Fringe 2005 by Dublin Fringe Festival

DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2005

FRINGE INFO & BOX OFFICE 12 EAST ESSEX STREET TEMPLE BAR DUBLIN 2 11am—6pm MON—SAT

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BE PART OF IT

12 SEPTEMBER — 2 OCTOBER 2005

DFF2005 SPONSORS & FESTIVAL PARTNERS

Dublin Fringe Festival would like to thank the following for their continued and invaluable support:

Festival Partners Association of Professional Dancers in Ireland • Dublin Theatre Festival • The Irish Times • Micro Media • Project Arts Centre • Shanley Media • The Village • The Sculptors’ Society

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DFF2005 INTRODUCTION & CONTENTS

Dublin Fringe Festival 12 September—2 October 2005 Welcome to the eleventh Dublin Fringe Festival. I am delighted to present this very rich and exciting programme of events. From hundreds of submissions, I have selected work that celebrates excellence, beauty and diversity across the disciplines. Though various by nature, I am sure you will find shows to suit you – ones that can move and entertain you through the magic of artistic expression. Be part of it! Wolfgang Hoffmann Director

Information & Box Office

Contents

Temple Bar Information Centre,

What’s new this year?

12 East Essex St., Temple Bar, D2

How to book & Special Offers 4

Open 11am—6pm, Mon—Sun

Director’s Choice: Rumble

Spiegeltent Returns

Theatre

Dance

Music

Live Art

Visual Art

StreetSmart

Club VOLTA | Page 69

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Workshops & other events

105

Be a Devil

109

Booking Form

111

About the Fringe

113

Venue Info & Map

114

Box Office Info

116

Index

118

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What’s New this year? New Director – New Directions It has been both a pleasure and a challenge to have engaged with the hundreds of artists who submitted their work for consideration for this year’s Fringe. It has also been very heartening to have worked with the other agencies and support organisations gathering together this exceptional programme. I am grateful for all the encouragement and support of the arts scene of which I am honoured to now be part of.

How to find a show The programme is divided into five different sections: theatre, dance, music, live art and visual arts. Many of the works by their nature defy this segmentation, so keep an open mind and be sure to look through the entire programme.

The lady is back This year the Fringe Spiegeltent of choice is Le Salon Perdu and will be back floating at Georges Dock for the full three weeks of Fringe. Details of this year’s sparkling, delicious, funky and enticing music and cabaret programme are to be found within this brochure and unlike previous years, the music programme is on sale right now. Please see the Music section (Page 66) for full listing.

Young Fringe For the first time the Fringe has programmed works which are geared specifically towards young people. Ranging from free outdoor concerts to clowning inside The Ark; from a hyped-night in Spirit to music for kids in the Contemporary Music Centre, this programme includes uninhibited new and young voices. Curated by Orla Dunne and Graham Main and in collaboration and with generous support of IMMA and the Ark, Young Fringe shows can be found throughout the Fringe programme and are marked accordingly. An age limit will be indicated where one applies. This symbol indicates a Young Fringe show:

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Have you seen something you liked? Why not try it out yourself? Our workshops (generously supported by the Arts Council, APDI and the National Youth Arts Programme) are aimed at arts practitioners, but unless otherwise stated, are open to anybody who’s interested. Learn from the experts! Page 106

eircom broadband We are delighted to welcome eircom on board as supporters, recognising artists’ flourishing creative use of multi-media technologies and broadband in finding new ways to communicate in live performance. Look out for the eircom broadband badge on

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What’s New this year? Workshops

shows which particularly benefit from the imaginative use of multimedia and which are eligible for the eircom Best Use of Technology Award (See page 108).

Street Smart The Fringe leaves quite a footprint with its street theatre programme this year. Thanks to the generous support of Smart Car, every weekend on different locations in and around Temple Bar there will be music, theatre, dance, circus and installations. Watch out for the pink cones and other pinkness to indicate a Fringe zone.

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DFF2005 HOW TO BOOK & SPECIAL OFFERS

How to book & special offers! There are 4 ways to book tickets: 1. Online > Log on to our website – www.fringefest.com All online bookings are free of booking charge.

2. Telephone > Phone the box office – 1850 FRINGE (1850 374643) Telephone bookings are subject to a ¤2 booking fee.

3. In Person > Drop into our box office: Temple Bar Information Centre, 12 East Essex St., Temple Bar, D2. Open 11am—6pm, Monday—Sunday 4. By mail > Use the booking form on page 115 of this programme Subject to availability. All sales are final. No substitutions or exchanges.

How to get the most out of the Fringe The Fringe Festival is all about exploring what is new. Some shows or companies you’ll never have heard of. There will be shows that are incredible successes and others that aren’t – that’s all part of Fringe. All you need is an open mind and a sense of curiosity. Talk to people, read the reviews but once in a while take a risk and try something new. Buy tickets before the reviews get out Moody Mondays and Turgid Tuesdays? See some fabulous shows before they are reviewed and make up your own mind for a special preview price of ¤10 across the board. Spread the good word. Become a part of the Fringe Family The more you see, the more you save. If you book for more than 7 shows at once you will officially be a part of the Fringe Family. As a member of the Fringe Clan, you’ll be able to buy tickets to the Director’s Cut of the programme for half price. Phone the box office to get more information on which shows are featured each week and to make your bookings.

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1. Do three weeks of laundry up front. Being able to catch up to 4 shows a day for the next 21 days means that you probably won’t be spending too much time at home. 2. Book early to avoid disappointment. You’ll cry if you don’t. 3. However, even the most committed of you will not be able to see everything. We have done our best to describe the events in a digestible way, making your choice easier. If you need more help read our recommendations at the beginning of each section. See page 114 for map of venues.

Can’t decide what to see? The best way to know what shows are worth seeing is to read the

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Some other tips that will help you survive the madness

reviews. Reviews of most Fringe shows can be found in all good newspapers but predominantly in The Irish Times, Irish Independent, The Star, Irish Examiner and The Guardian. You will also find reviews on www.irishtheatremagazine.ie the day after the show opens. The box office will have copies of all reviews for you to read.

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DFF2005 DIRECTOR’S CHOICE

Director’s Choice Rumble Renegade Theater Germany Get Ready to Rumble “jaw-droppingly awesome” ***** (The Herald – Herald Angel winner) “thrilling stuff, a real Shakespeare turn-on” **** (The Guardian – Winner Best Physical Theatre Award) Rumble completely side-steps the idea that dance-theatre is some niche activity enjoyed by a few intellectuals but is simply a physical, funny, thrilling and awe-inspiring theatre for everyone. Go to Page 63 for details on the show. This show is generously supported by the Alliance Française and the Goethe Institut.

