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We are very excited to be marking are undertaking this year will see new works having their world 04 The Suppliant Women 24 Melt 46 King of the Castle 60 years of Dublin Theatre hundreds of people attending a premieres alongside each other, Actors Touring Company and Rough Magic Druid Festival with a diverse programme festival production for the first accompanied by outstanding Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space Gaiety Theatre of contemporary Irish and time as we believe that creating international productions. Gaiety Theatre international theatre. the widest access possible to arts 26 The Second Violinist 48 Rapids and culture is key to a confident, Throughout the programme, 06 this is a room... Landmark Productions Talking Shop Ensemble Our first edition was in May 1957, creative Ireland. A fitting legacy artists are speaking to themes of Dublin Youth Theatre and Wide Open Opera and Shaun Dunne as part of An Tóstal – a celebration from our sixty years will be these power and justice, whether the Project Arts Centre (Cube) O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere Project Arts Centre (Cube) inspired by the wave of festivals contributions to a vibrant future conflict is on a domestic scale, College that had been founded across for Irish performing arts. amongst generations or between 08 Come Away With Me 50 Endings Europe during the preceding individuals and a repressive to the End of the World 28 Woyzeck in Winter Tamara Saulwick decade as the continent rebuilt This year’s festival unfolds in a society. They are also grappling Ranters Theatre Landmark Productions and Project Arts Centre itself after the devastation of war. world where truth and trust have with fundamental questions Samuel Beckett Theatre Galway International Arts Festival (Space Upstairs) Established initially to promote been debased and critical thinking of existence and identity for Gaiety Theatre tourism during the off-season, the is more important than ever. It which performance offers rich 10 Radio Rosario 52 The Good House of Happiness festival has grown to become an is encouraging that, after years metaphors. We rely on their Little John Nee 30 Venus and Adonis Pan Pan Theatre artistically led flagship cultural of campaigning by the sector, searching imaginations and their axis:Ballymun Royal Shakespeare Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space event that animates Dublin each increased public investment in instincts for beauty and disruption Company in association autumn, welcoming audiences culture has been proposed and to create the magnificent array 12 CLASS with Little Angel Theatre 54 Wind Resistance from all over Ireland and beyond. that its role in active citizenship of performances that make up Iseult Golden and David Horan Civic Theatre Karine Polwart and Royal has been acknowledged. It is this festival’s more than thirty Civic Theatre and Lyceum Theatre Company Looking back to my own also healthy for our democracy productions. The New Theatre 32 Ulysses Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire earliest encounters with festival that some of the critical thinking Abbey Theatre programmes in the 1990s, it was may be addressed to those who Theatre is collaborative and 14 The Sin Eaters on the Abbey Stage 56 Josephine K and the Algorithms work from the burgeoning Irish underwrite it. making a theatre festival no less ANU Abbey Theatre independent scene of the day and so. We are grateful to all our Pigeon House Lab 34 I'm Not Here on the Peacock Stage international artists such as Slava While I expect that festival supporters, public, private and THEATREclub Polunin, Théâtre de Complicité performances will engage, individual, for the steady support 16 Hamnet Project Arts Centre (Cube) 58 Fruits of Labor and Wim Wandekybus that provoke and entertain, I they have shown for the festival Dead Centre and Abbey Theatre Miet Warlop first blew open the possibilities hope that they may also give over sixty years and for the on the Peacock Stage 36 Frank Pig Says Hello and Samuel Beckett Theatre of theatre for me. More than audiences an opportunity to confidence they have expressed The Leaves of Heaven two decades later, Ireland has reflect on the values of empathy, in its future. To the artists, whose 18 Nora Co-Motion 60 Theatre for Children changed profoundly. Irish theatre generosity and solidarity, which brilliance we provide a platform The Corn Exchange Draíocht and axis:Ballymun has been transformed along with are currently under such pressure for, to their creative teams, and Project Arts Centre 64 Support Us it and festival programmes have globally. The opening production, all those who labour to get the (Space Upstairs) 38 Tribes followed, and often catalysed, a vivid telling of Aeschylus’ The work on the stage, along with Gate Theatre 65 Festival+ that change. Suppliant Women, is an example our festival partners, we thank 20 Playboyz of how an ancient story can be them for their vision, their passion Martin Sharry 40 The Bitter Game 74 Accessibility Information By now, at least three used to great contemporary and their resilience. I must also generations of artists and The New Theatre Keith A. Wallace theatrical and civic effect. acknowledge Dublin Theatre axis:Ballymun 77 Visiting Dublin Information audiences have participated in Festival’s superlative team, whose Dublin Theatre Festival and we Like all cultural organisations, 22 On Blueberry Hill work throughout the year is all Fishamble: The New Play 42 Girl Song 84 Venue Details still count among our loyal public particularly as one that is long towards these 18 extraordinary people who attended some established, Dublin Theatre Company United Fall days. Finally, to our audience, Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire Samuel Beckett Theatre 86 Festival Schedule at a Glance of the first festivals in the 50s Festival must constantly renew thank you for joining us. Here we and the 60s. At the same time, and refresh itself in order to stay are, all together now. We hope 44 Her Voice we are focussed on attracting relevant to its audiences. This you will enjoy the show. new audiences of all ages and festival embraces the breadth KAMOME-ZA showcasing the next generation of contemporary Irish theatre – Samuel Beckett Theatre of theatre talent alongside our and celebrates the particular Willie White celebrated artists. Initiatives we energy that comes from so many Artistic Director

dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 04-0504 Actors Touring An epic feminist protest song. 04-05 Company and Royal ««««« Lyceum Theatre The Guardian Edinburgh, UK Achingly expressive… incredibly moving. «««« The Telegraph

The Suppliant Women

Written by Aeschylus in Fifty women leave everything behind to board a boat in a new version by David Greig North Africa and flee across the Mediterranean. They are Directed by Ramin Gray escaping forced marriage in their homeland, hoping for Composed by John Browne protection and assistance, seeking asylum in Greece. Choreography: Sasha Milavic- Davies Written 2,500 years ago by the great playwright Aeschylus, Cast includes: Oscar Batterham, The Suppliant Women is one of the world’s oldest plays. Omar Ebrahim, Gemma May, This is a story about the plight of refugees, moral and Callum Armstrong, Ben Burton human rights, civil war, democracy and ultimately the Set and Costume Design: Lizzie Clachan triumph of love – a tale that echoes down the ages to Lighting Design: Charles Balfour find striking and poignant resonance today. – Reuniting the creative team behind the hugely acclaimed Venue: Gaiety Theatre The Events, The Guardian’s best play of 2013, The Suppliant Preview: Sept 27, 7.30pm Women uses the techniques of Ancient Greek theatre Dates: Sept 28 & 29, 7.30pm Sept 30, 2.30pm & 7.30pm – recruiting and training over fifty local volunteers who Oct 1, 2.30pm will perform alongside the professional cast to create an Tickets: €16 – €46 extraordinary theatrical event. Duration: 90 mins. No interval. – Part play, part ritual, part theatrical archaeology, it offers Talking Theatre: an electric connection to the deepest and most mysterious Sept 29, post-show. ideas of humanity – who are we, where do we belong and if With Ramin Gray and members all goes wrong – who will take us in? of the company. Supported by Dublin City Council.

With the support of

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this is a room...

Written by Dylan Coburn Gray Goldfish keep growing as long as they have room to grow Directed by Veronica Coburn into. This is not true of people, or millionaires with mansions Cast: Abigail Adrian-Sisson, Liadh would be ten feet tall. What IS true is that the houses we Blake, Isaac Casey, Niamh Cotter, grow up in leave marks on us, for better or worse. This is a Jane Finnegan, Jessie Flynn, Eoin Fullston, Joe Gallagher, play about the first eighteen years of your life and all of the Briain Hudson, Eimear Hussey, things you may or may not learn in that time. How to cook, Aaron Katambay, Finn Kilbride, how to share a room without going insane, how to be happy. Pippa Molony, Sibéal Ni Mhaoileoin, Celine O’Brien, Colm O’Rourke, It’s about how after those eighteen years you’re expected to Andrew Richardson, Daniel Roddy, know certain things, even though there isn’t a class. It’s about Amy Shields, Lee Stafford, how that’s scary, even if you’re prepared. It’s about how lots of Seán Talbot, Ceri-May Thomas people aren’t, not even remotely. Set and Costume Design: Deirdre Dwyer this is a room… is performed by young people who will never Lighting Design: Eamon Fox own houses. – Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) If you grew up somewhere, this show is for you.

