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Since the end of last year we new forms to respond to the challenge We continue to work hard to raise 04 The Night Alive – Dublin Theatre 22 Clôture de l’amour 36 The Cherry Orchard – tg STAN have been working through the of describing the contemporary world the resources to further develop a Festival and Lyric Theatre Belfast TG2 and Pascal Rambert OReilly Theatre, Belvedere practical business of scheduling 28 in which they find themselves. They festival that is authentically of Dublin Gaiety Theatre Samuel Beckett Theatre productions and the events in our are preoccupied with the things that – one that provides a platform for 38 The Train – Rough Magic 06 By Heart – Teatro 24 Luck Just Kissed You Hello Project Arts Centre accompanying Festival+ programme. matter most to us – love and loss, artistic projects that is the equal Nacional D. Maria II HotForTheatre and Galway (Space Upstairs) We have also been considering what identity and belonging, power and of any other city in the world. Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space International Arts Festival are the most urgent and interesting resistance – and even when dealing Project Arts Centre (Cube) 40 The Game – THEATREclub stories to tell right now in Ireland. It with the gravest of subjects they Dublin is currently preparing a bid for 08 Wallflower – Quarantine Project Arts Centre (Cube) all comes together in the festival, the manage to do so with humanity and European Capital of Culture 2020. So Project Arts Centre (Cube) 26 Oedipus – Abbey Theatre moment where artists and the public wry humour. much has changed in the city since it on the Abbey Stage 42 Shibboleth – Abbey Theatre finally meet, and I believe that we have last had the designation in 1991. We 10 A View from the Bridge on the Peacock Stage a programme this year that will make Theatre happens in Dublin throughout are more confident, more global and Gate Theatre 28 Corps Diplomatique for an array of rich and rewarding days the year but its possibilities multiply more diverse, but there is still a sense Halory Goerger 44 Dancehall – United Fall / 12 I’m Your Man – Project Arts Project Arts Centre Emma Martin and Dublin and nights at the theatre. and intensify during festival time. that the city is not everything it can Centre and THISISPOPBABY (Space Upstairs) Theatre Festival The festival is conceived with a local be. We’re emerging from the worst of Project Arts Centre Samuel Beckett Theatre Programming starts when I audience in mind. If we get that bit times and now have an opportunity (Space Upstairs) 30 Dancing at Lughnasa get excited and inspired by an right it is also very attractive to visitors to think about what will make Dublin Lyric Theatre Belfast 46 Family Season international production that I’ve who relish the opportunity to see so thrive into the future. The festival is 14 At The Ford – Rise Productions Gaiety Theatre seen or by an idea that an artist much new work, of a high standard ready to play its part in this story by The New Theatre 51 Become a Friend of the Festival has shared with me. I think of our and of such diversity, in a compact creating rewarding experiences for 32 The Curious Incident audiences and imagine how they and welcoming city that has a genius the time we spend together. If the 16 Chekhov’s First Play – Dead Centre of the Dog in the Night-Time 54 Festival on Tour might respond. My aim is to present for storytelling. city succeeds in its bid it will not Samuel Beckett Theatre The National Theatre of Great Britain 59 Festival+ a selection of projects each year that be due to artistic merit alone, but 18 The Last Hotel – Landmark Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Programme of special events is diverse, provocative and artistically We are currently building up to because it has made a compelling Productions and Wide Open Opera th ambitious, and that represents the celebrating the festival’s 60 case for how the culture of the OReilly Theatre, Belvedere 34 The True Story of Hansel 66 Accessibility Information state of the theatre art form in Ireland anniversary in 2017, preceded by capital, in the broadest sense, can be and Gretel – Theatre Lovett and internationally. Many Irish artists the high point of the Decade of transformed through this opportunity. 20 Newcastlewest – Pan Pan Theatre Smock Alley Theatre, Boys’ School 69 Visitor Information premiere projects at the festival Commemorations marked by the There are exciting times ahead. Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box and I know that we can count on a centenary of the Easter Rising next 72 Venue Details dedicated core audience who have an year. We are collaborating with Irish One of the pleasures of theatre, as appetite for adventure and are excited and international artists on a number well as one of its challenges, is that, 74 Festival Schedule at a Glance to witness the creation of this new of projects that will offer sophisticated as a collective art form, it takes many work. I am also eager that the festival artistic responses to the question of people acting together to make will be welcoming and inviting to new where we find ourselves as a nation it happen. Dublin Theatre Festival audiences who may be attending for and a people one hundred years after exists through the collaboration of the first time. There is a great range in the transformative events of 1916. hundreds of people over the past the programme, whether you would year and longer. To our Council, our like to see just one show or many. The festival has a great capacity team and volunteers, to the artists for growth and the potential to and their teams, to our funders The theatre that I am interested in is reach even more people. The and stakeholders and to you, the always evolving and responding to its experience of having work at the audience, thank you so much. economic and cultural environment Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in recent Look what we made together. and there has been a remarkable years, in addition to our regular – expansion of Irish theatre practice presentations at the Gaiety Theatre, Willie White in recent years. In addition to the has shown that there is an appetite Artistic Director excellent play writing that we are for large-scale, world-class theatre renowned for, artists are also taking on by Irish and international artists. dublintheatrefestival.com 04 Dublin Theatre Extraordinary. The A spellbinding and 04-05 Festival and Lyric play can only be absolutely gorgeous Theatre Belfast, called transcendent. new play by one of the Ireland and UK A heaven-sent vision. true poets of the theatre. ««««« ««««« The New York Times ★★★★ Time Out New York

The Night Alive by Conor McPherson

Directed by Conor McPherson Following hit runs at the Donmar Warehouse London and at Cast: Adrian Dunbar, Frank Grimes, the Atlantic Theater New York – where it won the 2014 New Laurence Kinlan, Ian Lloyd- York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play – The Night Anderson, Kate Stanley Brennan Alive makes its Irish premiere in a highly anticipated new co- Design: Alyson Cummins production with the Lyric Theatre Belfast. Lighting Design: Zia Holly Sound Design: Gregory Clarke Set in Dublin, The Night Alive tells the story of Tommy – – a middle-aged man, just about getting by. He’s renting Venue: Gaiety Theatre a run-down room in his uncle Maurice’s house, keeping Previews: Sept 22 & 23, 7.30pm his ex-wife and kids at arm’s length and rolling from one Dates: Sept 24 – 25 & Sept 29 – Oct 2, get-rich-quick scheme to the next with his pal Doc. 7.30pm / Sept 26 & Oct 3, 2.30pm & 7.30pm / Sept 27 & Oct 4, 2.30pm Then one day he comes to the aid of Aimee, who’s not Tickets: €15 – €45 had it easy herself, struggling through life the only way TX3 (see page 67) she knows how. Their past won’t let go easily. But together Duration: 1 hr 45 mins. No interval. there’s a glimmer of hope that they could make something – more of their lives. Something extraordinary. Perhaps. Talking Theatre: Sept 26, post-show (7.30pm). With inimitable warmth, style and craft, this spellbinding play With Conor McPherson and members of the company. by the writer of The Weir and The Seafarer deftly mines the humanity to be found in the most unlikely of situations.

Contains strong language and sexual references.

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Photo © Chris Heaney www.dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 06-0706 Teatro Nacional D. A performance… so deep, so 06-07 Maria II, Portugal intelligent and so magnificent that we come out of it profoundly moved. Le Figaro

By Heart

Written and Performed by ‘Once 10 people know a poem by heart, there’s nothing the KGB, Tiago Rodrigues the CIA or the Gestapo can do about it. It will survive.’ Text with fragments and quotes – George Steiner by writers including: William Shakespeare, Ray Bradbury, In By Heart, Portuguese playwright and actor Tiago Rodrigues George Steiner, Joseph Brodsky teaches a poem to 10 volunteers. These people have not seen English translation: Tiago Rodrigues, revised by Joana Frazão the performance before and they have no idea which text they Set and Costume Design: will learn, by heart, in front of the audience. Magda Bizarro – As he leads them through the poem, Rodrigues recalls stories Venue: Smock Alley of his grandmother, who is losing her sight and with it the Theatre, Main Space ability to read, along with stories of writers and characters from Dates: Sept 24 & 25, 7.30pm books that are connected to them both. Unlikely associations Sept 26, 2.30pm & 7.30pm emerge – between Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak, a cook Tickets: €20 – €25 from the north of Portugal and a Dutch television show – and Duration: 90 mins. No interval. the mystery behind the chosen poem begins to unravel. – Talking Theatre: By Heart is about the importance of communication, of how Sept 25, post-show. words and ideas are stowed away and smuggled through our With Tiago Rodrigues. memories, our minds and our hearts. It’s about theatre as a safe house for forbidden texts – a guarantee of civilisation and resistance even in the most barbaric and desolate times.

Production: Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, after an original creation by the company Mundo Perfeito.

Co-production: O Espaço do Tempo (PT), Maria Matos Teatro Municipal (PT).