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The lady is back. Be Spiegeled! Be Spiegazzled! However you want to say it, say it loud and say it proud! Spiegelling has become an art in itself and for three whole weeks you can do it to your heart’s content. The glamorous gables of this wonder venue pack an eclectic and surprising mix of music, dance, theatre, cabaret, and performances from 19 countries into its canopied walls.

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Spiegeltent

This year’s Spiegeltent is Le Salon Perdu – a dazzling decadent art deco glass mirrored tent, which will be illuminated in all its glory as it floats once again in Georges Dock, IFSC. ClubSpiegel, the festival club will be back with a vengeance this year providing you with a unique spot to chill out in after the shows come down. This year for the first time when you book a late night Spiegel show (9pm) your ClubSpiegel pass is included in the price of the ticket!

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Continuing the Fringe tradition of introducing Irish audiences to exceptional work not seen here before, our international programme this year includes figureheads of physical theatre Jordi Cortes Molina (pg 27) a long term member of DV8 and storytelling legend Salim Ghouse (pg 50) whose work is as much a spiritual experience as it is a sensory one. There is outstanding ensemble work from the not-to-be-missed Teater SlĂĄva (pg 18), the powerful Comuna Baires (pg 22) and the inspirational Jo StrĂ¸mgren (pg 44). The Irish work this year has surprised us with its darkly inventive, boundary pushing, heart renderingly engaging and deliciously diverting scope. Check out Semper Fi for the ultimate secret location adrenalin-rush (pg 12). There were over 200 applications alone from Ireland. Faced with a difficult choice, what we programmed came down to what touched, moved, surprised and entertained us the most.

THEATRE

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4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane Rough Magic Seeds II Showcase

Ireland

Mon 26 Sept—Sun 02 Oct > 8:30pm Matinée Sat 01 Oct > 3pm Venue Project Cube Duration 75mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon [preview]—Wed & Matinée), ¤15 (Thurs—Sun) Concession ¤12.50 Directed by Tom Creed A morbidly funny, bruisingly honest and dazzlingly poetic journey into the depths of depression, love and suicide. The author Sarah Kane died in 1999 at the age of 27, having written five plays, each of which marks her out as one of the most provocative and original voices of her generation. “I had a night in which everything was revealed to me. How can I speak again?” This production is part of the SEEDS II programme facilitated by Rough Magic. Tom Creed is joint artistic director of Playgroup and a director of the Everyman Palace Studio, Cork. Recent credits include Dark Week and Soap! (Dublin Fringe 2003) for Playgroup and Crystal for Meridian. See pg 26, 36 and 53 for other events included in the SEEDS II programme

125 Live Young Fringe with OPW

Ireland

Sat 17/24 & Sun 18/25 Sept > 12 noon & 2pm & 4pm Venue St. Stephen’s Green Tickets Free

A Clean Sweep | Plutot La Vie

To celebrate the 125th anniversary of St. Stephen’s Green park,

Young Fringe, in association with the Office of Public Works, have devised a live theatre performance using oral and documentary technique which animates park life between 1880 and 2005.

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Mon 26—Thurs 29 Sept > 6:30pm Venue The Ark Duration 55mins Tickets ¤8 Concession ¤6 A brilliant blend of theatrical clowning and visual storytelling. Two

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A Clean Sweep Plutot La Vie UK

men survive in an anarchic world of brooms and brushes – doing anything but cleaning up! In today’s world where everybody tries to be successful and perfect, Walt and Dustin are different: ‘Keepers of the Dust’, they live in an absurd world, trying their best to understand and control this bizarre place. Problem is, they don’t do a great job! “the glorious chuckles of the children in the audience are a delight to hear, with the belly laughter of the grown-ups not far behind” (The Scotsman)

A Quiet Afternoon Stamping Ground Theatre

Mon 26 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 6:15pm Venue Andrews Lane Studio Durations 70mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50 A comic and poignant story of absurdity, frustration, hope, desire and penalty shoot-outs. From his barstool throne, Mr. Yupa dispenses football wisdom, behind the bar, the landlord puts a decaying world to rights. Come closing time one grips the bar with whitening knuckles, the other clings to his pint for dear life. Lives can change in the space of 90 minutes, with no guarantee of extra time. “an absolutely magical work…inventive physical theatre and excellent acting” (British Theatre Guide) Stamping Ground Theatre brings together an outstanding ensemble of performers and designers, receiving 5-star reviews in its first year. Two of the performers studied at the Lecoq school in Paris and all three members run their own companies in the UK or France.

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Adrenalin Semper Fi

Ireland

Mon 19 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 7:45pm Venue Mystery Location – Meet on steps of Customs House Duration 90mins Tickets ¤12.50 (Mon 19 Sept), ¤22.50 (Tue 20—Sat 01 Sept) Concession ¤18.50 PLEASE NOTE: No Sunday Shows. Over 16’s Scenes of a violent nature. Not suitable for the faint hearted.

Adrenalin… are you ready for the rush? An all-guns-blazing, kick-ass homage to the 1970’s. Just as things go wrong at a post-robbery rendezvous and hostages are taken, gang members start to crack and even you, the audience, have little chance of escape. Presented in a secret city location, Semper Fi, innovative theatre-makers of previous Fringe hit Ladies and Gents, are back with their most daring work yet. Semper Fi’s purpose is to create significant and profound theatre out of unexpected tales and dangerous texts within site-specific locations. They further hope to challenge fellow artists to work in new and potentially demanding ways. By moving the safety net of established parameters, Semper Fi aim to make theatre bold, at times spontaneous and fun, at others dark and disturbing.

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Mon 12—Sun 18 Sept > 6pm Venue Mystery Location – Meet outside Vicar Street Duration 75mins Tickets ¤8 (Mon [preview]—Wed), ¤12 (Thurs—Sun) Concession ¤10

Over 18’s

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A Season in Hell (After Rimbaud) The Stomach Box Ireland

This challenging work takes the form of an operetta, fusing installation, performance art and live music to confront an odious consumer obsessed society. Experience the decadence and degradation in this allegorical protest against the morally transgressive and plastic nature of our society, where money and status threaten to subvert individuality. This show is over 18’s and contains content of a graphic, sexual and violent nature. Iconoclastic and provocative, The Stomach Box is a young company dedicated to challenging and subverting theatrical practice in Ireland believing that all art forms can be used to create a distinctly theatrical performance. Led by peformer/director Dylan Tighe, composer Sean Óg and scenographer and artist Phil MacMahon.

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Cul de Sac Leo Tarmac

France

Mon 19—Sat 24 Sept > 8:15pm Venue Andrews Lane Studio Duration 75 mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50 Mr. Francois is an ordinary employee at an ordinary desk in an ordinary head office. But when he arrives each morning this ordinary world transforms into an extraordinary realm of churning machines, banging doors and walls that swallow you up and then disappear. A clowning epic worthy of Jacques Tati that makes us wonder whether we aren’t all Mr. Francois – lost in a world beyond our control, where the machine is boss and we are just cogs in the wheel.

