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We have been working hard for give an indication of how vibrant its A flourishing city should offer those 04 Hamlet, Schaubühne Berlin 24 Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, 40 Jack Charles V The Crown, months to bring together the most contemporary theatre scene is. There who live, work and visit it meaningful Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Back to Back Theatre ILBIJERRI Theatre Company exciting, engaging and diverse is another Australian production in cultural experiences and I want our OReilly Theatre, Belvedere Samuel Beckett Theatre productions for this 55th festival our ever popular Family Season, festival to be a key ingredient in what 06 Vardo, ANU Productions Oonagh Young Gallery Adishatz / Adieu, 42 Book Burning, programme. My ambition for the presented in partnership with the makes Dublin a sociable and fun 26 Jonathan Capdevielle Pieter De Buysser and festival continues to be to provide Ark. I have also invited three shows place to be. In 2017 Dublin Theatre 08 Réiltín, Fíbín Teo. Project Arts Centre Hans Op de Beeck a platform to showcase Irish theatre from Belgium that combine theatre Festival will celebrate its 60th Abbey Theatre, (Space Upstairs) Project Arts Centre to the world and to stimulate artists with other art forms and illustrate anniversary. We strive to stay relevant on the Peacock Stage (Space Upstairs) and audiences by bringing excellent how interesting the results can be for our public and to play our part in 28 what happens to the hope international work to Dublin. when these meet and mix. As the making the city great. We welcome 10 If These Spasms Could Speak, at the end of the evening, 44 notallwhowanderarelost, festival continues to grow we present support to enable us to grow the Robert Softley / The Arches Tim Crouch and Andy Smith Benjamin Verdonck The festival is a time when theatre a celebrated production of Hamlet festival, so that we can be more Project Arts Centre (Cube) Abbey Theatre, on the Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box in Dublin should be at its best. In from the Schaubühne Berlin at the ambitious and reach more people. Peacock Stage this programme I aim to reflect the Zoo, Teatro de Chile 46 Spring Awakening, Bord Gáis Energy Theatre and have Each time you buy a ticket, tell a 12 quality and range of current Irish and Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box 30 Frequency 783, Brokentalkers Dublin Youth Theatre over ten world premiere productions friend about a show they should see, international theatre, to mix humour Project Arts Centre (Cube) axis:Ballymun from some of Ireland’s most highly- or join us as a member or sponsor, and seriousness and to present 14 A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, regarded theatre companies. you help us to reach that goal. intimate performances alongside The Corn Exchange 32 Spinning, Fishamble: 48 After Sarah Miles, Samuel Beckett Theatre The New Play Company Gallarus Productions large-scale work. I would like to show There’s no doubt that these are The eighteen days of the festival are Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space Festival on Tour how versatile an art form theatre is challenging times for Ireland as well the result of the collaboration of many 16 The Seagull and Other Birds, and how it continues to reveal and as for Irish theatre. What is heartening people over a long period of time. I Pan Pan Theatre 34 Our Few and Evil Days 50 Family Season shape our everyday experience. in such an environment is the would like to thank our funders, our Project Arts Centre by Mark O’Rowe resilience that our artists have shown sponsors, the staff and volunteers, (Space Upstairs) Abbey Theatre, on the 55 Festival+ I have conceived the festival so that and the continuing keenness of their and all the artists who have made Abbey Stage Programme of special events there are multiple possible routes vision. It is more difficult than it has something special together that you, 18 The Mariner by Hugo Hamilton through it and many different styles been for some time to make theatre the audience, will enjoy. Gate Theatre 36 Perhaps all the dragons, 65 Become a Friend of work on offer. Depending on but the talent and resourcefulness BERLIN of the Festival your interests, it’s possible to see French Artist Robert Filiou said “Art Hello my name is, Smock Alley Theatre, of generations of Irish theatre 20 anything from one to more than is what makes life more interesting Nicola Gunn / SANS Hotel Banquet Hall 69 Visitor information practitioners shines through in 20 different productions. One of than art” and I hope that this is how Smock Alley Theatre, the 2014 festival programme. the enjoyable things about the you will feel when you leave the Banquet Hall 38 Paul Bright’s Confessions 74 Festival schedule at a glance programme is to find connections Culture matters. It’s what makes performances you see this year. of a Justified Sinner, Brigit & Bailegangaire, Druid Untitled Projects 76 Booking information between works – both intentional us a society. Theatre gives people 22 Welcome to the festival. The Olympia Theatre Abbey Theatre, on the and unexpected – so that the more an opportunity to come together – Peacock Stage you see the richer your experience as an audience, to think, and later will be. This year, I have selected to talk about the things that are Willie White three productions from Australia that important to them. Artistic Director and Chief Executive

www.dublintheatrefestival.com Schaubühne04 this mind-blowing, spit- reach beyond your 04-05 Berlin, Germany hurling, earth-moving expectations and encounter evening... is about what a work which is dynamic theatre can do. and utterly enthralling. The Guardian Australian Stage

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Hamlet explodes onto the stage of the Bord Gáis Energy Directed by Thomas Ostermeier Theatre as one of the world’s great theatre houses, Berlin’s Translation and Dramaturgy: Marius von Mayenburg Schaubühne, makes its long-awaited return to the festival Cast: Robert Beyer, Lars Eidinger, following the sold-out run of Hedda Gabler in 2006. Franz Hartwig, Urs Jucker, Jenny König, Sebastian Schwarz Hamlet stands on the brink of emotional decay. The last Stage Design: Jan Pappelbaum Costume Design: Nina Wetzel person with scruples in a system with none, he struggles to Music: Nils Ostendorf maintain his grip on the paranoia and indecision that threaten Video: Sébastien Dupouey to tip him over the edge. Mud-soaked and dangerous, Lighting Design: Erich Schneider Fight Choreography: René Lay spurred on by night-time visions and desperate for revenge, – he forces the world to its knees. Venue: Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Dates: Sept 25 – 27, 7.30pm On a spectacular stage covered in earth, blood and water, Tickets: €15 – €40 Duration: 2 hrs 45 mins. No interval, Thomas Ostermeier’s thrilling production cracks with energy, however re-admittance will be immediacy and raw physicality. Six remarkable actors play permitted throughout the performance. 20 characters in Denmark’s corrupt court, breathing new – Talking Theatre: life into this classic Shakespearean story of politics, passion, Sept 26, post-show. murder and betrayal. With members of the company.

Performed in German with English surtitles.

Contains loud, sudden noises.

Co-production: Hellenic Festival Athens and Festival d’Avignon. With the support of Proudly supported by Photo © Arno Declair www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 06-0706 ANU Productions, The continuing Monto Cycle is brutal, 06-07 Ireland confrontational and deeply uncomfortable but also brave, serious and superbly done, making for some of the best site-specific theatre anywhere in the world. The Irish Times

Vardo

Directed by Louise Lowe Vardo is the final part of ANU Productions’ multi award- Visual Artist: Owen Boss winning Monto Cycle (World’s End Lane, Laundry and – Venue: Oonagh Young Gallery The Boys of Foley Street), which spans the last one Previews: Sept 23 & 24 hundred years of history in Dublin. Dates: Sept 25 – Oct 12, every half hour from 3pm – 6pm & 7pm – 9.30pm Operating 24 hours a day and barely hidden beneath the (No performances on Mondays) Tickets: €15 – €20 city’s surface, an army of undocumented workers fuel a Duration: Approx. 60 mins. No interval. thriving invisible economy. They are transient, they are – temporary, they are traffic. Real names and identities are NOW-THEN-NOW: Witnessing Future History hidden and what we see is not necessarily what we get. Oct 7 & 8: A conference inspired by the work of ANU Productions, A boundary-pushing, site-specific work, Vardo will presented in partnership with Create. take audiences on a stimulating and intimate journey For details see page 59. to explore first-hand the present day underworld of Dublin’s north inner city.