Photo © Magda Bizarro dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 08-0908 Quarantine, UK Immensely touching, totally human yet also 08-09 intellectually rigorous in their examination of the nature of performance and the raising of questions about what makes theatre seem real and reality so strongly theatrical. The Guardian

Wallflower

Directed by Richard Gregory Wallflower is a dance marathon, a game that alters Cast: Greg Akehurst, Sonia according to the players. Hughes, Jo Fong, Nic Green Dramaturg: Renny O’Shea Three performers are challenged to remember every Design: Simon Banham dance they’ve ever danced. Each performance is Lighting Design: Malcolm Rippeth different, as they choose what they want to reveal, – what story of themselves they want to tell… Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) Like much of Quarantine’s work, Wallflower serves as a Dates: Sept 24, 7.45pm Sept 25 & 26, 4.45pm & 8.45pm form of portraiture – of real lives being lived. It makes Tickets: €20 – €25 us remember our own dances – the awkward, joyful Duration: Approx. 90 mins. and forgotten ones. It asks us to think about how we No interval. choose to be involved in the world, and what we sit – out. The dances left un-danced. Talking Theatre: Sept 24, post-show. Winners of the 2008 Dublin Fringe Festival Award With Richard Gregory and for Best Production (Susan & Darren), Quarantine members of the company. are a unique voice in British theatre, internationally acclaimed for their experiments with everyday life.

This performance is of an improvised nature and may contain strong language.

Photo © Gavin Parry Photo © Gavin dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 10-1110 Gate Theatre, Greater and dramatically purer 10-11 Ireland than any other of Miller’s plays. Irish Independent

A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller

Directed by Joe Dowling Set in 1956, Brooklyn, New York. Longshoreman Eddie Cast includes: Scott Aiello, Carbone agrees to shelter his wife’s Italian cousins, Lauren Coe, Peter Coonan, Marco and Rodolpho, who have arrived to work illegally. John Cronin, Malcolm Douglas, Dermot Maggenis, Niamh McCann, Trouble begins when his orphaned niece Catherine Terry O’Neill, Joey Phillips, Kevin becomes attracted to the charming Rodolpho. Shackleton, Stephen Swift – Familial love turns to sexual obsession and retribution Venue: Gate Theatre ultimately leads to tragedy in A View from the Bridge, Dates: Sept 24 – 26, Sept 28 – Oct 3 Arthur Miller’s captivating tale of illicit desire. & Oct 5 – 10, 7.30pm Sept 26, 30, Oct 3, 7 & 10, 2.30pm Tickets: €25 – €35 Duration: Approx. 2 hrs 15 mins incl. interval. – The Arthur Miller Centenary A series of interviews, readings and discussions on Miller. See page 64 for details.

Photo © Courtesy of Barbara Mensch Photography, New York New Mensch Photography, of Barbara Photo © Courtesy dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 12-1312 Project Arts Centre Phillip McMahon’s acerbic script tears 12-13 and THISISPOPBABY, strips off everything in sight… For all its Ireland brittle edges and underground, club-culture aesthetic, this production has a huge heart. The Guardian on ‘Alice In Funderland’

I’m Your Man by Mark Palmer and Phillip McMahon

Music and Lyrics: Mark Palmer A gutsy love story that keeps you moving forwards Book and Direction: when you think you’re falling backwards, I’m Your Man Phillip McMahon is a musical journey from death to new life – a roadmap Cast: Alma Kelliher, Adam Matthews, back from rock bottom. Ruth McGill, Bronwyn Murphy-White, Bryan O’Connell, Mark Palmer You’ve overcome obstacles, battled inner demons and – had your heart smashed into a million pieces in order Venue: Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) to seek out the true love of your life – a love that you Preview: Sept 24, 7.30pm always felt but never believed possible; a love that you Dates: Sept 25, 7.30pm always hoped for but never dared acknowledge, for Sept 26, 6pm & 9pm fear of what it might ask of you. Oct 3, 1pm Tickets: €15 – €25 Can love bring us back to life? Duration: Approx. 60 mins. Music and theatre collide in this intimate and poignant No interval. – new show from the writer of Alice In Funderland and Talking Theatre: the songwriter with the band Life After Modelling. Sept 25, post-show. Contains strong language. With Mark Palmer, Phillip McMahon and Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award. members of the company.

Photo © Fiona Morgan Photo © Fiona dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 14-1514 Rise Productions, Extraordinary... Stark, 14-15 Ireland exhilarating, and cathartic. The Irish Times on ‘Fight Night’

At The Ford by Gavin Kostick

Directed by Bryan Burroughs ‘This is only a truce. Not an end.’ Cast: Aonghus Óg McAnally, Rachel O’Byrne, Ian Toner After the international successes of multi-award-winning Lighting Design: Colm Maher hits Fight Night and The Games People Play, Rise Set and Costume Design: Productions returns with At The Ford, the concluding Alyson Cummins instalment in their Dynasty & Destiny Trilogy. Sound Design: Denis Clohessy – A dead man’s room overlooking the sea. With bruised hearts Venue: The New Theatre and shredded reputations, three siblings sift through the Previews: Sept 23 & 24, 7.30pm rubble of their crumbling family empire, each attempting to Dates: Sept 25 & 29 Sept – 2 Oct, steer their own course to survival. Putting fortunes at stake 7.30pm and with no one to trust, family bonds are pushed to their Sept 26 & 3 Oct, 2.30pm & 7.30pm limits. Do we shape our own destiny, or are the sins of previous Sept 27, 2.30pm generations – and their repercussions – an inescapable fate for Tickets: €10 – €20 those left behind? TX3 (see page 67) Duration: Approx. 1 hr 40 mins At The Ford sees Rise Productions and playwright Gavin incl. interval. Kostick once again interrogate contemporary Irish society – through the lens of Celtic mythology. The result is cutting- Talking Theatre: Sept 27, post-show. edge new writing and truly visceral, urgent theatre. With Gavin Kostick and Contains strong language. Aonghus Óg McAnally. Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award.

Photo © Ste Murray dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 16-1716 Dead Centre, Multilayered, metatheatrical 16-17 Ireland and full of magpie borrowings… dense yet simple… extraordinarily textured both visually and aurally. The Guardian on ‘LIPPY’

Chekhov’s First Play

Directed by Bush Moukarzel ‘I’m having absolutely nothing to do with the theatre or the human and Ben Kidd race. They can all go to hell.’ – Anton Chekhov Cast includes: Liam Carney, Breffni Holohan, Rory Nolan, During the turmoil of the Russian Revolution in 1917, Maria Rebecca O’Mara, Annie Ryan, Chekhov, Anton’s sister, placed many of her late brother’s Dylan Tighe, and WBO Middleweight Champion manuscripts and papers in a safety deposit box in Moscow. of the World, Andy Lee In 1921 Soviet scholars opened the box, and discovered a play. Design: Andrew Clancy and Grace O’Hara The title page was missing. The play they found has too many Sound Design: Jimmy Eadie characters, too many themes, too much action. All in all, it’s Lighting Design: Stephen Dodd generally dismissed as unstageable. Like life. Costume Design: Saileóg O’Halloran Dead Centre, creators of the OBIE award-winning LIPPY (winner – of a Fringe First, Herald Angel Award and the Irish Times Theatre Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre Award for Best Production), return to do injustice to a great Previews: Sept 24 & 25, 7.30pm playwright. Dates: Sept 26 & Sept 30 – Oct 2, 7.30pm / Sept 27 & Oct 4, 2.30pm Chekhov before he was Chekhov. Oct 3, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets: €15 – €25 Headphones are provided and worn throughout the performance. The audience will be required to move and stand for a short period. Contains nudity, strong language Duration: Approx. 75 mins. and loud and sudden noises. No interval. – Co-commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre and Irish Arts Center, New York.

Talking Theatre: Co-production: Dublin Theatre Festival, Baltoscandal (Rakvere). Project co-produced Oct 2, post-show. by NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union. With members of the company. Supported by Irish Theatre Trust.

Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award.

Image © Jason Booher dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 18-1918 Landmark Productions The sheer range of One of the most 18-19 and Wide Open Opera, Dennehy’s music is dazzling wordsmiths of Ireland hugely impressive. contemporary theatre. The Guardian The Guardian on Enda Walsh

The Last Hotel by Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh

Composer: Donnacha Dennehy The Last Hotel unites two of Ireland’s most fascinating artists, Writer and Director: Enda Walsh one of the most thrilling writers of our generation Enda Walsh Conductor: Alan Pierson (Once, The Walworth Farce, Ballyturk), and internationally- Performers: Claudia Boyle, acclaimed composer Donnacha Dennehy, in a new chamber Robin Adams, Katherine Manley, opera about life, death, duty and guilt. Mikel Murfi Set and Costume Design: As the opera begins, a man silently mops the floor – the water Jamie Vartan bloody. The hotel room he’s supposed to be preparing is not Lighting Design: Adam Silverman ready yet. A woman is meeting a man and his wife in the hotel’s Sound Design: David Sheppard, car park. All three are nervous. Tonight there’ll be a death. Helen Atkinson Associate Director: Sophie Motley The cast includes baritone Robin Adams, sopranos Claudia Orchestra: Crash Ensemble Boyle and Katherine Manley and renowned Irish actor Mikel – Murfi, with music performed by the 12-piece Crash Ensemble, Venue: OReilly Theatre, Belvedere conducted by Alan Pierson. Dates: Sept 27, Sept 29 – 30 & Oct 2 – 3, 7.30pm This hotly anticipated opera from Landmark Productions Tickets: €30 – €40 (Testament, Howie the Rookie) and Wide Open Opera (Tristan Duration: 80 mins. No interval. und Isolde, Nixon in China) comes to Dublin on foot of its – world premiere at the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival. Talking Theatre: Sept 29, post-show. Contains strong language and material that some may find disturbing. With members of the company. Produced in association with Crash Ensemble.

