Dublin Fringe Festival 2024

7 22 September

30 YEARS OF BRINGING YOU THE EXTRAORDINARY

WELCOME

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024

Welcome to the 30th Edition of Dublin Fringe Festival!

Get ready to dive into the wild, the weird, and the wonderful –it’s the 30th edition of Dublin Fringe Festival! For three decades, we’ve been shaking up Dublin with jaw-dropping performances, mind-blowing art, and unforgettable moments. And guess what? This year is no exception!

Dublin Fringe Festival is all about breaking the mold. It’s a celebration of art without limits, a playground for artists to experiment, push boundaries, and defy expectations. Here, the traditional takes a back seat, making way for the new, the daring, and the downright unmissable.

This incredible journey wouldn’t be possible without the visionary artists who have made Dublin Fringe Festival what it is today. Their passion, creativity, and relentless pursuit of artistic brilliance transform our city each year. From the pioneers who took the first daring steps to the fresh faces bringing new energy, these artists are the heartbeat of our festival. This year, we celebrate their gifts, grit, boldness, and determination.

To our amazing audiences, this brochure is your gateway to a world where the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Step out of the mundane, dive in, be surprised, and get excited! This year’s festival features an incredible lineup of over 500 performances by more than 450 artists across 28 venues. Expect a rollercoaster of emotions, laughs, gasps, and maybe even a tear or two.

Whether you’re a Dublin Fringe fanatic or a curious newcomer, there’s something here to tickle your fancy. So, grab your friends, mark your calendars, and prepare to be enthralled. This isn’t just a festival; it’s a full-blown celebration and vibrant reflection of contemporary life, reimagined through the craft of some of the most inspiring national and international artists working today, all wrapped up in the buzzing heart of Dublin.

Thank you for being part of our story. Here’s to another 30 years of bold and unforgettable experiences at Dublin Fringe Festival.

David Francis Moore Festival Director

30 YEARS ON…

Dublin Fringe Festival is still the place where artists make their mark: they’re carving out space artistically, culturally and politically in our ever-changing city.

The artists in this year’s programme are looking at an expanded world and asking where they fit. They’re forging families, claiming space for multitudinous identities and creating avenues for meaningful dissent. Because really, what’s the nuclear family without some new queer energy, civic space without access and intersectionality or conversations about the nation that don’t reflect the people living in it?

It’s a brave thing to occupy space in the modern world, and they’re doing it fearlessly. This year there’s a focus on love expanded: the make-up of family, precarity of romance, the urgency of pleasure. Vitally, these artists are claiming space for joy and community, letting us know that the path forward is a shared one. It would seem that communal catharsis and authenticity are the formula to this shared future. You know the one, it feels a lot like safety, but with a bit more sparkle.

Join this year’s programmed artists and let your pleasure-seeking be urgent, victorious. Sit up, take notice. Can you hear the beat floating up through the floorboards, the chant of the protest down the road, the spark of questions in a moment shared? It’s time to set off running, what’s next won’t wait.

Bee Sparks Artistic Projects Manager

or phoning us. Please refer to the venue page (page 105) or fringefest.com/venues for accessibility information.

Signed Performances

BOOK NOW HELP US SUPPORT THE NEXT GENERATION OF ARTISTS!

Join the party and book your tickets for Dublin Fringe Festival 2024!

Visit fringefest.com or scan the QR code above to book your tickets now. All tickets must be purchased online in advance.

For any ticket enquiries, contact us at boxoffice@fringefest.com or call us on 1800 374 643

Age Suitability

For information about sign language interpreted performances go to page 6. ISL interpreted performances are denoted by a symbol on the Day-By-Day, pages 106 - 111.

Audio Described Performances

For information about audio described performances go to pages 8, 48 and 84. Audio described performances are denoted by a symbol on the Day-By-Day, pages 106 - 111.

Group Discounts

Please Note

Please arrive at the venue at least 15 minutes before show time. Some events may be cancelled at late notice due to circumstances beyond our control. You will be eligible for a refund in this instance. No refund or exchanges unless the event is cancelled. Transaction fee of €2 per ticket applies to all tickets and is included in the price. All information in this brochure is correct at time of publication. Dublin Fringe Festival CLG reserves the right to make alterations to the programme and cannot be held accountable for cancellations, substitutions or changes.

Due to mature themes, strong language and nudity, the content of many Dublin Fringe Festival shows may not be viewed as suitable for all audiences. You will find shows suitable for young audiences in our Young Radicals section from pages 86 – 89.

Content Warnings

Where applicable, show content warnings can be found on the show page and in more detail on our website.

Special Assistance

If you or a member of your party is a wheelchair user or require special assistance at any of our venues please inform Box Office at the time of booking by emailing boxoffice@fringefest.com

Discounts are available for most shows to groups of 10+. Otherwise, ticket concessions are available in most cases for students, senior citizens or the unwaged.

Calling All Joy Seekers!

Join us as a volunteer (ages 18+). Volunteering with Dublin Fringe Festival offers experience in the exciting world of festival making. To register your interest and for more information contact volunteers@fringefest.com

[1] DFF can claim a refund of tax paid by individuals that donate over €250 and up to 31% of the donation amount, if authorised by the donor. The relief is calculated by grossing up the donation at 31%. This means that, for every donation of €250, DFF receives your donation in its entirety and can claim a refund up to €112.32.

WITH SPECIAL THANKS

The Quinn Family Foundation

Artists programmed in Dublin Fringe Festival receive between 75% and 90% of their box office revenue. The remaining revenue from ticket sales is reinvested in supporting artists and creating unforgettable experiences for audience members just like you!

In 2024, Dublin Fringe Festival will support over 600 artists and arts workers to present more than 500 performances to 30,000 audience members!

Our year-round artist support hub Fringe Lab welcomes over 10,000 artists annually, offering free studio space, workshops, residencies, and mentorship.

Help us achieve even more in 2025!

With your support we can expand our impact, allowing us to support more artists and create extraordinary events for our audiences!

Invest in the future of the arts.

ISL Deaf Translations Project

Lianne Quigley &

ISL

Team Interpreters

This year’s Dublin Fringe Festival features the second iteration of an exciting commission, led by artist and Deaf interpreter Lianne Quigley. Aiming to bridge the gap between the stage and Deaf audiences, Lianne will lead a specialised team of Deaf and hearing interpreters, offering an enriched and more inclusive Dublin Fringe for all through interpreted performances of four productions.

A celebration of Irish Sign Language (ISL) and a vital step towards recognising the cultural heritage of the Irish Deaf Community, this project facilitates and promotes team-interpreting in the theatre context. It goes beyond the familiar model of a ‘hearing interpreter signing to a Deaf audience’ and brings Deaf culture, creativity, and representation to the fore.

This pioneering collaboration between Dublin Fringe Festival and Lianne Quigley marks an important step towards a more accessible and inclusive artistic landscape in Ireland.

Afterwards (p. 28)

Janet Moran & Once Off Productions

13 September 19:00, €17/€15 conc.

Illness as Metaphor (p. 20)

Dead Centre 14 September 18:15, €19/€17 conc.

Chicken (p. 9)

Eva O’Connor & Hildegard Ryan

15 September 13:15, €16/€14 conc.

BEASTS. (p.70)

Morgan Savidan & Sasha Carberry Sharma

21 September 21:15, €15/€13 conc.

A Good Room

Preview

6 September 20:00, €11

Performances

7 & 8, 13 – 15, 20 – 22 September

20:00, €16/€14 conc.

Other Performances

7, 14, 21 September

13:00, €16/€14 conc.

Meeting Point

Annesley House

Duration

60 mins

Cian and Allie are running out of space and running out of time, they don’t have a comedy club or a cute theatre to put on their little shows, but they’ve got to get this gig on.

What about Cian’s bedroom? It’s already an office, a cinema and a dancefloor. It might be a good room for a show? Let’s find out!

You’re invited to a night of messy chaotic interactive comedy about friendship, space and most of all: home.

Supported by Dublin Fringe Festival’s Make Space For Art Fund.

Please note: Contains references to mental health.

Image Simon Lazewski

Image Paddy Cahill

Cian Jordan & Allie O’Rourke

A Dublin Fringe Festival Commission

Image Darragh Kane & Marcin Lewandowski

GATMAN!

Tadhg Hickey & Sophie Motley

Presented by The Everyman

Preview

6 September

18:15, €15

Performances

7 – 10 September

18:15, €19/€17 conc.

Audio Described Performance

10 September

18:15, €19/€17 conc.

Venue

Project Arts Centre – Space Upstairs

Duration

70 mins

A darkly comic one-man play exploring the metamorphic effect of alcohol with a superhero twist.

Murph is a down-and-out Corkman addicted to Gat (booze). Trying desperately to sober up before a visit with his son, Murph traverses the eccentricities of the city as he takes on the great fight between alcoholism and recovery.

But, meanwhile…

Welcome to the glorious wonderland of Murph’s alcohol-fuelled superhero alterego, Gatman. Gatman’s mission: to save his beloved, boozy city from the sobering shackles of Father Mathew – a priest statue come to life.

Supported by the Arts Council / An Comhairle Ealaíon and Cork City Council.

Please note: Contains themes of addiction, abuse and trauma.

Chicken

Eva O’Connor & Hildegard Ryan

Presented by Sunday’s Child

Performances

9, 11 & 13 – 15 September

21:15, €16/€14 conc.

Other Performances

7 September

18:30

14 & 15 September

13:15, €16/€14 conc.

ISL Interpreted Performance

15 September

13:15, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

Project Arts Centre – Cube Duration 60 mins

Image Paul Baker & Hildegard Ryan

Please note: Contains smoke machines and strobe lighting.

Meet Don Murphy; a proud Irishman, a hopeless ketamine addict and one of his generation’s greatest actors. He also happens to be a chicken.

A Kerry cock, to be exact. Join the feathered Oscar winner as he shares his star-studded life story: from moving to New York to getting his big break, having his first birdon-bird sexual experience, and attempting to navigate life in the spotlight. Along the way, Don will be confronted with some harsh truths about himself, chicken-kind and humankind.

The Man Who Talks to Statues

Shane Casey

Preview

5 & 6 September

19:00, €18

Performances

7, 9 – 11 September

19:00, €26

Other Performance

8 September 16:00, €26

Venue

The Civic Theatre

Duration

60 mins

Princess Melancholy

Preview

6 September 18:30, €11

Performances

7 & 8, 13 – 15 September 20:30, €14/€12 conc.

Venue

The Pearse Centre

Duration

45 mins

Darryl, a recording engineer and voiceover artist, lives in his attic creating radio ads and recording his play. After crashing his father’s car, Darryl embarks on a magic realist road trip to Limerick and Dublin, encountering suspicious locals, deceased celebrities, and historical figures. His special talent for speaking to statues leads to interactions with icons like Richard Harris and Molly Malone. Darryl’s journey is a blend of hedonism, selfreflection, and a quest for either salvation or escape.

Supported by the Arts Council / An Comhairle Ealaíon, South Dublin County Council & Creative Ireland.

Is Sophia performing stand-up comedy or are we witnessing an acute psychotic episode? Either way, once she’s getting attention, she doesn’t care.

Come and behold a charmingly lewd, self-deprecating and ‘delulu’ grown woman who insists on dressing like a princess as she explores her experiences with men, Irishness, body image, feminism, and unexpected motherhood.

A show that, at its heart, celebrates and laments the painful reality of being a woman at odds with society, the people in it, and worst of all, her own mind.

Developed at Scene + Heard. Aviary Talent.

Please note: Contains loud noise, smoke machines, strobe lighting and references to eating disorders.

Image Ruth Mejber

Sophia Wren

Image Kieran O’Connor

Presented by Verdant Productions & The Civic Theatre, in association with Dublin Fringe Festival

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Live & Electric

Analog Kitchen & Grand Mal

Performances

7 September

21:00, €20

Venue

The Sugar Club

Duration

Till late

Enter the next step in dance music evolution as we welcome the master of live techno Analog Kitchen to Dublin for the first time.