Contains strong language and material that some may find disturbing. This event is of a participatory nature and limited to 4 people per performance. This performance is not suitable for patrons who have impaired mobility or special access requirements.

Supported by Create – the National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts in social and community contexts.

Photo © Owen Boss Photo © Owen www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 08 Fíbín Teo., ‘They promised we would have our day 08-09 Ireland And said it would never end We would inherit the world But we are only fools Who never learnt to dream.’

Réiltín le Paul Mercier

Directed by Paul Mercier Réiltín is a fallout girl. This is not how her life was supposed Cast: Clíona Ní Chiosáin to be – she was destined to be a singer. She needs to Composer: Simon Noble Camera: Mícheál Ó Dúbháin escape her dead-end world before it is too late. Back for Sound Design: Paul Rowland one night only, Réiltín is about to give the gig of her life. Video: Étaín Ní Thuairisg – ‘Gheall siad dúinn go mbeadh ár lá againn Venue: Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock Stage Bhí siad cinnte nach mbeadh deireadh leis Preview: Sept 24, 8pm Gur linne an domhan Dates: Sept 25, 8pm Níl ionann ach amadáin Sept 26, 6.30pm Sept 27, 2.30pm & 6.30pm Nach dtuigeann céard is aisling ann.’ Sept 28, 2.30pm Tickets: €15 – €25 Toradh í Réiltín ar phraiseach eacnamaíochta. Ní mar seo Duration: 60 mins. No interval. a bhí a saol ceaptha a bheith – bhí sé i ndán di bheith ina – Talking Theatre: hamhránaí. Caithfidh sí éalú ón saol drogallach seo sula bhfuil Sept 25, post-show. sé ródheireanach. Agus í tagtha ar ais d’aon oíche amháin, With members of the company. tá Réiltín ar tí an seó is mó ina saol go dtí seo a thabhairt.

Known for their highly visual and energetic productions, Fíbín Teo. have been described as “The Future of Irish language Theatre” (BBC Northern Ireland). Réiltín is no different, featuring original music composed by Simon Noble and performed by Clíona Ní Chiosáin.

Performed in Irish, with English surtitles on Sept 24 & 26. Smoke machines and strobe lighting are used during the show. Contains strong language.

Photo © Jane Talbot www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 10-1110 Robert Softley / a strong, sexy sense of the sheer 10-11 The Arches, UK value and beauty of life. The Scotsman

If These Spasms Could Speak by Robert Softley

Performed by Robert Softley We know you want to look, to stare even. It’s OK. You’re allowed… Director: Sam Rowe Musical Director: Scott Twynholm If These Spasms Could Speak is an outstanding solo Music: Scott Twynholm and Stuart David performance based on a collection of funny, sad, touching – and surprising stories about disabled people and their bodies. Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) Dates: Sept 25 & 26, 7.45pm Created and performed by Robert Softley, it exposes a truth Sept 27, 2.45pm & 7.45pm Tickets: €15 – €20 behind bodies that differ from the norm. His own narrative – told Duration: 60 mins. No interval. with wry humour, charm and sincerity – is woven through with – video interviews and monologue in an engaging and highly Talking Theatre: Sept 27, post-show (2.45pm). charismatic way. It is both a challenge to society’s perceptions With Robert Softley. and desire for classifications, and a celebration of being alive.

All performances will be audio A sell-out hit at festivals and events across the UK, If These described and captioned. Spasms Could Speak is a tender and uplifting theatre experience. Sign language interpreted performance: Contains strong language. Sept 27, 2.45pm

With the support of

Photo © Eoin Carey www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 12-1312 Teatro de Chile, loaded with humour, 12-13 Chile absurd and provocative. Otro Lunes Revista Hispanoamericana de Cultura

Zoo

Directed by Manuela Infante One of the most highly-regarded young theatre groups in Cast: Cristián Carvajal, Ariel Hermosilla, Chile, Teatro de Chile develop creative processes driven by Héctor Morales, Juan Pablo Peragallo, Valentina Parada experimentation and investigation. In Zoo, they construct Video: Nicole Senerman a unique ethnic group and its complete worldview as two Design: Claudia Yolin and scientists present their astonishing lifetime discovery: the Rocío Hernández Music and Sound Design: last two Tzoolkman people, found 18 months ago. Diego Noguera – Obsessed with the idea of having to preserve the Tzoolkman Venue: Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box culture they face an insurmountable problem: how can they Dates: Sept 25 & 26, 7.30pm Sept 27, 2.30pm & 7.30pm conserve a culture when its central feature is the need to Sept 28, 2.30pm imitate as a way to survive? Tickets: €20 – €25 Duration: 60 mins. No interval. Zoo explores the problematic notion of the production – Talking Theatre: of knowledge by examining the most common academic Sept 27, post-show (7.30pm). performance format: the lecture. How much of what is said With Manuela Infante and members is valuable and how much is a fantasy and a lie? Does it even of the company. matter if we know?

Performed in Spanish with English surtitles.

Co-production: Festival Teatro a Mil and Festival Internacional Buenos Aires.

Photo © Teatro de Chile S.A. Photo © Teatro www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 14-1514 The Corn Exchange, [McBride] is definitely a genius … 14-15 Ireland Truth-spilling, uncompromising and brilliant … An instant classic. Anne Enright, The Guardian

A Girl is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride. Adapted for the stage by Annie Ryan

Directed by Annie Ryan Creators of festival hits Freefall, Dubliners and Desire Under the Cast: Aoife Duffin Elms, The Corn Exchange bring to the stage an extraordinary Music and Sound Design: Mel Mercier Set Design: Lian Bell and vital new voice in contemporary fiction. Lighting Design: Sinéad Wallace Costume Design: Katie Crowley Winner of numerous literary awards including the Baileys – Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014, Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre Previews: Sept 25 – 27, 7.30pm Half-formed Thing follows the inner narrative of a girl from the Dates: Sept 28, 6pm womb to the age of twenty with vivid intensity and originality. Sept 30 – Oct 3, 7.30pm This is a character of astonishing resilience and intelligence; Oct 4, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Oct 5, 2.30pm someone determined to make sense of things amidst the Tickets: €20 – €30 crushing Catholicism and poverty of her Irish childhood. Duration: Approx. 85 mins. No interval. – Rebellious, unrelenting, with biting wit and brilliant spark, Talking Theatre: Sept 30, post-show. Eimear McBride writes with an urgency that will be totally With Annie Ryan. electric in performance.

Adapted for the stage and directed by Annie Ryan, and featuring award-winning actress Aoife Duffin (Moone Boy), A Girl is a Half-formed Thing promises to be an unforgettable theatrical experience.

Contains violent and sexually explicit material that some may find disturbing. Suggested for audiences aged 18+.

Proudly supported by

Photo © Richard Gilligan Photo © Richard www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 16-1716 Pan Pan Theatre, Magnificently stimulating and 16-17 Ireland thought-provoking theatre in an equally devastating setting. Not to be missed. Sunday Independent on Pan Pan Theatre’s ‘The Rehearsal, Playing The Dane’

*Americanitis presents The Seagull and Other Birds

Directed by Gavin Quinn The Seagull and Other Birds is a roller coaster reimagining Cast: Andrew Bennett, Una McKevitt, of Anton Chekhov’s much-loved comic masterpiece. Gina Moxley, Samantha Pearl, Daniel Reardon, Dick Walsh Design: Aedín Cosgrove The performance centres around a concise new version Costumes: Grace O’Hara of The Seagull integrated with a number of works specially Assistant Director: Zoe Ní Riordáin commissioned by the company. Through the wormhole – Venue: Project Arts Centre of the new work, Chekhov’s characters find themselves in (Space Upstairs) extraordinarily different contexts: classic plays, TV shows, Previews: Sept 25 – 27, 7.30pm YouTube and stuff they’ve just made up. Sept 28, 6.30pm Dates: Sept 29, 7.30pm Oct 2 & 3, 6.30pm The result is playful and uncompromising – expect lots of Oct 4, 2.30pm & 6.30pm talk about art, some action, and tons of love. Oct 5, 2.30pm Tickets: €15 – €25 Creators of The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane and Everyone Duration: Approx. 90 mins. No interval. – Is King Lear In His Own Home, Pan Pan Theatre continue to Talking Theatre: explore and document wholly original ways to experience Oct 4, post-show (2.30pm). and experiment with theatre. With Gavin Quinn and members of the company. *Americanitis, the baby steps of narcissism.