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea Risk Productions Ireland Mon 26 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 8:30pm Venue Filmbase Duration 70mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon), ¤12 (Tue—Sat) Concession ¤10 Over 16’s

Danny and Roberta have tasted life in the raw – and it shows. Two people who have collided head-on with everyone and everything life has thrown at them. Now they come face to face in a dingey

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bar in the Bronx and the flames of passion ignite. But will that fire

consume what’s left of their souls? Risk Productions present a dark, often disturbing but ultimately compelling interpretation of the critically acclaimed Broadway hit. Founded in 2005 by Rian Sheehy Kelly, this is Risk Productions’ debut.

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Mon 12—Sat 17 Sept > 6:15pm Venue International Bar Duration 75mins Tickets ¤8 (Mon—Wed), ¤12 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤10

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Doin’ Time Through the Visiting Glass Ashley Lucas USA

Can you ever fully know or imagine the life a loved one leads behind bars? Would you want to? Is your life just as imprisoned by their crime and punishment? Ashley Lucas, herself a child of a prisoner, uses material from over 400 letters and interviews with affected families to expose a world of silent voices from a community which often goes unnoticed. Ashley Lucas has been touring Doin’ Time in an effort to reach both theatre-going audiences and the people most affected by the issues addressed in the play.

Dublin Heads Shay Linehan Ireland Mon 12—Sat 24 Sept > 6:15pm Venue Bewleys Café Theatre Duration 55mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon 12—Wed 14 Sept), ¤15 (Thurs 15—Sat 24 Sept) Concession ¤12.50

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Three punchy monologues that capture the concerns of modern Dubliners; each told by an anonymous character lit by the different backdrop of some of the city’s most recognisable brand names. Tesco Finest: the tale of a guilt-ridden woman who obsessively grocery shops; Eddie Rocket’s: the story of a spurned lover who uses a fast food franchise to instigate the perfect revenge and Kerry Gold: the powerful story of a community that refuses to allow a man to commit suicide. Having just returned from half his lifetime in Africa, this is actor/director/producer/writer Shay Linehan’s homecoming project.

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Dying for it Scottish Youth Theatre

Fri 23—Sun 25 Sept > 8:30pm Venue The Ark Duration 60mins Tickets ¤8 Concession ¤6

Over 16’s

Sexual encounters are tricky, complicated games. Dying for It tackles the often unspoken world of sex and the effect of sexually transmitted infections on young people’s lives. Moving through a multitude of criss-crossing plots and delivered with cheeky candour and streetwise sass, this show is a serious stab at making sense of an increasingly confusing minefield of personal and sexual politics. Scottish Youth Theatre operates throughout Scotland, addressing the issues of young people and enabling, stimulating opportunities to explore quality theatre arts.

¡EL CONQUISTADOR! The Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental USA & Colombia

Tue 20—Sat 24 Sept > 6:30pm Matinée Sat 24 Sept > 2pm Venue Players Duration 75mins Tickets ¤10 (Tue—Wed & Matinée), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50 A one-man play, soap opera and foreign film all in one. Created in Bogotá, Colombia, this piece features the besieged doorman of a Latin American high-rise, 6 famous Colombian telenovela actors, salsa music and an interactive video wall. Catch it before it heads Off-Broadway in 2006. Performed in Spanish with English subtitles.

The Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental is known for its exceptional creativity and bravery. Using “Action Design”, rapid-fire scene changes and wild use of media, Lucidity “creates an entire universe on the back of a postage stamp” (Denver Post). L.S.I. is headed by former Robert Lepage collaborator & tap dancer, Thaddeus Phillips.

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Tue 20—Thurs 22 Sept > 8:30pm Venue The Ark Duration 60mins Tickets ¤8 Concession ¤6

Over 16’s

Eveline falls in love. She tries to escape from home with her lover,

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Eveline Cambridge University UK

but paralysed, she cannot. Four actors explore Eveline’s paralysis; painting a distinctive, schizophrenic picture of this ‘every-girl’. Based on the short story in James Joyce’s Dubliners, this piece explores national stereotypes and ritualistic art forms set against an identifiable ‘everyman’. Resident at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge’s principal student venue, the company is at the very heart of one of the liveliest student theatre scenes in the UK. They present an average of 20 shows per year and are regular visitors to the Edinburgh Fringe where they have performed to critical acclaim.

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Exile Teater Sláva

Sweden

Tue 20—Sat 24 Sept > 8:30pm Venue Ss Michael & John Duration 60mins Tickets ¤10 (Tue—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sun) Concession ¤12.50 Exile – a dramatic requiem of rootlessness, treachery, acts of deception, erotic passion and revenge. Greek tragedy told visually with an incredibly beautiful and dramatic soundscape. This show encompasses the wild and the poetic, the grim and the tender. Twinning expressive physical movement with fierce visceral vocalisation, this show leaps from shamanistic to music-hall in the blink of an eye. Teater Sláva’s powerful ensemble work is a prime example of total theatre. It merges voice, movement and mesmerising visual effects. Renowned also for their exquisite choral work, this Swedish-based company has built its art on the exploration of voice and movement, creating a theatre filled with magic, mysteries and rites, living texts and revelations of inner lives. See Döderskratt in the Spiegeltent Pg 75

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Mon 12—Sat 17 Sept > 6pm Meeting Point Leeson St. Bridge Duration 30mins Tickets ¤8 Concession ¤5 Black and White; Pain and Pleasure; Sorrow and Joy. Two Rooms.

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EXIT 3: Black on White SlaughterHouse Ireland

Two performers. Two experiences. Witness an intimate revelation of true beauty and another of brutal ugliness. Which room will you enter first? The actors repeat their performances presenting you with another choice: stay and re-view the ‘same’ performance or visit the room next door… This is humanity at its most violent and at its most vulnerable. Places are limited so advance booking is highly recommended. SlaughterHouse was founded in 2004 to create a Theatre of Experience. They are intent on creating theatre that communicates through the senses. Performed by Will Irvine and Paul Traverse.

Fallen Veser Aue Gefüge

Germany

Mon 26—Thurs 29 Sept > 8:30pm Venue The Ark Duration 80mins Tickets ¤8 Concession ¤6 Without any warning a circus company is catapulted to a nowhere land by a mysterious force. Time stops. Reality and dream worlds overlap. Threatened by grotesque dangers they fight against monsters who lie in wait in their dreams. With no other chance of escape they begin to tell themselves absurd stories through acrobatics, mime, dance and song. This extraordinary show echoes the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and David Lynch: portraying the bizarre release of intense fear through laughter. Since 2001 the Veser Aue Gefüge has been working with actors, dancers, mime artists and musicians from Berlin, searching for a very simple and clear form of theatre.