Join us for a club night experience like no other as Analog Kitchen and Dublin artist Grand Mal ignite the dancefloor. Experience a new approach to dance music, without decks or limitations, only synths, drum-machines and passion.

Take a journey into the heart of electronic innovation. Surrender to the music and dance like there’s no tomorrow!

Supported by Dublin Fringe Festival.

Please note: Contains loud noise, smoke machines and strobe lighting.

Television

Preview

6 September 21:15, €11

Performances

7 – 8, 10 & 12 September

21:15, €16/€14 conc.

Other Performance

13 September

13:15, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

Project Arts Centre – Cube

Duration

60 mins

It was the first voice you heard in the morning, and the last image before bed. Grab the remote, it’s time to watch, Television!

Flick through the channels of your psyche in this Live Cabaret Musical Performance. Check out the Catholic (Guilt) Channel, XXX After Dark, and The Real Housewives of Carlow Town, as SexyTadhg guides you through the universe of your mind.

This raw and hilarious cabaret questions how our media obsession has shaped society and infiltrated our self-discovery, leaving viewers asking, what is real and what is television?

Developed at FRINGE LAB. Winner of the 2023 Radical Spirit Award.

Please note: Contains the use of smoke machines, strobe lighting, nudity and references to mental health and suicide.

Image Kate Lawlor

SexyTadhg

Preview

6 September

18:30, €11

Performances

8 – 11 September

18:30, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

Project Arts Centre – Cube

Duration

55 mins

Imagine finally achieving clarity after years of feeling underestimated and alienated—only to have a team of men shuffle you into a psychiatric ward.

Terra is one woman’s quest to extract beauty from the chaos as she strips away the layers of society’s expectations.

In her immersive debut, Azeviche channels her seductive alter-ego (Rita) and the wisdom of ancestors, infusing modern dance, vogue, and afro-futurism into a breathtaking dissection of intersectionality. Terra offers a perspective on Afro-Brazilian femininity and dance that will resonate deep from the soil, leaving audiences touched and inspired.

Supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle

Ealaíon, FRINGE LAB’S Break New Ground

Bursary, NDRP, Dance Ireland and axis: Ballymun via axis Assemble.

Please note: Contains smoke machines, strobe lighting, nudity and references to mental health.

Alessandra Azeviche

Jo Morrigan Black

Carpet Muncher

Jo Morrigan Black

Preview

7 September

18:30, €11

Performances

9 – 12 September

20:30, €14/€12 conc.

Other Performance

8 September

18:30, €14/€12 conc.

Venue

The Pearse Centre

Duration

45 mins

A solo Spoken Word drag performance celebrating queer resistance. This show brings the urban legend of the ‘Mothman’ to life, using vibrant surrealist costuming to explore themes of queer alienation, metamorphosis, cross-border solidarity and homoerotic hot-tub encounters.

Carpet Muncher invites you to face the pest in your closet. Is it hungry for light? More creature than human? Join this intimate, frenzied call to celebrate the unknowable within us all.

Join them for an unforgettable revelry of cloth.

Developed at FRINGE LAB.

Please note: Contains references to mental health and suicide.

DANCEHALL BLUES

CoisCéim Dance Theatre

Preview

6 & 7 September

19:45

Performances

8, 10 - 15 & 19 - 21 September 19:45

Venue

CoisCéim Studio

Duration

50 mins

Ticket Price

Pay What You Can - Recommended price €24. Full details online.

Directed and choreographed by David Bolger, this performance unites two of Ireland’s most exciting artists, Stephanie Dufresne and Alex O’Neill for the very first time – in an intimate duet that grooves between hope and the dystopia of an angry world.

Underpinned by the experimental freedom that being in Dublin Fringe Festival entails, this production investigates the blurred, vanishing line between fiction and nonfiction – in CoisCéim’s first work for the festival in over a decade.

CoisCéim is proud to be strategically funded by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and supported by Dublin City Council and Culture Ireland. DANCEHALL BLUES is an anchor of the company’s programme celebrating its 30th Year.

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Image Ros Kavanagh

Ololufe

Preview

7 September 18:15, €11

Performances

8 – 11 September

20:45, €14/€12 conc.

Venue

The Lir Academy – Studio 2

Duration

70 mins

Chuckwudi and Ola are getting married.

And you are invited.

This immersive theatre experience drops you in the center of the dramatic spectacle that is a Nigerian wedding. As dawn breaks on their wedding day the Nigerian-Irish bride and groom navigate all the pitfalls weddings can bring: parental pressures, love, stress, betrayal and most importantly, food.

All audience members are encouraged to come dressed for a wedding, you are the guests after all.

No worries about upstaging the bride. She’s Nigerian.

Developed at FRINGE LAB. Supported by the PAN PAN Platform at Dublin Fringe Festival & by Big Ambitions: a FRINGE LAB & Fishamble: The New Play company partnership.

Please note: Contains the use of smoke machines and strobe lighting.

Little Squirt

Preview

7 September 18:30, €11

Performances

8 - 12 September 21:00, €15/€13 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre - Boys School

Duration

60 mins

‘‘We need your sperm!’’

Join Australian musical comedian Darby James for his multi-award-winning cabaret about sperm donation. Darby’s original songs guide you through his hilarious and heartfelt voyage, sparked by a Facebook ad. As he sets sail across the seas of queer existential mayhem, he navigates the absurdities of clinical procreation and contemplates his potential future as a gay parent. Join him in exploring genetic questionnaires, medical screenings, and ethical dilemmas surrounding reproduction, culminating in a moral quandary: should we be having children?

Please note: Contains loud noise and references to mental health.

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Arínóla Theatre

Darby James & Quiet RIOT

Illness as Metaphor

Adapted from the book by

Susan Sontag

Dead Centre

7 September

21:00, €15 Performances

8, 9, 12 & 13 September

21:00, €19/€17 conc. Other Performances

14 September 15:30 & 18:15, €19/€17 conc.

ISL Interpreted Performance

14 September, 18:15

€19/€17 conc.

Venue

Project Arts Centre – Space Upstairs Duration

80 mins

‘I have always liked to pretend my body isn’t there.’ - Susan Sontag

In her book Illness as Metaphor, Susan Sontag diagnoses the problem with the way we speak about illness - the metaphors surrounding sickness that can, in her view, quite literally kill.

Working with six participants living with longterm illness, Dead Centre adapt this groundbreaking text, asking: how can theatre deal with reality? Perhaps theatre can be a place where we live, and die, without metaphor.

After all, the one thing you can’t do on stage is pretend your body isn’t there.

Co-Produced with Project Arts Centre. Funded by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Supported by Realta, the National Body for Arts + Health in Ireland.

Photo Photo Nancy Crampton Image Edit Jason Booher

Laura Craig Design

Anthem for Dissatisfaction

Brassneck Theatre Company & SkelpieLimmer Productions

Preview

7 September

18:45, €11

Performances

8 – 11 & 13 September

21:15, €15/€13 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre – Black Box

Duration

70 mins

Belfast-born ‘Irish Twins’ Sarah and Jamie are about to hit 30. But before they do, they’re reliving their greatest hits: ‘Credit Crunch,’ ‘Austerity,’ and ‘Free School Meals’… Benefits Britain never sounded so good!

A euphoric, working-class celebration of the power of live music, teenage angst, sibling rivalry and love in this electric and hilarious coming-of-age anthem for anyone who ever wanted more.

Supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland National Lottery Commissioning Programme.

Please note: Contains loud noise, smoke machines, strobe lighting and references to mental health.

Monsters

Venus Patel with Shauna Harris & Ciarán McGannon

Preview

8 September 18:15, €11

Performances

9 – 15 September 18:15, €14/€12 conc.

Venue

The Lir Academy - Studio 2

Duration

75 mins

The end of the world is nigh!

But you could be saved. Join the church of Daisy, a radical Trans preacher, as she prepares your soul for a new world without the boundaries of conformity, where your difference will be celebrated.

Through her immersive, queer reimagining of the end of the world Daisy will subvert your Catholic guilt and combat your need for obedience. Only the most devout will survive the coming apocalypse and be transformed into their true, monstrous selves.

Developed at FRINGE LAB. Supported by Centre Culturel Irlandais and Dublin Fringe Festival’s Romilly Walton Masters Award, axis: Ballymun via axis Assemble, The Rowan Trust and Maïa Nunes Outside Eye with Dublin Fringe Festival.

Please note: Contains strobe lighting.

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SHTOOM

Paul Currie

Performances

9 September

18:15, €17/€15 conc.

Other Performance

10 September

20:45, €17/€15 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre – 1662

Duration

60 mins

A brand new show for Paul Currie, for the first time in his 10th hour long show he will not speak for 60min and still bring all the laughs. After 15 years as a professional stand-up Currie will go full clown. Imagine the anarchy and grace of Charlie Chaplin, the pathos and empathy of Buster Keaton, the charm and insanity of Lucille Ball meets the mayhem and sweat of a Parisian riot & the Muppet show all filtered through one single human.

A truly unique, anti war, silent scream for WORLD humanity. It’s a surrealist, dada punk-clown, non-verbal, stand-up comedy experience from this award-winning Co. Antrim Artistic Buffoon.

Malignant Humour

Preview

8 September

18:30, €11

Performances

9 – 11, 14 – 15 September 18:30, €15/€13 conc.

Other Performances

13 September

21:00

14 September 13:15, €15/€13 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre – Boys School

Duration

45 mins

Hannah found a lump.

It’s nothing to worry about… right?

Join her for every blood test and biopsy in this combination of trapeze and theatre that explores the death-defying circus act that is chemotherapy. Based on Hannah’s own experience with cancer, this performance examines what happens when your body betrays you, and you’re left hanging in mid air…

Developed at FRINGE LAB and Scene + Heard. Supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Dublin City Arts Office, Taking Flight Dublin, axis: Ballymun, Circusful Belfast, and Dance Ireland.

Image Kris Talbot

Image Monika Palova

Hannah Gumbrielle

SUCKIN DIESEL

Holly Furey & Ursula McGinn

Preview

8 September

18:45, €11

Performances

9 & 10 September

18:45, €15/€13 conc.

Other Performances

12 & 14 September 21:15

13 & 14 September 13:30

€15/€13 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre – Black Box

Duration

75 mins

GOOD GURL is being kept on a ward in Tallaght hospital against her will. During her stay in this well-lit hell, GOOD GURL comes to terms with her personal failings and the crimes against the State that landed her there. But GOOD GURL isn’t alone. She navigates the ward amidst strangers’ outbursts and even stranger health care professionals.

In this darkly comedic satire, laughter and empathy intertwine to shed light on issues women have faced in Ireland for generations, offering an ode to selfpreservation and resilience.

Developed at FRINGE LAB and Scene + Heard. Supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon & FRINGE LAB X field:arts.

Please note: Contains the use of smoke machines, strobe lighting and references to mental health.

Ham Sandwiches and Discipline

Preview

8 September 20:15, €12

Performances

9 - 11 September 20:15, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

The Lir Academy - Studio 1

Duration

55 mins

Witness the passionate drive of the GAA fused with dance, disco and comedy. From mammies’ sideline screaming, batty umpires, manic pundits, Tayto eating in Croke Park and teenage club socials, we delve into what makes this sport a national tradition. While injecting this hive of Irishness with campness and humour we glimpse what growing up can be like in Ireland and what can shape an Irish identity.

In association with Mermaid Arts Centre. Developed at Scene + Heard. Supported by Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, O’Donovan Rossa GAA Club, Galway Dance and Dance Ireland.

Image Holly Furey

Image Nóra Ní Anluain Fay

NAF Dance

Janet Moran & Once Off Productions

Co-presented by the Abbey Theatre and Dublin Fringe Festival

Preview

6 & 7 September

19:00, €13 Performances

9 – 14 September

19:00, €17/€15 conc.

Other Performances

11 & 14 September

13:30, €17/€15 conc.

ISL Interpreted Performance

13 September

19:00, €17/€15 conc.

Venue

Abbey Theatre – Peacock Stage Duration 90 mins

Three women in the immediate aftermath of a life changing choice.

