostly unspoken — and un-called upon — dependence on one another. The New York Times

600 HIGHWAYMEN, USA The Fever

The latest work by 600 HIGHWAYMEN tests the Written and Directed by Abigail limits of individual and collective responsibility, Browde and Michael Silverstone Co-created by Emil Abramyan, and our willingness to be there for one another. Eric Southern and Brandon Wolcott Performed in complete collaboration with the — audience, The Fever examines how we assemble, Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre Dates: 9–12 Oct, 8pm organise and care for the bodies around us. 13 Oct, 2pm & 8pm 14 Oct, 2pm A response to the current polarised social and Tickets: €20–€25 political climate of the United States, The Fever Duration: 75 mins. No interval. — focuses on the place where loneliness and Talking Theatre: togetherness meet. As active participants in the 11 Oct, post-show. With members performance, audience members not only witness of the company. but also embody the ethical responsibility they have to fellow strangers in the room.

The Fever begs the question, ‘Who will you be when our eyes are on you? What will we see when we all look your way?’

Suitable for ages 6+ — Supported by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. Photo © Waleed Shah Photo © Waleed dublintheatrefestival.com 45 Draíocht, Ireland Home Theatre (Ireland)

Snapshot. This is life in Dublin 15 but it could be where Based on the original idea by you’re from. Marcus Vinicius Faustini (Brazil) & Kerry Kyriacos Michael (UK) Artistic Director: Veronica Coburn Join us for a feast of new writing by some of Ireland’s leading Video Projections: Kilian Waters theatre makers. Plays inspired by conversations with people Theatre Artists include: Robbie Blake, who live in Dublin 15. Children, young people, adults, people Shaun Dunne, Sorcha Fox, Dylan Coburn Gray, Annabelle Comyn, new to Ireland, people who have always been here. People Deirdre Kinahan, Gavin Kostick, Fiona with stories. Join us for a night of freshly minted theatre McGeown, Paul Mercier, Elaine Murphy, pieces inspired by people just like you. Felicia Olusanya, Little John Nee, Natalya O’Flaherty, Jody O’Neill, Neil Watkins Home Theatre (Ireland) pairs 30 Dublin 15 ‘hosts’, with 30 — leading theatre makers. After spending time together, in the Venue: Draíocht hosts’ homes, in their lives, each theatre maker writes a piece Dates: 10–13 Oct, 8pm Tickets: €15–€18 of theatre that will be performed in the host’s home. Home Duration: Approx 2 hrs 30mins Theatre (Ireland) democratises the voices in Irish theatre. incl. interval.

Home Theatre (Ireland) happens over two weeks and Home Theatre (Ireland) plays are all 20 minutes duration. Details of each culminates on Saturday, 6 October, when 30 new plays night’s programme will be available in will be performed in houses across Dublin 15. A selection September. of these plays are being presented in Draíocht as part of — Talking Theatre: Dublin Theatre Festival. Each night a programme of 6 newly 11 & 12 Oct post show. commissioned plays. Each night a different programme of With Veronica Coburn, Kerry Kyriacos work. Each night a unique theatrical event. Michael and participating artists.

Suitable for ages 13+. May contain strong language. — Supported by Creative Fingal, Fingal County Council’s Creative Ireland programme. This production is funded by an Arts Council Open Call Award. — Presented by Draíocht in association with Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo © Ste Murray dublintheatrefestival.com 47 Fishamble: The New Play Company and the Abbey Theatre, Ireland Rathmines Road by Deirdre Kinahan

Will truth out? Directed by Jim Culleton Cast includes: Karen Ardiff, Charlie Set over one evening, Rathmines Road by Deirdre Bonner, Janet Moran and Enda Oates Set and Costume Design: Kinahan is a play that rages in a tiny room. Maree Kearns Lighting Design: Kevin Smith Fraught, funny and ferocious, this new drama Sound Design: Carl Kennedy challenges the cultural response to accusations of — Venue: Civic Theatre sexual assault. Previews: 4–6 Oct, 8pm Tickets: €18–€22 Olivier Award-winning Fishamble and the Abbey — Theatre are delighted to present Deirdre’s latest Venue: Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock Stage powerful and questioning drama. Bristling with Free First Preview: 9 Oct, 8pm tension, Rathmines Road unleashes a brutal truth Dates: 10–13 Oct, 8pm that affects us all. It is a play that asks: when and Tickets: €25 Duration: Approx. 80 mins. No interval. how do we take responsibility?

