Accessible Events
Accessible Events
Variations for Two Disabled Bodies
Bobbi Byrne & Soso Ní Cheallaigh presented by Project Arts Centre
Ever wondered what it would feel like to be in a completely different body? Bobbi and Soso are very alike. Bobbi and Soso are very different. Honest, witty and illuminating, this is a duet with a difference. It’s a rip-roaring tour through the lived experiences and hidden complexities of disability and gender. Join Bobbi and Soso as they explore everything from walking, to falling, to Davina McCall.
At a time when LGBTQIA+ and disability rights are being dismantled, Variations for Two Disabled Bodies is a defiant celebration of disability, the beauty of difference, and the power of friendship.
Commissioned by Project Arts Centre through Europe Beyond Access, co-funded by the European Union. Supported by Dance Ireland.
10 – 13 September, 6:30 pm
All performances will be relaxed with ISL interpretation.
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Good With Faces
Oisín Kearney, in association with Pavilion Theatre
Anne Garrick has tidied her house and bought the good biscuits. But when Liam Hegarty arrives to interview her, will she tell him what’s really going on with her son? A riveting new play about parenting, power, and what it means to care.
A new show from critically acclaimed Director Oisín Kearney (My Left Nut, Lie Low), starring Dearbháile McKinney (Blue Lights, Derry Girls) and Stefan Dunbar (Maze, Rebellion). Produced by award-winning Gina Donnelly (Two Fingers Up, Scaredy Fat, Anthem for Dissatisfaction).
Supported by Pavilion Theatre, Mermaid, An Grianán and Kabosh.
ISL interpreted performance: 13 September, 3:45 pm
Pea Dinneen: Raising Her Voice
Presented by Pea Dinneen & Once Off Productions
A trans fantasia Devised in collaboration with Ronan Phelan and Paul Prior.
How do you raise a voice? How do you get a whole country to hear it?
Well, with 90s pop bangers adapted to fit a playful, subversive personal narrative about transgender liberation in the face of an uncaring system – OBVIOUSLY. Join niche cabaret legend Pea Dinneen and her fabulous band for this world premiere.
This is as much a play about three decades in the history of a nation as it is a vast ongoing vanity project from a disenfranchised millennial hag.
Supported by Axis Ballymun, Pavilion Theatre, Irish Theatre Institute and Fishamble’s New Play Clinic. Co-commissioned by Project Arts Centre and Draíocht Blanchardstown. Developed with the assistance of The Abbey Theatre Amharclann Na Mainistreach. Funded by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council and the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
ISL Interpreted performance: 12 September, 21:00
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Change
Croí Glan
This is an invocation. This dance performance weaves a powerful call to climate action through movement, music, and diverse bodies in motion. Created by Croí Glan, a disabled led dance company, and inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s Not Too Late, this hope filled performance reimagines the world through resilience, connection, and community. With collaborators from the Environmental Research Institute at UCC, Change is a vibrant celebration of what we’ve lost—and what we can still save.
The clock is ticking. Are you on board for change?
Created in collaboration with scientists from the Environmental Research Institute at UCC, and with diverse performers from diverse lands, this interdisciplinary dance theatre piece draws on the climate impacts experienced by its international and Irish cast, inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s Not Too Late and Christiana Figueres’s The Future We Choose.
Funded by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Climate Actions Work Engagement fund & Luail. Supported by Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Firkin Crane, UCC Environmental Research Institute & UCC Theatre Department.
Audio-described performance: 19 September, 6:15 pm
Touch Tour: 19 September
Post-show discussion: 19 September, 7:15 – 7:45 pm
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BECKETT SA CHREIG: GUTH NA MBAN
By Samuel Beckett
Cuireann an Taibhdhearc Beckett sa Chreig: Guth na mBan i láthair, ceithre shaothar ghearra le Samuel Beckett, an dara cuid i sraith le Company SJ.