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Framemakers Daghdha Dance Company

Ireland

Mon 19—Sun 25 Sept > All day, with presentation at 8pm Venue Project Cube Tickets Free Calling concerned citizens. The human project has crashed. We must now come to an active awareness of our role in a “matrix of interconnected realities” (J. Beuys). The complexity of the present moment calls for a more intimate understanding of our own being and a reconfigured ecology of human cultural practice. Seven Days of Everything is an effort to expose and make sense of that potential for profound transformative innovation in our present day situation. Can you help? Open rehearsals 10am—5pm Evening presentations 8pm—9:30pm

Frank Pig Says Hello Dr. Dappertutto Theatre

Ireland

Mon 19—Sat 24 Sept > 6pm Venue Ss Michael & John Duration 90mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50 Patrick McCabe has fully endorsed and highly praised this stage version of his acclaimed novel and feature film The Butcher Boy. A startlingly individual production which sits somewhere between Oedipus Rex and The Godfather, this radical reappraisal of the macabre play tells the story of the raw and violent breakdown of a young boy, Francie Brady, otherwise known as Piglet. Frank Pig is Dr. Dappertutto’s debut production. Through this show, the company has developed a mutual and artistically beneficial relationship with the author Patrick McCabe and intends to collaborate with him on future productions.

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Mon 12 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 1:05pm Venue Bewleys Café Theatre Duration 50 mins Tickets ¤10 PLEASE NOTE: No Sunday Shows. This show runs on after the festival to Sat 08 Oct.

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Full Blown Rose Roz Hammond Australia

“If you ask me, an 88-year-old woman pole dancing with a gardening stake is a definite sign of someone not coping!” A gothic tale about the fiery and independent McGuire twins, Sissy and Ruthie and the neighbours who watch them. Roz Hammond plays all seven characters in this humorous and moving one-woman show of ageing, loving and dying. (Nominee Golden Gibbo Award, 2005 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.)

Writer/performer Roz Hammond has appeared in the internationally successful films Muriel’s Wedding and The Dish. She is a regular face on Australian television. Credits include The Micallef Programme, Bootleg and Skithouse. Director Matt Cameron is an award winning playwright (Mr. Melancholy).

Getting Attention by Martin Crimp Tardy Lasso Ireland Mon 19—Sat 24 Sept > 9pm Venue Players Duration 90mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50 This gritty and disturbing minimalist drama gradually unveils the horrors that can lie beneath seemingly normal modern-day living. In the domestic setting of a London housing estate, where couples quarrel and neighbours eavesdrop, a series of seething, sinister events and chilling acts of violence unfold. Contemporary British playwright Martin Crimp, “one of Europe’s hottest properties” (The Guardian) presents a damning attack on the social decay, moral compromise and barely suppressed violence of contemporary society. Dublin-based Tardy Lasso was set up by Catherine McFadden in 2004. With their minimalist style, influences include Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter.

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Haci Guigo: 8,15 Fare Anima & Comuna Baires

Italy

Mon 12—Sat 17 Sept > 8:15pm Venue Project Upstairs Duration 80mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤16 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤14 Berlin 1933. Los Alamos 1943. Auschwitz 1944. Hiroshima 1945. Dates that resonate. An immense ticking clock drives the history of the twentieth century through laughter and hope, tears and fear. Haci Guigo: 8,15 is a chilling, confronting, sometimes brutal, sometimes poetic but strangely playful show. Examining the worst human tragedies in contemporary history, this show invites younger generations to reflect on those who hold humankind’s destiny in their hands. A brutal story told with delicate and poetic artistry. Comuna Baires is an arts collective that came to Milan from Buenos Aires in the 70’s. They are committed to work that is actively engaged in tackling our recent history in a way that allows the past to inform and make sense of the present.

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Ireland

Tue 20 Sept > 7pm Venue Spiegeltent Duration 90mins Tickets ¤12.50 Straight from a sold-out, critically acclaimed run at the Focus Theatre,

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch Making Strange Theatre Company

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is unflinchingly original, brutally honest, and strangely addictive. A spectacular love story that “[knocked] the socks off New York theatre-goers with a much-needed jolt of twisted pathos and wigged-out histrionics.” (The Advocate) “Joe Roch is a splendid Hedwig, and Megan Riordan is brilliant as a tip-of-the-iceberg Yitzhak” (The Irish Times) Making Strange Theatre Company comprises graduates of New York University’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts and TCD’s masters programme. Joe Roch and Megan Riordan employ diverse modes of storytelling to explore international, intercultural and interdisciplinary themes.

I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given To Me By A Young Lady From Rwanda Calypso Productions Ireland Tue 20 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 8pm Matinées Fri 23/30 Sept > 11am Venue Liberty Hall Duration 90mins Tickets ¤10 (Tue 20 Sept & Matinées), ¤18 (Wed 21—Sat 01 Oct) Concession ¤14

PLEASE NOTE: No Sunday Shows

Following their 5-star sell-out production of ‘Master Harold’… & the Boys in last year’s Dublin Fringe Festival, Calypso brings us the touching and sensitive story of two people from entirely different worlds who meet at a London refugee centre. Juliette, a young Rwandan asylum seeker, is determined to write a book on the genocide that killed her family. Simon is the middle-aged novelist whose job it is to help her write it. Humorous, touching and at times disturbing, the play charts their bitter sweet relationship from first meetings rife with misconceptions and misplaced assumptions, to friendship and the unexpected impact they have on each other.

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Imithe na Gaelaigh Aisteorí na Tíre Ireland Thurs 22—Sat 24 Sept > 8:30pm Venue Bewley’s Café Theatre Duration 60mins Tickets ¤10 Concession ¤8 Ruth suffers from schizophrenia. Her outer voice tells her that DJ Ray D’Arcy is madly in love with her, wooing poor Ruth with his seductive charm over the radio waves. Her inner voice, practical as ever, begs Ruth to “pull herself together” and tries to direct her back to a life of normality. A humorous yet serious work that gives a startling insight into the bowels of a very personal hell. Performed in Irish.

Aisteoirí na Tíre is a touring group under the auspices of An Chomhlachas Náisiúnta Drámaíochta comprising Irish-speaking drama companies who come together to perform new plays or to develop new theatre styles or forms.

It’s a Cultural Thing or Is It? Community Technical Aid Ireland Mon 19—Sat 24 Sept > 8pm Venue T36 Duration 90mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50 In a bid to convince a new generation of the importance of education, Michael tells his life story from his first memories of a traditional Traveller life in the Midlands bounded by barrel top wagons and tents through to the intolerable hardships of settlement in a halting site in Finglas. Interleaved into Michael’s recollections is the voice of a social worker charting the social changes of the Traveller community spanning 40 years. This is the story of one community’s struggle and a re-emergence of a new Traveller identity in contemporary Ireland. CTA’s work tackles social exclusion. Directed by Mick Rafferty with Michael Collins and Patricia McCarthy as the narrator.