Contains strong language and material of an adult nature.

Co-production: Dublin Theatre Festival and Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival Groningen. Project co-produced by NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

Photo © Paul Wright Photo © Paul www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 18-1918 Gate Theatre, touching, intelligent, humorous and 18-19 Ireland heart-wrenching in equal measure. Evening Herald on Hugo Hamilton’s ‘The Speckled People’

The Mariner by Hugo Hamilton

Directed by Patrick Mason This autumn the Gate Theatre Dublin presents the world – premiere of The Mariner, by Hugo Hamilton. Venue: Gate Theatre Previews: Sept 25, 26 & 29, 7.30pm Sept 27, 2.30pm & 7.30pm 1916 – A sailor with the Royal Navy returns home injured from Dates: Sept 30 – Oct 3 & Oct 6 – 10, 7.30pm the First World War Battle of Jutland in the North Sea, unable Oct 4 & 11, 2.30pm & 7.30pm to speak or tell his own story. His wife welcomes him back Tickets: €25 (all performances) Duration: 90 mins. No interval. with open arms, but the war has changed him and his mother – begins to question whether this really is her son. Thursday Talks in the Gate Lab Oct 2, 6.30pm: Kevin Myers discusses As the facts begin to emerge, the conflict between the Irish involvement in the Royal Navy during World War I and the Battle of Jutland. sailor’s wife and mother intensifies. This exciting new play – from Hugo Hamilton revolves around loyalty, defeat and Oct 9, 6.30pm: The Irish and World War I: freedom. It is a story in which his wife takes on the wisdom Professor John Horne in conversation with the Director of The Mariner, from Irish writer Edith Somerville, that “only true love can Patrick Mason. rescue her husband now.” – Thursday Talks in the Gate Lab are As the mariner slowly relearns to speak, his true identity free but ticketed events. For more information and to reserve a place will be revealed. contact the Gate Theatre Box Office on +353 1 874 4045.

www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 20-2120 Nicola Gunn / SANS This is an uplifting and effortlessly 20-21 HOTEL, Australia clever show. Nicola Gunn is an extraordinary comic talent. The Age

Australian Season Hello my name is

Created and performed by Warm as a spring day and unexpectedly fun like a game of Nicola Gunn table tennis, Hello my name is is about getting to know you. Dramaturgy: David Woods Production Design: Nicola Gunn and Gwen Holmberg-Gilchrist Set in a community centre – or a room called a community Video: Cobie Orger centre – you are cast as a workshop participant and carefully – led through a series of activities that chaotically and humorously Venue: Smock Alley Theatre, Banquet Hall describe how to have a conversation. Nicola Gunn is your Dates: Sept 30 – Oct 2, 7.30pm volunteer team leader. Her mission: to change the world. Oct 3, 6pm Oct 4, 2.30pm & 6pm Part personal confession, part social commentary and part trust Oct 5, 2.30pm Tickets: €20 – €25 exercise, Hello my name is creates a unique, playful and moving Duration: 70 mins. No interval. experience that puts the audience in the action. Enter with an – open mind and this joyous event will remind you how to engage Talking Theatre: Oct 1, post-show. with (and celebrate) the act of living together. With Nicola Gunn. Contains nudity and strong language. This performance is of a participatory nature and will include a short outdoor walk.

Photo © Pier Carthew www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com Druid,2222-23 Ireland A major play from a major Irish playwright, 22-23 Bailegangaire is as complex and haunting as one of Yeats’ later poems. The Sunday Telegraph

Brigit & Bailegangaire by Tom Murphy

Brigit Bailegangaire Directed by Garry Hynes ‘I’d like it to be perfect … Beautiful … The statue … ‘The countryside produced a few sensations in the Set and Costume Design: Francis O’Connor Unbeatable … I’d like it to be what I feel … And I last couple of years, but my grand plan: I’ll show Lighting Design: Rick Fisher don’t know what that is.’ them what can happen at the dark of night in a Sound Design: Gregory Clarke field. I’ll come to grips with my life.’ Cast includes: Jane Brennan, Seamus is an odd-job man with ‘a great pair Bosco Hogan, Marie Mullen, Rachel O’Byrne, Aisling O’Sullivan, of hands.’ He is given ‘a commission’ by the Mommo tells over and over again a story Marty Rea, Catherine Walsh church to carve a statue. His previous work for she never finishes. It relates how the town of – the church was none too happy. However, he Bochtán came to be known as Baileganagaire, Venue: The Olympia Theatre – reluctantly accepts the commission and as he the town without laughter. Her granddaughter Brigit: works on the statue his obsession with it grows: Mary ministers to her side, while dreaming of Dates: Oct 1 & 4, 6pm it comes to involve his family which is on the leaving forever, and Dolly counts down the Oct 2, 8pm Oct 5, 4pm breadline – his wife, Mommo, and the three days before her husband returns from England, Duration: Approx. 60 mins. grandchildren they’ve inherited. determined, this time, to be ready for him. No interval. – Bailegangaire occurs thirty years later. First premiered by Druid in 1985 with Siobhán Bailegangaire: Dates: Oct 1, 3 & 4, 8pm McKenna, Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire is Oct 5, 6pm considered one of the crowning achievements Duration: Approx. 2 hrs 45 mins of Irish drama, casting an unyielding but incl. interval. – tender light on a trinity of women’s lives from Tickets: a dark time. Single show: €15 – €35 Both shows: €20 – €60 – Talking Theatre: Proudly supported by Oct 4, post-show (Bailegangaire). With Garry Hynes and Tom Murphy.

www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com Photo © Amelia Stein Back24 to Back Theatre, a vital, senses-sharpening 24-25 Australia tonic for theatergoers who feel they’ve seen it all. The New York Times

Australian Season Ganesh Versus the Third Reich

Ganesh Versus the Third Reich is poignant, heart-warming, Created by Mark Deans, beautiful, disarming and full of vulnerability. Marcia Ferguson, Bruce Gladwin, Nicki Holland, Simon Laherty, Sarah Mainwaring, Scott Price, The story begins with the elephant-headed god Ganesh Kate Sulan, Brian Tilley, David Woods travelling through Nazi Germany to reclaim the Swastika, Director: Bruce Gladwin an ancient Hindu symbol. As the intrepid hero embarks on Cast: Mark Deans, Simon Laherty, Scott Price his journey a second narrative is revealed: before our very Luke Ryan, Brian Tilley eyes the show takes on its own life and the actors begin Set Design and Construction: to feel the weighty responsibility of storytellers. A young Mark Cuthbertson Costume Design: Shio Otani man inspired to create a play about Ganesh – the god of Composer: Jóhann Jóhannsson overcoming obstacles – must find the strength to surmount Design and Animation: Rhian Hinkley the difficulties in his own life, and defend his play and his Lighting Design: Andrew Livingston (Bluebottle) collaborators against an overbearing colleague. – Venue: OReilly Theatre, Belvedere A multi award-winning production, which has received critical Dates: Oct 1 – Oct 4, 7.30pm acclaim worldwide, Ganesh Versus the Third Reich explores Tickets: €25 – €30 Duration: 1 hr 40 mins. No interval. how we are involved in creating and dismantling the world, – human possibility and hope. It invites us to examine who has Talking Theatre: the right to tell a story and who has the right to be heard. Oct 2, post-show. With Bruce Gladwin and members of the company. Performed in English, German and Sanskrit with English surtitles. Audio described and captioned performance: Oct 3, 7.30pm. A touch tour will also be available pre-show. Photo © Jeff Busby www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 26 Jonathan Capdevielle, a larger-than-life solo show where Capdevielle 26-27 France confronts a massive and empty stage for a medley of disco and baroque music, brightening the corners with a collection of hits by Madonna and Francis Cabrel. Les Inrockuptibles