Set in the recovery ward of an abortion clinic in the UK, a young English solicitor and two Irish women - one a married mother of three and one an eighteen year old on a her first foray out of Ireland - spend a disorienting night together as they wait for morning and their release from a self-imposed purgatory. Revelations, arguments and silly songs take them to dawn as they look into a changed future.

Supported by Fishamble’s New Play Clinic. Funded by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Please note: Contains references to mental health, sexual violence and pregnancy termination.

Black Enough For That

Preview

9 September

18:00, €11

Performances

10 – 13 September

18:00, €14/€12 conc.

Other Performance

14 September

13:00, €14/€12 conc.

Venue

The International Bar

Duration

60 mins

Neil Green has had to deal with more than his fair share of people’s prejudices. His dad was incarcerated during Apartheid. He integrated a White School in 1991. He was lied to by Nelson Mandela. He had to cut his dreadlocks off to get a job at a perfume counter.

So he emigrated to Ireland in 2020 to get away from all that carry on.

Turns out that is when being black really started. Join Neil for an evening of comedy about the trials and tribulations of a Caramel man trying to get by in the Big Smoke.

Please note: Contains references to racist language.

Dreamgun Film Reads: Anthology

Dreamgun

Performances

10 - 15 September

18:15, €17/€15 conc.

Other Performance

14 September

15:00, €17/€15 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre - 1662

Duration

The definitive director’s cut of their best Film Reads with new updated material for new updated times.

Movies you love, rewritten with jokes and performed by unprepared comedians who never rehearse but have seen the films at least once.

Tuesday Star Wars: A New Hope

Wednesday Titanic

Thursday The Lord of the Rings

Friday Toy Story

Saturday (Matinee) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Saturday Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Sunday The Shawshank Redemption

Aviary Talent.

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Neil Green

Image Karla Gowlett

Fermented Dreams

Jess Kav

Preview

9 September

18:00, €11

Performances

11, 13 & 14 September

18:00, €14/€12 conc.

Other Performances

10 September 20:00

14 September

15:30

€14/€12 conc.

Venue

Bewley’s Café Theatre

Duration

60 mins

It Was Paradise, Unfortunately

Raphaël Amahl Khouri & Myrto Stampoulou

Produced by The Collective

Preview

9 September

19:00, €11

Performances

10 - 12 September

19:00, €16/€14 conc.

Other Performances

13 & 14 September

13:00, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

Goethe-Institut Irland

Duration

60 mins

Raphaël Khouri wants to heal the world with plants.

When his quest for a cure brings him to Greece, and he discovers the radical, queer and intersectional origins of western theatre, he’s forced to ask the question – where did it all go wrong?

Based on true events, Raphaël tells two intertwining stories – his own as a trans Arab playwright, and his three-year investigation into the mystery of Dionysos. This astonishing show offers a bold and inclusive new vision for theatre artists and audiences in the 21st century.

Supported by the Arts Council / An Comhairle Ealaíon. Originally commissioned by Outburst Arts, with support from Nebula Fund and Goethe-Institut.

Noelle, a 40-year-old musician, is late for her headline show with three influential attendees awaiting her arrival. Armed with excuses, spicy piano ballads, spoken word, and chaotic monologues, Noelle traces her path from day dreaming child to spotlightseeking teen to her current terrified self.

This darkly comedic and vulnerable play dives into hope, creativity, vocation, and confronting your dreams. Are they dead and rotten, or just smelling funny and salvageable? Will Noelle find the validation she’s looking for, or will it be another stinker she’ll wash down with booze?

Developed at FRINGE LAB. Supported by Dublin Fringe Festival.

Please note: Contains references mental health and suicide.

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Starfighter

Preview

10 September

18:30, €11

Performances

11 – 15 September

18:30, €14/€12 conc.

Other Performance

14 September

13:30, €14/€12 conc.

Venue

The Pearse Centre

Duration

60 mins

Paddy Daddy

Mark T Cox

Preview

10 September 19:00, €11

Performances

11 – 15 September

19:00, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

Glass Mask Theatre

Duration

75 mins

Becky Cheatle is a rising star of Irish comedy, though her 50 years as a man got mixed reviews, much like the Star Wars prequels. In her new stand-up show, she hilariously explores her gender transition through the lens of her lifelong love of Star Wars.

Join Becky for a truly unique and moving journey through gender transition, childhood memories, and adult crisis. Jump to lightspeed with a show that’s as heartfelt as it is hilarious.

May the laughs be with you!

Developed at Scene + Heard.

Join very busy, very famous, international cabaret star Mark T Cox for a juicy hour of comedy, filth and pop bangers as he explores the joys and horrors of contemporary gay life in rural Ireland.

In his charmingly soft boy style, Mark shares tales of school scandals, secret affairs, and too many late night kisses in a Ford Fiesta. With original music and plenty of sing-along moments from pop icons - J Lo, Kylie and of course, The Corrs.

This is one for the gays, the girlies, and your newly woke Irish Mammy.

Supported by Dublin Fringe Festival.

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Becky Cheatle

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Who Robbed Annie

Queeries?

Play Not Funny:

Sasha Shame & GoblinsGoblinsGoblins

Performances

11 & 12 September

20:45, €17/€15 conc.

Other Performances

14 September, 13:00, €17/€15 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre - 1662

Duration

60 mins

September 2nd, 2023. Electric Picnic.

Between the hours of 4am and 10am the crime of the century was committed against one of Ireland’s most beautiful Drag Queens - Annie Queeries.

Five girls, five suspects, one make-up bag.

This show aims to answer a question few dare to ask… who robbed Annie Queeries?

Developed at Scene + Heard.

Please note: Contains loud noise, smoke machines and strobe lighting.

Embedding Access: A Workshop for Disability Inclusion

Al Bellamy

In association with Draíocht Blanchardstown.

Performances

12 September

Methodology Talk

14:00 (60 mins)

Embedding Access Workshop

15:30 (120 mins)

Free but ticketed

Venue

Draíocht Blanchardstown

Duration

180 mins

This workshop will explore the role of theatre-makers as creative forces in implementing disability inclusion throughout theatrical work. There will be an hour-long talk on a methodology for disability inclusive practice, followed by a practical workshop that invites practitioners to collaborate on how we access theatre, and explore the creative ways in which access can be implemented from the very beginning of a project.

Supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Please note: This is a masked event. As the talk and workshop complement each other in subject and form, we encourage visitors to attend both.

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Rose+Bud

Commedia of Errors

Preview

11 September

18:00, €11

Performances

12 – 14 September

18:00, €16/€14 conc.

Other Performances

13 & 14 September

15:30, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

The New Theatre

Duration

70 mins

Finding yourself is never easy, having to find yourself as a closeted t-girl in a nightclub smoking area in Derry? Hellish.

Join Rose and Bud on a journey of realisation, transition and perhaps, reconciliation. Step inside the mind of Rose Coogan and immerse yourself in this play about coming to terms with who you were, who you are and who you want to be.

Developed at Scene + Heard. Supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland. In association with the Lyric Theatre, Belfast.

Please note: Contains references to mental health.

Secret Secrets Shh!

Síomha McQuinn

Previews

10 September

18:00

12 September

13:00, €11

Performances

12 & 15 September

18:00, €14/€12 conc.

Other Performances

13 & 14 September

13:00

15 September 15:30, €14/€12 conc.

Venue

Bewley’s Café Theatre

Duration

50 mins

Cloakroom Girl can tell a lot about her customers from the contents of their pockets…

Join her on an evening shift that spirals out of control. Once she receives an alarming phone call, she is forced to protect her beloved cloakroom, dance with death and confront her own secrets.

An absurd, one-woman show about loose change, loneliness and the pain of letting go.

Developed at FRINGE LAB and at Scene + Heard. Supported by axis: Ballymun via axis Assemble. With in-kind support from Irish Theatre Institute (ITI).

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I’ve always liked the name Marcus

Tinderbox Theatre Company & Matthew Sharpe

Preview

11 September

18:45, €11

Performances

12 – 14 September

18:45, €15/€13 conc.

Other Performance

14 September

15:45, €15/€13 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre – Black Box

Duration

60 mins

Meet Marcus, your typical Northern Irish lad; with a twist - he’s got a knack for trying on stereotypes like they’re snapbacks. When a surprise encounter turns his world upside down, Marcus finds himself sorting through a puzzle of race, identity, and multiple hilarious versions of himself, leaving him to face the ultimate question: who am I, really?

Supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Dublin Fringe Festival’s Weft Studio.

Please note: Contains loud noise, smoke machines and strobe lighting.

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A Version of Life

Robert Power

Performances

12 – 14 September

19:00, €14/€12 conc.

Venue

Trapdoor @ UCD

Duration

60 mins

Robert Power is dead. Sort of.

Trapped in his studio while navigating life, death and an endless array of projects, artist Robert Power can’t seem to escape his mind and a recurring dream of Icelandic nirvana.

With the outside world filtered through Valerie, a virtual assistant, who seems to have dreams of her own, Robert’s existence suddenly arrives at its zenith in this metatheatrical exploration of creative chaos.

Developed at FRINGE LAB and at Trapdoor @ UCD.

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BITCH

Preview

11 September

20:00, €11

Performances

12 – 15 September

20:00, €14/€12 conc.

Other Performance

15 September

13:00, €14/€12 conc.

Venue

Bewley’s Café Theatre

Duration

50 mins

Drunk, down, and disgustingly horny, they’re scared of the men they want and hate the women they want to be.

Overwhelmed by self-loathing and loathing everyone else, they down a bottle of wine, and take to the stage.

But there’s someone else here, too. And he has a lot to say.

An explosive drag cabaret about whether bad things happen cuz you’re a bad person, or if it’s the other way round.

Developed at FRINGE LAB. Supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Please note: Contains loud noise, smoke machines, strobe lighting and references to mental health, suicide, and sexual violence.

JULIUS CAESAR

VARIETY SHOW

Joy

Preview

11 September

20:30, €11

Performances

12 – 14 September

20:30, €16/€14 conc.

Other Performances

13 & 14 September

13:00, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

The New Theatre

Duration

75 mins

This is the worst audition you’ve ever had.

Three auditionees from different identity backgrounds audition for a part in one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, directed by an intensely respected director set on reinventing the play in “unorthodox” styles. As the audition unfolds, the actor’s identities are called into question in the audition room.

This is a raw and hilarious interrogation of the difficult conversations that are happening in theatre today, because at the end of the day, if we don’t laugh, we’ll cry.

Developed at FRINGE LAB. Supported by Big Ambitions: a FRINGE LAB & Fishamble: The New Play company partnership.

Please note: Contains the use of smoke machines, strobe lighting, depictions of violence and references to racial and sexual discrimination.

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Marty Breen

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Nesbitt

B.K. Pepper in collaboration with Katsukokoiso

Presented in partnership with Butter Wouldn’t Melt.

Performances

12 - 14 September

20:45, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

Dublin Castle - Chapel Royal

Duration 60 mins

Composer BK Pepper presents his new work Pagan in collaboration with Italian AI visual artist Katsukokoiso.

This show offers a stunning blend of live music and visual art, combining emotive live music with piano, strings, brass, and electronics, alongside breathtaking visuals.

Experience the fusion where traditional artistry meets modern AI technology.

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Earth SONNET

Mel Mercier, MÓNCKK, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Mikel Murfi, Caoimhe Ní Fhlatharta

Produced by Once Off Productions

Performances

13 & 14 September

13:00, 18:00, 22:00, €22/€18 conc.

Venue

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

5 Merrion Square

Duration

45 mins

Composed by Mel Mercier, the Earth SONNET song cycle is based on seven new sonnets from Irish poets Jane Clarke, John FitzGerald, Kayssie K, Aifric Mac Aodha, Paul Muldoon, Gerry Murphy and Simon Ó Faoláin.

Earth SONNET is performed by singers Iarla Ó Lionáird and Caoimhe Ní Fhlatharta, actor Mikel Murfi, and the MÓNCKK ensemble, with recorded vocals by Conor Lovett, Kayssie K and Cara Cullen, poetry curation by John FitzGerald, and video design by Jeffrey Weeter based on seismic data from the Irish National Seismic Network.

Earth SONNET is an artistic reflection on the natural world in a time of climate crisis.