Supported by Irish Theatre Trust.

Funded through an Arts Council Opera Production Award.

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Photo © Hugh O’Conor dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 20-2120 Pan Pan Theatre, Pan Pan Theatre, easily Ireland’s most 20-21 Ireland searching contemporary theatre company. The Irish Times

Newcastlewest by Dick Walsh

Directed by Gavin Quinn ‘He meets people all the time. That’s his job. But if you Cast: Una McKevitt, Des Nealon, meet him and you get on with him, then the next time Annabell Rickerby, Dick Walsh he has a job that you’d be good at, you’d be top of his Design: Aedín Cosgrove list of people he’d give it to.’ Associate Director: Maeve Stone Dramaturg: Simon Doyle Looking at indeterminacy, randomness and the role of Sound Design: Vincent Doherty fate, Newcastlewest is a new comedy by Dick Walsh. Costume: Grace O’Hara Marya is a woman really struggling with today. Assistant Design: Gemma McGuinness She lives in a house with her father. He is getting old. – She is getting old. He’s a pain in the hole. Her thighbone Venue: Smock Alley Theatre, is decaying. She’s got no job, or even the prospect of Black Box a job. Then a local man done good comes to tell them Previews: Sept 25 & 26, 7.30pm about his position in Brussels. Dates: Sept 27 & Oct 4, 6.30pm Sept 29 – Oct 2, 7.30pm This world premiere from the award-winning Pan Pan Theatre Oct 3, 2.30pm & 7.30pm builds on the success of previous festival presentations Tickets: €15 – €25 including The Seagull and Other Birds, Everyone is King Lear TX3 (see page 67) in his Own Home and The Rehearsal: Playing the Dane. Duration: Approx. 70 mins. No interval. Contains strong language. – Talking Theatre: Sept 30, post-show. With Gavin Quinn and members of the company.

Photo © Ros Kavanagh Photo © Ros dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 22-2322 TG2 and Pascal Rambert has achieved a masterstroke by 22-23 Rambert, France delivering a resolutely contemporary text, but with classical resonances. Les Echos

Clôture de l’amour by Pascal Rambert

Conceived and Directed by: Clôture de l’amour presents a couple in the final stages of a Pascal Rambert broken relationship. Cast: Audrey Bonnet, Pascal Rambert Pascal and Audrey face one another. They could be actors in Design: Daniel Jeanneteau a rehearsal room, or opposing pieces in a chess game, each Music Arrangement: Alexandre marking their territory, firing verbal salvoes, their love at its end. Meyer, from the song ‘Happe’ (Alain Bashung – Jean Fauque), A children’s choir enters midway, their song cutting through with the approval of Barclay / the tension before they disappear again. Universal © edition Lighting Design: Pascal Rambert, What is left? What can possibly remain in the wake of the Jean-François Besnard violence of separation? Costume: La Bourette Artistic Collaborator: A hit of the 2011 Festival d’Avignon, Clôture de l’amour won Thomas Bouvet the French Drama Critics’ Association Award for Best New – Play and has since had productions in over a dozen countries, Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre from China and the USA to Russia and Brazil. Dates: Sept 28 & 29, 7.30pm Tickets: €25 TX3 (see page 67) Created by an artist at the vanguard of French theatre and Duration: 2 hrs. No interval. performance, this is an intense and raw investigation into – the nature and purpose of human relationships.

Talking Theatre: Performed in French, with English surtitles. Sept 28, post-show. With Pascal Rambert. Contains strong language and nudity.

Production: Théâtre de Gennevilliers centre dramatique national de création contemporaine. With the support of In partnership with Co-production: Festival d’Avignon and Théâtre du Nord.

Photo © Marc Domage Photo © Marc dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 24-2524 HotForTheatre The most ferociously brilliant performer I 24-25 and Galway saw… writes with such passion, conviction, International Arts sincerity, humour and attention to detail. Festival, Ireland The Scotsman

Luck Just Kissed You Hello by Amy Conroy

Directed by Caitriona McLaughlin ‘You’ve stopped fighting now and are standing beside me. Cast: Amy Conroy, Mark Fitzgerald, Here we are. My twin, my friend, my me. All gathered to say Will O’Connell goodbye.’ Set Design: Aedín Cosgrove Lighting Design: John Crudden How do you say goodbye to your nemesis, your genesis? Sound Design: Carl Kennedy Laura returns home for the death of her father, but Laura is Movement Director: Emma Martin now Mark. He, along with Gary and Sullivan, must decide Costume Design: Zoë Quinn on how he is remembered. They must find a way to forgive, – find a way to each other and find a way to recognise Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) themselves again. Preview: Sept 29, 7.45pm Dates: Sept 30 & Oct 1, 7.45pm Luck Just Kissed You Hello is a beautiful, relentless and Oct 2, 8.45pm / Oct 3, 4.45pm & fiercely funny play, exploring the delicate strength it takes 8.45pm / Oct 4, 4.45pm – to be all that is expected of you. Festival on Tour HotForTheatre creates theatre that provokes, moves and Draíocht, Blanchardstown: Oct 7 & 8, 8pm delights in equal measures. Since 2010 the company has Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray: enthralled audiences with shows including I ♥ Alice ♥ I, Oct 9 & 10, 8pm Eternal Rising of the Sun and Break. Having toured their – work across three continents they return to Dublin with Tickets: €10 (preview) €15 – €20 TX3 (see page 67) this anticipated new production. Duration: Approx. 90 mins. Contains strong language. No interval. – Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award. Talking Theatre: Oct 3, post-show (8.45pm). With members of the company.

Photo © Ros Kavanagh Kavanagh Photo © Ros dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 26-2726 Abbey Theatre, 26-27 Ireland

Oedipus by Sophocles, in a new version by Wayne Jordan

Directed by Wayne Jordan Let the day Cast includes: Karen Ardiff, Finish Muiris Crowley, Hilda Fay, What the night Rachel Gleeson, Mark Huberman, Esosa Ighodaro, Nicola Kavanagh, Began Damian Kearney, Ger Kelly, Charlotte McCurry, Helen Norton, Shoot an arrow of hope Barry John O’Connor, Shane O’Reilly Into the heart Composer and Sound Design: Of this broken city Tom Lane Set Design: Ciarán O’Melia The city of Thebes hides a secret crime. Punished by the Lighting Design: Sinead Wallace Gods, the citizens seek protection. They turn to their King. Costume Design: Catherine Fay He saved them before. Can he save them again? Movement Director: Sue Mythen Sophocles’ enduring tragedy is an elaborate meeting of – political drama, murder mystery and psychological thriller. Venue: Abbey Theatre, on the Abbey Stage Wayne Jordan’s new version of Oedipus invites us to confront Previews: Sept 24 – 29, 7.30pm vital questions of who we are and how we live together. Dates: Opens Sept 30, 7.30pm – Oct 3 & Oct 10, 2pm & 7.30pm Oedipus Rex: A Reading Tickets: €13 – €45 To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.B. Yeats, the Abbey Theatre will present a reading of his adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, by the cast of Wayne Jordan’s new version of Oedipus. Date: Oct 9, 4pm Tickets: €5

Photo © Sarah Doyle Doyle Photo © Sarah dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 28-2928 Halory Goerger, Corps Diplomatique is pure, smart 28-29 France entertainment that appeals to the brain as well as the funny bone. Inferno Magazine

Corps Diplomatique

Performers and Artistic What if artists were left to drift in a space station for a few Collaborators: Albane Aubry, thousand years with only one mission: to procreate, write a play, Mélanie Bestel, Arnaud Boulogne, Dominique Gilliot, Halory Goerger rehearse and perform it, and in so doing to educate the next Stage Design: Halory Goerger and generation and the generations after that? How quickly would Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers they go nuts? What would their art look like? Lighting Design: Annie Leuridan Corps Diplomatique is a thought experiment on the survival Costume Design: Aurélie Noble of our civilisation – a zany, but rigorously documented reverie Sound and Video Management: Stéphane Lévêque of an artist who is as intelligent as he is adventurous. Set Construction and Stage Two years after the brilliant and funny Germinal, created in Management: Emilie Godreuil collaboration with Antoine Defoort, Halory Goerger is placing Added Music: Martin Granger theatre in a time machine and observing what happens next. Production: Marion Le Guerroué – The future is now: fasten your seatbelts! Venue: Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) Performed in French, with English surtitles. Dates: Oct 1 – 3, 7.30pm Production: L’Amicale de production.