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Mon 26 Sept—Sun 02 Oct > 1:10pm Venue Handel’s Yard Duration 45mins Tickets ¤5 Eileen O’Connell’s lament over the murder of her husband Art

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Lament for Art O’Leary Théâtre Lumière Ireland & Malta

O’Leary at the hands of the British sherriff pulls you into her world of fiery anger, passionate sorrow, bitter lost love and a longing that is universal and as old as the world. This is a haunting production based on the eighteenth century poem. Théâtre Lumière was established in 1999 by six graduates of the École Jacques Le Coq in Paris. The company combines mime,

Lament for Art O’Leary | Théâtre Lumière

movement and music with particular emphasis on the spoken word.

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Liliom Rough Magic Seeds II Showcase

Ireland

Tue 27 Sept—Sun 02 Oct > 8:30pm Venue Ss Michael & John Duration 120mins Tickets ¤10 (Tue [preview] & Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sun) Concession ¤12.50 Directed by Darragh McKeon Famous for machismo, high living and fast women, Liliom’s life is as colourful as the carousel he operates. That’s until he falls in love. With Julie about to give birth to their child, he embarks on a robbery as a shortcut to the good life but meets a sorry end on a railway embankment. After confinement in purgatory, the heavenly judge discharges him to atone for his paternal shortcomings. First produced in Hungary in 1909, Ferenc Molnar’s Liliom went on to major international success including a bizarre incarnation as the 1944 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. This production is part of the SEEDS II programme facilitated by Rough Magic. Darragh McKeon is from Co. Offaly and is a graduate of UCD. He has worked for Blue Raincoat and Steppenwolf theatre companies. He is the artistic director of Cardboardbox Theatre Company. See pg 10, 36 and 53 for other events included in the SEEDS II programme.

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Ireland

Fri 16—Sun 18 Sept > 8:30pm Venue Players Durations 60mins Tickets ¤10 Concession ¤8 A group of young friends set out for a hike, only to get lost in the

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Loaded Independent Youth Theatre

middle of nowhere. With only bags on their backs, they begin to map out their lives, creating paths and journeys, making patterns out of their experiences and who they think they are. A play that imaginatively explores the Ireland we live in today – one where disposable income and a new mix of people have left many in a state of confusion. Dublin-based Independent Youth Theatre provides young performers with challenging performance and production experiences.

Lucky Alta Realitat presents Jordi Cortes Molina Spain Mon 12—Thurs 15 Sept > 8:30pm Venue Players Duration 35mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon), ¤12 (Tue—Thurs) Concession ¤10 “Lost – three-legged dog, blind left eye, broken tail, missing right eye, recently castrated, answers to the name of Lucky”. Written by Claudia Mendez and translated by Ferran Audi, this personal and at times cruel physical comedy based around a father’s death is a surreal piece full of surprises that exposes the harsh reality of the loss of childhood, the discovery of sex and the death of people you love. “…the piece goes from one burst of beauty to the most fascinating ugliness…” (Le Monde) Jordi Cortes Molina’s work is strongly connected to the years of work he has done with DV8 physical theatre and collaborations with companies such as Teatre Complicite. He works to develop a language that will engage the audience in as many ways as possible; emotionally, physically, psychologically and intellectually.

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Lunch by Stephen Berkoff Wall Fly Theatre Productions

Ireland

Mon 26 Sept—Sat 1 Oct > 1:10pm Venue Focus Theatre Duration 40mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50 “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to sound bored / She said sounding bored.” Written by one of Britain’s most renowned and notorious playwrights, Berkoff’s Lunch deals with love, companionship and how, even with our lovers, we often feel alone. Full of his trade-mark energy, crude language and the immediacy of his characters, Lunch is a play that will shake you, move you and deeply amuse you. Wall Fly Theatre Production’s emphasis is centred on strong dramatic characters and their profound effect on each other. They brought another Berkoff show, Decadence, to Focus in September 2004, winning actor Tom O’Leary The Micheal MacLiammoir Best Male Performance 2005 Award.

Master Shuttlefate Angel Exit Ireland Tue 27 Sept—Sun 02 Oct > 8:30pm Matinée Sun 02 Oct > 1pm Venue Players Duration 110mins Tickets ¤10 (Tue & Matinée), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50 Building on its ‘reputation for excellence in physical theatre’ (The Irish Times), Angel Exit conjures a dark and absurd contemporary fable with inventive delight. Fleeing his homeland, Yam Shuttlefate finds himself detained at the borders of his desired destination: Faraway. Warehoused with strangers speaking different tongues but sharing the same dream of a new life, Yam yearns for sanctuary and asylum. The future uncertain, the past a guilty secret… will a good man be forced to make a bad choice? Finesse meets madness in Angel Exit Theatre’s creations. The company’s last show, Bolt Upright, was nominated for ‘Best Production’ in the 2003 Dublin Fringe Festival. Founded in Paris, Angel Exit is an international collective of École Lecoq-trained theatre artists hailing from Ireland, Brazil, France, England, Greece and the USA.

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Ireland

Mon 26 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 8:15pm Venue Andrews Lane Studio Duration 50mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50

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Mind Your Fingers Giddy Productions

A fast and funny exploration of what makes women tick! A host of madcap characters fills this comedy sketch show that jumps right in and has a good root around the heart, mind and psyche of the modern woman. Giddy Productions, founded by Oonagh McLaughlin and Simone Kirby. Oonagh directed the fringe hit, ‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’ for Spacecraft theatre company in 2003 and more recently the Grimm’s Fairytales for the Gaiety School of Acting in the Axis in Ballymun. Simone recently played the lead in the ‘Tinker’s Wedding’ which is part of Druid’s Synge festival and was nominated for Best Actress, in The Irish Times theatre awards for

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her performance in the 2004 Corn Exchange production of Mud.

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Monty Python’s Flying Circus At Last, in French Les Spectacles Remy Renoux France Mon 26 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 8pm Venue Andrews Lane Theatre Duration 100mins (incl. interval) Tickets ¤10 (Mon 26—Wed 28 Sept), ¤16 (Thurs 29 Sept—Sat 08 Oct) Concession ¤14 PLEASE NOTE: This show runs on after the festival to Sat 08 Oct

And now for something completely different. The most unlikely offering: the first theatrical staging of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, by a French company, in French, with utterly quirky subtitles. This is a rumbustious stage version of the cult TV series with the feel of a freewheeling cabaret, replete with sassy high-kicking MC and classic numbers such as ‘The Penis Song’ and ‘Self Defence with Fresh Fruit’. A riotous show that brings Terry Jones’ and Gilliam’s masterpiece bang up to date with a Gallic twist.