Funded by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Supported by Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and Poetry Ireland.

MAKOSH

Preview

12 September

18:30, €11

Performances

14 & 15 September

21:00, €15/€13 conc.

Other Performances

13 September

13:15 & 18:30

15 September

13:15, €15/€13 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre - Boys School

Duration

45 mins

Follow PSYCHE into a surreal dreamscape: the MAKOSH universe.

An invigorating blend of aerial dance and experimental theatre. Witness a visually breathtaking expression of the sub-concious human experience through emotive symbolism. Prepare to be spellbound by a kaleidescope of Slav-core aesthetics and juicy surrealism.

An emotive and existentially charged experience, join PSYCHE on the quest of illumination. Bear witness to the oneness of all things.

Developed for the Irish Aerial Dance Festival and Scene + Heard. Supported by Fidget Feet Aerial Dance, Cairde Arts Festival, Earagail Arts Festival, ISACS, Petit Volant and Circus Factory Cork.

Please note: Contains loud noise, smoke machines, strobe lighting and references to mental health.

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Polina Shapkina

The Maestro & The Mosquita

Theatre Lovett

Written by Carmel Winters

Preview

12 September

18:15, €15

Performances

13, 15 September

18:15, €19/€17 conc.

Other Performances

14 September

13:00 & 21:00

15 September

13:00, €19/€17 conc.

Audio Described Performance

15 September

18:15, €19/€17 conc.

Venue

Project Arts Centre – Space Upstairs

Duration

70 mins

Once a celebrated conductor, the Maestro now lives alone, haunted by dreams of past glory and tortured nightly by the visitations of a bloodhungry mosquita.

This tiny nemesis destroys the Maestro’s dream of a magnificent comeback and plunges him into a war he can’t win.

Not until he recognises in his enemy the same need for love and life as in himself.

With an original score by Oscar-winning composer Stephen Warbeck, this big hearted show follows an artist’s journey from innocence to corruption, delight to downfall.

Funded by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Originally commissioned by The Ark. Supported by The Everyman.

Please note: Contains the use of smoke machines.

Sorry You Felt That Way

Preview

12 September

18:30, €11

Performances

13 – 15 September

18:30, €16/€14 conc.

Other Performances

14 & 15 September

15:45, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

Project Arts Centre – Cube

Duration

80 mins

Emma met Adam in a Tesco at a strange time in her life. After six months of romance and joy she decides to move out of her mouldy box room and into his apartment.

Things are looking up for Emma.

But on her first night in her new home Adam’s ex-girlfriend is waiting for her in the sitting room and she no longer feels safe.

A thrilling story about love and the things we wished we didn’t know.

Please note: Contains references to mental health.

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Harry Butler

HYPERPHYSICAL:

A double bill

Irish Modern Dance Theatre

A high-octane double bill featuring new and reimagined contemporary dance works by Abby Zbikowski and John Scott/ Irish Modern Dance Theatre.

Preview 12 September 20:15, €12

Performances

13 & 14 September 20:15, €16/€14 conc.

The Future Is On The Way

Other Performance 14 September 13:15, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

The Lir Academy – Studio 1

Duration

70 mins

The Future Is On The Way is a new, highly physical group work grappling with the impossible task of reckoning with our pasts to collectively manifest more equitable, democratic, and viable futures.

ACTIONS (now)

ACTIONS (now) is a dynamic, humorous, and touching dialogue where two individuals navigate space seamlessly melding and diverging into raw, expressive movements.

Supported by Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Dublin City Council, Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Dance Ireland and Drop Studio.

Please note: Contains loud noise.

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B.S. Incorporated:

We’re Serving

Broad Strokes

Performances

13 & 14 September

20:45, €17/€15 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre – 1662

Duration

60 mins

The world is on fire. And so are the hearts of Dublin’s most infamous, improvising female start-up, B.S. Incorporated.

Based on your suggestions and powerpoint slides they’ve never seen, Broad Strokes will perform an entirely improvised presentation solving the biggest baddest booboo they’ve only just heard about: the climate crisis.

Scandals, allegations and corporate backstabbing will run riot, but only YOU will get to decide if the company will sink or swim.

What could go wrong?

Supported by the Arts Council / An Comhairle Ealaíon.

Please note: Contains loud noise.

Happy Capital

Tommy Harris & Katie O’Halloran

Preview

12 September

20:45, €11

Performances

13 – 15 September

20:45, €14/€12 conc.

Other Performances

14 & 15 September

13:00, €14/€12 conc.

Venue

The Lir Academy – Studio 2

Duration

60 mins

Mark is dead set on becoming Ireland’s first crypto-billionaire, despite not knowing what it is or how it works. Stuck in a deadend job and living in Cork city with his grandfather who is chronically addicted to betting on (dead) horses and his scheming uncle Larry. Mark googles his way down a rabbit hole of Ted Talks, crypto-conventions, and boundless greed, where the only thing holding him back is how low he’ll sink to make his dream come true.

After all, this is the future, isn’t it?

Developed at FRINGE LAB and Scene + Heard. With in-kind support from Irish Theatre Institute (ITI).

Please note: Contains references to mental health.

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A Work-In-Progress Double Bill

Performances

13 September

15:00, Free but ticketed Venue

The Lir Academy – Studio 1

Duration

90 mins

Join us for SIMMER, a new initiative at the Dublin Fringe Festival dedicated to showcasing innovative, experimental, and conceptually radical works-in-progress from new and emerging Irish artists. SIMMER is a creative incubator, providing a platform for developing projects with the potential to push the boundaries of contemporary performance making. This programme is

designed to nurture promising works for future editions of the Dublin Fringe Festival and other national and international touring opportunities.

Our inaugural year will feature a double bill of new work being developed by two exciting artists, Pea Dinneen and Kevin Keogh.

Once Off Productions presents,

Pea Dinneen:

Raising Her Voice

How do you raise a voice? How do you get a whole country to hear it when all it’s done so far is drown it out? 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 playwright and niche cabaret legend, Pea Dinneen, for this intimate work-inprogress showing as she sings her way through this powerful story about herself, her country and her voice.

+353 Presents:

The Revengers

Tragedy

This abridged version of Thomas Middleton’s 1606 play delves into the self-destructive masculine ideology of revenge through the lens of hip-hop and drill culture. It follows two main characters as they navigate their private and public relationships with revenge, lust, and shame, exploring traditional masculinity’s often self-imploding ideologies.

Performed by rappers with original music blending drill and classical orchestral styles, the show aims to unsettle and provide an emotive theatrical experience.

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Fringe Was Here

Currated by Michelle Browne, NCAD with UCD Drama Studies

Performances

14 & 15 September

12:00 & 15:00, Free but ticketed

Meeting Point

Dublin Fringe Festival, Sycamore Street

Duration

70 mins

Please note: This performance takes place outdoors and is a walking performance with some routes taking place off main pathways, please dress appropriately.

What can art tell us about Dublin City?

Join us for a tour of the capital as we dive into the Dublin Fringe Festival archive of site-specific artworks that got under the skin of what made Dublin tick. Developed with a group of artists in the fields of visual art, theatre, architecture and urban design, exploring 30 years of artists responding to Dublin, we’ll ask:

How do we understand the city? How does it shape our lives, and how can we shape the city?

What can we learn from the past to develop responses to our present and future?

Supported with Public Engagement

Funds from the Creative Futures Academy (CFA) – a groundbreaking partnership between three leading creative institutions – the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), University College Dublin (UCD), and the Institute of Art Design + Technology (IADT).

This Boy is Cracking Up

Performances

16 – 20 September

18:15, €17/€15 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre – 1662

Duration

60 mins

Being born in England to German parents and raised in Ireland has left Killian Sundermann with an identity dilemma, namely which football team to support.

After 2022’s sell-out run with Michael Fry, join one of Ireland’s most successful online comedy stars (RTÉ, Virgin, Young Hot Guys Podcast) as he brings his first solo run of stand up to this year’s festival.

Aviary Talent.

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Killian Sundermann

SKETCHERELLA

Erin

McGathy

Preview

15 September

20:45, €13

Performances

16 & 17 September

20:45, €17/€15 conc

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre - 1662

Duration

60 mins

Poor, poor, Sketcherella…

Once upon a Sketch Comedy Show....in the rat-infested basement of the land’s only TV Network... DEE dreams of one-day being a Professional Comedy Writer.

When Dee gets the chance to make her dream come true: will she make the deadline before the clock strikes 5pm??

(Or will she spiral, give up and work in the basement….FOREVER)

Developed at Scene + Heard.

Smidiríní

Julie Jay

Preview

18 September

18:00, €11

Performances

19 – 20 September

18:00, €14/€12 conc.

Other Performance

21 September

13:00,€14/€12 conc.

Venue

The International Bar

Duration

50 mins

A fully ‘as ghaeilge’ comedic journey into a millenial’s battle to stay relevant.

But enough about J Lo!

Julie has officially been fixed by therapy TikTok and now accepts that there will always be people who hate her and that those people are entitled to be very, very wrong. Ham and cheese on a roll, bag of chips, orange drink (if you know, you know). Rejoice! Your former bullies are thriving!

Seó grinn trí mhéan na ghaeilge fé troid mná mhílaoise amháin agus í ag iarraidh fanacht tábhactach.

Ach sin go léir fé J Lo!

Tar éis dul ar Teiripe Tik Tok tá Julie deisithe fé dheireadh thiar thall, réidh chun glacadh leis go mbeidh daoine ann go deo nach dtaitníonn sí leo, agus go bhfuil an cead iomlán acu a bheith mícheart ar fad. Liamhás agus cáis ar rolla, mála chips, deoch oráiste (má dtuigeann tú, tuigeann tú). Bain lúcháir as! Tá na daoine a dhein tromaíocht ort fé bhláth dar saoil!

The Lisa Richards Agency.

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Trouble Denim

Shane Daniel Byrne

Co-presented by the Abbey Theatre and Dublin Fringe Festival

Preview

16 September

20:00, €13

Performances

17 – 21 September

20:00, €17/€15 conc.

Other Performance

21 September

13:00, €17/€15 conc.

Venue

Abbey Theatre – Peacock Stage

Duration

60 mins

Shane Daniel Byrne is back! Fresh from sellout tours in Ireland, the UK, and Australia, he returns after bursting into Dublin Fringe Festival in 2023 with a sold-out début run and a pole dance finale, that was truly a wonder to behold.

Pop in and join him for his spicey new show about Jeans, Jackets and Jesus Christ.

Expect honey-sweet and coffee-bitter from this award-winning comedian.

Aviary Talent.

Róisín El Cherif

Presented by Dublin Fringe Festival

Performances

17 September 20:15, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

Project Arts Centre - Cube

Duration

60 mins

Róisín El Cherif, an Irish-Palestinian artist from Galway, creates a mesmerising fusion of Arabic and Irish musical traditions. Her unique style weaves Arabic songs into mournful Irish airs, offering a poignant reflection of her dual heritage.

Inspired by the macaronic Irish song tradition, which historically used mixed languages to challenge authoritative codes, El Cherif introduces Arabic verses to celebrate and highlight the deep ties between Irish and Palestinian cultures.

This unique show brings together El Cherif’s original music, poetry, and films, creating a rich and immersive experience.

The event is presented in aid of the Palestinian Children Relief Fund.

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Bad Girl: A One Man Show

Preview

17 September

18:00, €11

Performances

20 & 21 September

18:00, €14/€12 conc.

Other Performances

18 & 19 September

13:00 & 20:00, €14/€12 conc.

Venue

Bewley’s Café Theatre

Duration

60 mins

We’ve all been there. You’re fourteen, struggling to fit in with the other girls in your all-girls school, the stories you write have male protagonists and you kind of wish that one day you might be able to grow a beard. Everyone feels that way… right?

Join Felix as he recounts the horrors of single-sex schooling, the MANY signs that he wasn’t what everyone assumed him to be, and opens up a dialogue with the awkward teenage girl he left behind, proving you don’t have to be a good girl to grow into a better man.

Developed at Scene + Heard.

Please note: Contains references to mental health and gender dysphoria.