Preview: Sept 27, 7.45pm Suitable for ages 14+ Dates: Sept 28 & 29, 7.45pm – Sept 30, 2.45pm & 7.45pm Supported by CDYSB and Dublin City Council. Oct 1, 2.45pm Funded through the Arts Council’s YPCE Programme Activity Fund. Tickets: €12 – €18 Duration: Approx. 90 mins. No interval. – Talking Theatre: Sept 30, post-show (2.45pm). With Veronica Coburn and Dylan Coburn-Gray.

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Surprising and beautifully executed. The Australian

Come Away With Me to the End of the World

Text by Heather Bolton, Come Away With Me to the End of the World is a quietly Beth Buchanan, Adriano Cortese, humorous meditation on life and death. The audience watches Raimondo Cortese and Patrick Moffatt as three performers shape and reshape their physical and Directed by Adriano Cortese emotional selves, confronting the space between their actual Performed by Heather Bolton, lives and their dreamed selves. This self-imposed quest takes Beth Buchanan and Patrick Moffatt them through shifting landscapes and climates, snow-topped Dancers: Rosa Voto, Cristina San mountain peaks and erupting volcanoes to a final meeting with Miguel and Cristiano Delmar Greek music legend Demis Roussos on the day before his death. Design: Callum Morton Sound Design: David Franzke Come Away With Me to the End of the World asks questions Lighting Design: Govin Ruben about how we live and how we want to live as we brush up Costume Design: Belinda Hellier against our own mortality. Choreography: Jo Lloyd First produced by Malthouse Theatre and developed with the assistance Musical Direction: Evan Lawson of the National Theatre Studio. – Assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. Dates: Sept 28 & 29, 7.30pm Supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. Sept 30, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Oct 1, 2.30pm Tickets: €20 – €25 Duration: Approx. 1 hr 40 mins. No interval. – Talking Theatre: Sept 28, post-show. With members of the company.

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Radio Rosario by Little John Nee

Co-Directed by Little John Nee Galway city, in the very near future. Valve Hegarty sings and Laura Sheeran audio jingles to pay the rent; a drudgery that weighs heavily Consultant Director: on him. He has a hankering for something of substance Raymond Keane and is drawn to the beauty of 20th century valve radios. Performed by Little John Nee A chance meeting in Clifden leads him to the site of the Set and Costume Design: Triona Lillis Marconi Station where a soundscape of ghostly broadcasts Lighting Design: Sarah Jane Shiels begins. Meanwhile, Rosario is… well, Rosario is Rosario. Music and Sound Design: Tommy In Radio Rosario, Little John Nee brings his mesmeric McLaughlin and Little John Nee musical storytelling to another dimension with long-time Video art created by Laura Sheeran collaborator and creator Laura Sheeran, and a multi-award – winning team.

Venue: axis:Ballymun Developed through FUEL – Druid’s Artist Residency Programme. Dates: Sept 28 & 29, 8pm Supported by The Mick Lally Theatre and an Grianán Theatre. Tickets: €16 Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award. Duration: Approx. 80 mins. – No interval. Presented by axis:Ballymun in association with Dublin Theatre Festival.

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CLASS

Written and Directed by ‘Donna always sh*ts a brick – I mean, she gets all nervous – Iseult Golden and David Horan comin’ in here. It’s like she reverts.’ Cast: Stephen Jones, Sarah Morris and Will O’Connell Brian and Donna’s son is nine years old, and he’s struggling. Set and Costume Design: That’s what his teacher says. Says he should see a psychologist. Maree Kearns But Brian and Donna – recently separated – never liked school, Lighting Design: Kevin Smith never liked teachers. – Venue: Civic Theatre, So are they going to trust this one? Loose End Studio Previews: Sept 26 & 27, 8.15pm And should they? Dates: Sept 28–30, 8.15pm A parent-teacher meeting goes very, very wrong in CLASS – a Tickets: €12 – €16 new play about learning difficulties: in school, in life, wherever. – Venue: The New Theatre Created by theatre artists and screenwriting duo, Iseult Golden Dates: Oct 3–6 & 10–13, 7.30pm and David Horan, CLASS explores the complications and Oct 7 & 14, 2.30pm & 7.30pm comedy when three adults find themselves back in class. Oct 8, 2.30pm Tickets: €14 – €20 Supported by Dublin City Council. Duration: Approx. 75 mins. Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award. No interval. – Talking Theatre: Oct 8, post-show. With members of the company.

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Anyone who has experienced ANU Productions will discover that they continue to offer audiences the most improbable of theatrical experiences: something that is truly transformative. Sunday Business Post

The Sin Eaters

Directed by Louise Lowe Multi-award winning company ANU returns to the festival Dramaturgy by Gavin Kostick with a searingly intimate investigation into the corrupting Cast includes: Katie Honan, force of the Irish family. Úna Kavanagh, Niamh McCann Design: Owen Boss At the edge of the city, a group of women stand together. Lighting Design: Paul Keoghan As property of the state, they are a warning to others of Costume Design: Niamh Lunny what happens if the rules of Church and family are violated. Sound Design: Carl Kennedy They are the Sin Eaters. Movement Director: Sue Mythen – The fulcrum of the family has long upheld the litany of Venue: Pigeon House Lab, scandals that have shaped and shamed us. Frequently this Poolbeg silence has exposed a serious rupture in the body politic Previews: Sept 27, every and created a power nexus that has yet to be unravelled. half hour from 5pm–9.30pm Oscillating through real events in our recent history, Dates: Sept 28, 29, Oct 3–6 & Oct 10–13, every half hour from audiences weave between dream installation and judicial 5pm–9.30pm inquiry, to reshape state and body in this unsettling way, Sept 30, Oct 7 & Oct 14, every towards a future that looks horribly like the present. half hour from 3pm–9.30pm Oct 1, 8 & 15, every half hour Join us at the beginning of the last inquiry that remains. from 4pm–7.30pm Suitable for ages 16+ Tickets: €15 – €25 Contains strong language and adult content. Capacity limited. Duration: Approx. 60 mins. – No interval. Supported by Create and Dublin City Council. Inspired by a devising project created at the LIR in 2013. Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award.

Photo © Graham Cooper Photo © Graham dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 16-1716 Dead Centre and Hamnet demonstrates the tragic 16-17 Abbey Theatre, experience par excellence: he asks the Ireland question, why thinking leads so rarely to action… a highlight of the festival. Berliner Zeitung

Hamnet

Text by William Shakespeare, ‘Grief fills the room up of my absent child.’ Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd – King John, Act III, Scene IV Directed by Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd William Shakespeare had one son. He named him Hamnet. Dramaturgy by Michael West He then left home to pursue his career in the theatre, Performed by Ollie West effectively abandoning his family. In 1596, he was told that Set Design: Andrew Clancy the boy – who was then eleven years old – was seriously ill. Costume Design and Special By the time Shakespeare reached Stratford, Hamnet had died. Effects: Grace O’Hara Lighting Design: Stephen Dodd In 1599, Shakespeare wrote a play called Hamlet. Sound Design: Kevin Gleeson Hamnet is too young to understand Shakespeare. And he is one Video Design: Jose Miguel Jimenez letter away from being a great man. We are too old to understand – Hamnet. How close are we to greatness? We meet in the middle, Venue: Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock Stage in a theatre, in purgatory: youth reaching forward to a life it will Previews: Sept 26 & 27, 8pm never know, an audience reaching back to a life it has forgotten. Dates: Sept 29, 30 & Oct 4–7, 8pm From the multi-award winning makers of LIPPY (Irish Times Theatre Tickets: €18 – €25 Award for Best Production) and Chekhov’s First Play (Irish Times Duration: Approx. 60 mins. Theatre Award for Best Sound Design), Hamnet is a solo work for No interval. – an eleven year old boy. Using live video and dead video, Dead Talking Theatre: Centre attempts to bridge the gap between two generations. Oct 5, post-show. Contains adult nudity. With members of the company. – Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award. The Abbey Theatre is funded through the Arts Council’s Regularly Funded Organisations funding programme. – Presented by Dublin Theatre Festival in association with the Abbey Theatre.

Photo © Gianmarco Bresadola Photo © Gianmarco dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 18-1918 The Corn Exchange, Leaves an indelible mark on the memory 18-19 Ireland The New York Times on ‘A Girl is a Half-formed Thing’

Nora by Belinda McKeon in collaboration with Annie Ryan

Directed by Eoghan Carrick Nora, a new play after Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, makes Cast includes: Venetia Bowe, its world premiere as part of Dublin Theatre Festival. Clare Perkins and Annie Ryan Set Design: Paul O’Mahony It’s 2025. A dangerous world for those who can’t afford to Costume Design: Katie Crowley protect themselves. Lighting Design: Sarah Jane Shiels This house keeps safe a marriage, a partnership, a life of Sound Design: Philip Stewart success and ease, a priceless collection and a daughter – who has lacked for nothing; things seem perfect as a power Venue: Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) couple prepares for a glitzy party among the art-world elite. Previews: Sept 27 & 28, 7.30pm But when the secret upon which this life is built threatens Dates: Sept 29 & Oct 3 – 6, 7.30pm to push through the polished surface, questions about Sept 30 & Oct 7, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Oct 1, 4.30pm what is real and what is not can no longer be ignored. Oct 8, 2.30pm & 6.30pm Inspired by Ibsen’s masterpiece, award-winning writer Tickets: €20 – €30 Belinda McKeon reimagines this exploration of honesty Duration: Approx. 2 hrs. – and power for a post-truth world. Talking Theatre: The Corn Exchange is funded through the Arts Council’s Annual Programming Oct, 1 post-show. Grant funding programme. With members of the company.