Suitable for ages 14+ Contains scenes that some may find distressing. — This production is funded by the Arts Council. Photo © Patrick Redmond Photo © Patrick dublintheatrefestival.com 49 Donmar Warehouse, UK St Nicholas by Conor McPherson

When I was a boy, I was afraid of the dark… Directed by Simon Evans What was there. Design: Peter McKintosh Lighting Design: Matt Daw And maybe one of the things I thought was there Sound Design: Christopher Shutt was vampires. Performed by Brendan Coyle — Conor McPherson’s chilling play receives its Irish Venue: Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space premiere in an intimate new production by the Previews: 9 & 10 Oct, 7.30pm Donmar Warehouse. Dates: 11 & 12 Oct, 7.30pm 13 Oct, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Brendan Coyle (Downton Abbey, Mary Queen of Scots, 14 Oct, 2.30pm Tickets: €25–€35 Paths to Freedom) returns to the Irish stage for the first Duration: Approx. 2hrs incl. interval. time since 2002, directed by Simon Evans — (The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Donmar Warehouse). Talking Theatre: 12 Oct, post-show. With Simon Evans. Named by The New York Times as ‘the finest playwright of his generation’, this is award-winning Conor McPherson’s second play to have its Irish premiere as part of Dublin Theatre Festival, following The Night Alive in 2015.

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Irish National Opera, Ireland Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók

Writer/director Enda Walsh and the award-winning Composed by Béla Bartók team that brought you The Second Violinist in a new Libretto by Béla Balázs Directed by Enda Walsh production of Béla Bartók’s searing, early 20th- Conducted by André de Ridder century reimagining of the tale of Bluebeard. Performed by Joshua Bloom, Paula Murrihy “There are times when I suddenly become aware of Set and Costume Design: Jamie Vartan Lighting Design: Adam Silverman the fact that I am absolutely alone! And I prophesy, I Video Design: Jack Phelan have a foreknowledge that this spiritual loneliness is Sound Design: Helen Atkinson to be my destiny”. Assistant Director: Eoghan Carrick Assistant Conductor: Sinead Hayes —Bartók, aged 24, to his mother. Orchestra: RTÉ Concert Orchestra — Hungarian composer Béla Bartók’s first stage work Venue: Gaiety Theatre and only opera, Bluebeard’s Castle, is a stark two- Dates: 12–14 Oct, 7.30pm Tickets: €16–€46 hander based on a one-act mystery play by Béla Duration: Approx. 60 mins. No interval. Balázs. Presented as an allegorical fairytale, it quickly — distorts into a compulsive pitch-dark morality story Talking Theatre: 13 Oct, post-show. With members with increasing horror. A man and a woman are of the company. just married. They arrive at his home where even the walls weep. She wants to have no secrets in Proudly supported by this house, to open door after door, no matter how terrifying, no matter how bloody. He is not so sure. She has her way.

Sung in Hungarian, with English surtitles by Enda Walsh.

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My Name is Language is a performative work on the Based on original interview material topic of names: how they can be given as well as collected by Nicoline van Harskamp and excerpts from Brian Friel’s withdrawn, inflicted, collected, hidden or adapted. Translations Written and Directed by Nicoline van Can a name be translated into a different language or Harskamp can it exist only in one? Why do women often lose their Cast includes Fontxo Aberasturi, Dagmar Baar, John Doran, Kamila Dydina, name in the course of their lives? What are reasons for Shadaan Felfeli, Nandini Gupta, people to reject or change their given name? Are stage Tiny James, Idersukh Khurelsukh, names and usernames a form of branding? Mo Murray and Áine Ní Laoghaire. Video Design: Andreea Peterfi — Dutch visual artist Nicoline van Harskamp collected Venue: Wood Quay Venue naming stories from around the world, asking people, Dates: 13 Oct, 6pm & 8.30pm ‘What is your name, who gave it to you and what does 14 Oct, 5pm & 7.30pm Tickets: €15 it mean in your language?’ In Ireland, she learned Duration: Approx. 60 minutes. about historic ‘name songs’, the politics of using Irish No interval. or English names, the results of a radically deregulated national naming system, and a much-loved play about the translation of names.