THIS TOO SHALL PASS

Preview

18 September

12:00, €11

Performances

19 - 21 September

12:00, 14:00, 17:00, 19:00

€14/€12 conc.

Other Performances

18 September

14:00, 17:00, 19:00

22 September

12:00, 14:00, 17:00

€14/€12 conc.

Venue

The Pearse Centre

Duration

50 mins

Erin, a woman who has spent her formative years seeking mental health treatment is consumed by the need to understand the person at the centre of it all – Herself.

A waiting room, a private space, a rave, a spectacle, this live immersive theatre experience compels audiences to interact with their surroundings and engage with the inner turmoil of an individual trapped in an overwhelmed mental health system.

Developed at FRINGE LAB. Supported by Dublin Fringe Festival’s Make Space For Art Fund and the Trinity Association and Trust & FRINGE LAB X field:arts.

Please note: Contains loud noise, strobe lighting and references to mental health. This performance is unseated with limited seating available.

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Felix O’Connor

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Lucy Holmes, FILTH!

Bird about Town

Jessie Doyle & Amanda Doherty

Preview

17 September

18:15, €11

Performances

18 – 21 September

18:15, €14/€12 conc.

Other Performance

21 September

15:15, €14/€12 conc.

Venue

The Lir Academy – Studio 2

Duration

60 mins

The seagulls are out to get you, the cupboards are empty, and a mushroom jungle is growing in the kitchen. Alone, hungry, and haunted, one woman’s world has completely unraveled since her breakup with her girlfriend.

Life moves now like a dream while the bills pile up and the phone rings unanswered. Struggling to make sense of her life and her loss, truth and fantasy quickly collide in this 60-minute, one-woman nightmare.

Developed at FRINGE LAB. First developed as part of No Touching Theatre Festival, Belfast. Supported by the Irish Theatre Institute (ITI).

What a P*ssy

Eibhleann Caffrey

Preview

17 September

18:30, €11

Performances

18, 19 & 21 September 18:30, €15/€13 conc.

Other Performances

20 September 13:15

21 September 15:30, €15/€13 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre – Boys School

Duration

70 mins

Marie has mastered adulthood with a perfect gym, dream job, and meal prep delivered to her brand-new apartment. There’s one hitch: the P*ssy Pillow. Supposedly the cure-all self-care for her life-long struggles, except she can’t quite bond with her new companion. As she hits breaking point, the Pussy Pillow chimes in with its own hot takes.

Together, they dive into a hilarious journey through awkward sex ed, crazy house parties, and self-discovery. Marie’s best life really is just around the corner, but she needs her P*ssy to get it.

Developed with the support of FUEL, Druid’s artist residency programme and Scene + Heard. Supported by Mermaid County Wicklow Arts Centre.

Please note: Contains references to mental health.

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Club Valentine

Performances

18 – 21 September

20:30, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

Dublin Castle - Chapel Royal

Duration

120 mins including interval

Club Valentine answers the age-old question: what are you laughing at?

Every night is a spectacle, featuring original characters, original songs and original material! In our journey to Dublin Fringe Festival, we have gathered a massive line-up of Dublin’s hottest, wildest, most original comedy performers and asked them: what’s the stupidest thing you can possibly do?

With a new, ridiculous theme each night, there’s always something fresh to discover at Club Valentine: the most alternative comedy night in town!

John Spillane’s CGI Comedy Spectacular!! IN 3D!!!

John Spillane

Preview

17 September 20:45, €11

Performances

18 – 21 September 20:45, €14/€12 conc.

Other Performance

21 September 13:00, €14/€12 conc.

Venue

The Lir Academy – Studio 2

Duration

50 mins

Join John Spillane, the award-winning comedian and improviser, for an hour of 100% improvised CGI powered chaos. John and the audience will join forces each night to create a brand-new show from scratch, complete with relatable themes, a relatively cohesive plot, and emotional payoffs. You might laugh! You might cry! Literally anything could happen.

John brings high-energy, high-concept comedy madness, informed by spontaneous humour. With TV credits on Comedy Central, RTÉ and more, this unpredictable thrill-ride guarantees wild sketches and a truly unique time.

Developed at Scene + Heard.

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Ready, Steady, David O’Doherty

David O’Doherty

Preview

17 September

21:00, €15

Performances

18 – 21 September

21:00, €19/€17 conc.

Other Performance

21 September

13:00, €19/€17 conc.

Venue

Project Arts Centre - Space Upstairs

Duration

60 mins

The David O’Doherty of comedy is back! Having trained his body and mind to the point of peak perfection, he has used a very nice pen to write a new concert of talking and songs. Now it’s time to say it out loud.

He’s got fresh batteries for his keyboard and a splendid new hat. He is ready. ARE YOU?

The Lisa Richards Agency.

SHAME SHOW

Colm McCready & Fergus Wachala-Kelly

Produced by SkelpieLimmer Productions.

Preview

17 September 21:00, €11

Performances

18 – 21 September 21:00, €15/€13 conc.

Other Performances

20 September 18:30

21 September 13:15

€15/€13 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre – Boys School

Duration

60 mins

‘Honey, you’ve got a big storm coming!’

Have you been mis-sold big gay shame? Have you been blamed for that category five shame storm raging outside? Again? Then you could be owed compen-shame-tion!

For your safety, please follow this pair of prancing poofs to SHAME SHOW - a lipsyncing, talent-searching, Joe McElderry-ing comedy of catastrophic proportions. Quickly. Before it’s too late. And that’d be a shame, right?

From SkelpieLimmer, the team behind Dublin Fringe hits Scaredy Fat and Two Fingers Up!

Developed at MAKE, HATCH at The MAC Belfast, Incubate at Tinderbox Theatre Company.

Please note: Contains loud noise, strobe lighting and references to mental health and homophobia.

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Image Morgan Savidan

BEASTS.

Morgan Savidan & Sasha Carberry Sharma

Preview

17 September

18:45, €11

Performances

18 – 21 September

21:15, €15/€13 conc.

Other Performance

21 September

13:30, €15/€13 conc.

ISL Interpreted Performances

21 September

21:15, €15/€13 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre – Black Box

Duration

60 mins

‘Can our ancestors look down on us? Would they even recognise me?’

Sam and Max are trying to navigate the world as mixed-race girls. But they’re haunted by the very faces they call their own. They’re angry, they’re pissed and they’re about to go on a ‘trip.’

Maybe the Gods of the Ramayana can help them? Through ancestral deep dives, divine encounters, and with the help of the NCH Gamelan Orchestra live on stage, maybe they’ll find their way home.

Developed at Scene + Heard. Supported by the PAN PAN Platform at Dublin Fringe Festival.

Please note: Contains loud noise, smoke machines and strobe lighting.

ACCESSOR

Bill Harris

Performances

19 – 22 September 12:00 - 18:00 (various times), €15/€13 conc.

Meeting Point

Secret Location, Dublin City Centre

Duration

90 mins (depending on your choices)

Developed at FRINGE LAB. Supported by Fingal Artist’s Support Scheme 2024, the Arts Council / An Comhairle Ealaíon, FRINGE LAB’S Break New Ground Bursary, Echoes. XYZ and Maïa Nunes Outside Eye with Dublin Fringe Festival.

Please note: Contains references to mental health. For this performance you will need a GPS enabled smartphone and your own headphones. This performance takes place outside and is unseated, please dress appropriately.

Permeating the public realm, the built environment, lifestyle and even personal ambition, our enemy is both nameless and faceless, pushing people to sacrifice their everyday life for notions of a fantasmatic future.

An Accessor moves in opposition to this, pursuing instead a more deliberately beautiful life.

Become an Accessor in this audiobased ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ game set in Dublin’s streets and establishments.

Your choices will be evaluated, actions proposed and those who’s resilience shows potential will be recruited.

Now is your time to be an ACCESSOR

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Wide Open

Kettle Of Fish

Preview

18 September

20:30, €11

Performances

19 – 21 September

20:30, €16/€14 conc.

Other Performances

19, 21 September

13:00, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

The New Theatre

Duration

60 mins

An Evening with Wee Daniel

Preview

18 September 18:00, €11

Performances

20 & 21 September

13:00 & 20:00, €14/€12 conc.

Other Performance

19 September

18:00, €14/€12 conc.

Venue

Bewley’s Café Theatre

Duration

60 mins

Conor and Alex have amazing sex.

So what’s missing?

And why is Alex SO obsessed with GAA shorts lately? Is he trying to get in touch with his heritage, is it nostalgic trip down memory lane? . . . or something else entirely?

Dive into this tantalising tale of desire, secrets, and unexpected obsessions that will leave you craving more.

Developed at FRINGE LAB and Scene + Heard.

Please note: Contains references to mental health and sexual violence.

Experience the magic of Daniel O’Donnell live in concert…almost!

Join Aoife for an absurdist autobiographical cabaret as they celebrate quare identity, growing up in Donegal, and their unironic obsession with wee Daniel. From their first meeting with Daniel as a baby, to a surprise appearance at their mother’s funeral.

This is not a piss take, it’s a rapturous love letter to the rural queer non-binary experience, to mammies and to our Daniel.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and g’wan, you’ll have a cup of tea.

Developed at FRINGE LAB. Supported by An Grianán Theatre and Stoke Improv.

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Aoife Sweeney O’Connor

First Trimester

Performances

19 & 20 September

18:30, €17/€15 conc.

Duration 180 mins

Other Performances

21 September

12:00, 14:00, 17:00, 19:00, €17/€15 conc.

Duration 120 mins

All Day Durational Performance

21 September

12:00, €35/€33 conc.

Tickets can be purchased for a time slot or for the full performance.

Duration 480 mins Venue

Project Arts Centre – Cube

Witness intimate live interviews between performance artist Krishna Istha and 100s of participants, in a quest to find them and their partner a sperm donor, or at least discover the qualities that bring them closer to their perfect match.

The show explores human connection, parenthood, and what it means to create a family as a transgender person. This performance is a rare opportunity to contribute to and witness queer family-making, watch the interviews unfold or sign-up as a participant and prospective donor.

Sign up to take part: www.firsttrimester.co.uk

Commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre, Roundhouse & Marlborough Productions. Supported by Arts Council England.

Please note: Contains loud noise.

Krishna Istha

Image Jordan Rossi Presented by Dublin Fringe Festival.

BABY

Lianne O’Hara

Preview

17 September

18:00, €11

Performances

19 – 21 September

18:00, €16/€14 conc.

Other Performances

20 September

13:00

21 September

15:30, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

The New Theatre

Duration

60 mins

Camilla is 36 and she wants a baby.

With dark humour and honest vulnerability, this show delves into baby envy and pretend pregnancies, while taking you on a journey into a landscape of fertility clinics and assisted human reproduction.

BABY is full of unwarranted advice from strangers. BABY is a pram in the Lidl middle aisle and an unexpected cry into a discounted microfibre cloth. BABY is all your thirty-something year old friends having babies but none of them are yours.

Developed at FRINGE LAB. Supported by Irish Theatre Institute (ITI)

Cortisol

Megan Haly & Shannon Haly

Preview

18 September 18:45, €11

Performances

19 – 21 September 18:45, €15/€13 conc.

Other Performance

21 September 15:45, €15/€13 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre – Black Box

Duration

55 mins

‘Your cards declined.’ Cortisol.

‘Have you a boyfriend yet?’ Cortisol.

‘Are you doing a masters?’ Cortisol.

They said our twenties would be the best years of our lives...

A queer coming of age rollercoaster ride through growing up in Ireland. From childhood nostalgia to present day chaos, Sam has been through the highs of first love and the heartbreak of grief. She’s flown the nest, and crash landed back into it.

She doesn’t know quite where she is meant to be but maybe that’s ok…

Please note: Contains references to mental health.

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Let’s Try Swingin’

anseo|anois theatre

Preview

18 September

18:45, €12

Performances

19 - 21 September

18:45, €16/€14 conc.

Other Performance

21 September

15:30, €16/€14

Venue

The Lir Academy - Studio 1

Duration

70 mins

Meet Lily and Jim, Tadgh and Flora—two couples dipping their toes into swinging for the first time, though no one will admit it. Behind monogamy’s closed doors, they navigate sexual frustration and the messy, unsexy reality of human relationships.