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Playboyz by Martin Sharry

Directed by Patrick wants to live and work in Ireland but he is African. Martin Sharry He lands in a bar in the west and is offered a trial run – it is Cast includes: Amy Conroy, St.Patrick’s Day after all. Patrick’s survival depends upon the Rebecca Guinnane, Kwaku Fortune, Conor Madden, Pat McGrath, imagination of the locals. Solomon Osho Eventually, the drama gives way to something more surreal. Costume and Set Design: Deirdre Dwyer The characters fade and the author’s relationship with his Lighting Design: Eoin Winning own father (who is dead) demands attention. Only then is Sound Design: Brendan Rehill integration possible and people are seen as people, hopefully. – Playboyz is a re-imagining of JM Synge’s Playboy of the Venue: The New Theatre Western World. Synge says ‘on the stage there must be joy, Previews: Sept 27 & 28, 7.30pm and there must be reality’. The Irish mix of the craic and the Dates: Sept 29, 7.30pm Sept 30, 2.30pm & 7.30pm tragic continues but breaks from authority and tradition. Oct 1, 2.30pm This is a play about seeking asylum. It is a play about Irishness. Tickets: €14 – €20 It stays true to the wild spirit of the original, in its questioning Duration: Approx. 75 mins. of the whole idea of transformation. No Interval. – ‘Things will get messy’.

Talking Theatre: Suitable for ages 16+ Sept 30, post-show (7.30pm). With members of the company. Contains strong language. – Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award.

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On Blueberry Hill by Sebastian Barry

Directed by Jim Culleton ‘Now we’ve lived together in contentment, more or less, Dramaturgy by Gavin Kostick for nigh on twenty year. Like turtle doves. – In prison, Cast: Niall Buggy and David Ganly I mean, for f*ck’s sake, the chances of that.’ Set and Costume Design: Sabine Dargent Winner of the Olivier Award 2016, Fishamble, and Costa Lighting Design: Mark Galione Book of the Year Award winner 2017, Sebastian Barry, reunite Sound Design: Denis Clohessy for the world premiere production of On Blueberry Hill. – Director Jim Culleton has assembled the same award- Venue: Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire winning creative team for On Blueberry Hill that collaborated Previews: Sept 27 & 28, 8pm on the much loved production of Barry’s The Pride of Parnell Dates: Sept 29, Oct 1, Street, presented as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2007. Oct 3–6 & Oct 8, 8pm Sept 30 & Oct 7, 2.30pm & 8pm In Sebastian Barry’s unique style, On Blueberry Hill features Tickets: €20 – €25 best of friends and worst of enemies Christy and PJ, played Duration: Approx. 1 hr 40 mins. by Niall Buggy and David Ganly. His new play is bursting No interval. with humanity, as it explores murder, forgiveness, survival – and, ultimately, love in the prison of the human heart. Talking Theatre: Oct 5, post-show. Suitable for ages 14+ With Sebastian Barry and Contains strong language and descriptions of violence. members of the company. – Fishamble: The New Play Company is funded through the Arts Council’s Regularly Funded Organisations funding programme. – Presented by Pavilion Theatre in association with Dublin Theatre Festival.

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Melt by Shane Mac an Bhaird

Directed by Lynne Parker A world premiere production, Melt is about the folly of Cast includes: Owen Roe humankind, our Icarus-like ability to snatch defeat from and Charlie Maher the jaws of victory, and the damage we do ourselves Set and Costume Design: and our world in the process. Sarah Bacon Lighting Design: Zia Holly Its setting is the Antarctic – the last great wilderness, the Sound Design: Carl Kennedy edge of the known world, the one relatively uncontaminated – territory. Into this idyllic landscape is catapulted the gloriously Venue: Smock Alley Theatre, anarchic Boylan, a pioneering Irish ecologist gone rogue. As Main Space the play opens, he is joined by Cook, a young scientist who is Previews: Sept 28 & 29, 7.30pm strung between his professional ambitions and his romantic Dates: Sept 30 & Oct 3–6, 7.30pm Oct 1, 2pm & 7pm longing for the mysterious Dr Hansen – Boylan’s ex-wife. Oct 7, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Oct 8, 2pm And then there is Veba, the strange female Boylan captures Tickets: €20 – €30 and brings up from the sub-glacial lake. Duration: Approx. 2 hrs 10 mins Melt is a funny, sophisticated fairytale that explores the human incl. interval. – condition, acknowledges its fragility and takes the audience on Talking Theatre: a jaunt to the edge of the abyss. Oct 3, post-show. Rough Magic is funded through the Arts Council’s Regularly Funded Organisations With members of the company. funding programme.

Photo © Ros Kavanagh Photo © Ros dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 26-2726 Landmark Productions Searingly powerful… devastating… 26-27 and Wide Open Opera, heartbreaking… thrilling… mesmerizing. Ireland The Guardian on ‘The Last Hotel’

The Second Violinist by Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh

Composed by Donnacha Dennehy What does he do when he goes home? Written and Directed by Enda Walsh Following the sensational success of their first opera, Conducted by Ryan McAdams The Last Hotel, Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh Cast: Aaron Monaghan, Máire Flavin, collaborate once again on an explosive new production. Sharon Carty, Benedict Nelson One of Ireland’s leading actors, Aaron Monaghan, plays Set Design: Jamie Vartan The Second Violinist. He is joined by singers Máire Flavin, Costume Design: Joan O’Clery Sharon Carty and Benedict Nelson, together with the Lighting Design: Adam Silverman 16-strong Chorus of Wide Open Opera and Crash Ensemble, Video Design: Jack Phelan the group founded by Dennehy and described by the New Sound Design: David Sheppard and Helen Atkinson York Times as ‘the Irish new-music band that plays with the Assistant Director: Eoghan Carrick energy and spirit of a rock group’. Assistant Conductor and Chorus Joined by the creative team from The Last Hotel, Donnacha Master: Killian Farrell Dennehy’s music is infused with lingering echoes of the Chorus: Wide Open Opera Renaissance works of Carlo Gesualdo, creating a sonorous Orchestra: Crash Ensemble – backdrop for the haunting orchestrations and pulsating Venue: O’Reilly Theatre, rhythms that drive the opera to its inexorable conclusion. Belvedere College A search for beauty in a dark, dark world. Dates: Oct 2, 4 & Oct 6–8, 7.30pm Tickets: €35 – €40 Suitable for ages 14+ – Duration: 75 mins. No interval. Winner of the FEDORA – Generali Prize for Opera 2017. – Funded through an Arts Council Opera Production Award. Talking Theatre: Oct 4, post-show. With members of the company.

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Woyzeck in Winter

Adapted and directed by Woyzeck in Winter is an electrifying fusion of two masterpieces Conall Morrison – Büchner’s Woyzeck and Schubert’s Winterreise. Woyzeck and Lyrics by Stephen Clark Die Winterreise were written within ten years of each other – Musical Direction: Conor Linehan the twenty-four songs of Winterreise in 1827 and the twenty- Performed by Stephen Brennan, four scenes of Woyzeck in 1836 – by troubled geniuses, both Peter Coonan, Susannah De Wrixon, Conor Linehan, of whom died young. Rosaleen Linehan, Barry McGovern, Rory Nolan, Patrick O’Kane, Thrillingly reimagined by Conall Morrison and a leading creative Shane O’Reilly, Camille O’Sullivan team, this visually stunning new production exploits the uncanny Set Design: Jamie Vartan similarities between these two dark masterworks, drawing on Costume Design: Joan O’Clery Schubert’s sublime music to illuminate the inner landscape of Lighting Design: Ben Ormerod Woyzeck’s tortured mind. With the startling story set amid a Choreography: Liz Roche terrain of broken pianos, vivid scenes flow seamlessly into raw, – passionate songs, translated into English by Stephen Clark. Venue: Gaiety Theatre Dates: Oct 3–6, 7.30pm Starring Patrick O’Kane as Woyzeck and Camille O’Sullivan Oct 7, 2.30pm & 7.30pm as Marie, the music will be played live by Conor Linehan, Oct 8, 3pm alongside a phenomenal Irish cast of actor-singers. Tickets: €16 – €46 Suitable for ages 14+ Duration: 1 hr 45 mins. No interval. – – Co-commissioned by the Barbican, London. Talking Theatre: Supported by Dublin City Council. Oct 6, post-show. Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award. With members of the company.

