Dublin Fringe Festival 2026

4 September, 9pm | Space Upstairs & Bar

Tickets: €25/23*

*Please note: ticket grants automatic entry to club night afterwards.

Welcome to the lesbian dive bar at the end of the world.

Sticky floors. Religious experiences. Masc breakdowns. Slow dances with strangers.

Somewhere between a wake, a nightclub and the smoking area at 2am, performers spin through heartbreak, swagger, devotion and emotional catastrophe.

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After-party club night tickets available here.

4 – 12 September | Cube

Preview: €16. Performances: €20/18

How long can a Man carry what he cannot name?

Part concert, part confession, part reckoning, SOAK is a contemporary music-theatre experience blending live music, slam spoken word and performance to explore masculinity, grief and inherited silence.

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5 – 12 September | Space Upstairs

Preview: €18. Performances: €22/20

ISL Interpreted Performance: 11 September, 9pm

I haven’t always been like this. I haven’t always been in crisis. I used to be a regular actor.

Crisis acting simulates emergencies for training, and the audience are invited to watch a demonstration. The gun isn’t real. The blood isn’t real. The pain is a performance.

At what point does repetition destroy the boundary between what’s real and what isn’t?

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5 – 12 September | Cube

Preview: €16. Performances: €20/18

1989. Army tanks roll into a rundown estate in West Dublin. On a hill overlooking the battle stands a child. She is 10 years old. Her name is Thérèse.

2026. Thérèse is in the throes of grief after the unexpected death of her brother. Her grief acts as a portal to old wounds. Past injustices.

Thérèse is a modern day epic set in contemporary Dublin. It is a roar seeking accountability from those in power. The Gods. It is an homage to those who have been lost, and a complex exploration of the impact of generational social inequity.

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7 – 11 September | Space Upstairs

Preview: €18. Performances: €22/20

Home Ground Performance (for disabled & queer/ LGBTQIA+ audiences): 9 September, 9pm

A performance shaped by others.

In this provocative new duet by Philip Connaughton for Croí Glan, performers navigate a world of shifting rules, unexpected choices and uncertain outcomes.

Blurring the boundaries between observation and participation, the work invites audiences into a live encounter where influence is never straightforward and responsibility is never neutral.

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9 – 12 September | Cube

Preview: €16. Performances: €20/18

A denim-drenched journey through grief, queerness and lineage – part performance, part installation.

Four years after their father’s death, Barry began writing him letters. What started as a private mourning ritual became a way to move again.

Fusing ritual, music, design and movement, this tender new work travels from Annie Lennox to Neil Diamond, Carlow fields to London lockdown, line dancing to lip-syncing.

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10 – 12 September | Space Upstairs

Preview: €18. Performances: €22/20

ISL Interpreted Performance: 12 September, 6:15pm

On the 10-year anniversary of a woman’s disappearance, her three college friends come together to create a piece of art commemorating her.

Using myth, film and movement, they pull together fragments of memory, fantasy and reality in an attempt to understand what really happened.

Inspired by the many cases of missing women in Ireland, this is an epic telling of an all too familiar story. Join Chaos Factory as they explore the phenomenon of missing women, collective grief and the ethics of telling someone else’s story.

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15 – 19 September | Cube

Preview: €16. Performances: €20/18

Following an earth-shattering event, Ralph escapes to a secluded cottage in search of peace. But something or someone is haunting him, determined to get in. The surrounding forest comes alive as memory collides with imagination, and Ralph struggles to make sense of his new reality.

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16 – 19 September | Space Upstairs

Preview: €18. Performances: €22/20

A deliciously dark fever dream, a shadowy celebration of rural life, a multidisciplinary show blending mesmerising aerial dance and visceral physical theatre, pulsing under an original electronic score.

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17 – 19 September | Cube

Tickets: €20/18

Audio Described Performance & Touch Tour: 18 September, 6:30pm

‘Brilliantly smart and beautifully stupid’ ★★★★ The Guardian

Nominated for Best Comedy Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, Creepy Boys invite you into a technicolour acid trip featuring puppet Joni Mitchell, a two-person horse and every body part they have.

A techno-punk concert, a play, a clown show and a basement puppet nightmare all rolled into one, this is about trying to have a good time while the world burns.

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18 – 19 September | Space Upstairs

Tickets: €22/20

‘Furious and funny rallying cry against patriarchy and perfection… It is unkept, unseemly and chaotic. And that is exactly the point.’ Guardian ★ ★ ★ ★

Who holds the power to define you? Who gets to say whether you’re a legend or loser? Who owns the right, and the rights, to tell your story?

Ridiculed then revered, The Shaggs defied categorisation. IN BED WITH MY BROTHER attempt to wrangle the story of the best worst band of all time into a three-act biopic.

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