Tickets: €25 – €30 Co-production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), in collaboration with Les Halles de Duration: 85 mins. No interval. Schaerbeek, Dublin Theatre Festival, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival (Groningen), – Arsenic (Lausanne), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen), BUDA Kunstencentrum (Kortrijk), Talking Theatre: Oct 1, post-show. Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Ghent), Espace Malraux – Scène nationale de Chambéry et de la With Halory Goerger and Savoie, Le CENTQUATRE (Paris), le Phénix – Scène nationale Valenciennes, Le Manège de members of the company. Reims, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine (Bordeaux), Le Quartz – Scène nationale de Brest, Espace des Arts (Chalon-sur-Saône). Project co- produced by NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union. With the support of Institut Français in the frame of CIRCLES. With the support of In partnership with

Photo © Didier Crasnault dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 30 Lyric Theatre Not only Ireland’s greatest living 30-31 Belfast, UK playwright but one of the greatest playwrights in the world. Professor Anthony Roche on Brian Friel

Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel

Directed by Annabelle Comyn Winner of an Olivier Award and a Tony Award, Dancing at Cast includes: Declan Conlon, Lughnasa is one of the greatest and most loved Irish plays Catherine Cusack, Vanessa of recent times. Emme, Catherine McCormack, Mary Murray Set in County Donegal in 1936 during the Celtic harvest Set Design: Paul O’Mahony festival of Lughnasadh, the play tells the story of the five Costume Design: Joan O’Cleary Mundy sisters and their brother Jack, who has returned Lighting Design: Chahine Yavroyan home from the missions after 25 years away. Sound Design: Fergus O’Hare Choreographer: Liz Roche The story is told by the sisters’ nephew, Michael, who recalls – the summer spent with his aunts when he was seven years Venue: Gaiety Theatre old. As August gives way to September, Michael recounts his Dates: Oct 6 – 9, 7.30pm memory of childhood in Ballybeg, where his aunts raised him Oct 10, 2.30pm & 7.30pm in their crumbling, rural home and where once they danced. Oct 11, 1pm & 6pm A wild, raucous dance. The dream-wild dance of their memories. Tickets: €15 – €45 A dance to the exciting, fleeting melody of the past and a dance TX3 (see page 67) against the harsh, progressive beat of the present. Duration: 2 hrs 30 mins incl. interval. This eagerly anticipated new production of Brian Friel’s – masterpiece from the Lyric Theatre Belfast, directed by Talking Theatre: th Oct 10, post-show (7.30pm). award-winner Annabelle Comyn, will mark the 25 With members of the company. anniversary of the play’s premiere in Dublin. – Audio described performance: Oct 10, 2.30pm. A touch tour will also be available pre-show (see page 66).

Photo © Chris Heaney www.dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 32-3332 The National A beautiful, eloquent, dazzlingly inventive 32-33 Theatre of Great show about the wonders of life.★★★★ Britain, UK ««««« Evening Standard

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Based on the novel by Winner of seven 2013 Olivier Awards and five 2015 Tony Mark Haddon Awards, this highly-acclaimed National Theatre of Great Adapted by Simon Stephens Britain production arrives in Dublin for its Irish premiere. Director: Marianne Elliott Cast includes: Joshua Jenkins, Christopher, fifteen years old, has an extraordinary brain – Geraldine Alexander, Chris Ashby, exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday Emmanuelle Cole, Edward Grace, life. When he falls under suspicion of killing Mrs Shears’ dog, Gina Isaac, Stuart Laing it takes him on a journey that upturns his world… Production Design: Bunny Christie Movement: Scott Graham and Based on the award-winning novel by Mark Haddon, adapted Steven Hoggett by Simon Stephens and directed by Marianne Elliott, The Music: Adrian Sutton Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a thrilling new Sound Design: Ian Dickinson stage play currently playing in the West End and on Broadway. Video: Finn Ross Presented in association with the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. Lighting Design: Paule Constable – Contains strong language. Loud sound effects, high intensity lighting and video Venue: Bord Gáis Energy Theatre effects including strobe lighting feature in the production. Dates: Oct 6 & 9, 7.30pm Oct 7, 8 & 10, 2.30pm & 7.30pm – Tickets: €15 – €55 Duration: 2 hrs 40 mins incl. interval.

Photo © Brinkhoff Mögenburg dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 34-3534 Theatre Lovett, Thankfully there is no upper age 34-35 Ireland limit… a thoroughly enjoyable cabaret that deserves to reach to audiences large and small. The Sunday Times on ‘A Feast of Bones’

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louis Lovett

Directed by Muireann Ahern ‘Someday you will be old enough to start reading and Louis Lovett fairytales again.’ Cast includes: Martin Brunsden, – C.S. Lewis Clara Harte, Raymond Keane, Louis Lovett, Joseph McCarthy, Fear is everywhere and you must not stray from the Amelie Metcalfe, Michele Moran simple path. Into this world of threat and temptation Set and Lighting Design: Zia Holly two children are born. Their names have come down Costume Design: Liadain Kaminska to us through the ages. But who were they first? From Music: Louis Lovett and Nico Brown what reality was their legend born? – What truth was so terrible that adults began to lie? Venue: Smock Alley Theatre, Boys’ School This is The True Story of Hansel and Gretel, a deliciously Previews: Oct 4, 2pm & 5pm dark musical fable from the creators of A Feast of Bones. Dates: Oct 6 – 9, 7pm Featuring live music and an original score, Theatre Lovett’s Oct 10 & 11, 2pm & 5pm new play explores the darker colours of the rainbow in this Tickets: €10 – €20 bold retelling of a tale by the Brothers Grimm. TX3 (see page 67) Duration: 65 mins. No interval. Suitable for ages 12+ – Produced in association with Riverbank Arts Centre. Talking Theatre: Oct 6, post-show. Supported through the Arts Council’s Young People, Children and Education With Louis Lovett and Programme Activity Fund. Muireann Ahern.

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The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov

Created by and with tg STAN have been creating work together since they graduated Evelien Bosmans, Evgenia Brendes, in the late 1980s and have earned an international reputation Robby Cleiren, Jolente De Keersmaeker, Lukas De Wolf, for their lucid interpretations of classic and contemporary texts. Bert Haelvoet, Minke Kruyver, They make their festival debut this year with a new production Scarlet Tummers, Rosa Van of Chekhov’s final and most enigmatic play, The Cherry Orchard. Leeuwen, Stijn Van Opstal, Frank Vercruyssen More than a century after it premiered, this story of a once- Lighting Design: Thomas Walgrave wealthy family’s struggle to hold on to their property still Costume Design: An d’Huys resonates with audiences. Will the family be able to raise the Set Design: in collaboration money to clear their debts? Or will their home, and its cherry with Damiaan De Schrijver – orchard of fond childhood memory, be razed to the ground to Venue: OReilly Theatre, Belvedere make way for a property development? Dates: Oct 7 – 10, 7.30pm The Cherry Orchard has left an indelible mark on the history Tickets: €25 – €30 of theatre. The question of its meaning has preoccupied Duration: Approx. 2 hrs. generations of artists: Is it comedy or tragedy? Poetry or No interval. – drama? Prophecy or social lament? Talking Theatre: Joined by nine guest performers, tg STAN offer their Oct 7, post-show. With members of the company. interpretation of the finest minds in world literature. – Co-production: Kunstenfestivaldearts (Brussels), Festival d’Automne (Paris), Théâtre de Captioned performance: la Colline (Paris), Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine (Bordeaux), Le Bateau Feu Oct 9, 7.30pm (Dunkerque), Théâtre de Nîmes, Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse). Project co-produced by NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

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38-3938 Rough Magic, Immensely impressive and, more 38-39 Ireland importantly, enormously entertaining. The Irish Times on ‘Improbable Frequency’

The Train

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Y Directed by Lynne Parker Ireland, 1971: the church and the state are in glorious Cast: Clare Barrett, Kate Gilmore, – and very close – harmony. They are also deaf to the CM Darragh Kelly, Emmet Kirwan, voices of women, who are routinely paid less than men, Lisa Lambe, Karen McCartney, MY Danielle O’Brien, Sophie Jo Wasson in jobs they must often give up once they marry, at which CY Music: Bill Whelan time they become, by law, their husbands’ property… Arthur Riordan CMY Book and Lyrics: And they have another cause for concern. Set and Lighting Design: K Ciaran Bagnall While contraceptives are available in Northern Ireland Costume Design: Joan O’Clery they are illegal in the Republic. Determined to challenge Music Director: Cathal Synnott the unbending laws of Ireland, a troublesome group of – women decide to take a train to Belfast and return to Venue: Project Arts Centre Dublin with this forbidden fruit. (Space Upstairs) Preview: Oct 6, 7.30pm A new musical from Rough Magic Theatre Company, Dates: Oct 7 – 9, 7.30pm The Train makes its world premiere as part of the festival, Oct 10, 2.30pm & 7.30pm featuring music by Bill Whelan (Riverdance) and lyrics by Oct 11, 1.30pm & 6.30pm Arthur Riordan (Improbable Frequency). It tells the story of Tickets: €20 – €30 the infamous contraceptive train, of a nation’s obsession TX3 (see page 67) with sex, and of a small group of courageous women whose Duration: Approx. 2 hrs incl. interval. short journey marked the beginning of a modern odyssey. – Contains sexual references. Talking Theatre: Oct 8, post-show. With Bill Whelan, Arthur Riordan and Lynne Parker.

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The Game

Devised by Gemma Collins, The Game is a new work by THEATREclub, exploring the act Grace Dyas, Lauren Larkin of buying sex and the subculture of prostitution; its rules, its With: Rachel Moran and other language and its power structures. It is a play that’s also a women who have exited prostitution real-life game, with levels and consequences. – Five new men have volunteered each night. These men have Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) never played ‘The Game’ before. They’ve no idea what they’re Preview: Oct 6, 7.45pm about to do, they won’t be given a script. They are doing this Dates: Oct 7 – 9, 7.45pm Oct 10, 4.45pm & 8.45pm to be part of an event – a symbolic act – that calls us all to Oct 11, 4.45pm consider, to think and to review. Tickets: €10 – €20 All you have to do is watch. TX3 (see page 67) Duration: Approx. 70 mins. The Game will give audiences an insight into a world that sits No interval. uncomfortably beneath the surface of our day-to-day lives. – How we legislate makes a statement about our values. The Talking Theatre: Oct 11, post-show. legal status of prostitution is a measure of our society. Laws With members of the company. around the world are changing. We’re all affected by those changes. Come and see why.