Adishatz / Adieu

Created and performed by Jonathan Capdevielle spent his teenage years learning Jonathan Capdevielle to imitate pop icons, singing the greatest hits from Lighting Design: Patrick Riou Choir: ECUME university choral 1980s pop culture – especially those by Madonna. group of Montpellier Musical Direction: Sylvie Golgevit Adishatz / Adieu is his self-portrait; a collection of – songs that wanders between real life and fantasy. As his Venue: Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) performance moves between music and conversation, Dates: Oct 1, 7.30pm he conjures up memories of his childhood and a past Oct 2 – 4, 9.30pm that continues to inform his shifting identity. Tickets: €20 – €25 Duration: 50 mins. No interval. – On a journey to capture as closely as possible the Talking Theatre: personas of others, Capdevielle strives to discover the Oct 1, post-show. most truthful version of himself. Sung a cappella and With Jonathan Capdevielle. featuring a male choir, Adishatz / Adieu is a powerful study of the vulnerability of adolescence.

Performed in English and French, with English surtitles.

Contains strong language and material which some may find disturbing.

Executive production: Bureau Cassiopée. Co-production: Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier Languedoc Roussillon dans le cadre de domaines, Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté à Belfort dans le cadre de l’accueil-studio and BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen.

With the support of

Photo © Alain Monot www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 28-2928 Tim Crouch and Invigorating and 28-29 Andy Smith, UK unexpectedly moving. The Guardian

what happens to the hope at the end of the evening by Tim Crouch and Andy Smith

Performed by ‘I want to start a revolution here…’ Tim Crouch and Andy Smith Director: Karl James what happens to the hope at the end of the evening is the – Venue: Abbey Theatre, latest collaboration between long-time friends and award- on the Peacock Stage winning theatre makers Tim Crouch and Andy Smith. Dates: Oct 2 & 3, 8pm Oct 4, 2.30pm & 8pm It is a story about this evening, one evening and every Tickets: €20 – €25 Duration: 60 mins. No interval. evening; a story of two men meeting in the middle of their – lives and at the outer edges of their friendship. Talking Theatre: Oct 3, post-show. As they strive for common ground – as they fight and fail – as With Tim Crouch and Andy Smith. the wine is drunk and the world falls apart, the possibility of the theatre as a place for community and change comes alive.

From the creators of An Oak Tree, ENGLAND and The Author comes this spirited, funny and thought-provoking play about finding oneself and finding togetherness.

Contains strong language.

Photo © Katherine Leedale www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 30-3130 Brokentalkers, Impressively honest. Profoundly 30-31 Ireland engaging, riveting, utterly compelling. The Irish Times on ‘Have I No Mouth’

Frequency 783 by Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keegan

Directed by Frequency 783 is the latest play from Brokentalkers, the Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keegan Music: Seán Millar multi award-winning company whose previous festival Choreography: Jessica Kennedy productions Have I No Mouth and The Blue Boy continue to Set and Lighting Design: Ciarán O’Melia tour internationally to widespread acclaim. In this bold new Sound Design: Jack Cawley Video Design: Kilian Waters production they examine perspectives on health, ageing and the – future from the point of view of two very different generations. Venue: Project Arts Centre (Cube) Preview: Oct 1, 7.45pm On stage a teenage boy foresees his own death, while a Dates: Oct 2, 7.45pm Oct 3, 8.45pm woman in her sixties predicts that in the future robots will Oct 4, 3.45pm & 8.45pm make better care-givers to the elderly, as they would never Oct 5, 4.45pm lose patience or become abusive. Tickets: €15 – €25 Duration: Approx. 60 mins. No interval. – Featuring an original soundtrack by Seán Millar (aka Doctor Talking Theatre: Millar) and choreography by Jessica Kennedy (junk ensemble), Oct 5, post-show. Frequency 783 explores the hopes and fears of people who With Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keegan. imagine a future that they may never have a chance to realise.

Contains strong language.

Photo © Kilian Waters www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 32-33 Fishamble: [Fishamble is] a global brand with 32-33 The New Play Company, international theatrical presence. Ireland The Irish Times

Spinning by Deirdre Kinahan

Directed by Jim Culleton What does it take to forgive the unforgivable? Cast: Fiona Bell, Caitriona Ennis, Janet Moran, Karl Shiels In small-town Ireland, father-of-one Conor is desperate to Set Design: Sabine Dargent Lighting Design: Kevin Smith hold onto a life that is disintegrating before his eyes. Susan Sound Design: Denis Clohessy is a mother searching for reason in the darkness of her Costume Design: Leonore McDonagh teenage daughter’s killing. – Venue: Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space A contemporary tragedy comes to light when they finally meet. Previews: Oct 1 & 2, 7.30pm Dates: Oct 3 & Oct 7 – 10, 7.30pm What does it feel like to lose everything? To explain? To forgive? Oct 4 & 11, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Oct 5 & 12, 2.30pm Produced by Fishamble (Silent, Little Thing Big Thing, Tiny Tickets: €20 – €30 Duration: Approx. 75 mins. No interval. Plays for Ireland), Spinning is a gripping new play by Deirdre – Kinahan, writer of the sell-out, multi award-winning festival Talking Theatre: hit Halcyon Days (Irish Times Theatre Award nomination for Oct 5, post-show. With Jim Culleton and Best New Play 2012). Deirdre Kinahan.

Photo © Leo Byrne Photo © Leo www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 34-3534 Abbey Theatre, one of our best playwrights. 34-35 Ireland The Irish Times

Our Few and Evil Days by Mark O’Rowe

Directed by Mark O’Rowe ‘If I tell you, then everything’s going to change’ Cast: Ian Lloyd Anderson, Sinéad Cusack, Ciarán Hinds, Charlie Murphy, Adele and her parents have always been close. But recently, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor Set Design: Paul Wills that closeness has been tainted by an increasing sense of Costume Design: Catherine Fay mistrust. Tonight, a visit from a stranger will force them to Lighting Design: Paul Keogan confront the terrifying reality of their relationship. Sound Design: Philip Stewart – Venue: Abbey Theatre, The Abbey Theatre presents a new play from one of Ireland’s on the Abbey Stage most exciting contemporary playwrights. This chilling yet Previews: Sept 26 – Oct 2, 7.30pm deeply human story about the limits of devotion is written Dates: Opens Oct 3, 7.30pm Oct 8 & 11, 2pm & 7.30pm and directed by Mark O’Rowe (Howie the Rookie, Boy A, Tickets: €13 – €45 Intermission, Terminus). Duration: Approx. 2 hrs incl. interval. – The world premiere of Our Few and Evil Days stars Ian Lloyd Talking Theatre: Oct 7, post-show. Anderson, Sinéad Cusack, Ciarán Hinds, Charlie Murphy and With Mark O’Rowe. Tom Vaughan-Lawlor.