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Canada

Mon 12—Sat 17 Sept > 8:30pm Matinée Sat 17 Sept > 2pm Venue T36 Duration 60 mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed & Matinée), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50

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One Good Marriage DIY Theatre & Kneeling Bus Theatre

A simple tale of glorious grief. Newlyweds Stewart and Steph return from their honeymoon to find life as they knew it has fallen apart. This forces them to deal with their own selves, as well as each other. This mystery play is carved with highly crafted, simple storytelling and trademark humour. Kneeling Bus have developed new works in the physical theatre traditions of Peter Brooks and Yoshi Oida. DIY Theatre is committed to bringing contemporary ensemble pieces to new audiences. One Good Marriage at the Dublin Fringe is the first co-production between these two Canadian companies.

Orpheus or how to undress your feathers Toaca Studio Bucharest in association with CityArts Romania & Ireland Mon 19—Sat 24 Sept > 8pm Venue Project Upstairs Duration 60mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤16 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤14 The greatest musician and poet of Greek myth, Orpheus’ tale is one of love, death and the eternal human desire to understand the essence of life. Told through music, movement and minimal text and extensive use of multi-media, this visually stunning and uniquely powerful show considers a contemporary view on the relationship between the eponymous hero and his love, Eurydice. Nona Ciobanu is considered as one of Eastern Europe’s most exciting emerging directors. Her Toaca Cultural Foundation, cofounded together with the actor/set designer Iulian Baltatescu, provides a framework for contemporary arts, offering young artists cross-disciplinary training and support for independent projects.

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Propelled Upright Lonesome Crowd Theatre Company Ireland Mon 12—Sat 17 Sept > 7pm Venue Andrews Lane Studio Duration 25mins Tickets ¤8 Concession ¤6 Abandoned in a landscape littered with everyday objects, a woman strives to find her place. How is it that they seem to be able to control her? As she discovers and explores each of these objects she begins to uncover her inner life, which, strangely, seems to be at the mercy of a similarly incomprehensible range of impulses. Lonesome Crowd Theatre Company was formed in 2005 by Darren Donohue.

Putting Up A Front! The World’s Wife Vagabond Ireland Wed 21 & Thurs 22 Sept > 8:30pm Friday 23 & Sat 24 Sept > 7pm & 9pm Venue Bank of Ireland Arts Centre Duration 65 mins Tickets ¤10 (Wed & Thurs), ¤12 (Fri & Sat) Concession ¤10 Think glamour, think gossip, think First Wives’ Club with a twist. A gang of historical wives and divas emerges from the shadows of their famous husbands to expose these men of myth, fable and history. You’ll get the fashion show, the photoshoot, and all the one-on-one interviews. Meet the Good Time Girl, meet the Sex Fiend, meet the Femme Fatal. A madcap mixture of poetry, fashion and dramatic theatre. Vagabond was founded in Dublin in 2001 by Valerie Greene, Christine Hughes and Dermot Byrne. The group collaborated with three writers for their experimental work Three Play that premiered at Dublin Fringe Festival 2003.

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Tue 13—Sun 18 Sept > 8:30pm Venue The Ark Duration 60mins Tickets ¤8 Concession ¤6

Over 12’s

A broom, a piece of cloth, a box, a rope and two men. A locked

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Raw Beef Hoax Productions

room where life starts again every six minutes and where rampageous pranks are the favourite form of entertainment. ***** “Raw Beef is sad and funny, mindless and poignant, profound and trivial… It provokes at every level, tugging at the emotions, prodding the memory and eliciting great rumbustuous peals of belly laughter…” (The British Theatre Guide 2004) **** “theatrical comedy magic…” (The Scotsman 2004)

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Winner of a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2004.

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ROMCOM Rotozaza UK Thurs 29—Sat 01 Oct > 10:30pm Venue Project Cube Duration 60mins Tickets ¤12 Concession ¤10 Following its 2004 Dublin Fringe hit show Doublethink, Rotozaza is back with a vengeance. Two different performers for every performance, meet on stage before an audience and enact the story of a relationship. The “story” is pre-recorded onto 2 cds and relayed to them, for the first time, through a set of headphones. The performers have absolutely no idea what is expected of them; they simply turn up and put on headphones telling them what to say and do. “Never pretentious, technologically savvy, and deeply interesting, it’s the kind of the theatre that is thin on the ground on this island” (wow.ie) Rotozaza’s productions strip the conventions of rehearsed performance, exceeding its boundaries to reveal the true essentials of both theatre and actors.

Room Rage Crooked House Theatre Company

Ireland

Mon 12—Sat 17 Sept > 6pm Venue T36 Duration 90mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50 Phaedra starves herself to death in a closed room. Theseus languishes in Hell. Someone is hunting the slave girls for sport. In Crooked House’s new version of Euripides’ Hippolytus, the young have nothing to do. Their world has been made safe, challenge-free, noxious. What can they do with their terrible rage? The play explores the dangerous new malaise developing in our culture that allows citizens to kill themselves rather than gain the skills necessary for living. Kildare-based Crooked House have premiered new work by leading and emerging international playwrights including Mark Ravenhill and Enda Walsh.

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Ireland

Mon 26 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 6:15pm Venue Bewleys Café Theatre Duration 50mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50

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Sandwich The Road Show Theater

Helen and Harriet have been friends and neighbours for years until a recently revealed secret unravels both their lives and minds: domestic bliss dissolves as two women on the edge commit an act of true desperation. This dark and surreal drama focuses on two suburban housewives’ compulsive behaviours while their perfect lives collapse around them. This international Dublin-based company employs a collaborative workshop process in order to devise original productions. Fresh from successful runs at both the Prague and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Sandwich is written by their producer Jessamyn Fiore who also wrote the acclaimed Dublin Fringe Festival 2003

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production The Mysterious World of Birds. **** (The Irish Times)

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SEEDS II Readings Rough Magic Seeds II Showcase

Ireland

Sat 01 & Sun 02 Oct Venue Ss Michael & John Duration 90mins each Tickets ¤4 per show or ¤10 for a season ticket Facilitated by Rough Magic Theatre Company, SEEDS II is a structured development initiative for emerging playwrights and directors. This showcase of 3 productions and 3 play readings developed during the process is the culmination of eighteen months of mentoring, readings, workshops and international research trips. See Pgs 10, 26 and 53 for details on the full productions that are also part of this programme. The Bonefire by Rosemary Jenkinson Sat 01 Oct > 1pm As UDA-man Tommy says, Leanne is more like his Ma than his sister. But she’s anything but maternal towards his pal Davey and when another woman appears it’ll only take a spark to ignite the bonfire. In the build-up to the Twelfth, the pressure cooker is on the boil in this ferocious comedy. Snap by Neil Bristow Sat 01 Oct > 3pm Going stale in the wake of early retirement, Tom and Pam are adopting a daughter, Virginia, to bring variety and light into their long days of double solitaire. But the fresh wind she brings into their dreary home unsettles more than just the dust on their armchairs. The Onion Game by Bryan Delaney Sun 02 Oct > 1pm Onion and Pearl are miserably married. As Onion is writing the Great Irish Novel and Pearl is covering the house with sequins, they plot each other’s ruin. A grotesquely black comedy of sex, lies, literature and onions. The showcase will culminate in the SEED II seminar which will take place at 3pm in SsM&J on Sun 02 Oct.