Audience and cast sit together in an institutional waiting room and listen to the stories one after another in a range of languages.

Performed in various languages including English with English subtitles.

Commissioned by steirischer herbst, Graz and Project Arts Centre Produced by steirischer herbst in co-production with Project Arts Centre Made possible with a financial contribution of the Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam and support from Dublin City Council.

Special thanks to the Estate of Brian Friel for permission to use play excerpts. Photo © Nicoline van Harskamp Photo © Nicoline van dublintheatrefestival.com 55 Second Hand Dance, UK

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for Children Grass Photo © Brian Hartley

Dublin Theatre Festival and The Ark present this Venue: The Ark Look down. What are you standing on? Directed and Choreographed by Tickets: €12.50 (public performances) Rosie Heafford ever popular season of internationally acclaimed — Performers: Patrick Keir and work for children. Tickets available from the Festival Explore the ground and all of its wriggling inhabitants Helena Webb Box Office: in this quirky dance show for young children. Set and Costume Design: Sarah Booth online: dublintheatrefestival.com Lighting Design: Sarah Gilmartin phone: +353 1 677 8899 Featuring worms, slugs, snails, spontaneous outbreaks Music Composition: James Marples We believe that you are never too young to become in person: Festival House, 12 Essex and Amir Shoenfeld Street East, Dublin 2, DO2 EH42 of ant dancing and plenty of obscure insect-related Sound Design: Edward Lewis a theatre lover! Introduce children to a great theatre — facts, Grass uses performance, puppetry and Projection Animation: Ben Walden experience by bringing them to something in this To avail of discounted tickets for projection to delve down into the world beneath our — year’s Theatre for Children season. With something schools bookings and early-bird Dates: 27–29 Sept school rates, please contact The Ark: feet whilst breathing in the scent of freshly-cut grass. Duration: 35 mins. Plus 15 mins stay for ages 2+, each of these shows has been created online: ark.ie and play time. No interval. especially to inspire, challenge and engage children phone: +353 1 670 7788 Ages 2–5 — – and adults too! in person: 11a Eustace Street, Relaxed performance: Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 A590 28 Sept, 2pm — Explore the world beneath your feet with Grass, a For show times and details of schools dance-show that aims to inspire audiences to look and public performances see the full closely at the world around them, get moving, get performance schedule on page 74. — mucky and play! Begin a magical and poetic journey The Theatre for Children programme is through the night with Night Light, exploring children’s curated by The Ark. relationship with light, or meet a young goatherd who discovers he is heir to a throne in The Young King.

As always, whether you’re little or not, you will be delighted and entertained.

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The Young King by Oscar Wilde, adapted for

Night Light Photo © Bo Amstrup the stage by Nicki Bloom Photo © Andy Ellis

The blackbird sings to welcome the night. Created by Andy Manley, Mariann What kind of King would you be? A naïve boy Directed by Andy Packer Aagaard, Bjarne Sandborg Cast includes: Tim Overton and Directed by Bjarne Sandborg raised by goatherds is discovered to be heir to Jacqy Phillips with live music The day slows and soon all are asleep. Performed by Andy Manley the kingdom. Treasures and privileges are laid at performed by Quincy Grant Set Design: Mariann Aagaard his feet, but at what cost to others? The achingly Composer: Quincy Grant All except one who cannot sleep. Lighting Design: Anders Kjems Design: Wendy Todd Composer and Sound Design: beautiful and tender language of Oscar Wilde joins Lighting Design: Geoff Cobham A child, curious to know who looks after the night. Daniel Padden the intimate and magical world of internationally — — acclaimed Adelaide theatre company, Slingsby, who Dates: 10–11 & 13–14 Oct Dates: 6–8 Oct Duration: Approx. 80 mins. And so begins a magical journey through the dark Duration: 40 mins. No interval. enthralled Dublin audiences with The Tragical Life of No Interval. and beautiful night until the blackbird sings again to — Cheeseboy in the 2014 Theatre for Children season. — welcome a new day. Quietly humorous and gentle, The Young King is charming, Night Light is a wonderfully imagined Journey in wonder, to a land of challenging choices majestic and utterly delightful dream world. The entire team has Limelight This is a welcome return to the Theatre for Children created a cornucopia of wonder and rich rewards. season following previous appearances for both Edinburgh Guide Ages 8+ Andy Manley (White, 2012) and Teater Refleksion Lighting effects, haze and smoke effects are used during the show. (The Way Back Home, 2014). Supported by the Government of South Australia through Arts South Ages 3–6 Australia, and by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Co-produced by Red Bridge Arts and Imaginate.