Contains strong language and material that some may find disturbing.

Funded through an Arts Council Theatre Project Award.

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Shibboleth by Stacey Gregg

Directed by Hamish Pirie I’m a grafter. I’m decent. I deserve it. Venue: Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock Stage Development. Hotels, spas, Nandos, boutiques. Belfast is Previews: Oct 2 – 6, 8pm changing but for some people progress means new barriers. Dates: Opens Oct 7, 8pm A group of construction workers are building an extension Oct 10, 2.30pm & 8pm to the Peace-wall to separate Them-ens from Us-ens. When Tickets: €13 – €20 Polish worker Yuri’s daughter starts having serious problems Duration: Approx. 80 mins. with her boyfriend, they rally around in support. Will their No interval. – good intentions go too far? Talking Theatre: Stacey Gregg’s new play is an energetic and unsentimental Oct 8, post-show. Abbey Theatre Literary Manager exploration of working-class life in Belfast. Jessica Traynor in conversation with two of Northern Ireland’s finest contemporary playwrights, Stacey Gregg and Jimmy McAleavey.

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Dancehall

Choreographer: Emma Martin The screech of shoes, racing hearts, all of us together. Composer: Andrew Hamilton The scene is set for a dance concert that gradually warps Music: Crash Ensemble – into an unpredictable and fearless fanfare. Ominous and Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre visually rich, a distorted display of beauty and pathos Dates: Oct 8 & 9, 7.30pm unravels to a hypnotic score, which rides the edge of Oct 10, 2.30pm & 7.30pm ferocity and joy. Oct 11, 2.30pm Tickets: €15 – €25 Together, choreographer Emma Martin and composer Duration: Approx. 60 mins. Andrew Hamilton have created Dancehall, a new work No interval. performed by a company of five exquisite dancers and – a trio of musicians. Talking Theatre: Oct 9, post-show. Two artforms unite in an unconstrained bombastic poem With Emma Martin and – at once classical and hardcore, noble and reckless. It members of the company. manifests the contagious and vital energy that is revealed through the union of dance and music, both having been created for one another.

Contains nudity. Smoke machines and strobe lighting are used during the show.

Produced in association with Crash Ensemble and VISUAL Carlow.

Supported by Irish Theatre Trust.

Funded through an Arts Council Dance Project Award.

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Dublin Theatre Festival and The Ark once Venue: The Ark Directed by Sophie Motley Did you know that there are more than 20,000 different Tickets: €12 (public Music: Jack Cawley types of bees? The bumble bee, the solitary bee, the mining again present this ever-popular season performances) €9 previews of acclaimed international work and new – Cast: Jack Cawley, Sean Duggan, bee, the spelling bee, the vitamin B... Tickets available from the Mary-Lou McCarthy, Marie Ruane Irish theatre for families and schools. Festival Box Office: Set and Lighting Design: And then there’s Mel, the honey bee, who’s going in search online: dublintheatrefestival.com Sarah Jane Shiels of her colony. She got left behind, you see. In fact, she’s phone: +353 1 677 8899 Costume Design: Sarah Bacon not even sure how to be a bee. On the journey to find in person: 44 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Choreography: Emma O’Kane her friends she has some amazing adventures and learns Dance, jive and hive your way along an amazing adventure – – an awful lot about herself and her buzzin’ cousins. She with a cast of buzzing bees, or set out on an exciting To avail of discounted tickets for Previews: Sept 22 & 23 discovers just how important they are to us human bee-ings, journey with the most extraordinary and brave little mouse schools bookings and early-bird Dates: Sept 24 – 27 school rates (ending Sept 11) making yummy honey and pollinating the flowers that grow you’ve ever met. please contact the Ark. See page Duration: Approx. 50 mins. half of the scrummy things we eat. 72 for details. No interval. Have you ever been the odd one out or wondered what – Autism friendly performance: BEES! is a musical filled with fun and songs, dancing and that is like? Then join Barnaby and Jade who make it look For show times and details of Sept 25, 12.15pm. For further jiving, flying and hiving and absolutely no boring stuff. like fun. Our youngest audiences will be transported to schools and public performances information please phone see the full performance The Ark on +353 1 670 7788 Oh and you’ll learn lots of facts about bees along the way faraway lands as wondrous as you can imagine within the schedule on page 74. or email [email protected] (many of them will even be true). pages of a small boy’s books. – – Family Season Programmer: Constantly inventive, Ages 6+ As always, whether you’re little or not, the Family Season Maria Fleming, affectionate and beautifully will delight and entertain. Theatre Programmer, The Ark performed. The Irish Times on ‘FARM’

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Family Season Family Season Manxmouse Up to Speed

by Paul Gallico Dean Reinford Photo © Kyle by Rosalind Sydney Photo © Eoin Carey

Manxmouse is no ordinary mouse. He’s the strangest little Directed by Josee Hussaarts Created by Rosalind Sydney Barnaby is completely off the wall! mouse you’ll ever see, with bright blue fur, huge rabbit ears Performers: Ferdi Janssen, and Laurie Brown Jade likes to be in control. and a distinct lack of tail. Siem van Leeuwen, Steven Stavast, Cast includes: Laurie Brown But today Barnaby hasn’t turned up for school, Hans Thissen Set and Costume Design: And it looks like Jade’s got some explaining to do... But Manxmouse doesn’t mind being different. A fearless Set and Costume Design: Claire Halleran adventurer, he sets out on an exciting journey, braving Barbara Kroon Sound Design: Danny Krass Have you ever met a person who is a little unusual? fearsome foxes, terrified hawks and dastardly pet-shop owners Puppets: Siem van Leeuwen Movement Director: Janice Parker Someone whose mind seems to work a bit differently? until, finally, he encounters his greatest foe… the Manx Cat! Lighting Design: Voiceover: Simon Donaldson Who surprises you? Who is funny and also fun to laugh at? Henk van der Geest – – That’s what Barnaby is like. Theatergroep Kwatta is a renowned Dutch children’s theatre Dates: Oct 8 & 9 Dates: Oct 1 – 4 company whose tale of an unlikely hero will teach us all Duration: Approx. 55 mins. Jade has marvelled and laughed at him, been surprised important lessons about what can be accomplished with Duration: Approx. 60 mins. No interval. and confused by him. But he has also made her feel small. No interval. – a little hope and bravery. – And she knows exactly how to get him back. Tremendous Ages 6+ An adorable blend of «««« Up to Speed is a funny, moving and captivating tale about puppetry, performance and The Herald a boy and a girl and the mysteries of the universe! resourceful cunning. Ages 8+ Herald Tribune Commissioned by Imaginate 2014. Produced in association with Platform.

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by Giacomo Ravicchio Photo © Thomas Petri Join us today to avail of memberships role starting from just €115. Even though he is only a little boy, Elliot has a lot of big Created, Designed and things on his mind. So big, in fact, that he is very much Composed by Giacomo Ravicchio awake when he should be fast asleep. Cast: Lars Begtrup, Therese Glahn you can become Set Design: Steen Molls Rasmussen Elliot has a goldfish and a tiger and a lion made of plastic. Costume Design: Helene Thygesen He has a favourite teddy bear that understands him and – follows him wherever he goes. Dates: Oct 10 & 11 play a friend Duration: 35 mins. No interval. He also loves his books. He can’t read any of the words – in them yet, but the pictures can take him far, far away – Giacomo Ravicchio is across countries and kingdoms, to a world where a master of the puppet he can, perhaps, find the answers he’s been looking for. theatre in all its shapes and From Giacomo Ravicchio, co-creator of Little Steps (Dublin sizes… It’s a delight to see Theatre Festival 2013), comes this tender tale about family, such perfect artistry. love and the magic of imagination. Teateravisen

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This year the programme extends far Getting there from Dublin Freely adapted by the In the winter of 1847 the famine ship Star of the Sea sets city centre beyond the city centre to Dublin’s lively company from the novel sail for the Promised Land. Among the passengers are by Joseph O’Connor axis:Ballymun a maidservant, a ruined lord, and a ruthless murderer. towns and suburbs, for a season of – Dublin Bus routes 4, 13 Devised and Performed by Festival on Tour! Máiréad Ní Chróinín, Ionia Ní Moving between the wild landscape of Connemara and the Civic Theatre, Tallaght Chróinín, Morgan Cooke, Grace claustrophobic confines of the famine ship, this sweeping – LUAS red line Kiely, Zita Monahan, Simon Boyle – Dublin Bus routes 54a, 49, production charts the lives of the three characters, from the 50, 56a, 65, 65b, 77, 77a Set Design: Lian Bell childhoods that shaped them to their final, fateful journey. Lighting Design: Matt Burke Festival on Tour features two acclaimed Irish productions Draíocht, Blanchardstown The voyage comes to life as six performers use projection, – Dublin Bus routes 39, 39a, 76a Costume Design: Cherie White revived following rave reviews during their first, sold-out runs, – physicality, live sound effects and music to conjure the Star of the Sea and Hooked!. Luck Just Kissed You Hello will Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray Venue: Draíocht, Blanchardstown worlds of the characters on a bare stage. – Southbound DART travel to Mermaid Arts Centre and Draíocht, while Fishamble Dates: Sept 24 – 26, 8pm – Dublin Bus routes 145, 184, Based on the best-selling novel by Joseph O’Connor and will premiere Colin Murphy’s Bailed Out! at the Pavilion Theatre. 45, 84, 45a Tickets: €18 a sell-out hit of the 2014 Galway International Arts Festival, Duration: Approx. 2 hrs incl. Tickets for all Festival on Tour productions are available Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire Star of the Sea is an inspiring new work told through – Southbound DART interval. directly from the venue and from the Festival Box Office: – – Dublin Bus routes 7, 7a, 8, Moonfish Theatre’s signature bilingual style. online: dublintheatrefestival.com 45a, 46a, 59, 75, 111 A lesson in theatre magic… Performed through English and Irish. Contains nudity. phone: +353 1 677 8899 Driving directions, information an extraordinary and in person: 44 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 about parking and a detailed Venue devastating story. Guide are available on our website. Irish Daily Mail For address information and phone numbers see page 72. dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com Verdant56 Productions, Fishamble: The New 56-57 Ireland Play Company, Ireland