Photo © Alex Sapienza Photo © Alex dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 30-3130 Royal Shakespeare Witty, erotic and ingenious 30-31 Company in association «««« with Little Angel The Guardian Theatre, UK

Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare

Directed by Gregory Doran A unique version of Shakespeare’s kaleidoscopic poem Director of Puppetry: using narration, music and puppetry. Steve Tiplady Design: Robert Jones This little-known gem was Shakespeare’s first bestseller, Lighting Design: Vince Herbert weaving together comedy, tragedy and beautiful poetry Music: Stevon Russell to tell the raunchy story of Venus and her obsession with and John Woolf handsome Adonis. – Venue: Civic Theatre Created in collaboration with Little Angel Theatre, the Dates: Oct 3 & 5, 8pm home of British puppetry. Oct 4 & 7, 3pm & 8pm Presented by Civic Theatre in association with Dublin Theatre Festival. Oct 6, 5pm & 8pm Tickets: €25 Duration: 60 mins. No interval.

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Ulysses by James Joyce, adapted by Dermot Bolger

Directed and Designed by The Abbey Theatre presents Dermot Bolger’s brilliantly Graham McLaren adapted, vibrant version of Joyce’s classic in a thrilling – production for theatre. Bloom’s odyssey is a pandemonium Venue: Abbey Theatre, on the Abbey Stage of live music, puppets, dancing, clowning, bowler hats and Preview: Oct 3, 7.30pm kazoos. It’s Ulysses as you’ve never imagined it before, a Dates: Oct 4–6 & 9–13, 7.30pm superbly theatrical homage to Joyce’s chronicle of Dublin Oct 7 & 14, 2pm & 7.30pm life and the greatest novel of all time. Created by Abbey Tickets: €13 – €45 Theatre Director Graham McLaren, the Abbey’s production Duration: Approx. 2 hrs. is absurd, brilliant and oodles of fun.

The Abbey Theatre is funded through the Arts Council’s Regularly Funded Organisations funding programme.

Illustration by Stephen Ledwidge by Photo © Illustration dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 34-3534 THEATREclub, Taking conventional notions 34-35 Ireland of theatre and its audience and shoving them back in our faces, with a few expletives thrown in. The Irish Independent

I’m Not Here

Written, Directed and ‘Doireann is here and she wants to check if a few things Designed by Doireann Coady are working. Composed by Rob Moloney She’s going to be doing a couple of songs, a couple Dramaturg: Gary Keegan of poems and maybe a few stories. Associate Artist: Grace Dyas She’s after finding a load of tapes. Lighting Design: Eoin Winning She’s going to be doing a duet with her brother. Associate Costume and He’s not here. She’s here. You’re here. Set Designer: Sarah Foley Thanks very much for being here. Choreographer: Ruairi O’Donovan If you’re concerned about anything that’s happening on Therapeutic Facilitator: Mari Kennedy the stage just remember to listen to the sound of her voice. – She’s doing a duet with her brother. Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) He’s not here. Preview: Oct 3, 7.45pm He is dead.’ Dates: Oct 4–6, 7.45pm Oct 7, 2.45pm & 7.45pm Doireann Coady debuts as author with I’m Not Here, as she Tickets: €14 – €20 sets off to stage an unstageable, impossible and beautiful act. Duration: Approx. 70 mins. No interval. Suitable for ages 16+ Contains loud sound effects, high intensity lighting and content that some might find distressing. – THEATREclub are Project Artists, an initiative of Project Arts Centre. Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award.

Photo © Dorje de Burgh dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 36-3736 Co-Motion, It is one of the saddest and funniest 36-37 Ireland tales I have seen. The Irish Times on ‘Frank Pig Says Hello’

A masterpiece is the word that springs to mind when describing this piece. The Evening Herald on ‘Frank Pig Says Hello’

Frank Pig Says Hello and The Leaves of Heaven by Pat McCabe

Written by Pat McCabe Twenty-five years after it was first presented as part of Dublin Directed by Joe O’Byrne Theatre Festival 1992, Frank Pig Says Hello, the stage version Design by Robert Ballagh, of Pat McCabe’s novel The Butcher Boy, returns alongside Steph Golden McCabe’s follow up show, The Leaves of Heaven, in a unique Lighting Design: Conleth White double-bill. Costume Design: Marie Tierney – Frank Pig Says Hello is a desperately funny and tragic Venue: Draíocht depiction of the life of Francie Brady growing up in a small Frank Pig Says Hello: Irish town in the 1960s and his descent towards the brutal Dates: Oct 4, 8pm, Oct 6, 7pm, Oct 7, 2pm & 7pm* act that shocked the community. The Leaves of Heaven sees Leaves of Heaven: Francie many years later as he lives out his days in Dundrum Dates: Oct 5, 8pm, Oct 6, 9pm, Mental Hospital searching for forgiveness. Oct 7, 4pm & 9pm* – The Leaves of Heaven was first presented in co-production with The Complex Venue: axis:Ballymun and funded by Dublin City Council. Frank Pig Says Hello: Presented by Draíocht and axis:Ballymun in association with Dublin Theatre Festival. Dates: Oct 11, 8pm, Oct 13, 7pm* Leaves of Heaven: Oct 12, 8pm, Oct 13, 9pm* *Double bill Tickets: Single show: €18 Both shows: €28 Duration: Approx. 90 mins. No interval. (Frank Pig Says Hello) Approx. 80 mins. No interval. (Leaves of Heaven) Double bill – Approx. 3 hrs 20 mins incl. interval.

Photo © Joe O’Byrne dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 38-3938 Gate Theatre, Fiercely intelligent, caustically funny 38-39 Ireland and emotionally wrenching piece about communication, belonging, and identity. The Independent

A smart lively play that asks us to hear how we hear, in silence as well as in speech. New York Times

Tribes by Nina Raine

Directed by Oonagh Murphy With excoriating dialogue and sharp, compassionate Cast includes: Fiona Bell, Gavin insights, Nina Raine crafts a penetrating, deeply moving Drea, Clare Dunne, Nick Dunning and shockingly funny play. Set and Costume Design: Conor Murphy The Irish premiere of this award-winning play relocates Lighting Design: Mimi Jordan the action from leafy suburban Hampstead to South Sherin County Dublin where Billy, born deaf into a hearing family, Sound Design: Ivan Birthistle struggles to define who he is within his highly intellectual, Projection Design: Jack Phelan yet emotionally possessive, clan. – Venue: Gate Theatre Oonagh Murphy, one of Ireland’s brightest directing Previews: Sept 28–30, Oct 2 & 3, talents, makes her debut at the Gate with this play about 7.30pm belonging, family and the limitations of communication. Dates: Oct 4–6, 9, 10, 12 & 13, 7.30pm Suitable for ages 14+ Oct 7, 11 & 14, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Contains strong language. – Tickets: €25 – €38 The Gate Theatre is funded through the Arts Council’s Regularly Funded Duration: Approx. 2 hrs 20 mins Organisations funding programme. incl. interval. – ISL interpreted performance: Oct 13, 7.30pm

Photo © dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 40-4140 Keith A. Wallace, The show is a sharp reminder of the 40-41 USA persuasive powers of live theater. New York Times

The Bitter Game

Created, Written and Basketball, block parties, traffic stops – Wallace takes us on Performed by Keith A. Wallace a ride through North Philly on a night he won’t forget. A solo Co-created and Directed by performance charged with pain, poetry, and laughter, The Deborah Stein Bitter Game blends verse, prose and ‘sh*t-talkin’ into a stirring Assistant Director: Malika Oyetimein commentary that begs the question: what does it mean to Set Design: Charlie Jicha, survive while Black in America? Wallace explores the question Nick Mansfield of police agency and excessive force, the ripple effects of Lighting Design: Brandon Rosen trauma in communities of colour, and the value of Black lives Costume Design: Melissa Ng in his country.

Costume Art Direction: Suitable for ages 14+ Walter Myrick Contains strong language, violence and content that some may find distressing. Sound Design: Mikaal Sulaiman – – Supported by the U.S. Embassy Dublin, Dublin City Council and the Arts Council. – Venue: axis:Ballymun Presented by axis:Ballymun in association with Dublin Theatre Festival. Dates: Oct 5 – 7, 8pm Tickets: €18 Duration: 55 mins. No interval. – Talking Theatre: Oct 5 – 7, post-show. With Keith A. Wallace.