Commissioned through the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund and supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and the Municipality of Aarhus.

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In Development Fishamble: The New Play The Metals by Una McKevitt David Horan — The Blackwater Collapsing Horse — Painted Bird — The Devlin Dublin Theatre Festival is Company — Before and James Scales Lightship by Colm Tóibín Dance Plague Project by Fiona McGeown committed to supporting by Pat Kinevane On an abandoned rail track ‘When I was young, lying in Dance Plague is about bodies, and Thomas Conway Irish artists in creating From the Olivier Award- known locally as The Metals, bed, I used to believe that autonomy, rebellion, wildness, The Devlin Project is a ambitious and high- winning team of writer/ a group of teenagers convene Tuscar was a man and the animalistic abandon, losing multimedia exploration of how quality new work. Our In performer Pat Kinevane, for another night of banter Blackwater Lightship was a yourself and losing self- civil rights agitation turned to Development programme director Jim Culleton and and mayhem. woman and they were both consciousness. It’s about militancy in the late sixties— offers theatre-makers a composer Denis Clohessy. sending signals to each other music and the brain, it’s about the era when the revolution Once the site of engineering platform to stage their and to other lighthouses, like the body as captivated and was actually televised. Following the huge ingenuity, The Metals now works-in-progress, for Irish mating calls.’ limited by our culture, and the Two women, Irish and African international success of serves as the locus of and international audiences sudden violent schism that American—modelled on Fishamble’s trilogy — Forgotten, adventure, rites of passage It’s 90s Ireland and AIDS is and theatre presenters, sets it free. Bernadette Devlin and Angela Silent and Underneath — and freedom for the still a life sentence. A sister, a testing ideas before an Davis—are engaged in a public Before is a new play with teenagers within its walls. mother and a grandmother, Collapsing Horse presents interested and sympathetic interview to tease out the much music, set in Clery’s, along with two gay friends, Dance Plague in association audience at a key moment The Metals is an anatomy of question whether militancy on the day this iconic have come together to tend with Draíocht Arts Centre, in the process. Artists, the people who inhabit it, has a role to play in the department store shuts — to 29-year-old Declan, who Blanchardstown. writers and directors use the illuminating the social context activism of today. for good. is dying of the disease. This space to try out new ideas, of place. Dance Plague is directed by strange new family unit are Painted Bird takes an while audiences have an Pontius is inside, trying Dan Colley and devised with This production is funded by the forced to confront the illness interdisciplinary approach to opportunity to see pieces to choose a gift for his Arts Council. the Collapsing Horse company. and each other. theatre making. It explores at a critical phase in their estranged daughter. This Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre Supported by Dublin City Council. cultural history, relying on development. father’s journey is both Date: 5 Oct, 4pm A new adaptation of Colm Supported by Fingal County Council. documentary archive, and beautiful and strange, from Tóibín’s piercing novel about Past In Development This production is funded by the shapes that material into the isolation of his Midlands broken family, making a Arts Council. presentations have gone on something that resonates today. home, to the madness of family of your own and the to enjoy success as part of Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) O’Connell Street. Some folk cost of caring for each other. Date: 6 Oct, 12pm Supported by Cork County Council. Dublin Theatre Festival and This production is funded by the are impossible to buy for… David Horan, co-writer and have toured at home and Arts Council. co-director of last year’s hit, abroad to critical and public Supported by National Theatre Studio Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) (London), Pavilion Theatre, The Strollers CLASS, presents excerpts acclaim. Date: 13 Oct, 1pm Touring Network and the Arts Council. from his newest work.