Festival on Tour Festival on Tour Hooked! Bailed Out! by Gillian Grattan Photo © Ste Murray by Colin Murphy

Attractive young Dubliner Lydia retreats to a country village Directed by Don Wycherley Directed by Conall Morrison ‘Hell is at the gates.’ in an attempt to escape from her past and reinvent her Cast: Steve Blount, Tina Kellegher, – On November 28th 2010 Brian Lenihan, Ireland’s Minister for future. She moves in next door to Tom and Mary, the typical Séana Kerslake Venue: Pavilion Theatre, – Dún Laoghaire Finance, alone at the airport en route to Brussels looked into country neighbours. Venue: axis:Ballymun Previews: Sept 23 – 25, 8pm the snow and thought, ‘This is terrible. No Irish minister has Or are they? Dates: Sept 25 & 26, 8pm Sept 26, 2pm ever had to do this before.’ – Dates: Sept 26 & Sept 29 – Oct 2, 8pm Lydia quickly becomes the object of curiosity, not only Venue: Civic Theatre, Tallaght Sept 27 & Oct 4, 2pm Bailed Out! tells the story of how Ireland fell into the jaws of Oct 3, 2pm & 8pm for Tom and Mary, but for the community at large. Tension Dates: Sept 29 – Oct 3, 8pm the Troika. mounts between the two women, setting in motion a – Tickets: €16 – €22 Following the smash-hit success of Guaranteed!, hailed by gripping and unexpected chain of events that threatens to Venue: Pavilion Theatre, Duration: Approx. 90 mins. No interval. President Michael D. Higgins as ‘a very important play’, Fishamble expose the secrets and lies bubbling beneath the surface of Dún Laoghaire – presents this new drama-documentary by playwright and this close-knit rural community. Dates: Oct 8 & 9, 8pm – Talking Theatre journalist Colin Murphy. Sept 27, 29, 30 and Oct 2, post-show. A very funny – and sometimes alarming – look at the Venue: Draíocht, Blanchardstown With Colin Murphy, members of the Based on official accounts and off-the-record interviews, the realities of modern small-town Ireland, Hooked! makes Date: Oct 10, 8pm Fishamble team, and special guests actors take up these documents for a stripped-back production, a welcome return to Dublin’s stages following its hugely – from the worlds of politics, arts, finance and community activism. to embody a myriad of national and international figures as they successful premiere production in Waterford and at the Tickets: €18 – wrestle with the crisis. You will come away informed, enraged Viking Theatre earlier this year. Duration: 80 mins. No interval. A national event… the arts – and perhaps a little heart-broken. Contains strong language. community has the guts to Hooked! is a cracker. Contains strong language. do what the political system Sunday Independent has failed to do. Co-commissioned by Fishamble: The New Play Company and Pavilion Theatre. Fintan O’Toole on ‘Guaranteed!’ dublintheatrefestival.comwww.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com festival58 club / 58-59 theatre tent at electric picnic

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Festival Club at Odessa Open Mon–Sun, 12pm–12.30am. Get more from the festival with Festival + The Festival Club is open to all our artists, audiences and Open late Fri & Sat until 2.30am. Free WiFi. Food served until 11pm. volunteers throughout the festival, from 24 September to 11 Odessa Club, 13 Dame Court, A series of panel discussions, critical October 2015. Join friends and fellow theatre-goers during Dublin 2 events and work-in-progress showcases. the week for afternoon coffee, great food, pre and post-show odessa.ie drinks and music. Bring your show ticket or ticket stub to the The programme’s French Focus continues door to enjoy free admission and discounts at the bar. with lectures by Supertalk and a late-night party. Details of post-show Talking Theatre

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Tickets Booking and information Electric Picnic Music and Arts Festival 2015 Venue: The Theatre Tent, Admission to Festival+ events is phone: +353 1 677 8899 For the fourth successive year Dublin Theatre Festival goes MindField Arena free but ticketed unless otherwise in person: Dublin Theatre Dates: Sat 5 & Sun 6 Sept, on tour to Stradbally, where we’ll present a series of festival- specified. Advance booking is Festival Box Office, 44 East 12 noon–6pm advised as seats are limited. Essex Street, Temple Bar, fit performances from some of Ireland’s most exciting Dublin 2. performers, artists and theatre-makers.

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Sample more French culture with talks Quoi De Neuf? with Teleoke In Development As a result the transcripts The Little Museum of Dublin – and music specially chosen for festival+ and Nialler9 DJ set Dublin Theatre Festival is we’re working from are The Private View by Trevor White We’re throwing a party. In committed to supporting Irish incomplete and unreliable. John Lowe accepted the Tickets and information: see page 76. partnership with the annual artists in creating ambitious The biggest challenge we’ve surrender of Patrick Pearse at Irish music showcase festival and high-quality new faced, however, is that aliens the end of the Easter Rising. Hard Working Class Heroes work. Our In Development frequently burst into song. Trevor White, Director of the SuperTalk Conferences WiFi, from Antiquity to Today we’ve invited music blogger programme offers theatre- Little Museum of Dublin, sets Disclaimer: Aliens do not have SuperTalk spreads by Marie Lechner and curator Nialler9 to put a makers a platform to stage out to celebrate Lowe, who perfect pitch or harmonise unconventional wisdom by visuals by Cédric Scandella spin on the French Focus in their works-in-progress went on to become a famous well together. giving a soapbox to passionate this year’s programme. for Irish and international actor in Hollywood – but Billions of messages pass enthusiasts. Its conferences audiences and theatre Funded through an Arts Council celebration isn’t as easy as it through each one of us every The result is a one-off Theatre Project Award. embrace culture in the presenters. Audiences will sounds, as we soon discover second – particles shooting performance by Kilkenny broadest sense – from The have an opportunity to see Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) in this provocative new play out of the sun, voices from the drummer and multi- Date: Oct 2, 3pm Sopranos to burger shacks. pieces at a critical phase in about the founding myths dead buried in radio static, instrumentalist Rarely Seen – their development, while of the Irish state, directed indiscernible salutations from Above Ground (R.S.A.G.) and The Performance Corporation American Rock Trip – artists, writers and directors by Gerard Stembridge. extra-terrestrials… Parisian DJ, producer and and Boca del Lupo – Expedition The USA through its rock will use the space to try out label owner, Cosmo Vitelli – by Jay Dodge, Jo Mangan, Venue: The Little Museum museums and other pop By examining the countless new ideas. of Dublin together known as Teleoke. Tom Swift, Sherry Yoon cabinets of curiosity ways we are wirelessly tied Dates: Oct 1 – 3, 6pm Past In Development Imagine the world a century by Stéphane Malfettes to the world can we start Also on the night Nialler9 presentations have gone on to from now. What will we have visuals by Cédric Scandella to imagine the impalpable will host a DJ set in The ANU Productions – Sunder enjoy successful productions learned and how will we look surrounding us? That which Garden of the Grand Social Over the past 100 years The New World may not have as part of Dublin Theatre back? In a series of provocative was called “ether” in the past, alongside special guest there have been punctuated a Château de Versailles – but Festival and have toured at and ironic interventions the and is now on offer with your selectors, featuring French- moments of rebellion, they do have Prince and BB home and abroad to critical audience are “future historians”, pay-as-you-go 4G plan. tinged music spanning the incitement and terrorism King! Having crisscrossed and public acclaim. trying to make sense of today’s shifting the optic in how the Date: Sept 27, 1.15pm past 30 years. 12,000 kilometres of the USA, mistakes with the luxury of 100 role of the Irish revolutionary – Stéphane Malfettes wrote See you there – music UMCK Productions – years of hindsight. This work is is perceived. Historical the book American Rock Trip, Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) sounds better with you. Alien Documentary by Una the first step in a larger scale Tickets: €10 accounts of the Easter Rising which he has transformed into McKevitt. Music by Aidan event to be staged in European Venue: The Grand Social tend to describe the conflict a “stand-up conference” with Date: Oct 3, midnight Strangeman and Canadian port cities. almost solely in terms of a cast of colourful characters, Tickets: €10 It’s actually pretty hard to Please note that this performance male participation. A work photos, videos, and music clips make an Alien Documentary. takes place outdoors. Dress for the In Development, Sunder will galore. Rock ‘n’ roll like you’ve Aliens are cagey. They don’t weather. This series of events over 3 hours encourages the audience focus on ordinary women and never experienced it before! like signing release forms, to come and go as they please. the final hours of the rebellion. talking about themselves Date: Sept 26, 1.15pm Funded through an Arts Council Funded through an Arts Council or being on stage. Their Theatre Project Award. Theatre Project Award. language is complex and their Venue: Meeting at chq Building Venue: National Museum of Ireland, translators self-appointed. main entrance Collins Barracks With the support of Date: Oct 2, from 4pm Date: Oct 2, 2pm & Oct 3, 12pm Oct 3, from 11am dublintheatrefestival.com festival62-6362 + 62-63 Discussions Artist Development Critical Events and Readings and Networking