Contains material which some may find disturbing.

www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 36-373636-36 BERLIN, Belgium jubilant and truly extraordinary… 36-37 The quirkiness of it all should be experienced first-hand. Le Figaro

Perhaps all the dragons (...in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage)

Conceived by BERLIN (Bart Baele A famous pianist realises on stage that she studied the wrong and Yves Degryse) concerto. A neurosurgeon swaps the head and body of two Soundtrack and Mixing: Peter Van Laerhoven monkeys, and they stay alive. In Japan 700,000 citizens Camera: Geert De Vleesschauwer withdraw to their bedrooms to live for a year as hikikomori, Text: Kirsten Roosendaal, without social contact. These people are all connected to one Yves Degryse, Bart Baele Scenography: BERLIN, another, and we to them, by six degrees of separation. Manu Siebens Technical Direction: In Perhaps all the dragons, the Antwerp theatre group BERLIN Robrecht Ghesquière tells the true stories of real people encountered in magazines, – Venue: Smock Alley Theatre, newspapers, or on YouTube. Banquet Hall Dates: Carefully selected, synchronised and assembled into a digital Oct 7 – 9, 5.30pm, 7.30pm & 9.30pm installation, 30 filmed monologues are relayed on 30 individual Oct 10 & 11, 2.30pm, 5.30pm, 7.30pm & 9.30pm screens. Each spectator has a chance to hear five stories that – carry a universal message. Tickets: €15 – €20 Duration: 70 mins. No interval. Guided by the theory that everyone on this planet is only a few – Talking Theatre: steps removed from each other, Perhaps all the dragons is a Oct 9, post-show (5.30pm). deeply human multimedia theatre experience. With members of the company. Each filmed monologue is told in the language of its origin and subtitled in English.

Co-production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Dublin Theatre Festival, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival Groningen, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, le CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Centrale Fies, La Bâtie-Festival de Genève. Project co-produced by NXTSTP, with support of the Culture Programme of the European Union, ONDA (Office national de diffusion artistique) and the Flemish Government.

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Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Directed by Stewart Laing In 1987 Paul Bright, a rebellious young Scottish director, set Cast: George Anton out to stage James Hogg’s Confessions of Justified Sinner in Writer: Pamela Carter Visual Artists: Robbie Thomson, a series of unusual locations across Scotland. Untitled Projects Jack Wrigley have been working with the actor George Anton to assemble Researcher: Emilia Weber an archive and exhibition of these landmark productions. – Venue: Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock Stage Overwhelmed by the richness of the memories that have Dates: Oct 7 – 10, 8pm emerged in the course of that project, they have sought Oct 11, 2.30pm & 8pm to question the lasting legacy of Paul Bright’s recklessly Tickets: €20 – €25 Duration: Approx. 2 hrs. No interval. ambitious, yet incomplete stagings. – Talking Theatre: Listed as one of The Guardian’s top ten best theatre productions Oct 9, post-show. With George Anton of 2013, Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a and Stewart Laing. celebration and sharing of the forgotten life and radical work of a man who redefined Scottish theatre in the 1980s.

Co-production: National Theatre of Scotland, Tramway and Summerhall.

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Australian Season Jack Charles V The Crown by Jack Charles and John Romeril

Directed by Rachael Maza Uncle Jack Charles is an Australian legend: veteran actor, Koori Cast: Jack Charles elder, activist, but also a former heroin addict and cat-burglar. Audio Visual Design: Peter Worland Musical Director: Nigel Maclean This is a show about his life, told by him. Guitar and Violin: Nigel Maclean Percussion: Phil Collings From Stolen Generation to Koori theatre in 1970s Australia, Bass: Malcolm Beveridge from film sets to Her Majesty’s prisons, Jack Charles V The Set and Costume Design: Emily Barrie Lighting Design: Danny Pettingill Crown runs the gamut of a life lived to its utmost. Charles’ – unswerving optimism transforms this tale of addiction, crime Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre and imprisonment into the story of a vagabond’s progress. Dates: Oct 8 – 10, 7.30pm Oct 11, 2.30pm & 7.30pm It is a map of the traps of dispossession and a guide to Oct 12, 2.30pm reaching the age of grey-haired wisdom. Tickets: €25 – €30 Duration: 75 mins. No interval. This fleet-footed, light-fingered show is a theatrical delight and – Talking Theatre: a celebration of Black Australia’s dogged refusal to give up. Oct 8, post-show. With Jack Charles. Contains material of an adult nature.

Toured by Performing Lines.

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Book Burning by Pieter De Buysser

Performed by Pieter De Buysser History is clogged. There are no more revolutions. What else Visual Artist: Hans Op de Beeck can we add? Lighting Design: Herman Sorgeloos Dramaturgy: Marianne Van Kerkhoven (Kaaitheater) In Book Burning, Pieter De Buysser tells the story of Sebastian, – a man he met at an Occupy demonstration, whose life has Venue: Project Arts Centre become embroiled in a WikiLeaks scandal. He follows the (Space Upstairs) Dates: Oct 8 – 11, 7.30pm man’s search to discover the root of a genetic illness that took Tickets: €20 – €25 the life of his wife and now threatens his daughter, Tilda. She Duration: 90 mins. No interval. just wants to forget it all. – Talking Theatre: Oct 11, post-show. This is a play about forgetting and forgiving, knowledge and With Pieter De Buysser. riddles, secrets and the lack of stories. It is a captivating fable, told by a charming storyteller in the guise of Schrödinger’s cat, about personal histories, globalisation and the beginnings of a new world.

Staged alongside a beautiful, unfolding landscape created by visual artist Hans Op de Beeck, Book Burning testifies to the possibilities of language and the magical power of a radical imagination.

Production: Margarita Production. Co-production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Festival Baltoscandal, Kaaitheater, Belluard Bollwerk International, Teater Avant Garden, BIT Teatergarasjen, Brut Wien. Project co- produced by NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

Photo © Herman Sorgeloos www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 44-4544 Benjamin Verdonck, We can only watch, and construct 44-45 Belgium the story in the moment itself. And boy, does that keep you on the edge of your chair. De Morgen

notallwhowanderarelost

Created by notallwhowanderarelost is a performance created with few Benjamin Verdonck, Iwan Van Vlierberghe, words, lots of tricks, colours, geometrical figures, opening Sven Roofhooft, Sébastien Hendrickx, Han Stubbe, Louisa Vanderhaegen, doors and tumbling-down curtains. This is theatre pared back Griet Stellamans to its most basic components, within easy reach, at eye level. – Venue: Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box Having trained as an actor, Benjamin Verdonck has developed Dates: Oct 8 – 10, 6.30pm Oct 11, 1.30pm & 6.30pm a body of work that moves freely between performances on Tickets: €15 stage and in public spaces, and visual art installations. For his Duration: 40 mins. No interval. latest work, he chose as a starting point a table-top theatre – Talking Theatre: that can pop up anywhere and disappear just as swiftly. On Oct 10, post-show. top of this magic box and inside it he functions as an actor With Benjamin Verdonck. and as a stage technician, revealing a brand of acoustic and visual poetry that is both tangible and enigmatic.

‘Time is a river which sweeps me along but I am the river It is a tiger which destroys me but I am the tiger It is a fire which consumes me but I am the fire’ — Jorge Luis Borges

Production: Toneelhuis and KVS. Co-production: Kunstenfestivaldesarts and and steirischer herbst festival. Project co-produced by NXTSTP, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.

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Spring Awakening (A Tragedy of Childhood) by Frank Wedekind

Directed by György Vidovszky Spring Awakening is a fearless portrayal of the lives of young Translation: Francis J. Ziegler people growing up in a repressive society. It is a play about Dramaturgy: Stefanie Preissner Design: Sarah Jane Shiels discovery, desire and the loss of innocence. Music: Gábor Pap Assistant Director: Ursula McGinn Teenage friends share their insecurities and deepest fears. – Children strive to make their parents proud at all costs. Young Venue: axis:Ballymun Preview: Oct 8, 7.30pm men and women, curious and confused by unfamiliar impulses, Dates: Oct 9 & 10, 7.30pm make rash decisions – with heart-breaking consequences. Oct 11, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets: €15 Though written at the end of the 19th century, this classic of Duration: Approx. 80 mins. No interval. – European drama still resonates today. It casts a light on some Talking Theatre: of our own society’s enduring taboos, and navigates the difficult Oct 10, post-show. With members and often distressing journey through adolescent sexuality. of the company. Following their thoughtful and touching production of I’ve to Mind Her in 2013, Dublin Youth Theatre return to the festival with a fresh take on Wedekind’s lyrical text.