Venue: Project Arts Centre Venue: Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) (Space Upstairs) Date: 5 Oct, 1pm Date: 6 Oct, 11am

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The Next Stage 25th International Theatre Registration opens 27 August. Blast: International Youth Theatre Ireland Young Presented in partnership with eXchange (ITX) For further information Critics’ Forum Critics’ Panel Theatre Forum, the Next Stage Irish Theatre Institute on the International The space for engaging with The Young Critics are back. Get is the artist development presents the 25th consecutive Theatre eXchange visit performance is shrinking a different perspective on this strand of Dublin Theatre International Theatre irishtheatreinstitute.ie fast. Critical coverage is year’s festival programme as Festival. Over the 18 days of eXchange, an opportunity disappearing, star ratings just 16 young people from across Presented in partnership with Culture the festival, participants are for Irish theatre artists and Ireland and supported by the Arts Council. won’t cut it, and online sharing Ireland share their critical immersed in the programme companies, programmed is simply a speedy and cost- response in a session chaired and given access to an array during the festival, to Venue: Various — Dublin city centre effective way of talking only to by Dr. Karen Fricker. Date: 5 Oct, 1pm of leading artists in a packed develop their international Registration: €30/1 person, €50/2 ourselves. How about a fresh schedule of talks, interviews, networks and explore people from the same organisation. perspective? Since April, the Young Critics group time and workshops. potential collaborations with have been honing their critical The Next Stage has been programmers interested in The Playwright Centre Stage As part of our annual season of skills through workshops and lauded by alumni as ‘a rare presenting Irish work to their In collaboration with Dublin panels and public discussions, online discussion with the amount of inspiration’ and audiences. Theatre Festival, Stewart the makers of ‘Blast’, a new support of professional theatre ‘career changing’. Parker Trust will host a free platform for conversations critics and facilitators. They Invited international two-day event exploring the about Irish theatre, will host a have also been seeing lots Past speakers and workshop presenters and producers professional landscape of lively critical discussion about of theatre and creating their leaders include Tim Crouch, experience a diverse range playwriting in Ireland today. the context for this year’s work, own criticism in familiar and Garry Hynes, Michael Keegan- of Irish work including a Curated by Dr. Tanya Dean, its impact, and the talking unusual forms…. Dolan, Ruth Little, Mikel Murfi, curated Pitching Session, a the event will comprise talks, points of the festival. Find out more, join the Thomas Ostermeier, Vivi Tellas series of rehearsed works masterclasses, workshops Bringing together Irish and Young Critics as they review and Enda Walsh. The Next ‘In Development’ and a and panel discussions, international critics, this productions from the festival Stage also creates valuable programme of Irish festival featuring Marina Carr, Nancy forum considers performance in their own unique way. opportunities for enriching productions. Harris, Deirdre Kinahan, from several angles and engagement with visiting and Caitriona McLaughlin Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) Registration is essential to welcomes audience feedback. artists, with past programmes (amongst others). This event Date: 7 Oct, 1pm be part of this programme If there’s nothing more deadly sparking successful artistic is designed for emerging of networking on 5 October - than consensus, this new collaborations. and established playwrights. attend the Pitching Session*, discussion also provides an Spaces are limited and by Participation in the 2018 followed by the International opportunity for spirited debate, application only. programme is by application Networking Lunch. Capacity challenge and something rarer See stewartparkertrust.com only, from 25 July. Deadline is is limited. still – a chance to change your for details. 16 August. mind *Selection to participate in the Venue: Poetry Ireland Find out more and apply Pitching Session is by open Venue: Project Arts Centre Date: 10 & 11 Oct Date: 10 Oct, 3pm through dublintheatrefestival. call. See cultureireland.ie/ com or theatreforum.ie irishtheatreinstitute.ie for further details. Funded by the Arts Council.