Found in Translation – RTÉ Arts Tonight at Dublin Belvedere Youth Club The Next Stage International Theatre Blast: International Irish Plays and Playwrights Theatre Festival A Rehearsed Reading The artist development strand eXchange 2015 Critics’ Forum Presented in association with Arts Tonight with Vincent We are proud to present a of the festival, The Next Irish Theatre Institute, in The full effect of a performance the Stewart Parker Trust, this Woods is RTÉ Radio 1’s anchor rehearsed reading performed Stage is open to national partnership with Culture can take a while to settle. As panel discussion will address weekly programme which by Belvedere Youth Club. and international theatre Ireland and Dublin Theatre our live encounters resolve and review contemporary takes a considered look at and dance practitioners. Festival, presents International into memories, we shape Based off Amiens Street, Irish playwrights in translation. culture and the arts in Ireland Theatre eXchange (ITX) 2015, our reactions into an opinion the Club provides a Over 18 immersive days Writers and translators will and internationally. a programme of showcasing available to share. So, what comprehensive youth service participants are exposed to discuss the subtle challenges In association with Dublin events for presenters and did you think? in the North Inner City. Its world-class art, talks with of bringing plays to the stage Theatre Festival, Arts Tonight producers from festivals and aims include organising renowned directors, producers As part of our annual season in other languages, while will record two programmes venues across the world. programmes that benefit the and artists and master-classes of panels and public keeping meaning, metaphor of in-depth interviews and wider community and prepare and workshops led by leading discussions, the makers and humour intact. discussions before live This annual networking event young people for their future. theatre-makers. Past speakers of ‘Blast’, a new podcast on audiences, hosted by Vincent offers Irish artists programmed Panellists will include Joanna and workshop leaders include Irish theatre, will host a lively Woods and produced by Over the course of two years during the festival the ideal Derkaczew – who has Anne Bogart, John Collins, Tim critical conversation about the Clíodhna Ní Anluain. Dublin Theatre Festival has environment to develop translated work by Pan Pan Crouch, Declan Donnellan, context for this year’s work, its worked with the Club to international relationships Theatre, Deirdre Kinahan, Richard Gregory, Garry history and reception, and the Conor McPherson: arrange theatre trips and and promote their shows for Amy Conroy and Tom Murphy Hynes, Ruth Little, Stephen talking points of the festival. A Critical Interview enlist theatre makers to touring. ITX 2015 will include among others – and Eugene Rea, Tiago Rodrigues, Fiona To coincide with the help nurture the artists and a programme of pitching Bringing together Irish and O’Brien, whose own play Eden Shaw, Colm Tóibín, Enda Irish premiere of Conor audiences of tomorrow. sessions and an International international critics, this opened in a new translation in Walsh and Deborah Warner. McPherson’s award-winning Networking Lunch accessible forum considers performance Bucharest in June this year. The group began to formalise The Next Stage also creates play The Night Alive, Arts to registered delegates only. from several angles and its approach to the creation valuable opportunities for Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) Tonight will host an in-depth welcomes audience feedback. Date: Oct 8, 3pm of theatre in 2014. Through enriching engagement Registration is essential as interview with the playwright. Here we consider the secret workshops with practitioners, among participants, capacity is limited. Venue: Project Arts Centre life and public display of the participants have explored with past programmes (Space Upstairs) creation, while asking if new Date: Sept 26, 1pm existing texts and devised sparking successful artistic irishtheatreinstitute.ie approaches to criticism can original work that nurtures collaborations. Supported by the Arts Council offer fresh insights into an The Art of Sound their personal development and Culture Ireland. Participation in the 2015 ever-changing art form. If Inspired by the work in and reflects their collective programme is by application Venue: Wood Quay there’s nothing more deadly this year’s programme, social priorities. Conference Centre encompassing opera, the only, from 22 July. Date: Oct 2, 10am – 5pm than consensus, this new We invite you to join us for discussion also provides an musical and dance, a panel Find out more and register this exciting debut. opportunity for spirited debate, of theatre artists will engage through our website. in a discussion about the Supported by The Ireland Funds. challenge and perhaps Presented in partnership with something rarer still – a art of sound as made by Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) Theatre Forum. Funded through contemporary practitioners. Date: Oct 11, 1pm the Arts Council Theatre chance to change your mind. Development Fund. Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) Date: Oct 10, 1pm Date: Oct 9, 3pm

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Young Critics’ Panel I’ll sing you a song from The Arthur Miller Centenary The Young Critics’ Panel around the town To mark the centenary of returns for a 12th year. One A new exhibition by Arthur Miller’s birth, Dublin of NAYD’s most popular internationally recognised Theatre Festival, the Gate NXTSTP programmes, it is open to and critically acclaimed artist, Theatre and the UCD Clinton youth theatre members who Amanda Coogan, will run at Institute present The Arthur are interested in watching the Royal Hibernian Academy Miller Centenary – a tribute to theatre and discovering how during this year’s festival. the man and his work. ‘Raising one foot and Eight European festivals have real transnational circulation and why theatre is made. The celebration will involve joined forces to stimulate and a high visibility amongst Dynamic, challenging, bringing it down After a nationwide selection international performers, the co-production and international audiences. In provocative and always somewhere else’ process, the Young Critics directors, academics and transnational circulation of new addition, the festivals offer visually stimulating, Coogan learn how to critically discuss, biographers who will host a works by the great European artist residencies to emerging uses gesture and context to analyse and review theatre. series of interviews, readings Dublin Theatre Festival artists of tomorrow and in so European and non-European make allegorical and poetic Supported over a six-month and discussions on Miller; the 2015 features three NXTSTP doing to encourage the artistic artists, providing further means works that are multi-faceted period, the 16 participants man, his life and his writing. projects, including the renewal of the contemporary to advance the performing arts and open ended. see quality productions while second Irish production in performing arts in Europe. scene in Europe. The Arthur Miller Centenary developing their critical skills Her work Yellow-Reperformed the network, Chekhov’s First will take place at the Gate The artists we want to The first term of NXTSTP ran in a safe and encouraging was presented as a special Play from the OBIE award- Theatre to the backdrop of the support through this from 2007 to 2012. Dublin atmosphere. project as part of the 2010 winning Dead Centre. In Gate’s production of Miller’s collaboration have already Theatre Festival joined the festival. In recent years she 2014, through the NXTSTP During this year’s festival A View from the Bridge which demonstrated their potential network for its second edition, has collaborated across partnership, we presented they will see a number of runs throughout the festival. in their first artistic works. which began in November disciplines with Robert Wilson, three projects by Belgian national and international Now they are ready to take 2012, supported by an award ANU Productions and Dublin Venue: Gate Theatre artists along with Pan Pan productions. You are invited Dates: Oct 10 & 11 an important next step in of funding for five years from Theatre of the Deaf among Theatre’s The Seagull and to hear them discuss their For booking and information their careers, taking on the Culture Programme of the many others. contact the Gate Theatre box office: Other Birds. This year we will findings in a public forum, projects on a larger scale European Union. gatetheatre.ie | +353 1 874 4045 welcome Halory Goerger’s chaired by Dr. Karen Fricker. Coogan’s latest exhibition, I’ll that will circulate in Europe Corps Diplomatique from sing you a song from around and reach a wider audience. NXTSTP 2 (2012–2017) is a joint project nayd.ie/programmes/young- The Abbey Theatre France and The Cherry by Kunstenfestivaldesarts, project the town, is a meeting point critics and Easter 1916 Orchard by the Belgian The NXTSTP network co- leader (Brussels), Alkantara Festival of visual art and theatre. (Lisbon), Baltoscandal (Rakvere), Join historian Fearghal McGarry ensemble tg STAN. We produces the creation of Presented in association with Incorporating sculpture and Dublin Theatre Festival, Göteborgs NAYD: The National Association for the launch of his essay The are also working with our new works, giving artists Dans & Teater Festival (Gothenburg), live performance it will appeal for Youth Drama. Abbey Theatre and Easter 1916 partners on three new valuable financial support. Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival to lovers of both disciplines. (Groningen), steirischer herbst festival Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) and for a discussion of the projects for the 2016 festival. The works are presented in (Graz), Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Date: Oct 4, 1pm Venue: Royal Hibernian Academy Abbey Theatre’s involvement different festivals, ensuring a Aquitaine (Bordeaux). Dates: 24 Sept–11 Oct, 11am–5pm (Late opening Wednesdays until in the events of Easter 1916. www.nxtstp.eu 8pm. Sundays 12pm–5pm) Venue: Abbey Theatre Free admission. 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Assisted Performances Captioning is similar Programme Notes It is important to us to We’re committed to making to television subtitling Descriptions of the set, reach as wide an audience TX3 Final Call our events accessible to and converts the spoken word characters and costumes as possible with the work audiences with disabilities into text, which is displayed are available to audiences we present each year. and to those who require on a screen on or next to who are visually impaired To facilitate access to our Good things come in threes! We continue our standby assisted services. Our the stage. When booking, or blind. These will be read events we’ve created a range TX3 is a new initiative that scheme in 2015, offering a programme includes an please ask for seats suitable 20 minutes before audio of discounts and offers for rewards die-hard festival limited number of €10 tickets audio-described performance for viewing the captions. described performances and selected performances fans. Book tickets to a for selected shows on the day and touch tour, a captioned will be available in advance across the programme. Captioned performance different show each Tuesday of the performance. Tickets performance and an autism if requested by email at – The Cherry Orchard (page 36) of the festival and receive can be purchased in person friendly performance. [email protected] Tickets and information a 15% discount on tickets. from 4pm–6pm at the Festival OReilly Theatre, Belvedere phone +353 1 677 8899 Oct 9, 7.30pm email TX3 discounts are available Box Office, on a first-come Audio description is Touch Tours [email protected] on selected productions, first-served basis. Final Call a live verbal commentary We offer a touch tour for every or drop in to see us! Autism friendly performances marked TX3 in this brochure tickets are announced daily providing information on the audio described production. are aimed at families whose and online. For information on Facebook and Twitter visual elements of a production It’s a chance to visit the set, children are on the spectrum about how to book visit during the festival. as it unfolds, from sets, props feel the props and enhance or who have sensory dublintheatrefestival.com. and costumes to actors’ facial your enjoyment of the show. sensitivities. They are relaxed expressions and movements. The tour is free and lasts performances for the whole Audio description is delivered approximately 30 minutes. family, tailored for the comfort through a personal headset. Please let us know in advance Concessions Open House of your child. if you would like to attend Audio described performance Autism friendly performance the tour by phoning our Box Dancing at Lughnasa (page 30) BEES! (page 47) Office on +353 1 677 8899. Discounted tickets to selected Register your community Gaiety Theatre The Ark performances are available organisation with us to avail Oct 10, 2.30pm Touch Tour Sept 25, 12.15pm to senior citizens, unwaged, of €10 tickets for selected Dancing at Lughnasa (page 30) Actors’ Equity and full- performances. Welfare groups, Gaiety Theatre time students with valid ID. registered charities, parent Oct 10, 2.30pm (pre-show) Concession tickets can be support groups, special needs booked in person only. groups and their carers are all Booking and Information Assisted performances of eligible for the scheme. To enable us to determine your requirements and Oedipus and ISL performances assist you fully we would request you advise us of your of Shibboleth and Oedipus are needs in advance of attending the performance. available outside festival dates. volunteer at Each year we recruit a team of enthusiastic volunteers who Please visit abbeytheatre.ie give generously of their time, energy and expertise. In return phone: +353 1 677 8899 dublin theatre for further information. we offer a stimulating and engaging work environment, an email: [email protected] festival insight into the business of organising the festival and a chance Touch tours, audio described and captioned performances to see selected shows in the programme. For more information are provided by Dublin Theatre Festival and facilitated and to apply email [email protected]. by Arts & Disability Ireland and N.I. Sightlines. dublintheatrefestival.com dublintheatrefestival.com 68-6968 visiting dublin 68-69