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Ireland

Mon 12—Sat 17 Sept > 9:30pm Venue Focus Theatre Duration 70mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50

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See No Evil Trap Door Theatre Company

A gung-ho soldier, a hostage, prisoners and their guards. A young Iraqi couple. See No Evil, is a compelling commentary on war in Iraq and the effects on all involved. A raw, direct and truthful piece. Trap Door Theatre Company was set up by seven recent graduates of Bull Alley Theatre Company who write and devise their own plays.

Snow White Sandkorn Theater Berlin

Germany

Tue 13—Thurs 15 Sept > 6:30pm Venue The Ark Duration 60mins Tickets ¤8 Concession ¤6 The classic tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves has been taken down off the shelf and blown right open. We have never seen its characters looking like this before. The stepmother is an old coffee pot and the dwarves are seven pointy hats! The tambourine transforms into Snow White’s cradle and later into a table in the dwarves’ house. An endearing and intimate show, in which puppet and performer are at arm’s reach and the story they tell is imaginatively alive. Sandkorn Theater Berlin is Reiner Anding, an accomplished puppeteer from the famous Ernst Busch School Berlin.

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Spiked/Butterfly Fairy/Bookworms Beehive Theatre Company Ireland Mon 26 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 1:10pm & 6:30pm Venue Players Duration 45mins Tickets ¤8 (Mon—Wed), ¤10 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤8 Three super-short audience favourites from the cream of this year’s Festival of New Writing in Dingle; an annual event that sources and supports established and emerging playwrights. Spiked looks at Pat’s vibrant relationships with characters from The Beano and The Dandy comics revealing the intimacies of his emotional life. Butterfly Fairy examines what happens when a fairy meets a human child in a witty, charming and sometimes alarming piece. Bookworms is an absurd and hilarious play on words by four bookworms. Dingle based Beehive is committed to developing new work with emerging playwrights. The annual Festival of New Writing for Theatre takes place each March in Dingle, Co. Kerry.

Spoon Fed The Attic Studio

Ireland

Mon 19—Sat 24 Sept > 6pm Venue T36 Duration 60mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50 Spoon Fed is a dynamic long-form improvisational show brought to you by international members of Dublin’s Attic Studio. Every performance is guaranteed to be a completely original play as the show is designed by ideas that are spoon fed to the cast by the audience. First round defines the characters, second round defines the what and why and from there the audience helps to dictate the scenario. A hysterical, energetic and witty look into the actors’ process. The Attic Studio is a recognized forum for actors, writers and directors living and working in Dublin boasting over 500 members.

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Mon 12—Sat 17 Sept > 8:30pm Venue Bewleys Café Theatre Duration 70mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50

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SPURT!SISTER!SPURT! LightSwitch Ireland

Have you ever wanted to kill your boss in a moment of unchecked rage? It’s as easy as 1,2,3. Come to this bent psycho-drama and learn from twisted sisters Claire and Solange. Lightswitch invites you to witness the deranged fantasies of two servants as they plot their revenge against not only their Madame, but also society at large. Lightswitch is a Dublin based comic theatre company who create work that anarchically undermines political, sexual, psychological and cultural categories. Their work has a metaphysical burlesque

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style that tends towards camp, kitsch, and the grotesque.

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Steiner Graffiti Circle-X Arts Switzerland Mon 26 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 6pm Venue T36 Duration 80mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50 Rudolf Steiner is one of the best kept secrets of our time. He was a man who revolutionised 20th century thought – from physics to religion, education to the visual arts. This show explores the life of a subversive, anarchistic and extraordinary man through physical and intelligent theatre that asks us to consider the nature of our individual freedom. One man. One blackboard. One empty space. In penetrating the complex layers of Rudolf Steiner’s life, a story emerges which shows us the extraordinary nature of our own. Circle-X Arts was founded 1998 with the aim of illuminating the layers of human existence, such as death, dreams and daily routine.

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Germany

Fri 16—Sun 18 Sept > 6:30pm Venue The Ark Tickets ¤8 Concession ¤6 There lies a secret behind the walls of Dino Valley, a small town

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Still Alive Sandkorn Theater Berlin

inhabited by humans and dinosaurs – living millions of years apart. The theatre stage melts this time difference revealing two parallel worlds. In one world we see people meet and chat, idly going about their business. In the other inhabitants hunt for food and hold funpacked parties. Both remain unaware of each other’s existence. But what if intruders suddenly want to end that peace? How do both worlds cope with the impending violence? An epic story told on a miniature stage. Sandkorn Theater Berlin is Reiner Anding, an accomplished puppeteer from the famous Ernst Busch School Berlin.

Stop the Tempo! Focus Theatre Ireland Mon 12 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 7:30pm Venue Focus Theatre Duration 60mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon 12—Wed 14 Sept), ¤15 (Thurs 15—Sat 01 Oct) Concession ¤12.50

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Romania’s answer to “Trainspotting”. Three young people living a thankless existence in the unending urban sprawl of modern day Bucharest. A common need to let loose brings them together, unleashing powerful, hedonistic forces within themselves. An enthralling play from an exciting new voice in Eastern Europe. Founded by Deirdre O’Connell in 1967, the intimate and much-loved Focus Theatre has staged more than 250 plays since its inception and many of the most famous Irish actors have played at the Focus including Gabriel Byrne, Tom Hickey and Olwen Fouere.

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The Birthday Party Show The Corn Exchange Ireland Sun 02 Oct > 8pm Venue The Sugar Club Duration 70mins Tickets ¤14 Concession ¤12 Starring Andrew Bennett, Gary Cooke, Tony Flynn and Annie Ryan at the Sugar Club. Shh… Surprise! The Corn Exchange and Dublin Fringe Festival celebrate ten years of theatre with a unique Commedia dell’Arte performance for one night only. In association with the Dublin Fringe Festival and the Dublin Theatre Festival.

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Mon 12—Sat 17 Sept > 6:30pm Venue Players Duration 60mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50

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Switch 4play Ireland

Two sisters find themselves in the surreal and alien space that lies somewhere between reality and imagination when they are forced to cope and come to terms with the death of their mother. Switch investigates a heightened world where perceptions can be turned inside out and where escapism and imagination are held on to as ways of dealing with pain. An insight into one of the most common tragedies of family life: how to deal with loss and death. This is a devised and innovative piece of Le Coq physical theatre from this young company.