This comedy explores the unwritten rules of swinging: talk first or dive in? Eat before or after? Why is there a pineapple on the door?

With wine chilling, quiche in the oven, and Rennies at the ready, what could possibly go wrong?

Developed at Scene + Heard.

Notice Box

Simon Hennessy

The Irish Creative Collective presents

Preview

18 September

20:45, €13

Performances

19 September

20:45, €17/€15 conc.

Other Performances

21 September

15:00 & 18:15, €17/€15 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre – 1662

Duration

60 mins

Musical sketch comedian Simon Hennessy has over 360k followers and 30 million likes on social media, where viral characters like Remy and Adam from Bumble have made him an internet sensation. As a result, he’s chronically online. Be honest, so are you.

Watch him perform his hour of songs, sketches, and stand-up all about the tantalising and terrifying world of the notice boxes in each of our pockets, then immediately return to the safety of your phones.

Developed at Scene + Heard.

Please note: Contains loud noise and references to mental health.

Image Iris Liange & Oonagh Wall

Image Erica Verling

When Lives Touch

Hannah Scully & Safire Hikari

Preview

18 September

21:00, €12

Performances

19 – 21 September

21:00, €16/€14 conc.

Other Performance

21 September

13:15, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

The Lir Academy – Studio 1

Duration

35 mins

Be ready to shift your perspective and your state as you are taken across planes on an intimate dance to vertical dance journey. Dancing between concepts of what the other (body) can symbolise. Passing through, embracing, rejecting, holding on and letting go.

We embark on the theme of connection. Peer through the frame at empty space, a stage without set. Where the mind moves the body between fluctuating levels of presence. Witness a relationship with oneself and thus to the other.

Developed at FRINGE LAB and at Garter

Lane Scratch Night, Irish Aerial Dance Festival

Work-In-Progress Evening and at Centre

De Creation Aerial Arts Festival Dordogne (DADA). Previously supported by ArtLinks, Wexford.

Please note: Contains loud noise and references to mental health.

Saturation

Dublin Modular

Performance

20 September 19:30, €15/€13 conc.

Venue

Pepper Canister Church

Duration

70 mins

Part of Dublin Modular’s “HiFive” Series hosted in the Pepper Canister church.

A one night only seated experience of sound, dance, voice and visuals. A collaboration of different disciplines come together in a beautiful harmony for a special performance. Electronic music is married with acoustic instrumentation while movement and voice enhance the audience experience.

A different take on a Dublin Modular event that merges elements of club culture and theatre performance.

Developed at FRINGE LAB. Supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Dublin City Council.

Please note: Contains loud noise, smoke machines and strobe lighting.

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You: The Improvised

Bum Notes

Performances

20 & 21 September

20:45, €17/€15 conc.

Other Performance

21 September

13:00, €17/€15 conc.

Venue

Smock Alley Theatre - 1662

Duration

50 mins

Ever fantasized about your life breaking into song and dance?

Well, hold onto your top hat, because for one magical night, it’s showtime! Experience a fully improvised Broadway-style musical where music, lyrics, and narrative collide.

Bring along someone deserving of their own musical spotlight and prepare to spill the tea on why they’re the star of the show. So grab your jazz hands, warm up those vocal cords, and prepare for a night of musical magic that’ll have you humming all the way home!

Developed at Scene + Heard.

The Initiation

Presented by RATHAUS

Performance

20 September

23:00, €17/€15 conc.

Venue

The Sound House

Duration Till late

You are cordially invited to join the hottest queer cult in Dublin - RATHAUS!

Get ready for a night of sexy techno, pop, performance and art.

Dress in your best cult attire, think avantgarde, symbolic, dark robes and masks.

This is not just a party; it’s a rite of passage. Join us, dance and let the ritual begin.

Welcome to the cult of RATHAUS.

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Tearmann Aiteach / Queer Sanctuary

Isabella Oberländer & Fearghus Ó Conchúir

Preview

19 September

18:15, €15

Performances

20 & 21 September

18:15, €19/€17 conc.

Other Performance

21 September

15:30, €19/€17

Audio Described Performance

21 September

18:15, €19/€17 conc. Venue

Project Arts Centre - Space Upstairs

Duration

70 mins

Sweaty dancing, fabulous strangeness, abundance, transforming naked bodies, sparkling visual design and gorgeous garments. What’s not to love?

Tearmann Aiteach / Queer Sanctuary dances a welcoming space that supports flourishing, solidarity and spritely sparkle. It has grown out of Fearghus and Isabella’s separate practices as artists of different genders, generations and nationalities. Their dancing together celebrates what’s possible between their queer bodies and others. You’re invited to watch, and if you fancy, to dive in. Dress up or not. Sparkle.

Supported by The Arts Council / An Comhairle Ealaíon, Dance Limerick, Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Dance Ireland, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Tipperary Dance Platform and Dublin Dance Festival.

Please note: Contains loud noise, smoke machines, strobe lighting and nudity.

YOUNG RADICALS

An Attempt To Talk With The Beginning Of The World

Anna Newell

Theatre Adventures

Co-produced by Riverbank Arts Centre, co-presented by Draíocht Blanchardstown

Performances

10 & 11 September

10:30, 11:30, 12:30, €10

Other Performances

9 September 13:00, 14:00, 15:00, €10 Venue

Draíocht Blanchardstown

Duration

25 mins with up to 15 mins post-show playtime

Created especially for babies by a team of award-winning artists, this production is a luminous world full of playful up-close dance, intriguing immersive sound and light, and many, many ping pong balls!

Anna Newell is one of Ireland’s leading makers of theatre for young audiences. Her work for early years audiences has been seen on six continents and off-Broadway.

For babies aged 3-12 months and their adults.

Limited capacity, book early to avoid disappointment.

Supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

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Boss Rob: A Masterclass for Aspiring Artists

Darren Yorke, Duffy Mooney Sheppard & Liam McCarthy

Performances

14 & 15 September

12:00 & 14:00, €10

School Performances

11 - 13 September

10:00 & 12:00

School booking details on website

Venue

Irish Museum of Modern Art

Duration

60 mins

The CollectorThe Presence of Absence

Alchemy Arts

Preview

10 September

19:00, €11

Performances

11 – 14 September

19:00, €16/€14 conc.

Other performance

14 September

13:00, €16/€14 conc.

Venue

dlr Mill Theatre Duration 55

Presenting the world’s greatest artist, Boss Rob, in an exclusive, immersive experience... if he ever shows up.

Kids will take the lead in a hilarious battle of wits against a pompous artist, learning to handle mean-spirited criticism through playful, interactive fun.

This show combines spontaneous theatre, comedy, and a visual arts workshop, encouraging fearless creativity for children ages 7-12 and their families.

In collaboration with IMMA | Irish Museum of Modern Art. Supported by Dublin City Council and the Creative Ireland Programme. In association with Dublin City Libraries and The Ark. Developed at Marino Institute of Education.

Step into the world of The Collector, a recluse who has fashioned his existence from society’s discarded remnants. In this contemporary circus production, we follow The Collector’s journey as he navigates his own reality, piecing together his past amidst the shadows of a forgotten street.

Through a fusion of physical theatre, contemporary circus, and multimedia elements, we witness a captivating exploration of memory and self-discovery.

As The Collector unveils his world, animations breathe life into his backstory, revealing the tender yet gritty layers of his existence.

Supported by The Arts Council / An Comhairle Ealaíon, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Circus Factory Cork, Greywood Arts Centre and Nenagh Arts Centre.

Please note: Contains references to mental health.

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Image Marcin Lewandowski

FRINGE LAB ARTIST SUPPORT

Support

FRINGE LAB provides yearround practical and artistic support, responding to the needs of the Irish artistic community with an ongoing schedule of workshops, expert masterclasses, networking events, scratch nights and a host of other activities devoted to cultivating connections and expertise for both developing and established artists. This year events have included multiple Fringe FUSE Editions, including Fragile Edition curated by Dafe Orugbo, Chaos Edition curated by Allie O’Rourke, Absurd Edition curated by Venus Patel and Lust Edition curated by David McGovern. Alongside a Dublin Needs Dancefloors panel discussion, a Supper Club and monthly Elevenses, our coffee morning for artists.

We were delighted to continue the Break New Ground Bursary, to support an artist who has not led a project at Dublin Fringe Festival before, towards developing an ambitious new idea for live performance. The recipients of this bursary are Bill Harris who will be presenting their work ACCESSOR (p. 71)this year, alongside one of last year’s recipients Alessandra Azeviche creating their work Terra (p. 14).

FRINGE LAB is a studio space and year-round hub for artist support opportunities

Space

FRINGE LAB is home to artists all year round, providing dedicated free rehearsal and workspace for the development of new work as well as studio space for hire.

Studio 1 is free for the development of new work.

The Workstation is free for any artist looking for an office space in town during the week.

Studio 2 is available for hire at subsidised rates for artists.

Our foyer is open during the week for any artist who needs a drop-in space to work.

FRINGE LAB also has a host of great equipment available, so get in touch for more details and to book your space!

Effect

Many of the artists supported through FRINGE LAB have gone on to debut in Dublin Fringe Festival. This year’s festival is home to two past Artist at Work residents, six past Weft participants, five past Resident Artists, nine artists who were supported by FRINGE 50 and many more who have engaged in our workshops programme and rehearsed in-house.

FRINGE LAB is funded by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Dublin City Council’s Arts Office.

FRINGE LAB is powered by Squarespace. As part of this partnership PJ Kirby is running mentorships with three programmed artists, for details on these shows see pages 13, 36, 39.

ARTIST AT WORK

Artist at Work are paid idea development residencies taking place with host venues across Ireland over our festival dates, shining a light on artistic process.

Raphaël Adams is a devising theatre-maker and director seeking to create intimate connections by queering form and content. As part of the Artist at Work scheme Raphaël will work on his piece Love Overdose and continue to reflect on different ideas of affection and intimacy through a variety of interactive theatrical devices. In partnership with Druid & Town Hall Theatre, Galway.

Clodagh Assata Boyce is a Trini-Irish curator and visual artist whose work explores ideas of memory, race, nationhood and legacy. During their Artist at Work week Clodagh will be experimenting with various methods of printing and audio installation. In partnership with Pallas Projects, Dublin.

RESIDENT ARTISTS

Each year, we invite artists to move into Fringe HQ, offering artistic and practical support, space to continue creating great work, and a cohort of incredible peers.

This year, we are joined by Aoife Sweeney O’Connor, Jafaris, and tasteinyourmouth, which is made up of Grace Morgan, Laoise Murray and William Dunleavy.

Avani Collective is the creative partnership of Subhashini Goda & Parvathi Jayaram. During their Artist at Work week, they will be focusing on embodied forms of movement and how silence can inform performance.

Subhashini is a multidisciplinary artist and an academic from Chennai, India. Her works are informed by her tryst with literature and Indian dance theatre traditions.

Parvathi is a Mohiniyattam artist, following Guru Padmashri Bharati Shivaji’s repertoire. In partnership with Irish Theatre Institute (ITI), Dublin.

Gavin Peden is a multidisciplinary creative from Belfast; an Actor, AV Designer, VR Filmmaker and Experience Designer for the past twelve years. Gavin has worked across some of the main performance venues in Ireland, as well as in Canada, Sweden and New York. In partnership with The MAC, Belfast.

Aoife Sweeney O’Connor is a cabaret artist, comedian, actor, and theatre maker. They are the co-creator and host of the celebrated queer cabaret, EGG. This year we are delighted to present Aoife’s show An Evening with Wee Daniel.(p. 73)

Dublin based, hip-hop artist

Jafaris received critical praise for his debut album Stride, which earned him his place as one of Ireland’s foremost players of the new generation of the Irish hip-hop. In early 2023, Jafaris founded unclejafanetwork, a platform that seeks to document, highlight and promote Irish creative personalities.

tasteinyourmouth was founded in 2020 by Grace Morgan, Laoise Murray & William Dunleavy. They create original, experimental work that is uncanny, shiny, and feminist. By working collaboratively with artists from different backgrounds, they create experiences for people who aren’t looking for all the answers but delight in the questions.