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Marlborough St 02 The Ark www.dublintheatrefestival.com James Joyce St 11a Eustace St, 16 Odessa Club O’Connell St Foley St Temple Bar, Dublin 2 09 Gate Theatre 13 Dame Court, Dublin 2 Constitution Hill +353 1 670 7788 Cavendish Row, www.ark.ie Parnell Sq, Dublin 1 OReilly Theatre, Belvedere 17 Parnell St +353 1 874 4045 / +353 1 874 6042 Belvedere College, N King St 03 axis:Ballymun www.gatetheatre.ie 6 Great Denmark St, Main St, Ballymun, Dublin 9 Dublin 1 Talbot St +353 1 883 2100 10 Gaiety Theatre P www.axis-ballymun.ie South King St, Dublin 2 18 Pavilion Theatre Henry St 05

0818 719388 Marine Road, Dún Laoghaire, Capel St 04 Bord Gáis Energy Theatre www.gaietytheatre.ie Co. Dublin Mary St Abbey St Lwr Grand Canal Square, +353 1 231 2929 01 Docklands, Dublin 2 11 The Grand Social www.paviliontheatre.ie Mary St Little 0818 719 377 35 Lower Liffey St, Dublin 1 Eden Quay 11 www.ticketmaster.ie 19 Project Arts Centre 14 12 The Little Museum of Dublin 39 East Essex St, 06 Ha’penny Brg 05 The chq Building 15 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2 Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Ormond Quay Lwr Custom House Quay, +353 1 661 1000 +353 1 881 9613 Burgh Quay

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06 Civic Theatre 13 Mermaid Arts Centre 20 Royal Hibernian Academy Wellington Quay Tallaght, Dublin 24 Main St, Bray, Co Wicklow 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2 P Essex Quay +353 1 462 7477 +353 1 272 4030 Temple Bar Pearse St 04 www.civictheatre.ie www.mermaidartscentre.ie 21 Samuel Beckett Theatre Wood Quay Trinity College, Dublin 2 22 07 Draíocht 14 National Museum of Ireland Entrance is via Nassau St on The Blanchardstown Centre, Collins Barracks, Saturdays and Sundays Dame St 16 Trinity College 21 Blanchardstown, Dublin 15 Benburb St, Exchequer St +353 1 885 2622 Dublin 7 22 Smock Alley Theatre 1662 www.draiocht.ie Exchange St Lwr, Dublin 8 Nassau St +353 1 677 0014 www.smockalley.com

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The Night Alive Gaiety Theatre 04 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 1h 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 45m

By Heart Smock Alley Theatre, 06 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 2.30pm 90m Main Space 7.30pm

Wallflower Project Arts Centre 08 7.45pm tt 4.45pm 4.45pm 90m (Cube) 8.45pm 8.45pm

A View from the Bridge Gate Theatre 10 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2h 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 15m

I'm Your Man Project Arts Centre 12 7.30pm pr 7.30pm tt 6.00pm 1.00pm 60m (Space Upstairs) 9.00pm

At The Ford The New Theatre 14 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 1h 7.30pm 7.30pm 40m

Chekhov's First Play Samuel Beckett Theatre 16 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 2.30pm 2.30pm 75m 7.30pm

The Last Hotel OReilly Theatre, Belvedere 18 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 80m

Newcastlewest Smock Alley Theatre, 20 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 6.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 6.30pm 70m Black Box 7.30pm

Clôture de l’amour Samuel Beckett Theatre 22 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 2h

Luck Just Kissed You Hello Project Arts Centre 24 7.45pm pr 7.45pm 7.45pm 8.45pm 4.45pm 4.45pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 90m (Cube) 8.45pm tt draíocht draíocht mermaid mermaid

Oedipus Abbey Theatre, 26 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.00pm on the Abbey Stage 7.30pm 7.30pm

Corps Diplomatique Project Arts Centre 28 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 85m (Space Upstairs)

Dancing at Lughnasa Gaiety Theatre 30 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm ap 1.00pm 2h 7.30pm tt 6.00pm 30m

The Curious Incident of Bord Gáis Energy Theatre 32 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2h the Dog in the Night-Time 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 40m

The True Story of Hansel Smock Alley Theatre, 34 2.00pm pr 7.00pm tt 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 2.00pm 2.00pm 65m and Gretel Boys' School 5.00pm pr 5.00pm 5.00pm

The Cherry Orchard OReilly Theatre, Belvedere 36 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm ap 7.30pm 2h

The Train Project Arts Centre 38 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 2.30pm 1.30pm 2h (Space Upstairs) 7.30pm 6.30pm

The Game Project Arts Centre 40 7.45pm pr 7.45pm 7.45pm 7.45pm 4.45pm 4.45pm tt 70m (Cube) 8.45pm

Shibboleth Abbey Theatre, 42 8.00pm pr 8.00pm pr 8.00pm pr 8.00pm pr 8.00pm 8.00pm tt 8.00pm 2.30pm 80m on the Peacock Stage 8.00pm

Dancehall Samuel Beckett Theatre 44 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 2.30pm 2.30pm 60m 7.30pm

BEES! The Ark 47 6.00pm pr 12.15pm sp pr 10.15am sp 10.15am sp 2.00pm 2.00pm 50m 6.00pm pr 12.15pm sp 12.15pm sp af 4.00pm 4.00pm

Manxmouse The Ark 48 10.15am sp 10.15am sp 2.00pm 2.00pm 60m 12.15pm sp 12.15pm sp 4.00pm 4.00pm

Up to Speed The Ark 49 10.15am sp 10.15am sp 55m 12.15pm sp 6.00pm

Paper Moon The Ark 50 2.00pm 2.00pm 35m 4.00pm 4.00pm

Star of the Sea Draíocht, Blanchardstown 55 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 2h

Hooked! Festival on Tour 56 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 80m axis axis civic civic civic civic civic pavilion pavilion draíocht

Bailed Out! Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire 57 8.00pm pr 8.00pm pr 8.00pm pr 2.00pm pr 2.00pm tt 8.00pm tt 8.00pm tt 8.00pm 8.00pm tt 2.00pm 2.00pm 90m 8.00pm 8.00pm booking76-376 information 76- 3

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