Theatre

A story of unfilled potential, The Wickedness of Oz follows a day in the life of a travel agent with a penchant for 1960s musicals. Debbie McInerney’s day spirals into a mire of self-doubt when she wakes up to a newsfeed clogged with expats having the time of their lives.

A double bill of Theatre from award-winning company Prime Cut Productions.

It’s a duet with her brother. He’s not here. He is dead. Doireann Coady is back with a powerful play that smashes through the silence around suicide.

Known as Ireland’s Godfather of Gay, Tonie Walsh is a living legend. For decades he has fought tirelessly for civil rights – for housing rights, women’s rights, and queer rights – while the country changed around him. Legendary DJ, club impresario, historian, activist and master storyteller; Tonie tells the story of Ireland’s seismic social change from someone who has lived through it, gloriously, after dark. And he’s here to tell us why there’s still fire in his belly.

Kian Harris is a career shoplifter. Charleigh Brennan is a career session moth. These two young professionals are bound together by a love of fashion and a yearning for escape. Now London is calling and they’re desperate to answer. The truth always gets out in the end… but will they?

A fusion of theatre, music and dance, Woman Undone is a re-imagining of singer Mary Coughlan’s extraordinary life and her difficult childhood.
It tells the story of a young woman who endured abuse, addiction and mental illness and who’s discovery or art and music was her redemption.

This fast paced, comic and unsettling one-man adventure sees our Lost Boy pulled apart by the voices inside his head. As Seán goes through the
motions of a night out in town, what he says and what he thinks are in constant friction. Afraid to drop the facade, he fractures… with destructive
consequences.

A multimedia exploration of how civil rights agitation turned to militancy in the late sixties— the era when the revolution was actually televised. Two women, Irish and African American—modelled on Bernadette Devlin and Angela Davis—are engaged in a public interview.

A new adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s piercing novel about broken family, making a family of your own and the cost of caring for each other. It’s 90s Ireland and AIDS is still a life sentence. A sister, a mother and a grandmother, along with two gay friends, have come together to tend to 29-year-old Declan.

From Collapsing Horse, Dance Plague is about bodies, autonomy, rebellion, wildness, animalistic abandon, losing yourself and losing self consciousness. It’s about music and the brain, it’s about the body as captivated and limited by our culture, and the sudden violent schism that sets it free.

From the Olivier Award-winning team of writer/ performer Pat Kinevane, director Jim Culleton and composer Denis Clohessy. Following the huge international success of Fishamble’s trilogy — Forgotten, Silent and Underneath —Before is a new play with much music, set in Clery’s, on the day this iconic department store shuts —for good.

Born into poverty in an isolated village in rural France, a boy grows up amongst hard men and women living hard and violent lives. Bullied relentlessly for being gay, this is the story of Eddy’s struggle to understand who he is, who he might become, and of his fight to escape.

Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First Award at Edinburgh Fringe 2017, From Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour comes an audacious new theatrical experiment. Each night a different performer joins the playwright on stage, while the script waits unseen in a sealed box…

On the 5th of November 2015, a dam containing toxic mining waste collapsed in the mountains of the Brazilian mining region of Minas Gerais. Mining Stories is not a detective story or a reconstruction of the disaster, but an intriguing documentary theatre performance that journeys through a diverse collection of personal stories crossing topics such as memory, politics, religion and storytelling.

Inviting you on a virtual trip through time, the starting point for which is the imagined opening of a time capsule found in 2109. The capsule contains a collection of stories documenting its creators’ changing neighbourhood, a film record of their own private universe. There are also instructions included, a set of possibilities for how the stories can be pieced together for the audience.

Fantasia deals with the subject of imagination and theatre as a place where the world of fiction is born. How does this unique agreement between the audience and artists arise, allowing actors to create worlds on an empty stage? What is needed to make us believe in stage reality? Does the imagination have its limits?

Accompanied by her guitar, a hysterical pop singer riffs on love in a lonely universe. She’s attempting heartfelt communication with a room full of strangers. It’s a solo exploration of co-dependency. A live action album of original pop songs from Zoe Ní Riordáin, powered by a need to express the inexpressible.

Shortlisted for Soho Theatre’s biennial Verity Bargate Award comes this blistering new play from Stewart Parker Trust Award winner Karen Cogan, a fast, infectiously dark comedy about the messiness of being youngish, female and queer in Ireland.

Inspired by raw audio recordings, this is a true story about Anna’s blind Dad. Examining misplaced pity in all its guises, this is an irreverent look at what happens when a parent loses his sight while his daughter loses her mind.

Dick Walsh and James Moran are staging news articles published on 13th March 2012. Or in other words, they’re examining a dying media using a dead artform.

A man is running for his life. Running helps the brain to regenerate. Over time, he forgets himself. He grows more interested in the trees, the history, the life of the park. A conversation with a horse chestnut reveals the nature of healthy being.

At 35, Mara is an overqualified underachiever. She works part time in an aquarium, eats ice-cream for breakfast and likes ticking ‘single’ on forms. A surreal underwater experience about trying to be grown-up and wishing you were seahorse.

Fun-loving popstar twins Trevor and Elliot Century (AKA ‘Trelliot’) are more accustomed to talent show judges than those of the legal variety. Alas, after being served a summons by a dodgy merch salesman, the pair encounter a miserable magistrate who has no time for their larks – or their tunes.

King Levi says that stories make your brain go fuzzy and your hands turn green. All stories are banned in the Kingdom of Levitas. It’s Susie and Shredder’s job to enforce the King’s law, shredding stories from dusk ‘til dawn

An award-winning performance about violence and intimacy. Samira Elagoz takes us along on her personal research project across three continents. From online platforms to close encounters, she showcases gender relations in all their brutal and wonderful ambivalence.