ASSOCIATE ARTISTS

As an organisation, we have always placed artists at the heart of our compass, and our Associate Artist roles aim to provide improved career sustainability for artists in our city.

In 2024, we are thrilled to be joined by Áine O’Hara and Maïa Nunes. These two exciting independent artists bring with them a wealth of cross-industry experience and innovative talents across various art forms. Their unique perspectives, skills, and mentorship will contribute to the growth and development of the Dublin Fringe Festival community.

Áine O’Hara is an award-winning visual artist, theatre maker and facilitator focused on creating exciting and vulnerable work for and about people who are often left out of traditional art and performance spaces.

Áine wants to create work which uplifts and supports disabled and chronically ill artists and audiences. In 2022 Áine was awarded the Next Generation Award from the Arts Council and the Radical Spirit Fringe Festival Award for The Rest Rooms. Áine is a proud member of A4 Sounds Artists Studios and is the Equity and Access officer for Praxis: the artists union of Ireland.

Maïa Nunes is an Irish-Trinidadian performance artist whose work weaves with voice, cloth, movement, sound and the land to create immersive and multi-textural performance worlds in the form of films, audiosculptural installations and live performances. Theirs is a liberation practice; a live process of re-membering the self in dialogue with the ancestral past. It unravels and re-imagines, using a transpersonal approach to usher catharsis and transformation. Maïa is a Next Generation Artist who has performed at ICA London, spoken at Tate Modern, exhibited at VISUAL Carlow and Crawford Gallery, Cork, and has work in IMMA’s permanent collection.

ARTIST NETWORK

19TH ANNUAL INFORMATION TOOLBOX

Friday 13 September

Irish Theatre Institute (ITI) runs the annual networking event at Dublin Fringe Festival in partnership with Culture Ireland. Now in its 19th year, ITI’s INFORMATION TOOLBOX offers theatre and dance artists/companies presenting work in Dublin Fringe Festival 2024 to engage with programmers, presenters and potential collaborators from across Ireland and abroad.

Further details including venue and time will be available on fringefest.com and irishtheatreinstitute.ie

HOW IT WORKS

You must register to attend. You’ll have the chance to meet programmers and presenters, present your show to venues and festivals, hear from other artists about their upcoming work, and build your network of connections at home and internationally. In advance of the event, you will be given a timetable of one-to-one meetings.

Registration Details

Registration will open on Monday 8 July and close on Sunday 25 August. Capacity

is limited — early registration is strongly advised.

You must be presenting a theatre or dance show at Dublin Fringe Festival 2024 to register.

Information Toolbox is supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Culture Ireland.

SHOW AND TELL

Artist Pitching at Dublin Fringe Festival

Show and Tell is a curated pitching opportunity for Irish artists for work that has been made, and work that is in development. It is an opportunity for artists not programmed in Dublin Fringe Festival 2024 to pitch their work. It is coordinated and curated by Culture Ireland and Irish Theatre Institute in partnership with Dublin Fringe Festival.

The open call for Show and Tell applications will launch later this summer. Selected artists will share their projects with an eye to securing development support, collaborations, presenting partners, touring opportunities, and other necessary support. The session will take place

during the festival for invited national and international presenters and programmers. Artists will be provided with training in how to pitch your work in advance of the presentations.

Full details will be available on cultureireland.ie

SCRIPTED

7 September, 15:00

The Lir Academy - Studio 1 Free but ticketed 90 mins

Join us for an afternoon of performed readings of excerpts from new plays by recent MFA Playwriting graduates of The Lir Academy. These plays are directed and performed by professionals creatives and cast.

Our graduates have been guided through our one-year immersive programme by Course Director Graham Whybrow (former Literary Manager). Tutors on the course include and Gavin Kostick (Fishamble), Karin McCully and Thomas Conway (Gate Theatre).

The graduate playwrights taking part are Cáit Moloney, Conor Kelly, Mary Coleman and Megan O’Malley.

WEFT

*Language note: we use ‘people of the global majority’ in instances where we can’t be specific about ethnicity or background. We have worked with What If Experiment to review our processes and procedures though an anti-racist lens. Decolonising language and de-centring whiteness was a key component of that learning.

Weft is an artist support and audience development initiative established in 2021 by Dublin Fringe Festival with various key partners. It was created in response to the structural barriers faced by Black and global majority artists and audiences living in Ireland. The initial programme was funded through the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Open Call initiative 2021. Since then, Weft has evolved to become a core strand of Dublin Fringe Festival’s year-round artist support programme, FRINGE LAB.

The Weft programme consists of two strands: Weft Studio and Weft Audience Club.

Weft Studio is an artist support and development programme focusing on talent development and network building for emerging and early career Black artists and artists of the global majority*. It looks to address elements of support and holistic understanding for Black artists and artists of the global majority early in their careers in Ireland. Weft Studio creates a space for artists to learn about their creative habits, develop their artistic skills, and lead in creating their own work on their terms. It interweaves individual artist supports with practical project development opportunities within a community of peers who understand what it is like to live and work in Ireland as a Black artist or artist of the global majority. This year’s Weft Studio was led by award-winning writer and creative producer Shannon Yee.

For more information about Weft Studio, please email Weft Studio Producer Shannon Yee at weft@fringefest.com.

Weft Audience Club seeks to introduce the work showcased during the festival to new Black and global majority audience members, offering free tickets to see up to seven shows across the festival programme, along with artist talks with the artists featured in the festival. For more information about Weft Audience Club, please email Weft Audience Club Coordinator at weftaudience@fringefest.com.

Work by past Weft Studio artists can be found on pages 14, 40 & 92.

This year’s Weft programme was funded by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, in partnership with British Council Ireland and Community Foundation Ireland.

Meet the Weft Studio Artists 23/24

Debora Adachi

Georgie Lynch

Daranijoh Sanni (E The Artist)

Matthew Sharpe

Karen Aguiar

Shauna Harris

Clodagh Boyce

Mai Ishikawa

2024 AWARDS

Hundreds of artists spend thousands of hours making work for Dublin Fringe Festival each year. Our panel of judges recognise the extraordinary skill and talent on display and acknowledge some of the standouts in this year’s festival.

BEST PRODUCTION

For the show that has it all.

GORILLA DESIGN BEST DESIGN AWARD

Outstanding lighting, sound, scenic, projection, costume or overall design.

BEST PERFORMERS

Two of this year’s brightest stars will take home this accolade.

BEST ENSEMBLE

The standout ensemble – the heartbeat of a show.

JUDGE’S CHOICE

AWARDS

Three awards to acknowledge something that defies categorisation but must be recognised for its brilliance.

FISHAMBLE NEW WRITING AWARD

Awarded to an emerging Irish (or Irish-based) writer for a new play. The award includes dramaturgical support by Fishamble: The New Play Company. Previous winners are not eligible.

FIRST FORTNIGHT AWARD

The winner will be invited to perform at the First Fortnight Festival in January 2025. First Fortnight’s mission is mental health awareness, challenging prejudice and ending stigma.

NEXT STAGE WILD CARD

A bursary to be part of the Next Stage at Dublin Theatre Festival with Performing Arts Forum.

Sunday 22 September

BEWLEY’S CAFÉ THEATRE LITTLE GEM AWARD

The most exciting show that’s under 60 minutes wins a handsome prize: a two-week run at Bewley’s Café Theatre and €2000 for the remount.

SPIRIT OF WIT: MOIRA BRADY AVERILL AWARD

A unique award for an artist willing to take risks and whose work defies categorisation with bold and unconventional material. In memory of Moira Brady Averill, who had the power to transform space and thought through alchemical wit. The award comes with a monetary prize and a framed illustration by artist Walker Mettling.

RADICAL SPIRIT

Co-presented by Dublin Fringe Festival and Project Arts Centre. This commissioning award is for an Irish artist dedicated to making bold, contemporary work which embodies the radical spirit of Dublin Fringe Festival and Project Arts Centre.

THE GEORGE FITZMAURICE AWARD

This award will connect an experimental artist who has an original voice with St John’s Theatre, Listowel via a two-week residency. The prize includes a €1500 bursary, workspace and travel/accommodation.

SOLAS NUA AWARD

This award offers one festival playwright the chance to have their play read at Solas Nua in Washington. It’s for writers with a unique voice addressing current social, political, or cultural topics.

THANK YOU

As we reflect on another incredible Dublin Fringe Festival, we are filled with immense gratitude for everyone who made it possible.

First and foremost, we extend our deepest thanks to our core funders, the Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Dublin City Council. Your unwavering support ensures that the arts continue to thrive in our city.

To the extraordinary artists who created and showcased their work at the festival, your creativity and passion are the heartbeat of Dublin Fringe. Your innovative and thoughtprovoking contributions push boundaries, challenge perceptions, and ignite conversations. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.

A special mention to the Dublin Fringe Festival Board for your guidance and dedication. Your efforts are integral to the festival’s success. THANK YOU!

We would also like to express our heartfelt appreciation to former team members Dee Patton, our former General Manager, and Allie Whelan, our former Communications & Design Assistant. Your contributions have left an indelible mark on the festival, and we are forever grateful.

To the invaluable technicians, volunteers, patrons, partners, stakeholders, venues, funders, sponsors, friends, and family who have joined us on our festival-making journey, a heartfelt THANK YOU. Your support and hard work are the backbone of this festival.

A special thanks to bigO, our design agency, for delivering an epic campaign that captured the spirit of the festival so beautifully.

To our partners, thank you for your collaboration and commitment. Your partnership is vital to the success of the festival, and we are so grateful for your support.

To our audiences, thank you for your enthusiasm and support. Your presence brings the festival to life and makes it all worthwhile.

Lastly, To the Dublin Fringe Festival team, words cannot fully express our appreciation for all that you do. Your creativity, tireless dedication, and unyielding passion are the driving forces behind this festival. Each one of you brings unique talents and energy that make Dublin Fringe Festival a reality. From planning and coordination to execution, your efforts ensure that every detail is meticulously handled, allowing the magic of the festival to unfold seamlessly. You are nothing short of incredible, and we are so fortunate to have such a phenomenal team.

TEAM

Festival Director

David Francis Moore

Executive Director

Elissavet Chatzinota

Head of Marketing

Jennifer Breslin

Artistic Projects Manager

Bee Sparks

Production Manager

Marcus Costello

Artistic & Fringe Lab Assistant

Niamh Murtagh

Communications & Design Assistant

Allie Whelan

Programme Administrator

Clíona Malin

Freelance Marketing

Jack O’Dea

Associate Artists

Áine O’Hara & Maïa Nunes

Weft Studio Producer

Shannon Yee

Box Office Manager

Conor Hogan

Publicity and PR

Conleth Teevan

Volunteer Coordinator

Adriana Ribeiro

Technical Managers

Sarah Timmins

Avram Rosewood

Veronica Foo

Bookkeeper

Carole Lakes

Festival Auditor

KSi Faulkner Orr Ltd.

Creative Agency

bigO

Solicitor

Philip Lee Solicitors

IT Provider

GDK

A huge thank you to additional staff who joined after the publication of this brochure.

Board of Directors

Lara Hickey (chair), Julie Blakeney, Dan Colley, Luke Hardcastle, Miles Harrigan, Carly McKenna, Brian Melarkey, Áine Mulloy, Filipa

Allen and Oonagh O’Donovan.