Contains material that some may find disturbing.

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Festival on Tour After Sarah Miles by Michael Hilliard Mulcahy

Directed by Michael Hilliard Mulcahy After a lifetime of wrestling with the tides, fisherman Bobeen Cast: Don Wycherley finds it hard to face the sea again. But the discovery he made Composer: Sam Jackson Lighting Design: Eoin Lennon in the mouth of the harbour almost thirty years ago keeps – calling him back. This time it will connect him to what he Venue: axis:Ballymun thought was lost and gone forever. Dates: Sept 26 & 27, 8pm – Venue: Civic Theatre Loose End Studio After Sarah Miles follows Bobeen’s journey from 1969 to the Dates: Sept 29 – Oct 4, 8.15pm present day; from the moment he has his first drink as a fourteen – year old boy on the set of Ryan’s Daughter, to a blossoming Venue: Pavilion Theatre Dates: Oct 8 & 9, 8pm crush which takes his life in an entirely new direction. – Venue: Draíocht Studio Don Wycherley gives a towering performance in this acclaimed Dates: Oct 10 & 11, 8.15pm play, transporting the audience into a world that is both – Tickets: €18 ordinary and epic. Duration: 85 mins. No interval. – Contains strong language. Talking Theatre: Sept 26, post-show. In conversation with Michael Hilliard Mulcahy and Don Wycherley.

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Dublin Theatre Festival and The Ark Booking and information Created and performed by A Mano is a story, told with clay, about a small character For show times and details of schools Julián Sáenz-López and with a great desire to escape from a shop window and are delighted to present a season of and public performances see the full Izaskun Fernández acclaimed international productions and festival schedule on page 74. – those who inhabit it. Dates: Sept 27 & 28 new Irish work for families and schools. Duration: 45 mins. No interval. It is a love story, a story about small failures. A potter’s wheel, a tiny workshop, a cup that breathes and four hands that play.

Peer through a pottery shop window in Spain at a host of Venue: The Ark El Patio Teatro build, model, write, direct and play. Together, curious characters; blast off on a magical journey from the Tickets: €12 (public performances) they create moving, reflective and beautifully original – earth into outer space where you’ll meet a special new friend. Tickets available from the Festival Box performances inspired by stories from everyday life and by Office online, by phone and in person. the lives of objects around them. This inventive performance Lose yourself in the pages and secrets of a mysterious For details see page 76. was winner of the Best Small Show Award at Feten 2013, the scrapbook; and follow the adventures of a lone hero from – To avail of discounted tickets for European Fair of Performing Arts for Children. a strange planet made from cheese. schools bookings, and early-bird A tender and delicate schools rates (ending Sept 12) performance. A non-verbal performance. As always, the Family Season will delight and entertain please contact The Ark: Portal Jovespectacle.cat Ages 6+ audiences of all ages. Phone: +353 1 670 7788 Online: ark.ie – Family Season Programmer: Maria Fleming, The Ark

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The Tragical Life The Way of Cheeseboy by Finegan Kruckemeyer,

Back Home conceived by Andy Packer Photo © Andy Rasheed eyefood

When a boy discovers a single-propeller airplane in his Directed by Marc Mac Lochlainn Directed by Andy Packer Inside an enchanting travelling theatre tent, discover a closet, he does what any young adventurer would do: and Bjarne Sandborg Cast: Rory Walker, Sam McMahon storyteller who shares a timeless tale. Cast: Aapo Repo, Neasa Ní Chuanaigh Operator: Roland Partis he flies into outer space! Puppet and Set Design: Mariann Aagaard Design: Wendy Todd assisted by Malene Laurvig Lighting Design: Geoff Cobham Cheeseboy’s home planet has been reduced to a bubbling Millions of miles from earth, the plane begins to sputter and Music: Henrik Andersen Composer: Quincy Grant fondue. Where are his parents? How did he become marooned on quake. The boy must make a daring landing on the moon. Sound Design: Morten Meilvang Laursen Sound Design: Nick O’Connor earth? Gypsies have given him a home, of sorts, but Cheeseboy is Lighting Design: Morten Ladefoged Illustrator: Andy Ellis But as it turns out, he is not alone up there… – New Media Artist: Simone Mazengarb distracted by strange longings and stranger powers… Dates: Sept 30 – Oct 4 New Media Consultant: Sophie Hyde Branar Téatar and Teater Refleksion have joined forces to produce Duration: Approx. 40 mins. No interval. – The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy is a multi award-winning The Way Back Home, based on the hugely successful book by – Dates: Oct 5 – 7 production written by Finegan Kruckemeyer, author of the 2011 Autism friendly performance: Duration: 50 mins. No interval. Irish author Oliver Jeffers. Making its world premiere at the Oct 1, 10.15am festival hit The Girl Who Forgot to Sing Badly (The Ark/Theatre festival, this new show will combine puppetry, original music and For further information please phone Lovett). Inspired by the legends of heroes and adventurers such the distinctive, evocative design of Teater Refleksion’s Mariann The Ark on +353 1 670 7788 or email magical and charming, as Superman, Edward Scissorhands and The Little Prince, this [email protected] Aagaard to realise a beautiful and imaginative story on stage. so full of whimsicality wondrous and familiar journey will transport you to a fantastic and merry eccentricity… world of exotic cheese curds through lights, music and mirrors. This is top class theatre for A non-verbal performance. a marvel of exquisite any age. Don’t miss it. Ages 3 – 8 theatre-craft. Ages 8+ Irish Theatre Magazine on Branar Produced in association with Baboró International Arts Festival for Children. Téatar’s ‘Spraoi’ The Herald, Scotland

“The Way Back Home” is published by HarperCollins Children’s Publishers. www.dublintheatrefestival.com Shona5454-54 Reppe, UK 54-55

The Curious Scrapbook of

Josephine Bean Photo © Douglas McBride festival +

The clues are in the pages of The Curious Scrapbook of Created, designed and performed by Get more from the festival with Festival + Josephine Bean. Shona Reppe Director: Gill Robertson A series of talks, critical events, Composer: Danny Krass Everything is flat, pressed, squished. A dusty, musty smell Film Artist: Jonathan Charles exhibitions, tours and work-in-progress mixes with the scent of old lavender and a string lifts a flap – showcases. Details of our post-show to reveal a hidden door. Dates: Oct 9 – 12 Duration: 45 mins. No interval. Talking Theatre events can be found Slowly, page-by-page, the scrapbook becomes the window on individual show pages. into a secret world and a curious life unfolds before us. But who was Josephine Bean? Booking and information Shona Reppe, creator of the much-loved Potato Needs a a near-perfect production Admission is free but ticketed to Festival + Bath (Dublin Theatre Festival 2012) makes a welcome return for those aged seven years events unless otherwise specified. Early booking is advised as seats are limited. to Family Season with The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine and over… A truly wonderful – Bean, winner of the 2012 Theatre Award UK for Best Show show that will charm parents Phone: +353 1 677 8899 for Children and Young People. as much as their children. In person: Dublin Theatre Festival Box Office, 44 East Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 The Stage Ages 7+