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Girl Song

Created by Emma Martin In an empty room, a young girl paints pictures of a perfect Lighting Design: Stephen Dodd future, while dancing to her favourite pop song. Costume Design: Catherine Fay A woman stares at a television set. Music and Sound Design: There’s a creature in the corner that won’t go away. Tom Lane Set Design: Emma Martin What cannot be cured must be endured. – Exploring passages of a life, Girl Song is an ode to the Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre extraordinary details of an ordinary existence. The viewer is Previews: Oct 4 & 5, 7.30pm thrown into a world that is obscure, visceral and at times absurd. Dates: Oct 6, 7.30pm Oct 7, 2.30pm & 7.30pm From the creator of Dancehall, Tundra and Dogs, Emma Martin’s Oct 8, 2pm & 7pm new work is a fierce and multi-layered dance-theatre creation. Tickets: €15 – €25 Duration: Approx. 70 mins. Co-production: Dublin Theatre Festival, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival No interval. (Groningen). Project co-produced by NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture – Programme of the European Union. Talking Theatre: Produced with commission support from Irish Arts Center, New York City. Oct 7, post-show (7.30pm). Supported by Dance Ireland. With members of the company. Funded through an Arts Council Dance Project Award.

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Her Voice inspired by Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days

Directed by Makoto Sato ‘Oh, this is a happy day.’ An old lady, buried in a low mound, Performed by Keiko Takeya rambles on about her old memories using only upper-body and Togo Igawa movements and facial expressions. Inspired by Beckett’s Choreography: Keiko Takeya numerous detailed stage directions of Happy Days, Makoto Set Design: Makoto Sato Sato has created Her Voice, a unique performance without Lighting Design: Takanori Nakata words. A dizzy crossing of silence and laughter, passion and Sound Design: Takeshi Shima resignation, time passes fleetingly, and the piece poetically – expresses ‘loquacité sans voix’ from the twilight of her life. Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre No matter whether you know about the play Happy Days or Dates: Oct 10 & 11, 7.30pm not, each of you can create your own story. Your imagination Tickets: €25 will carry your dream far beyond the walls of the theatre. Duration: 75 mins. No Interval. – Suitable for ages 14+ Talking Theatre: Oct 10, post-show. With members of the company.

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King of the Castle by Eugene McCabe

Directed by Garry Hynes Druid revive an unsung Irish classic with epic staging and Cast includes: Peter Daly, a cast that includes Seán McGinley, Seána Kerslake and Ryan Donaldson, Bosco Hogan, Marty Rea. King of the Castle premiered at Dublin Theatre Seána Kerslake, Seán McGinley, John Olohan, Marty Rea Festival 1964, where it went on to win the Irish Life Award. Design: Francis O’Connor This is its first major revival in over 30 years. Lighting Design: James F. Ingalls Scober MacAdam is king of the castle, a once glorious Sound Design: Greg Clarke Big House in County Leitrim with an extensive farm. Movement: David Bolger He has a young wife, Tressa, but their marriage is childless – and frustrated. When rumours threaten Scober’s pride, Venue: Gaiety Theatre he concocts a plan that jeopardises all he has worked for. Dates: Oct 11–13, 7.30pm Oct 14, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Steeped in a world of patriarchy and religion, King of the Oct 15, 2pm & 7pm Castle is an unflinching, often uncomfortable look at our Tickets: €16 – €46 recent past. Duration: Approx. 2 hrs 30 mins incl. interval. Directed by Garry Hynes, the production features the – award-winning design team from DruidShakespeare. Talking Theatre: Oct 13, post-show. Contains adult themes. With members of the company. – – Druid is funded through the Arts Council’s Regularly Funded Organisations funding programme. Audio described performance: Oct 14, 2.30pm. A touch tour will also be available pre-show.

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Rapids by Shaun Dunne

Created with Aisling Byrne, Exploring instances of disclosure and the presence of stigma Robbie Lawlor and Lisa Walsh in the lives of men and women who are HIV+ in Ireland today, Cast includes: Charleigh Bailey, Rapids is a new work from Talking Shop Ensemble that looks Shaun Dunne and Lisa Walsh to playfully and respectfully make the private public. Set, Costume and Light Design: Ciaran O’Melia In making this piece, the company have collaborated with Sound Design: Sinead Diskin several groups from the HIV+ community. Film Design: Kilian Waters Dramaturgy: Gary Keegan From young men in rural Ireland to migrant women seeking – asylum, this form-flipping piece of documentary theatre will Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) take you through the myriad of perspectives and experiences Preview: Oct 10, 7.45pm that compound what it means to live positive in this country. Dates: Oct 11 – 13, 7.45pm Oct 14, 2.45pm & 7.45pm This new work marks the return of Shaun Dunne to Dublin Tickets: €14 – €20 Theatre Festival following 2013’s I’ve to Mind Her, this time Duration: Approx. 70 mins. with his long-term collaborators Talking Shop Ensemble. No interval. Produced in association with Project Arts Centre. – Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award. Talking Theatre: Oct 11, post-show. With members of the company.

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Endings

Concept and Text by Poised in the delicate space between concert and theatre, Tamara Saulwick Endings is a meditation on cycles and the ending of things. Song-writing by Paddy Mann Using portable turntables, reel-to-reel tape players and live Performed by Tamara Saulwick performance, Endings finds form for experiences both ordinary and Paddy Mann and extraordinary that cluster around death, dying and afterlife. Dramaturgy: Margaret Trail Sound Design, Composition Endings is built in part from one-on-one interviews – people’s and Operation: Peter Knight stories, reflections and voices. These recordings are cut onto Set and Lighting Design: vinyl records and embedded within a richly textured electro- Ben Cobham / bluebottle acoustic sound design that is operated, accompanied, and Costume Design: Harriet Oxley extended through live performance and song. The performance Technical Manager, Audio Engineer & Operator: Nick Roux also features the songs and vocals of acclaimed singer/ – songwriter Paddy Mann (Grand Salvo). Venue: Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) Voices of the living emerge ghost-like from records, performers Dates: Oct 12 & 13, 7.30pm converse live with the taped voices of past conversations, tape Oct 14, 2.30pm & 7.30pm loops carve round and round through the space, and song Tickets: €20 – €25 floats across the familiar crackle of records ending.

Duration: Approx. 60 mins. Strobe lighting and haze effects are used during the show. No interval. – – Commissioned by Performance Space and the City of Melbourne’s Arts House. Talking Theatre: Assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, Oct 12 post-show. its arts funding and advisory body. With Tamara Saulwick and Supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. members of the company.

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The Good House of Happiness

Text by Eugene O’Brien In The Good House of Happiness, we invite you to meet an actor, and Gavin Quinn a pop singer and a scholar, from China, and two Mongolian Directed and Designed by accountants. They have come together to make a modern Aedín Cosgrove and Gavin Quinn version of Brecht’s parable play, The Good Person of Setzuan Music by Si Schroeder first performed by German actors playing Chinese people. Performed by Saruul Altantuya, Andrew Bennett, Zolzaya Enkhtuya, Brecht’s original play is a parable set in China between World Xier Luo, Zheyu Wei, Ashley Xie – War I and World War II. The Good House of Happiness is set Venue: Smock Alley Theatre, in Dublin in 2017 as Molly Xiu, a budding actor, receives a Main Space challenge from the gods. Is it possible for her to do good in Previews: Oct 11 & 12, 7.30pm the modern world? They favour her with a gift of money, so she Dates: Oct 13, 7.30pm opens a new restaurant. But she is not a tough nosed business Oct 14, 2.30pm & 7.30pm person, and everyone takes advantage of her, so she is driven Oct 15, 4.30pm to invent a male alter ego, Michael Xun, to be the ruthless Tickets: €15 – €25 dragon that makes the restaurant a success. She is forced to Duration: Approx. 70 mins. No interval. assume this role so often that, as Michael Xun, she is accused – of murdering Molly Xiu. Talking Theatre: Oct 14, post-show (2.30pm). Is the world a lost cause or does the possibility of goodness With members of the company. still exist? What in society might we change to invent a happy ending to this story? Through conversation, comedy, song and maybe some Brecht our five participants will search for answers within their own hearts.

Pan Pan Theatre is funded through the Arts Council’s Regularly Funded Organisations funding programme.

