Theatre

Download the Programme Here ★★★★ ‘of all the streamed productions I have seen in the past year, this one comes closest to capturing the focus and tension of live theatre’ – The GuardianUtterly riveting and engrossing, Mark O’Rowe’s ‘60 minute jewel of a play’ (The Guardian) reveals a profound truth about relationships, and our deep, abiding need to

A nightmare from a disordered mind.

Watch in horror and hilarity as friends become enemies in this award winning comedy.There’ll be more to clean up more than red wine stains and glitter at this house-warming…

Behind the walls of Blessed Virgin Community School, social hierarchy is king, Instagram is queen and no Princess is safe. Join Zara, Kelis and Amber as they duck and dive their way through school, parties, Insta Followers and the brutal reign of Tell.Com.

Dublin Theatre Festival is back. Enjoy 18 wonderful days of world-class Irish and international theatre this autumn right across Ireland’s capital city.

Even before we enter the theatre, our imagination is at work, anticipating what is to come. We are already doing so reading this text.

Raquel André is a collector of rare things. Across 20 cities around the world she has collected more than 200 ‘lovers’ to date. People of all nationalities, genders and ages, have agreed to meet her in an unfamiliar apartment, to build a fictional intimacy within the span of an hour. In each city she encounters more lovers and the collection grows.

From the concrete jungle of the N31 to a painfully hip music festival on the white sands of the Aran Islands, The Bluffer’s Guide to Suburbia lovingly exposes a generation of adult children living back in the home, struggling to fit into the nuclear family ideal, and trying to make music in the face of rental crises and global catastrophe.

Hecuba is a passionate re-imagining of the aftermath of the Trojan War and the events surrounding its iconic characters; a series of intense, dangerous personal encounters and impossible choices, described by those who witnessed and experienced them.

Real Magic creates a world of absurd disconnection, struggle and comical repetition. To the sound of looped applause and canned laughter, three performers take part in an impossible illusion – part mind-reading feat, part cabaret act, part nightmare game show – in which they are thrown back again and again to moments of hope and defeat.

An odyssey of a young Frenchman in Dublin. After hearing about the Bataclan attacks back in Paris, author and performer Louis Deslis heads into the night to find comfort.

Mark has competed in the World Games, played King Lear before, packed houses and packed bags for 20 years in Tesco’s… But that’s not even half the story.

A documentary performance work exploring mental health and human rights in the prison system in the UK and Ireland. Based on historical research and interviews with current life-sentence serving prisoners and performed by stand-up comedian and former prisoner Willie White.

For the first time in history, it’s hard to be a man. Natalie Palamides (2017 Edinburgh Comedy Awards’ Best Newcomer) doesn’t understand this… but Nate does. Natalie Palamides is Nate.

You’re invited to a dinner party we’d never be invited to. Sit down, shut up and come overhear the conversations of four proud working class Irish folk as they discuss the middle classes, privilege and the bright lights of Lidl.

Everything I Do premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival in a sell-out run at Project Arts Centre. It’s a music-driven theatre piece about the universality of love, pain and hope. In an intimate and soulful performance based on personal material, for which Zoe Ní Riordáin received the Best Performer Award
at the Dublin Fringe, the show searches for a meaningful connection with the audience.