Emeritus: Mary Dunphy, Dave Harland

Dublin Fringe Festival

Sycamore Street Temple Bar Dublin 2

@dublinfringe #dublinfringe fringefest.com

VENUES

Abbey Theatre –Peacock Stage *

26/27 Lower Abbey Street, D1

Annesley House (Meeting Point) ** North Strand Road, D3

Bewley’s Café Theatre

78-79 Grafton Street, D2

CoisCéim Studio 42 Fairview Strand, D3

dlr Mill Theatre 16 Sandyford Road, Dundrum, D16

Draíocht Blanchardstown The Blanchardstown Centre, Blanchardstown, D15

Dublin Castle –Chapel Royal* Dame Street, D2

Dublin Fringe Festival (Meeting Point)**

Sycamore Street, Temple Bar, D2

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies**

5 Merrion Square, D2

Glass Mask Theatre**

41 Dawson Street, D2

Irish Museum of Modern Art Royal Hospital Kilmainham, D8

Pepper Canister Church*

7 Mount Street Crescent, D2

Project Arts Centre – Cube

39 Essex Street East, Temple Bar, D2

Project Arts Centre

– Space Upstairs

39 Essex Street East, Temple Bar, D2

Secret Location (Meeting Point)**

Dublin City Centre, D1

Smock Alley Theatre

– Boys’ School

7 Exchange Street

Lower, Temple Bar, D8

Smock Alley Theatre

– Black Box

7 Exchange Street

Lower, Temple Bar, D8

Smock Alley Theatre – 1662

7 Exchange Street Lower, Temple Bar, D8

The Civic Theatre

Belgrade Square East, Tallaght, D24

The International Bar**

23 Wicklow Street, D2

Special Assistance

If you or a member of your party is a wheelchair user or needs special assistance at any of our venues please inform Box Office at the time of booking by emailing boxoffice@fringefest.com or phone us at 1800 374 643.

The Lir Academy –

Studio 1

Corner of Pearse Street and Grand Canal Quay, D2

The Lir Academy –Studio 2

Corner of Pearse Street and Grand Canal Quay, D2

The New Theatre*

43 Essex Street East, Temple Bar, D2

The Pearse Centre*

The Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street, D2

The Sound House** 28 Eden Quay, D1

The Sugar Club*

8 Leeson Street Lower, D2

Trapdoor @ UCD Newman Building, University College Dublin, D4

*Venue has limited accessibility

**Venue is not accessible

18:30

MALIGNANT HUMOUR

Smock Alley Theatre - Boys School p.25

18:30

STARFIGHTER (P)

The Pearse Centre p.34 18:30 TERRA

Project Arts Centre - Cube p.14

18:45

SUCKIN DIESEL

Smock Alley Theatre - Black Box p.26

19:00

AFTERWARDS

Abbey Theatre - Peacock Stage p.28

19:00

IT WAS PARADISE, UNFORTUNATELY Goethe-Institut Irland p.32

19:00

PADDY DADDY (P) Glass Mask Theatre p.35

19:00

THE COLLECTOR (P) dlr Mill Theatre p.89

19:00

THE MAN WHO TALKS TO STATUES Civic Theatre p.10

19:45

DANCEHALL BLUES CoisCéim Studio p.17

20:00

FERMENTED DREAMS

Bewley’s Café Theatre p.33

20:15

HAM SANDWICHES AND DISCIPLINE

The Lir Academy - Studio 1 p.27

20:30

CARPET MUNCHER

The Pearse Centre p.16

20:45

OLOLUFE

The Lir Academy - Studio 2 p.18

20:45

SHTOOM

Smock Alley Theatre - 1662 p.24

21:00

LITTLE SQUIRT

Smock Alley Theatre - Boys School p.19

21:15

ANTHEM FOR DISATISFACTION

Smock Alley Theatre - Black Box p.22

21:15

TELEVISION

Project Arts Centre - Cube p.13

10:00

BOSS ROB: A MASTERCLASS... Irish Museum of Modern Art p.88

10:30

AN ATTEMPT TO TALK... Draíocht Blanchardstown p.87

11:30

AN ATTEMPT TO TALK... Draíocht Blanchardstown p.87 12:00

BOSS ROB: A MASTERCLASS... Irish Museum of Modern Art p.88 12:30

AN ATTEMPT TO TALK... Draíocht Blanchardstown p.87 13:30

AFTERWARDS

Abbey Theatre - Peacock Stage p.28

18:00

BLACK ENOUGH FOR THAT The International Bar p.30

18:00

FERMENTED DREAMS Bewley’s Café Theatre p.33 18:00

ROSE+BUD (P) The New Theatre p.38 18:15

DREAMGUN FILM READS: ANTHOLOGY Smock Alley Theatre - 1662

18:15 MONSTERS The Lir Academy - Studio 2 p.23 18:30 MALIGNANT HUMOUR Smock Alley Theatre -

QUEERIES? Smock Alley Theatre - 1662

13:15 CHICKEN Project Arts Centre - Cube

HYPERPHYSICAL

The Lir Academy - Studio 1

MALIGNANT HUMOUR Smock Alley Theatre - Boys School

13:30 AFTERWARDS Abbey Theatre - Peacock Stage

The Pearse Centre

SUCKIN DIESEL Smock Alley Theatre - Black Box

BOSS ROB: A MASTERCLASS... Irish Museum of Modern Art

15:00 DREAMGUN FILM READS: ANTHOLOGY Smock Alley Theatre - 1662

15:00 FRINGE WAS HERE Dublin Fringe Festival (Meeting Point)

15:30 FERMENTED DREAMS

Bewley’s Café Theatre

18:00

EARTH SONNET

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies p.46

18:00

FERMENTED DREAMS

Bewley’s Café Theatre p.33

18:00

ROSE+BUD

The New Theatre p.38

18:15

DREAMGUN FILM READS: ANTHOLOGY Smock Alley Theatre - 1662 p.31

18:15

ILLNESS AS METAPHOR

Project Arts Centre - Space Upstairs p.20

18:15

MONSTERS

The Lir Academy - Studio 2 p.23

18:30

MALIGNANT HUMOUR

Smock Alley Theatre - Boys School p.25

18:30

SORRY YOU FELT THAT WAY

Project Arts Centre - Cube p.49

18:30

STARFIGHTER

The Pearse Centre p.34

18:45

I’VE ALWAYS LIKED THE NAME MARCUS Smock Alley Theatre - Black Box p.40

19:00

AFTERWARDS

Abbey Theatre - Peacock Stage p.28

19:00

PADDY DADDY

Glass Mask Theatre p.35

19:00

THE COLLECTOR dlr Mill Theatre p.89

19:45

DANCEHALL BLUES CoisCéim Studio p.17

20:00

A GOOD ROOM

Annesley House (Meeting Point) p.7

20:00

BITCH Bewley’s Café Theatre p.42

20:15

HYPERPHYSICAL

The Lir Academy - Studio 1 p.50

20:30

JULIUS CAESAR VARIETY SHOW

The New Theatre p.43

20:30

PRINCESS MELANCHOLY

The Pearse Centre p.11

20:45

B.S. INCORPORATED Smock Alley Theatre - 1662 p.52 20:45

HAPPY CAPITAL

The Lir Academy - Studio 2

DIESEL Smock Alley Theatre - Black Box

Academy - Studio 1

AN EVENING WITH WEE DANIEL Bewley’s Café Theatre

ABOUT TOWN The Lir Academy - Studio 2

AITEACH/QUEER SANCTUARY (P) Project Arts Centre - Space Upstairs p.84 18:15

BOY IS CRACKING UP Smock Alley Theatre - 1662 p.57 18:30 FIRST TRIMESTER Project Arts Centre - Cube p.74

TEARMANN AITEACH/QUEER SANCTUARY Project Arts Centre - Space Upstairs

20:00

A GOOD ROOM

Annesley House (Meeting Point) p.7

20:00

AN EVENING WITH WEE DANIEL Bewley’s Café Theatre p.73

20:00

TROUBLE DENIM

Abbey Theatre - Peacock Stage p.60

20:30

CLUB VALENTINE

Dublin Castle - Chapel Royal p.66

20:30

WIDE OPEN

The New Theatre p.72

20:45

JOHN SPILLANE’S CGI COMEDY SPECTACULAR

The Lir Academy - Studio 2 p.67

20:45

YOU: THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL Smock Alley Theatre - 1662 p.82

21:00

READY, STEADY, DAVID O’DOHERTY

Project Arts Centre - Space Upstairs p.68

21:00 SHAME SHOW

Smock Alley Theatre - Boys School p.69

21:00

WHEN LIVES TOUCH

The Lir Academy - Studio 1 p.80

21:15 BEASTS.

Smock Alley Theatre - Black Box p.70

23:00

THE INITIATION

The Sound House p.83

12:00 - 18:00 (various times) ACCESSOR

Secret Location (Meeting Point) p.71

12:00 (All day durational performance)

FIRST TRIMESTER

Project Arts Centre - Cube p.74

12:00

THIS TOO SHALL PASS

The Pearse Centre p.63

13:00

A GOOD ROOM

Annesley House (Meeting Point) p.7

13:00

AN EVENING WITH WEE DANIEL Bewley’s Café Theatre p.73

13:00

JOHN SPILLANE’S CGI COMEDY SPECTACULAR

The Lir Academy - Studio 2 p.67

13:00

READY, STEADY, DAVID O’DOHERTY

Project Arts Centre - Space Upstairs p.68

13:00

SMIDIRÍNÍ

The International Bar p.59 13:00

TROUBLE DENIM Abbey Theatre - Peacock Stage p.60

DANCEHALL BLUES CoisCéim Studio

13:00

YOU: THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL Smock Alley Theatre - 1662 p.82

13:15

SHAME SHOW

Smock Alley Theatre - Boys School p.69 13:15 WHEN LIVES TOUCH The Lir Academy - Studio 1

INDEX

A

A Good Room 7

A Version of Life 41

ACCESSOR 71

Afterwards 28

An Attempt To Talk with the Beginning of the World 87

An Evening with Wee Daniel 73 Anthem for Dissatisfaction 22

B B.S. Incorporated: We’re Serving Climate 52

BABY 76

Bad Girl: A One Man Show 62

BEASTS. 70

Bird About Town 64

BITCH 42

Black Enough for That 30

Boss Rob: A Masterclass for Aspiring Artists 88

C Carpet Muncher 16

Chicken 9

Club Valentine 66 Cortisol 77

D

DANCEHALL BLUES 17

Dreamgun Film Reads: Anthology 31

E Earth SONNET 46

Embedding Access: a Workshop for Disability Inclusion 37

F Fermented Dreams 33

First Trimester 74

Fringe Was Here 56

G GATMAN! 8

H Ham Sandwiches and Discipline 27

Happy Capital 53

HYPERPHYSICAL: A double bill 50

I

I’ve Always Like The Name Marcus 40

Illness as Metaphor 20

ISL Deaf Translations

Project 6

It Was Paradise, Unfortunately 32

J John Spillane’s CGI Comedy Spectacular!! IN 3D!!! 67

JULIUS CAESAR VARIETY SHOW 43

L Let’s Try Swingin’ 78

Little Squirt 19

Live & Electric 12 M

MAKOSH 47 Malignant Humour 25 Monsters 23

Notice Box 79

Ololufe 18 P Paddy Daddy 35 Pagan 44

Princess Melancholy 11 R Ready, Steady, David O’Doherty 68 Róisín El Cherif 61

Rose+Bud 38 S Saturation 81 Secret Secrets Shh! 39 SHAME SHOW 69 SHTOOM 24 SIMMER 54

SKETCHERELLA 58

Smidiríní 59

Sorry You Felt That Way 49

Starfighter 34

SUCKIN DIESEL 26

T

Tearmann Aiteach / Queer Sanctuary 84

Television 13

Terra 14

The Collector - The Presence of Absence 89

The Initiation 83

The Maestro & the Mosquita 48

The Man Who Talks To Statues 10

This Boy Is Cracking Up 57

THIS TOO SHALL PASS 63

Trouble Denim 60 W What a P*ssy 65 When Lives Touch 80

Who Robbed Annie Queeries? 36 Wide Open 72

Y

You: The Improvised Musical 82

Sponsors & Partners

Grant Aided By

Sponsors

Media Partners

Hospitality Partners

Cultural Partners

Programming Partners

Festival Partners

Artists, anticlockwise from front

Sexy Tadhg, Television (p. 13), Alessandra Azeviche, Terra (p. 14), Morgan Savidan, BEASTS. (p. 70), Jess Kav, Fermented Dreams (p. 33), Bill Harris, ACCESSOR (p. 71), Marty Breen, BITCH (p. 42)

Photography

Niamh Barry

Styling

Eoin Gavin

Make Up Artist

Claire McCauley

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