Photo © Gavin Quinn Photo © Gavin dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 54-5554 Karine Polwart and a performer that has you rapt at every 54-55 Royal Lyceum Theatre word and note Company, UK ««««« The List

A poignant, unflinching and beautiful show. ««««« The Telegraph

Hauntingly beautiful. ««««« British Theatre Guide

Wind Resistance

Written and performed by Every autumn, two and a half thousand pink-footed geese Karine Polwart fly from Greenland to winter at Fala Flow, a protected peat Directed by Wils Wilson bog south-east of Edinburgh. From this windy plateau, Dramaturgy: David Greig and Karine Polwart surveys the surrounding landscape through Liam Hurley history, song, bird-lore and personal memoir. Ideas of Sound Design: Pippa Murphy sanctuary, maternity, goose skeins, Scottish football legend Visual Design: Camilla Clarke and medieval medicine all take flight, in this compelling Lighting Design: Jeanine Byrne combination of story and song. Movement Direction: Janice Parker Karine Polwart is a multi-award-winning Scottish songwriter Videography: Sandy Butler and musician, as well as a theatre maker, storyteller, – spoken word performer and published essayist. She is also Venue: Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire a four-time winner of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Wind Dates: Oct 12 & 13, 8pm Resistance was awarded the Best Music and Sound Award Oct 14, 2.30pm & 8pm at the Critic’s Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2017.

Tickets: €26 Presented by Pavilion Theatre in association with Dublin Theatre Festival. Duration: 1 hr 45 mins. incl. interval.

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Josephine K and the Algorithms by Stacey Gregg

Directed by Caitríona McLaughlin ‘Someone must have been telling lies about Josephine K. – She knew she had done nothing wrong, but one morning –’ Venue: Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock Stage A contemporary riff on Kafka’s The Trial, Josephine K is Previews: Oct 11 & 12, 8pm on trial but can’t find out why. Everyone else seems to Dates: Oct 13 & 14, 8pm know something, but they’re all super nice, so it can’t Tickets: €18 – €25 be that bad… right? – Duration: Approx. 50 mins. Writer of Scorch (Best New Play, Irish Times Theatre No interval. Awards 2015) and Shibboleth, Stacey Gregg’s newest play is an impish, unsettling foray into the age of big data and tech-intrusion.

The Abbey Theatre is funded through the Arts Council’s Regularly Funded Organisations funding programme.

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Fruits of Labor

Concept and Artistic Following her exuberantly anarchic Mystery Magnet in 2012, Direction by Miet Warlop Miet Warlop returns to Dublin Theatre Festival with Fruits of Technical Director: Labor, a trippy crossover between theatre and concert, melding Hugh Roche Kelly sculpture with music in a wild and crazy live performance. Performed by Timothy Coenen, Seppe Cosyns, Joppe Tanghe, Warlop is joined onstage by three musicians, and a roadie as Wietse Tanghe and Miet Warlop this psychoactive parade of music and objects transform the Sound Engineer: Saul Mombaerts, Bart Van Hoydonck entire stage – and the world – into an instrument. Production Leader: Seppe Cosyns Fruits of Labor revolves around a drum set whose rhythmic – beats dominate the soundtrack and ultimately ensnare Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre everybody and everything. In a world gone off the rails, Dates: Oct 13 & 14, 7.30pm Oct 15, 2.30pm Warlop riffs on themes such as religion, martyrdom, slow- Tickets: €25 motion terrorism, romanticism, tradition, leadership, psychosis, Duration: 55 mins. No Interval. time, drugs, trips and nature, dictating an artistic vision that – absorbs and vibrates as much as it shimmers and endures.

Talking Theatre: Suitable for ages 16+ Oct 14, post-show. With Miet Warlop and members Contains loud sound effects and noise levels. – of the company. Co-production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Dublin Theatre Festival, Vooruit (Ghent), BUDA (Kortrijk), La Villette (Paris), PACT Zollverein (Essen), La Bâtie (Geneva), Gessnerallee (Zurich), International Summer Festival Kampnagel (Hamburg). Project co-produced by NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

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Theatre If Only Rosa Could for Children Do Magic L Johansen Photo © Haavard

Dublin Theatre Festival and The Ark present Venue: The Ark Concept by Katja Brita Lindeberg Some might say that Rosa has everything a child internationally acclaimed work for children. Tickets: €12 (public performances) Performed by Katja Brita Lindeberg could dream of. – Direction Consultant: Nora Evensen Tickets available from the Festival She has lots of toys, the loveliest hair, and as many Box Office: Set Design: Marie Steen Löwendahl and Katja Lindeberg sweets as she can eat, but she has no friends to online: dublinthatrefestival.com play with and her parents are always away. phone: +353 1 677 8899 Lighting Design: Eirik Brenne We believe that you are never too young to become a theatre Torsethaugen in person: Festival House, 12 Essex So Rosa escapes to a dream world filled with dragons lover! Introduce younger children to a great theatre experience Street East, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Costume Design: Berit Haltvik and frogs and parents who have all the time in the by bringing them to something in this year’s Theatre for DO2 EH42 Music: Juhana Pietari Lehtiniemi Children season. With performances for audiences aged from – – world to be with her. 2 years old, each of these shows has been created especially To avail of discounted tickets for Dates: Sept 30 – Oct 3 schools bookings and early-bird Ages 5–9 to inspire, challenge and engage children – and adults too! school rates please contact The Ark. Duration: 50 mins. No interval. – Supported by Norsk kulturråd and Spenn.no. 2017 marks the 23rd collaboration in the longstanding online: ark.ie phone: +353 1 670 7788 Relaxed performance: partnership between Dublin Theatre Festival and The Ark, in person: 11a Eustace Street, Oct 2, 12.15pm. For further Ireland’s only dedicated cultural centre for children. Since 1995, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 information please phone The Ark on +353 1 6707788 – we have been proud to present some of the most acclaimed or email [email protected] For show times and details of International and Irish work for children, creating opportunities – schools and public performances to see theatre from around the world – maybe even building a see the full performance schedule An enchanting cultural engagement that will last a lifetime. on page 86. performance…had audience – members big and small The Theatre for Children programme is curated by The Ark. in fits of laughter! Full of charm and sparkle. childrenstheatrereviews.com

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We Come From

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Mischief maker, maker of fun Choreographed and Directed by Alex Byrne Inside the theatre is a big tent. Inside the big tent is a smaller Tumble tumble, tickle my tum Directed by Natasha Gilmore Dramaturgy by Kjell Moberg tent, and inside this tent is a boy. Beasties beasties, buzzing bees Composed by Daniel Padden Performed by Robert Orr, He is called Abdullah, and he comes from Syria. He wants to Poggle’s not scared of climbing trees Performers: Jade Adamson, Iva Moberg, Jean Goubert, Rory Haye and Vince Virr Marina Popovic tell you some things, about life, about boats, about tents and Splash splash, squelch in mud Set and Lighting Design: Lighting Design: Šimon Koci trains and phones and McDonalds and about Death. He also Creeping crawling, chasing bugs. Fred Pommerehn Set Design: Kateřina Housková has a secret, about promises made and promises broken. Vince really wants to explore the forest but is too scared, Costume Design: Alison Brown Music Direction: David Hlavac – Inspired by true stories and performed in a traditional until one day he meets a friendly creature called Poggle. – Dates: Oct 5–8 Mongolian Yurt, this show uses storytelling, shadow puppetry, Together they go on an adventure through the forest Dates: Oct 12 – 15 Duration: 40 mins. incl. Duration: 55 mins. No Interval. comedy, clowning and live music to tell a big story in an where they discover the magical musical tree. 10 mins. playtime. – intimate way. – A warm hearted sensory dance theatre piece with live The exceptional ensemble Perfectly formed dance Ages 10+ music, clapping rhythms and comedy throughout in an combines exquisite, theatre takes its early years imaginatively changing world which the children have highly physical acting audience to the top of the tree the chance to explore. and wonderfully integrated and shows them the view. live music... The effect… Ages 2–5 ««««« is deeply moving and The Stage genuinely memorable. The Daily Telegraph on ‘The End of Everything Ever’

