Upcoming Events

Young Critics is a programme of the National Association for Youth Drama (NAYD). Every year, 16 youth theatre members from across Ireland come together to watch, workshop, discuss and critique high quality national and international theatre, bringing their unique perspective to the Festival. This event is open to people of all ages.

Bird is the first opera by acclaimed composer performer Julie Feeney, commissioned by Dublin Theatre Festival, Cork Midsummer Festival, Galway Arts Festival and Kilkenny Arts Festival. Bird is the inaugural commission from Festival Firsts, an initiative of IFCN (Irish Festivals’ Co-production Network).

A series of lively panel discussions programmed by Dylan Haskins onm themes and topics arising from this year's Festival programme.

Occupy Your Imagination with ABSOLUT FRINGE this September as the festival returns to Project Arts Centre and takes charge of the city for 16 days.

What the hell happened to us? We used to be the happy f***kers of the European party! But of course Paddy did the dog and made a complete idiot of himself. We just had to drag the arse out of it. But what a story! What a party! Now follow our visual interpretation of how it all went down.