Eispéireas físiúil thar a bheith mealltach, a insítear trí ghlórtha na mban in Coiscéimeanna · Ní Mise · Luascaire · agus léamh de Shiosarnach 4 de chuid Beckett — suite i dtírdhreach fiáin fisiceach chósta thiar na hÉireann agus in ailtireacht choilíneach, bhriste, chráite Bhaile Átha Cliath.
Fíonn Company SJ téacs, an corp, píosaí scannánaíochta uathúla agus ceol beo le chéile chun caidrimh agus tráma a iniúchadh, a raibh tionchar ag an stair orthu agus a léirítear tríd an teaghlach.
Cuireann an léiriúchán tumtha Gaeilge seo, a spreagtar ag teanga agus tírdhreach Inis Oírr, deis uathúil ar fáil chun na saothair seo a fheiceáil ar shlí úrnua.
Cuirfear rochtain fuaime ar fáil do dhaoine nach bhfuil Gaeilge acu.
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An Taibhdhearc presents Beckett sa Chreig: Guth na mBan / The Women’s Voice, four short works by Samuel Beckett, the second part in a series by Company SJ.
A compelling visual experience, told through the voices of the women in Beckett’s Footfalls · Not I · Rockaby · and the reading of Fizzles 4 — set against the wild and physical landscape of the west coast of Ireland and the broken, haunted colonial architecture of Dublin.
Company SJ weaves text, the body, unique film footage and live music to explore relationships and trauma as shaped by history and embodied through the family.
Inspired by the language and landscape of Inis Oírr, this immersive Irish language production offers a rare opportunity to experience these works as never before.
Performed in Irish. English language audio access will be provided throughout for those without Irish.
Irish Sign Language interpreted performance:
5 Oct, 6.45pm
ISL Interpreter: Shelley Gibson
KONSTANTIN
BY LAUREN JONES
A young man has shot himself. He lies in a coma. Around him, his family and friends gather — grieving, confessing, clashing.
Inspired by Chekhov’s The Seagull, Konstantin imagines what happens after the final act. In the hospital, old wounds resurface and hard questions are asked about legacy and the myths we build around artists.
Blending live-performance with immersive sound design, the audience experiences the world through Konstantin’s ears — hearing every word, unable to speak back.
Created by Lauren Jones and Eoghan Carrick, Konstantin is a gripping, atmospheric experience that explores what’s left when the artist disappears but the story continues.
World Premiere.
Performed in English.
Irish Sign Language interpreted performance:
4 Oct, 2.30pm
BE CAREFUL
MALLIKA TANEJA
Caution is central to a woman’s experience of life. It is prescribed, imbibed, and practiced with rigour so that women can be ‘safe’.
Be Careful is a satirical piece that challenges this notion of safety. Rooted in a widespread anger about the everyday violence against women, the performance confronts the unfortunate conflation between the manner in which women dress and the atrocities committed against them.
Stripping down a culture hiding behind its ignorant, prudish mores, Mallika Taneja exposes the contradictions of India’s stagnated social progress. Although rooted in a particular context, Be Careful resonates with audiences all over the world, pointing towards the global epidemic of victim blaming and violence against women.
Thirteen years since its first performances, Taneja continues to perform the show, in a world where the words ‘be careful’ and being ‘safe’ have taken on newer and seemingly more urgent meanings.
Performed in English.
Irish Sign Language interpreted performance:
11 Oct, 5:45pm
ISL Interpreter: Amanda Coogan
NOWHERE
BY KHALID ABDALLA
In this intricate and playful solo show, inspired by his involvement in the Egyptian revolution of 2011, and his experience of the counter-revolution that followed, actor and activist Khalid Abdalla (United 93, The Kite Runner, The Crown) takes us on a surprising journey into his own history, set against a cartography of seismic world events.
From the histories of colonialism and decolonisation; friendship and loss; protests and uprising against regimes across the world; to the violence in Gaza following the events of October 7th 2023, Khalid brings together the personal and the political in an act of anti-biography that asks how we got here and how we find agency amidst the mazes of history.
Performed in English.
Commissioned and produced by Fuel.
Irish Sign Language interpreted performance:
12 Oct, 2:30pm
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