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In Development moving and lyrical piece Programme. Supported by Project Mai Vi and Annique Van Niekerk. Arena Live Broadcast Intermedial Beckett Dublin Theatre Festival is of Beckettian prose, which Arts Centre, Dublin. Funded through an Arts Council Arena is a daily arts show Symposium committed to supporting Irish interrogates the veracity of Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) Circus Project Award. on RTÉ Radio 1 presented by Samuel Beckett changed artists in creating ambitious memory and finds company Duration: Approx. 60 mins. Venue: Dance House Sean Rocks. It explores the the theatre forever by No interval. and high-quality new in the haunting sculpture of, Duration: Approx. 60 mins. best in the arts and popular using the new media of his Date: Oct 6, 2pm No interval. work. The In Development ‘one on his back, in the dark’ culture in Ireland and abroad. time. Since his death in Date: Oct 6, 3.30pm programme offers theatre- 1989, the analogue stage Supported by Dublin City Council Emily Aoibheann – This special edition will be makers a platform to stage and Irish Theatre Institute. and screen technologies Smiling Devil THISISPOPBABY – I AM TONIE broadcast live from Civic their works-in-progress Funded through an Arts Council of the 20th century have … the boiling sulphur of an WALSH by Phillip McMahon & Theatre in Tallaght. It will for Irish and international Theatre Project Award. given way to various forms internal star… Tonie Walsh preview highlights from the audiences and theatre Venue: Project Arts Centre of digital telepresence, and (Space Upstairs) Known in Ireland as the 2017 Dublin Theatre Festival presenters. Audiences will Eyesight blurring, my hips experiments in translating Duration: Approx. 60 mins. Godfather of Gay, Tonie Walsh and discuss how this year’s have an opportunity to see become the sun itself; my Beckett across media abound. No interval. is a living legend. For decades programme reflects the Irish pieces at a critical phase in legs are the planets – a The Trinity Centre for Beckett Date: Oct 6, 1pm he has fought tirelessly for and international theatrical their development, while conduit to universal force. Studies will curate a day of civil rights including the landscape. Expect music, chat artists, writers and directors Like a whirlpool, rising from presentations, conversations, Zoe Ní Riordáin – rights of those living with HIV/ and maybe some mischief. will use the space to try out the bottom of the sea and and lectures by leading Everything I Do AIDS. He’s stood for election new ideas. then up, into space. Date: Sept 15, 7pm experts and artists to discuss ‘Love is metaphysical gravity’ – and thrown the most seminal A point of origin – our alien Tickets: Free but booking the impact of intermedial Past In Development R. Buckminster Fuller parties. He’s a legendary is essential. DNA in sexual union with performance, contemporary presentations have gone DJ, historian, archivist and For further information visit In 1975, the futurist architect Earth. Evolving human art, and Beckett’s legacy. on to enjoy successful a master storyteller. dublintheatrefestival.com and inventor R. Buckminster consciousness, of Good and productions as part of Dublin Venue: Trinity Long Room Hub, Fuller recorded a series of Evil. Where? In unlikely links I AM TONIE WALSH is Trinity College Dublin Theatre Festival and have lectures titled Everything I between Demons and The about active citizenship, Date: Oct 14, 10am – 5pm toured at home and abroad Know. Fuller travelled circuits Void, and in consultation creativity over consumption, For further information visit to critical and public acclaim. Inside Culture Special of the world over thirty-seven with a witch on Instagram. community; about standing dublintheatrefestival.com Inside Culture presented times discussing the infinite Speaking the so many truths, up for what is right – and Company SJ/ Sarah Jane by Fionn Davenport will possibilities of technology in Three Chapters, with being fabulous while doing so. Scaife – Company by broadcast a special festival and science. His wife of fabricated landscapes. Samuel Beckett Cast: Tonie Walsh programme on RTÉ Radio 1. sixty-six years, Anne, rarely Bringing attention to a sense ‘A voice comes to one in the Commissioned by THISISPOPBABY, The show will include an in- travelled with him. of deep movement. Project Arts Centre and Junction dark. Imagine.’ depth discussion with award A vernacular of metronomes Festival. With live original music, winning writer Sebastian Opening with this tantalising and corkscrews. Made with the support of Everything I Do channels the FringeLab at Dublin Fringe Festival. Barry on Fishamble: The New directive, Samuel Beckett’s The lure of gravitational spirit of R. Buckminster Fuller Funded through an Arts Council Play Company’s production of Company reads almost as a pullings, to explore love, loneliness and Theatre Project Award. his new play On Blueberry Hill. laboratory experiment into how we affect each other. from somewhere… out… Venue: Meeting Point – the notion of being itself. there… Project Arts Centre Date: Sept 25, 10pm This project has been developed Raymond Keane presents at LaMama Umbria’s International Emily Aoibheann (Dying Breeds) Duration: Approx. 60 mins. and performs this intensely Next Generation Residency in collaboration with Liing Heaney, No interval. 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24th International Theatre Blast: International Youth Theatre Ireland Dublin Theatre Festival and eXchange (ITX) Critics’ Forum Young Critics’ Panel the city 1957–2017 Presented by Irish Theatre As part of our annual season of The Young Critics are back. A public lecture on the Institute, the International panels and public discussions, Get a different perspective on occasion of the 60th Theatre eXchange is the time the makers of ‘Blast’, a new this year’s festival programme anniversary of the first Dublin when Irish theatre artists and platform for conversations as 14 young people from Theatre Festival charting a companies, programmed about Irish theatre, will host a across Ireland share their changing Ireland through the during the festival, develop lively critical discussion about critical response in a session prism of its performing arts international networks and the context for this year’s work, chaired by Dr. Karen Fricker. over six decades. explore collaborations with its impact, and the talking programmers interested in points of the festival. Since April, the Young Critics Presented by Diarmaid presenting Irish work to their have been honing their critical Ferriter, Professor of Modern Bringing together Irish and audiences. skills through workshops Irish History at University international critics, this and online discussion with College Dublin. The Next Stage Invited international presenters forum considers performance the support of professional Venue: Wood Quay Venue, The artist development strand Tresilian, and Ruwanthie and producers experience from various angles and theatre critics and facilitators. City Wall Space of the festival, The Next de Chickera. The Next a diverse range of Irish work welcomes audience feedback. They have also been seeing Date: Sept 28, 5.30pm Stage is open to national Stage also creates valuable including a curated pitching Here we consider the secret lots of theatre, collaborating For further information visit and international theatre and opportunities for enriching session, a series of rehearsed life and public display of a with a group of Scottish dublintheatrefestival.com dance practitioners. engagement with visiting works ‘in development’ and theatre production, while Young Critics and creating artists, with past programmes a programme of Irish festival asking if new approaches Over 18 immersive days their own criticism in familiar sparking successful artistic productions. to criticism can offer fresh participants are exposed to and unusual forms… collaborations. insights into an ever-changing world-class art, talks with Artists! Register to be art form. If there’s nothing Find out more, join the renowned directors, producers Participation in the 2017 part of this programme of more deadly than consensus, Young Critics as they review and artists and master-classes programme is by application networking on October 6 – here is an opportunity for productions from the festival and workshops led by leading only, from July 25. attend the Culture Ireland spirited debate, challenge in their own unique way. theatre-makers. Past workshop Pitching Session*, followed by To find out more and apply visit and, perhaps, a chance to Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) leaders and speakers include dublintheatrefestival.com the International Networking change your mind. Date: Oct 8, 1pm Gunilla Heilborn, Michael theatreforum.ie Lunch. irishtheatreinstitute.ie Keegan-Dolan, Bruce Gladwin, Presented in partnership with Venue: Project Arts Centre Theatre Forum. Funded through *Selection to participate in the (Space Upstairs) David Greig, Enda Walsh, Culture Ireland Pitching Sessions is an Arts Council Theatre Date: Oct 9, 4pm Tim Crouch, Ramin Gray, Development Scheme. by open call. See cultureireland.ie for further details. Kate Valk, Thomas Ostermeier, Presented in partnership with Ruth Little, Susannah Culture Ireland and supported by the Arts Council. Venue: various – Dublin city centre

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Come to Where I’m From Venue: Poetry Ireland You’ll Remember A collaboration between Date: Oct 3, 7pm the First Time Duration: 1 hr 10 mins. Dublin Theatre Festival and – For anyone who has not acclaimed UK new writing Venue: Draíocht attended the festival before, company Paines Plough, Date: Oct 5, 7.15pm even though it’s 60 years Duration: 10 mins. taking place in five locations – old, we are about to make across Dublin; axis:Ballymun, Venue: Pavilion Theatre, participation a whole lot Civic Theatre Tallaght, Dún Laoghaire easier. To celebrate our big Date: Oct 5, 6.30pm Draíocht Blanchardstown, Duration: 10 mins. anniversary, we are inviting Pavilion Theatre, Dún – new people to join us for the Laoghaire and Poetry Ireland. Venue: Civic Theatre first time. Date: Oct 5, 7.30pm Since 2010 writers from Duration: 10 mins. We will make the programme – festival club opening party across the UK have returned Venue: axis:Ballymun accessible to people who may to their home-towns to pen Date: Oct 11, 7.30pm not yet have considered or had at project arts centre with plays about the places that Duration: 10 mins. the opportunity to take part in shaped them. These plays are the cultural life of the city. performed by the playwrights What’s Left Behind? dj sally cinnamon First time theatre or festival themselves, coming home to What’s Left Behind? is an attendees can avail of one of tell their tale. oral history project, in Sept 30, 10.30pm–2.30am hundreds of €10 tickets. Just collaboration with José Miguel Now Come to Where I’m From tell us about yourself and what Jiménez, featuring a collection visits Dublin to invite five of the you are interested in seeing. of conversations with city’s most distinctive voices to audiences and practitioners Children and young people join this celebrated project. The Festival Club is open to all our artists and whose participation spans will be encouraged to explore The 130 previously penned the sixty years of Dublin theatre through workshops audiences during the festival. Join friends and plays are available in audio Theatre Festival. It will led by festival artists and will fellow theatre-goers for drinks and dancing. form, for free, on the App focus on the wider story of attend a festival production, Store. Catch all five Come to theatre in Ireland, beyond introducing them to an Opening times: Project Arts Centre Where I’m From performances the well-known productions experience of theatre that Monday – Thursday until 11.30pm 39 East Essex Street live at Poetry Ireland in the city that are usually included in will fire their imaginations. Friday and Saturday until 12.30pm Temple Bar centre on October 3. Check chronologies. – Dublin 2, D02 RD45 For further details of how – out the list of events – #CTWIF to avail of tickets visit Bar will be closed during Check out our website or follow performances projectartscentre.ie us on Facebook, Twitter and dublintheatrefestival.com Instagram for all the updates.