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Accessible performances 20 minutes before audio Relaxed performance We are committed to making described performances and Performances are our events accessible to will be available in advance if aimed at people who audiences with disabilities requested via will benefit from a more Tickets and information It’s important for us to reach as wide and those who require [email protected] relaxed performance phone +353 1 677 8899 email an audience as possible with the accessible services. Our environment including Audio described performances [email protected] programme includes audio people on the autism work we stage each year. To facilitate The Misfits, Smock Alley described performances, spectrum, people with access to festival events we offer Theatre, Main Space, a touch tour, captioned sensory and communication 6 Oct, 2.30pm a range of discounts and booking performances, an Irish impairments, and people A touch tour for The Misfits options for selected performances. Sign Language interpreted with intellectual disabilities. will take place approximately 1 performance, and relaxed The audience is welcome hour before the performance performances. to move around and make starts, please contact our Box noise during the show. Audio description Office to book your place. Audio description is Relaxed performances The M House, axis:Ballymun, a live verbal commentary Grass, The Ark, 28 Sept, 2pm We continue our standby scheme in 2018, offering a limited 8 & 9 Oct, 8pm providing information on number of €10 tickets for selected shows on the day of the The M House, axis:Ballymun, Final Call the visual elements of a Captioning is similar performance. Tickets can be purchased in person at the 8 Oct, 8pm, production as it unfolds, from to television subtitling festival Box Office, 2 hours before closing time, on a first-come 9 Oct, 11.30am & 8pm sets, props and costumes and converts the spoken word first-served basis. Final Call tickets are announced daily on to actors’ facial expressions into text, which is displayed Booking and information Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram during the festival. and movements. Audio on a screen on or next to the If you have any access description is delivered stage. This is useful for people requirements please contact through a personal headset. who are hard of hearing or the festival Box Office in Register your community organisation with us to avail of €10 tickets for selected performances. Welfare groups, registered Please book your headset by who are deaf. When booking, advance of the performance. Open House phoning Box Office on please ask for seats suitable charities, special needs groups and their carers, and parent phone: +353 1 677 8899 +353 1 677 8899. for captioning. support groups are all eligible for the scheme. email: Touch tours Captioned performances [email protected] We offer touch tours for some The M House, axis:Ballymun, For information on Discounts are available to senior citizens, Actors’ Equity, audio described productions. 8 Oct, 8pm & 9 Oct wheelchair accessible unwaged and full-time students with a valid ID. Concession It’s a chance to visit the set, 11.30am & 8pm Concessions venues visit tickets can be booked at Festival Box Office, by phone, or feel the props and enhance Irish Sign Language dublintheatrefestival.com online at dublintheatrefestival.com. your enjoyment of the show. interpreted The tour is free and lasts Touch tours, audio performances about 30 minutes. Please let described, and ISL These performances are Buy ten tickets and get the eleventh ticket free. Special us know in advance if you will performances are facilitated interpreted by an Irish Sign offers are available for groups of ten or more across most attend the tour by contacting by Arts & Disability Ireland. Group Discounts Language (ISL) interpreter. performances. For details and to make your group booking our Box Office. Please book through venue Accessible performances of phone +353 1 677 8899. Programme notes box office and ask for seats DruidShakespeare: Richard Descriptions of the set, suitable for viewing the III and Rathmines Road are characters and costumes interpreter. available outside of festival are available for audiences dates. Visit abbeytheatre.ie ISL interpreted performance who are visually impaired for details. Hamlet, Gate Theatre, or blind. These will be read 13 Oct, 1.30pm

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Where to Eat: Festival Feeds Parking Bus stops and transport Make a night of it! Enjoy Park Rite operates car parks links closest to many festival a pre/post show meal or across Dublin city centre, venues can be found on the drink in one of Dublin’s best many of which are close to map (see page 73). You can restaurants. Throughout festival venues. Throughout also download Fáilte Ireland’s the Festival, our partner the festival Park Rite offers official Transport for Ireland restaurants across Dublin our audiences a special Journey Planner app to view offer menus to ticket-buyers evening rate of €5 from all transport options. It’s free at special promotional rates. 5pm - midnight. To avail and covers bus, Luas, taxis, A full list of participating of this special rate present ferries and even walking! Doyle Collection ad restaurants and deals will your theatre ticket at the For details go to: visitdublin.ie be available from early ticket office in your chosen Tourist Information September. Keep an eye on car park. Advance online Dublin is a thriving city our website and social media booking required in select with a vibrant landscape channels for details. car parks. of culture just waiting for Where to Stay: Park Rite Parnell Centre Car Park you to explore it. From film Park Rite Irish Life Car Park Hotel Theatre Packages Park Rite IFSC Car Park and music to visual art and Make the most of your stay Park Rite Fleet Street Car Park theatre, the city is teeming in Dublin by reserving a hotel Park Rite Drury Street Car Park with creativity and energy. Park Rite Pavilion Car Park, Dún theatre package, including Laoghaire (Online booking required) There is so much to see and your theatre tickets. Our Park Rite Smithfield Market Car Park do, including arts festivals, official accommodation (Online booking required) museums and galleries, provider, The Doyle parkrite.ie restaurants, markets, Collection, the Irish family- beaches, and mountain owned luxury hotel Group, is hikes, not to mention its offering special rates for the famed lively nightlife. Getting around duration of the festival: Our venues are located Discover Ireland tourist The Westbury across Dublin city centre, information offices are From €450 per package suburbs and coastal areas. located at Dublin Airport at Phone: +353 1 679 1122 All venues are well-serviced Terminals 1 and 2, as well doylecollection.com/ by our Public Bus Network as in the city centre on westbury (dublinbus.ie) our coastal O’Connell Street, Dublin 1 enjoy pre-theatre dining in the verdant, scene-stealing setting of WILDE train, the DART and country and Suffolk Street, Dublin The Croke Park wide rail service (irishrail.ie) as 2. For more information on From €269 per package well as the Luas tram system. planning your trip visit Phone: +353 1 871 4444 discoverireland.ie and doylecollection.com/ You can also pick up a Dublin visitdublin.ie crokepark Bike while you’re in town (dublinbikes.ie).