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Encore! A History of Hadley+Maxwell Curated by Tessa Giblin, Panel Discussions Imagining Australia (A)pollonia Dublin Theatre Festival The Queen still falls to you The Queen still falls to you Chaired by Sean Rocks and The showcase of Australian A two-day theatrical event Dublin Theatre Festival has Ireland has a complex is an exhibition informed by presented in association productions at this year’s bringing together Polish been a feature of the city’s relationship with monuments the dual contexts of theatre with RTÉ Radio One, these festival opens the door on a dramaturgy and Irish theatre social and cultural life since and public sculptures, with and imperial history. discussions will address theatre culture that remains makers, (A)pollonia is a its inauguration as part of An destruction, decommissioning Commissioned by Project Arts Centre. some of the themes at largely unknown to Irish presentation of new dramatic Tóstal – a tourism promotion and even burial continuing play in the 2014 festival audiences. What can we forms that tackle complex Venue: Project Arts Centre Gallery initiative – in 1957. The 55 to reinforce our belief in the Dates: 25 Sept – 11 Oct, all day programme. The panels are learn from works written on historical and current issues. editions of the festival have power they hold. open to the public and will the other side of the world? It is also a search for shared spanned seven decades, In this installation the echo of be recorded for broadcast Does Australian theatre have interests and concerns Philadelphia 50 years on mirroring the changing a tale of imperialism is traced on RTÉ Radio One’s Arena. lessons for Ireland in how it between Polish and Irish UCD and Boston College- shape of the city and the through the history of a 1908 – deals with cultural diversity artists, opening a path for Ireland host a round-table developing careers of artists Dublin monument of Queen Whose Hamlet is it anyway? and a colonial past? future collaborations. discussion to mark the and theatre companies. Victoria. Moved from Leinster He may be one of the most Venue: Bewley’s Café Theatre Over the course of the event anniversary of the premiere From their beginnings House to the Royal Hospital famous characters in world Date: Oct 2, 4pm artists and theatre-makers will performance of Brian Friel’s festivals have mixed Kilmainham in 1948, it was literature, but he has also – stage readings, discussions landmark play, Philadelphia, celebration with provocation later abandoned in an Offaly proved to be one of the most Playwriting – making it work, and music performances Here I Come!, as part of and have showcased the reformatory school before malleable. For the Victorians, getting it on inspired by twenty-first Dublin Theatre Festival 1964. best of Ireland without finally being gifted to the city he was a warning against How do we identify talented century Polish drama and Participants on the panel will shying away from revealing of Sydney as a centrepiece for the dereliction of duty; for writers with something to texts for the stage. Guests will include both academics and its uncomfortable truths. its newly refurbished Queen us today, he might be more say and ensure that their include contributors to the drama professionals, as they recognisable as a stay-at- work is staged? How can we To celebrate this heritage, Victoria Building. anthology (A)pollonia, edited discuss what Philadelphia home arts graduate who ensure that playwrights have Dublin Theatre Festival has Canadian artists by Krystyna Duniec, Joanna has meant to them and the doesn’t know what to do sustainable careers in theatre, assembled a collection Hadley+Maxwell have used Klass and Joanna Krakowska. landscape of Irish theatre. with himself. What is it that that their development and risk- of programmes, posters, sheets of black wrap – a The event will culminate The event will be chaired allows him to be our eternal taking as writers is encouraged? photographs and other material used in theatre in a celebration and drinks by Dr Emilie Pine. contemporary? This panel will focus on the materials from private lighting design – to make reception. Venue: Boston College – Ireland, role and opportunities for and public collections for imprints of the monument’s Venue: Bewley’s Café Theatre 42 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2 Date: Sep 27, 4pm playwrights in Ireland today, For a full timetable of events visit an exhibition at The Little most communicative Date: Sept 26, 3pm – 5pm our website. with contributions from Museum of Dublin. attributes. They have playwrights, dramaturgs and Presented with the support of the captured Victoria’s gestures, Polish Embassy in Ireland and the Presented in partnership with Irish theatre companies who The Little Museum of Dublin. power and physical Adam Mickiewicz Institute. develop and present new appearance and re-organised Venue: Project Arts Centre Venue: The Little Museum of Dublin writing for the stage. Dates: 25 Sept – 12 Oct, 9.30am – 5pm them into a symphony of Date: Oct 10 & 11, various times (open late Thursdays until 8pm) shapes and shadows. Venue: Irish Writers’ Centre Date: Oct 8, 4pm General admission: €7 Admission free on presentation Presented in association with the of any 2014 Dublin Theatre Festival Stewart Parker Trust. ticket stub.

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In Development Contains loud noises, loud music, 4 scenes from the life of jesus – NOW-THEN-NOW: situate that work within Presented in association with Fáilte Dublin Theatre Festival is full nudity, gunshots. Magician King Witnessing Future History the context of a growing Ireland and the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. committed to supporting Irish Funded through an Arts Council by Seán Millar “Are there limits to what artistic international movement. Theatre Project Award. www.performingspace.wordpress.com artists in creating ambitious 4 scenes from the life of jesus experience can achieve?” www.create-ireland.ie and high-quality new work. Our Venue: Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box investigates the historical and This year’s production of For a full timetable of events visit our Date: Oct 3, 1.15pm Presented by ANU Productions and website. In Development programme social links between religion, Vardo marks the end of ANU Create, the national development agency – offers theatre-makers a mental illness and creativity Productions’ remarkable for collaborative arts. With support from Venue: Trinity Long Room Hub, I’m Your Man – THISISPOPBABY Dublin City Council. Trinity College, Dublin 2 platform to stage their works- by reimagining key scenes Monto Cycle. In its creation by Mark Palmer and Phillip Date: Oct 9 in-progress for Irish and from the New Testament as and presentation the Venue: The LAB, Foley Street, Dublin 1 Tickets: €15 McMahon and other venues international audiences and events in a modern context. company has delved into From the writer of Alice Dates: Oct 7 & 8 Book online, by phone or in person theatre presenters. Audiences Funded through an Arts Council secret histories and societal at the Festival Box Office. will have an opportunity to see In Funderland, and the Theatre Project Award. scandals with precision and Performing Space pieces at a critical phase in songwriter with Life After Venue: Project Arts Centre dreamlike intensity. ANU has This day-long symposium their development, while artists, Modelling, I’m Your Man Date: Oct 11, 6pm brought the voices of a hidden explores the power of writers and directors will use charts a musical journey from – Ireland to the fore, blurred performance to transform the space to try out new ideas. death to new life. It’s a love The Aeneid – Collapsing Horse the lines between interactive, any space into a kinetically- story that keeps you moving by Dan Colley with the Past In Development participative and site-specific charged place. A series of forwards when you think company (After Virgil) presentations have gone on to work, and challenged the exciting panels will respond you’re falling backwards. They left a burning Troy to enjoy successful productions accepted conventions of to the idea of ‘making scenes’ as part of Dublin Theatre Venue: Project Arts Centre found Rome. In Virgil’s story, theatre and visual art. Date: Oct 4, 11.30am in relation to identities, Festival and have toured at Aeneas and his followers – A two-day conference curated politics, geographies, home and abroad to acclaim. endure an arduous war on Luck Just Kissed You Hello – by Lynnette Moran, NOW- technologies and histories. – an epic journey for the HotForTheatre THEN-NOW will reflect on Speakers include Sodja Lotker, Chekhov’s First Play by Bush future glory of a great by Amy Conroy what it means to embrace Professor Anna McMullan, Moukarzel – Dead Centre city. Collapsing Horse use Men, manly men, both artistic practice that connects Dr Aoife Monks, Professor “There are two scenes in my this foundational myth demonised and celebrated. with social, environmental Chris Morash, a special first play which are the work of of the Roman people to HotForTheatre, in their fourth and political factors. Taking guest panel encompassing genius, if you like, but on the interrogate storytelling and its show, are exploring masculine ANU’s work as a starting point, members of Pan Pan Theatre, whole it’s an unforgivable, if relationship to truth. displacement – viewing the it will explore the aesthetic a roundtable of theatre innocent, fraud.” Funded through an Arts Council transitional period, the interim Theatre Project Award. and ethical consequences of practitioners, and many more – Anton Chekhov immersive work that creates Irish and international experts between what it was to be a Venue: Project Arts Centre After the success of LIPPY, man and what it could be, with Date: Oct 11, 1pm innovative exchanges with on the subject of performing Dead Centre return to Dublin people who have been both. audiences. It will also seek to space. Ongoing throughout acknowledge the groundswell the symposium will be to do injustice to a great Funded through an Arts Council playwright. Chekhov before Theatre Project Award. of artists making collaborative an exhibition of Pan Pan’s work in Ireland and aim to scenography. he was Chekhov. Venue: Project Arts Centre Date: Oct 3, 4.15pm