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‘Raising one foot and Beginning in 2012, eight European festivals joined forces to Dublin Theatre Festival 2017 Previous NXTSTP projects Over the course of NXTSTP 2 stimulate the co-production and transnational circulation features two NXTSTP projects featured at Dublin Theatre Dublin Theatre Festival has bringing it down Festival have been also supported of new works by the great European artists of tomorrow Emma Martin/United Fall, Carlow Girl Song 2016 – BERLIN, Antwerp Edit Kaldor, Amsterdam, Web of Trust somewhere else’ and in so doing to encourage the artistic renewal of the Miet Warlop, Brussels Zvizdal (Chernobyl – so far so close) Lond Malmborg Malmö/Tallinn contemporary performing arts in Europe. Fruits of Labor El Conde de Torrefiel, Barcelona 99 Words for Void Guerrilla The artists we have supported through this collaboration Quarantine, Manchester Gunilla Heilborn, Stockholm The Dyas Sisters had already demonstrated their potential in their first This is Not a Love Story * Quarantine, Manchester artistic works and were ready to take an important next 2015 – Dead Centre, Dublin Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. step in their careers, taking on projects on a larger scale, Chekhov’s First Play *NXTSTP 1 to circulate in Europe and to reach a wider audience. Halory Goerger, Brussels/Lille Corps Diplomatique The NXTSTP network co-produced the creation of new works, tg STAN Antwerp giving artists valuable financial support. The works have been The Cherry Orchard presented in different festivals, ensuring a real transnational 2014 – Benjamin Verdonck, Antwerp circulation and a high visibility amongst international audiences. notallwhowanderarelost BERLIN, Antwerp In addition, the festivals offered artists’ residencies to emerging Perhaps all the dragons European and non-European artists, providing further means to Pan Pan Theatre, Dublin advance the performing arts scene in Europe. The Seagull and Other Birds Pieter de Buysser & Hans Op de The first term of NXTSTP ran from 2007 to 2012. Dublin Beeck, Brussels, Book Burning * Theatre Festival joined the network for its second edition, 2013 – Antoine Defoort and Halory which began in November 2012, supported by an award of Goerger, Brussels/Lille, Germinal funding for five years from the Culture Programme of Tiago Rodrigues / Mundo Perfeito, Lisbon, Three Fingers Below the Knee the European Union. 2012 – Miet Warlop/CAMPO, NXTSTP 2 (2012–2017) is a joint project by Kunstenfestivaldesarts, project Brussels, Mystery Magnet * leader (Brussels), Alkantara Festival (Lisbon), Baltoscandal (Rakvere), Dublin Theatre Festival, Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival (Gothenburg), Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival (Groningen), steirischer herbst (Graz), Théâtre National de Bordeaux en Aquitaine (Bordeaux). nxtstp.eu

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Dublin Theatre Festival goes to Stradbally for the sixth Venue: The Theatre Tent, bringing successive year, presenting a series of festival-fit performances MindField Arena from some of Ireland’s most exciting artists and theatre-makers. Dates: Sat 2 & Sun 3 Sept, 2017 the city Luas Cross City is 12 noon– 6pm the extension of the Check out our website or follow us on Facebook, Twitter – together Luas Green line to dublintheatrefestival.com and Instagram for updates and the line-up of events. Broombridge.

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13 new stops will be added to the Luas Green line. 8 of them in the city centre. The distance from Broombridge to St Stephen’s Green Dublin is 5.9km.

Fringe Journey time from Broombridge to Festival St Stephen’s Green Passenger services will be 21 mins. will commence 9 24 December 2017. Sept 2017 St Stephen’s Green

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Dame St dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 04 schedule86-8786 pr – preview ap – assisted performance – running on How to Book: dublintheatrefestival.com / +353 1 677 8899 / 86-87 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 show venue pg tu 26 we 27 th 28 fr 29 sa 30 su 01 mo 02 tu 03 we 04 th 05 fr 06 sa 07 su 08 mo 09 tu 10 we 11 th 12 fr 13 sa 14 su 15

The Suppliant Women Gaiety Theatre 04 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 2.30pm 2.30pm 90m 7.30pm

this is a room... Project Arts Centre 06 7.45pm pr 7.45pm 7.45pm 2.45pm tt 2.45pm 90m (Cube) 7.45pm

Come Away With Me Samuel Beckett Theatre 08 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 1h 40m to the End of the World 7.30pm

Radio Rosario axis:Ballymun 10 8pm 8pm 80m

CLASS Civic Theatre, 12 8.15pm pr 8.15pm pr 8.15pm 8.15pm 8.15pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 75m Loose End Studio civic civic civic civic civic new theatre new theatre new theatre new theatre 7.30pm new theatre new theatre new theatre new theatre new theatre 7.30pm The New Theatre new theatre new theatre

The Sin Eaters Pigeon House Lab 14 5pm – 5pm – 5pm – 3pm – 4pm – 5pm – 5pm – 5pm – 5pm – 3pm – 4pm – 5pm – 5pm – 5pm – 5pm – 3pm – 4pm – 60m 9.30pm pr 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 7.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 7.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 7.30pm

Hamnet Abbey Theatre, 16 8pm pr 8pm pr 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm tt 8pm 8pm 60m on the Peacock Stage

Nora Project Arts Centre 18 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 2.30pm 4.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 2h (Space Upstairs) 7.30pm 7.30pm 6.30pm

Playboyz The New Theatre 20 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 75m 7.30pm tt

On Blueberry Hill Pavilion Theatre 22 8pm pr 8pm pr 8pm 2.30pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm tt 8pm 2.30pm 8pm 1h 40m 8pm 8pm

Melt Smock Alley Theatre, 24 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 2pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2pm 2h 10m Main Space 7pm 7.30pm

The Second Violinist O’Reilly Theatre, 26 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 75m Belvedere College

Woyzeck in Winter Gaiety Theatre 28 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 2.30pm 3pm 1h 45m 7.30pm

Venus and Adonis Civic Theatre 30 8pm 3pm 8pm 8pm 5pm 3pm 60m 8pm 8pm

Ulysses Abbey Theatre, 32 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2pm 2h on the Abbey Stage 7.30pm 7.30pm

I'm Not Here Project Arts Centre 34 7.45pm pr 7.45pm 7.45pm 7.45pm 2.45pm 70m (Cube) 7.45pm

Frank Pig Says Hello Draíocht 36 8pm 7pm 2pm 8pm 7pm 90m axis:Ballymun draíocht draíocht 7pm axis axis draíocht

The Leaves of Heaven Draíocht 36 8pm 9pm 4pm 9pm 8pm 9pm 80m axis:Ballymun draíocht draíocht draíocht axis axis

Tribes Gate Theatre 38 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm ap 2.30pm 2h 20m 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

The Bitter Game axis:Ballymun 40 8pm tt 8pm tt 8pm tt 55m

Girl Song Samuel Beckett Theatre 42 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 2.30pm 2pm 70m 7.30pm tt 7pm

Her Voice Samuel Beckett Theatre 44 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 75m

King of the Castle Gaiety Theatre 46 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 2.30pm ap 2pm 2h 30m 7.30pm 7pm

Rapids Project Arts Centre 48 7.45pm pr 7.45pm tt 7.45pm 7.45pm 2.45pm 70m (Cube) 7.45pm

Endings Project Arts Centre 50 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 2.30pm 60m (Space Upstairs) 7.30pm

The Good House Smock Alley Theatre, 52 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 2.30pm tt 4.30pm 70m of Happiness Main Space 7.30pm

Wind Resistance Pavilion Theatre 54 8pm 8pm 2.30pm 1h 45m 8pm

Josephine K and Abbey Theatre, 56 8pm pr 8pm pr 8pm 8pm 50m the Algorithms on the Peacock Stage

Fruits of Labor Samuel Beckett Theatre 58 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 2.30pm 55m

If Only Rosa Could The Ark 61 2pm 2pm 10.15am sp 10.15am sp 50m Do Magic 4pm 4pm 12.15pm sp rp 12.15pm sp

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