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Electric Picnic Music and Arts Festival 2018

Dublin Theatre Festival goes to Stradbally for the seventh Venue: The Theatre Tent, successive year, presenting a series of festival-fit performances MindField Arena from some of Ireland’s most exciting artists and theatre-makers. Dates: Sat 1 & Sun 2 Sept, 2018 12 noon– 6pm We will be announcing this year’s line-up in the coming weeks – dublintheatrefestival.com so check out our website or follow us on Facebook, Twitter and electricpicnic.ie Instagram for updates and a full schedule of events.

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Dominick St Lwr Parnell13 Square James Joyce St 01 Abbey Theatre 07 Dublin Theatre Festival 13 Poetry Ireland 26/27 Lower Abbey Street, Box Office 11 Parnell Square East,

Dublin 1 Festival House, 12 Essex Street Dublin 1 Gardiner St +353 1 878 7222 East, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Bolton St abbeytheatre.ie +353 1 677 8899 14 Project Arts Centre 10 dublintheatrefestival.com 39 Essex Street East, Marlborough St 02 The Ark Temple Bar, Dublin 2

11a Eustace Street, 08 Festival Club +353 1 8819613 O’Connell St Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Ukiyo, 7-9 Exchequer Street, projectartscentre.ie

Constitution Hill +353 1 670 7788 Dublin 2 Foley St ark.ie +353 1 633 4071 15 Samuel Beckett Theatre Parnell St N King Street ukiyobar.com Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2 Talbot St 03 axis:Ballymun (Entrance to TCD is via the P Main Street, Ballymun, Dublin 9 09 Gaiety Theatre Nassau Street gate after 6pm +353 1 883 2100 South King Street, Dublin 2 on Saturdays and Sundays) axisballymun.ie 0818 719 388 Henry St P gaietytheatre.ie 16 Smock Alley Theatre Mary St 04 Bord Gáis Energy Theatre 6/7 Exchange Street Lower, Abbey St Lwr Grand Canal Square, 10 Gate Theatre Temple Bar, Dublin 8 P Capel St 01 Docklands, Dublin 2 Cavendish Row, +353 1 677 0014 Mary St Little Abbey St Upr 0818 719 377 (Ticketmaster) Parnell Square, Dublin 1 smockalley.com bordgaisenergytheatre.ie +353 1 874 4045 Eden Quay gatetheatre.ie 17 Wood Quay Venue 05 Civic Theatre Dublin City Council Civic Offices, Burgh Quay Tallaght, Dublin 24 11 O’Reilly Theatre, Wood Quay, Dublin 8 Ormond Quay Lwr 04 +353 1 462 7477 Belvedere College civictheatre.ie 6 Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1 Ormond Quay Upr oreillytheatre.com Pearse St 06 Draíocht Wellington Quay The Blanchardstown Centre, 12 Pavilion Theatre P Dublin 15 Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire, Essex Quay +353 1 885 2622 Co. Dublin Temple Bar draiocht.ie +353 1 231 2929 Wood Quay 16 17 paviliontheatre.ie

Trinity College15 Dame St 08 Exchequer St

Nassau St Tickets for all festival shows can be booked at the Festival Park Rite car park. Box Office or through the box office in theatres where Discounted parking is Drury St