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Bolton St 09 Gardiner St 15 Abbey Theatre Draíocht Studio OReilly Theatre, Belvedere Marlborough St 01 07 14 James Joyce St 26 Lwr Abbey St, Dublin 1 The Blanchardstown Centre, Belvedere College,

O’Connell St Foley St +353 1 878 7222 Blanchardstown, Dublin 15 6 Great Denmark St, Constitution Hill www.abbeytheatre.ie +353 1 885 2622 Dublin 1 www.draiocht.ie Parnell St 02 The Ark 15 Oonagh Young Gallery N King St 11a Eustace St, 08 Dublin Theatre 1 James Joyce Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Festival Box Office Liberty Corner, Dublin 1 Talbot St +353 1 670 7788 44 East Essex St, P www.ark.ie Temple Bar, Dublin 2 16 Pavilion Theatre Henry St +353 1 677 8899 Marine Road,

Capel St Mary St 03 axis:Ballymun www.dublintheatrefestival.com Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin Abbey St Lwr Main Street, Ballymun, Dublin 9 +353 1 231 2929 01 +353 1 883 2100 09 Gate Theatre www.paviliontheatre.ie Mary St Little Eden Quay www.axisballymun.ie Cavendish Row, Parnell Sq, Dublin 1 +353 1 874 4045 / +335 1 874 6042 17 Project Arts Centre Bewley’s Café Theatre www.gatetheatre.ie 39 East Essex St, 06 04 2nd floor Bewley’s, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Ormond Quay Lwr Burgh Quay 78 Grafton St, Dublin 2 10 Irish Writers’ Centre +353 1 881 9613 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1 www.projectartscentre.ie Ormond Quay Upr 05 Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Grand Canal Sq, Docklands, 11 The Little Museum of Dublin 18 Samuel Beckett Theatre Essex Quay P Dublin 2 15 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2 Trinity College, Dublin 2 0818 719 377 Entrance is via Nassau St Wood Quay Pearse St www.ticketmaster.ie Odessa Club on Saturdays after 6pm Temple Bar 05 12 19 13 Dame Court, Dublin 2 +353 1 896 2461 06 Civic Theatre Dame St 12 Trinity College 18 Loose End Studio 13 The Olympia Theatre 19 Smock Alley Theatre 1662 Tallaght, Dublin 24 72 Dame St, Dublin 2 Exchange St Lwr, Dublin 8 Exchequer St +353 1 462 7477 0818 719 330 +353 1 677 0014 www.civictheatre.ie www.ticketmaster.ie www.smockalley.com Nassau St P

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www.dublintheatrefestival.com www.dublintheatrefestival.com 74-75 schedule74 pr – preview ap – assisted performance – running on How to Book: www.dublintheatrefestival.com * Vardo runs every half hour from 74-75 tt – talking theatre a series sp – schools performance +353 1 677 8899 / Festival Box Office: 3pm – 6pm & 7pm – 9.30pm of post-show discussions af – autism friendly performance 44 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

SEPT OCT show venue page tu 23 we 24 th 25 fr 26 sa 27 su 28 mo 29 tu 30 we 01 th 02 fr 03 sa 04 su 05 mo 06 tu 07 we 08 th 09 fr 10 sa 11 su 12 duration

Hamlet Bord Gáis Energy Theatre 04–05 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 2h45m

* Vardo Oonagh Young Gallery 06–07 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 3.00pm– 1h00m 9.30pm pr 9.30pm pr 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm

Réiltín Abbey Theatre, on the 08–09 8.00pm pr 8.00pm tt 6.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 1h00m Peacock Stage 6.30pm

If These Spasms Could Speak Project Arts Centre (Cube) 10–11 7.45pm ap 7.45pm ap 2.45pm ap tt 1h00m 7.45pm ap

Zoo Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box 12–13 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 1h00m 7.30pm tt

A Girl is a Half-formed Thing Samuel Beckett Theatre 14–15 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 6.00pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 1h25m 7.30pm

The Seagull and Other Birds Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) 16–17 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 6.30pm pr 7.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 2.30pm tt 2.30pm 1h30m 6.30pm

The Mariner Gate Theatre 18–19 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 2.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 1h30m 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm

Hello my name is Smock Alley Theatre, Banquet Hall 20–21 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 6.00pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 1h10m 6.00pm

Brigit The Olympia Theatre 22–23 6.00pm 8.00pm 6.00pm 4.00pm 1h00m

Bailegangaire The Olympia Theatre 22–23 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm tt 6.00pm 2h45m incl interval

Ganesh Versus the Third Reich OReilly Theatre, Belvedere 24–25 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 7.30pm ap 7.30pm 1h40m

Adishatz / Adieu Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) 26–27 7.30pm tt 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 0h50m

what happens to the hope at Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock 28–29 8.00pm 8.00pm tt 2.30pm 1h00m the end of the evening Stage 8.00pm

Frequency 783 Project Arts Centre (Cube) 30–31 7.45pm pr 7.45pm 8.45pm 3.45pm 4.45pm tt 1h00m 8.45pm

Spinning Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space 32–33 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 1h15m 7.30pm 7.30pm

Our Few and Evil Days Abbey Theatre, on the Abbey Stage 34–35 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 2.00pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.00pm 2h00m 7.30pm 7.30pm incl interval

Perhaps all the dragons Smock Alley Theatre, Banquet Hall 36-37 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm tt 2.30pm 2.30pm 1h10m 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm

Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock 38–39 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.00pm tt 8.00pm 2.30pm 2h00m Justified Sinner Stage 8.00pm

Jack Charles V The Crown Samuel Beckett Theatre 40–41 7.30pm tt 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 1h15m 7.30pm

Book Burning Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) 42–43 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 1h30m

notallwhowanderarelost Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box 44–45 6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm tt 1.30pm 0h40m 6.30pm

Spring Awakening axis:Ballymun 46–47 7.30pm pr 7.30pm 7.30pm tt 2.30pm 1h20m 7.30pm

After Sarah Miles Festival on Tour 48–49 8.00pm tt 8.00pm 8.15pm 8.15pm 8.15pm 8.15pm 8.15pm 8.15pm 8.00pm 8.00pm 8.15pm 8.15pm 1h25m axis axis civic civic civic civic civic civic pavilion pavilion draíocht draíocht

A Mano The Ark 51 12.00pm 12.00pm 0h45m 3.00pm 3.00pm 5.00pm 5.00pm

The Way Back Home The Ark 52 6.00pm 10.15am af 10.15am 10.15am 11.00am 0h40m 12.15pm 12.15pm 12.15pm 2.30pm 4.00pm

The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy The Ark 53 2.00pm 10.15am sp 10.15am sp 0h50m 4.00pm 12.15pm sp 12.15pm sp

The Curious Scrapbook of The Ark 54 10.15am sp 10.15am sp 2.00pm 2.00pm 0h45m Josephine Bean 12.15pm sp 12.15pm sp 4.00pm 4.00pm how76-376 to buy tickets 76- 3

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