S Great Georges St P phone numbers or websites are provided. Booking fees at available to ticket holders Grafton St festival venues vary. Locations for any venues not listed on throughout the festival Wellington Quay 09 Dawson St this map can be found at dublintheatrefestival.com. dates, on presentation of a South King St valid show ticket at the car 07 Fownes St Lwr Kildare St

park office (see page 69). Essex St East

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Parliament St St Stephens Green 12 Merrion Row

Dame St 05 dublintheatrefestival.com 74 schedule pr – preview ap – assisted performance – running on How to Book: dublintheatrefestival.com / +353 1 677 8899 / tt – talking theatre a series sp – schools performance Festival Box Office: Festival House, 12 Essex Street East, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 EH42 of post-show discussions rp – relaxed performance

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Hamlet Gate Theatre 04 7pm 7pm 1.30pm 7pm 7pm 1.30pm 7pm 7pm 1.30pm 7pm 7pm 1.30pm 7pm 7pm 1.30pm ap 3h 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm

Multiverse Samuel Beckett Theatre 06 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 6pm 65m

The Mai Civic Theatre 08 8pm pr 8pm pr 8pm 3pm 8pm 2h 15m 8pm

A Portrait of the Artist as a Pavilion Theatre, 10 8pm pr 8pm pr 8pm 2.30pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 2.30pm 8pm 2h 15m Young Man Dún Laoghaire 8pm 8pm

Fantasia Project Arts Centre 12 7.30pm tt 2.30pm 55m (Space Upstairs) 7.30pm

Mining Stories Project Arts Centre 14 7.45pm 3.45pm 3.45pm 60m (Cube) 7.45pm tt

The Lost O’Casey Meeting point at 16 3pm – 3pm – 3pm – 1pm – 3pm – 3pm – 3pm – 3pm – 3pm – 1pm – 3pm – 3pm – 3pm – 3pm – 3pm – 1pm – 60m Gate Theatre 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

The Patient Gloria Abbey Theatre, 18 8pm pr 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 70m on the Peacock Stage

The Misfits Smock Alley Theatre, 20 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 6.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm ap 1.30pm 90m Main Space 7.30pm 7.30pm

NASSIM Project Arts Centre 22 7.45pm 7.45pm tt 7.45pm 7.45pm 3.45pm 4.45pm 70m (Cube) 7.45pm

Company Project Arts Centre 24 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 2.30pm 2.30pm 80m (Space Upstairs) 7.30pm

ELIZA’s Adventures in the Samuel Beckett Theatre 26 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 1h 40m Uncanny Valley 7.30pm tt

Everyone’s Fine With O’Reilly Theatre, 28 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 75m Virginia Woolf Belvedere College 7.30pm

DruidShakespeare: Abbey Theatre, 30 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm 2pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2pm Richard III on the Abbey Stage 7.30pm 7.30pm

The Bystander axis:Ballymun 32 8pm 8pm 8pm 60m

The M House axis:Ballymun 34 8pm ap rp 11.30am ap rp 55m 8pm ap rp

Klosterhof Project Arts Centre 36 7.45pm 7.45pm 7.45pm 7.45pm 3.45pm tt 60m (Cube) 7.45pm

Les Ballets Trockadero de Bord Gáis Energy Theatre 38 7.30pm 7.30pm 2h 20m Monte Carlo

The End of Eddy Project Arts Centre 40 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 90m (Space Upstairs) 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

The Fever Samuel Beckett Theatre 42 8pm 8pm 8pm tt 8pm 2pm 2pm 75m 8pm

Home Theatre (Ireland) Draíocht 44 8pm 8pm tt 8pm tt 8pm 2h 30m

Rathmines Road Civic Theatre 46 8pm pr 8pm pr 8pm pr 8pm pr 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 80m Abbey Theatre, civic civic civic abbey abbey abbey abbey abbey on the Peacock Stage

St Nicholas Smock Alley Theatre, 48 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 2.30pm 2.30pm 2h Main Space 7.30pm

Bluebeard’s Castle Gaiety Theatre 50 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 60m

My Name is Language Wood Quay Venue 52 6pm 5pm 60m 8.30pm 7.30pm

Grass The Ark 55 11am 11am 11am 35m 2pm 2pm rp 2pm

Night Light The Ark 56 11am 2pm 10.15am sp 40m 2pm 4pm 12.15pm sp 4pm

The Young King The Ark 57 10.15am sp 10.15am sp 2pm 2pm 80m 12.15pm sp 12.15pm sp 4pm 4pm booking information

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