The Artist Needs A Wife Clean Canvas Theatre Company & Edna Welthorpe Productions Ireland Mon 26 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 8:30pm Venue T36 Duration 100mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50 In this surrealist dark comedy, Mott and Freud are two infeasibly old men watching the last of their dreams die with them in their basement apartment in Chicago. When the painterly Freud shuns his long-time muse for an Eastern European mail-order bride, a history of betrayal and collusion come front and centre. A superbly written piece; tender, original and very funny. Clean Canvas was founded in January 2004 as a sister company to Clean Canvas Productions Film Company by a group of UCD Dramsoc alumni. Their most recent show was winner of Best Overall Production, Best Director, Best Original Script, and Best Actor at the Irish Student Drama Association Awards 2005.

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The Hospital Jo Strømgren Kompani

Norway

Tue 27 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 9pm Matinée Sat 01 Oct > 12 noon Venue Project Upstairs Duration 60mins Tickets ¤10 (Tue—Wed & Matinée), ¤16 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤14 In a remote provincial health clinic the beds are empty and the three duty nurses bored. As they await instructions that never seem to arrive, they instinctively revert to do what they know best: pain relief. But who should suffer the pain for the others to relieve? This raw, exuberant and powerful show is filled with loving humanity and huge doses of angry energy. Through pitiless observations and surreal situations, immediate physicality and nonsense languages that somehow make perfect sense, the company creates compelling physical images of a tyrannically molesting nurse and her two colleagues isolated within strange hospital walls. Jo Strømgren Kompani – one of the most significant and influential companies in Scandanavia today – has received numerous international awards for its groundbreaking and highly entertaining productions.

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Ireland

Fri 16—Sun 18 Sept & Fri 23—Sun 25 Sept > 7:30pm Venue Meeting House Square Duration 60mins Tickets Free Drawing on the folklore and theatrical traditions of its multinational

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The Blue Ointment BareBones Theatre Company

cast, BareBones present a short but epic story of love, magic and wrestling, vividly told through movement, music, dance and humour. A King and Queen decide to throw a wrestling tournament, the winner of which will marry their daughter. Champion wrestler Dermot Rue Mullarkey has a shameful secret – he owes his prowess to a magic blue ointment concocted by an evil witch. Will Dermot wrestle his way to royalty? What does the witch have in store for him? This devised piece by BareBones imaginatively brings maverick Kerry playwright George Fitzmaurice’s 1914 classic “The Ointment Blue” kicking and punching to life for a 21st century multicultural Dublin.

The Friends of Jack Kairo Flipside & Spacecraft Ireland Mon 26 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 6pm Venue Focus Theatre Duration 70mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50 Join a host of bizarre characters in an explosive cartoon tribute to film noir. Performed as a one-man show, with an original script from the co writer/performer of the award winning cabaret Fallen Angels, this is a murder mystery with an electric comic twist. “Simon Toal is a comic gem” (The Irish Times) Both Flipside and Spacecraft are based in Ireland and have separately been responsible for 5 hit shows in previous fringe festivals including last years “Bleeding the System”.

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The Masterpiece MAD Productions

Ireland

Mon 26 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 8:30pm Venue Mountjoy Prison Duration 80mins Tickets ¤8 (Mon—Wed), ¤12 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤10 Performed in Mountjoy Prison, this truly original show tells the story of a man painting for his life. Gustav Honess is a Polish artist in a concentration camp in Germany during World War Two. The Chief, Herr Vogts, gives him an option: if he paints him a masterpiece Vogts will save the lives of Gustav and his wife; if he doesn’t they both die. As the painting is created both men’s lives unravel. A powerful production that fundamentally questions power and how it is meted out. MAD Productions was set up in Midlands Prison in 2002. Its aim is to bring theatre to areas where theatre is not common.

The Miserable Failure of Bernard Comiskey Glass Jellyfish Productions Ireland Mon 26 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 6:15pm Venue International Bar Duration 60mins Tickets ¤8 (Mon—Wed), ¤12 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤10 Bernard Comiskey is a desperate man. Stuck between appeasing his angry client O’Hara and his demanding fiancée Eleanor, he is not having a good day. Without realising it, he finds himself tangled in his own lies, unable to let the only property he has on his books – the ramshackle 77 Hartley Crescent. A dark, funny, quirky work that captures the essence of this loveable loser with both touching moments and high-speed comedy. This is Glass Jellyfish’s third play to date, with Headlong being produced in last year’s Edinburgh Fringe; “thrillingly taut… a memorable work” (The Scotsman) and The End of the World being performed both in Dublin and the Arcola Theatre in London.

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Romania

Tue 27 Sept—Sun 02 Oct > 6:30pm Venue Project Cube Duration 75 mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sun) Concession ¤12.50

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The Sunshine Play MONDAY Theatre at Green Hours

One hot summer night four characters meet on the rooftop of a high rise. When you have to smoke outside, you never know who you might meet or where the conversation may take you. Talking, drinking – it’s pretty insecure on a rooftop, especially when being left by or leaving your loved one. MONDAY Theatre at Green Hours (Bucharest, Romania) won the Project Arts Centre/Dublin Fringe Festival Award 2004 for You

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Can’t Feel It Here. See pg 108 for more information on this award.

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The Timekeepers Ocean of Sugar Israel Mon 12—Sat 17 Sept > 8:15pm Venue Andrews Lane Studio Duration 70mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50 A beautiful and intense piece of theatre that tells the story of two men’s harrowing experiences and their unusual friendship with quiet humanity and humour. When Hans, an outrageous young German homosexual and Benjamin, a conservative elderly Jewish man are thrown together in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, they appear at first to have little in common. Working together repairing watches for the Nazis under the tyrannical eye of Capo their boorish guard, suspicion, prejudice and mistrust slowly give way to a touching friendship. Ocean of Sugar is an Israeli independent theatre collective founded in 1999 by director Lee Gilat. To date the company has created eight highly acclaimed shows. The Timekeepers premiered in Tel Aviv in 2002.

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This show is generously supported by the Embassy of Israel

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Mon 19—Sat 24 Sept > 1:15pm & 6:15pm Venue International Bar Duration 50mins Tickets ¤8 (Mon—Wed), ¤12 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤10

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tinylife Mangiare Theatre Company & John Brown Theatre Ireland & USA

A fastpaced clown show about the inherent absurdity of modern techno-life. The story of Grant, a lowly office drone and his digital alter-ego Captain Napkin. Everyday Grant uses his online alter-ego to escape from reality until one day Captain Napkin decides to give Grant’s “real world” a spin. But will real life, with its everyday absurdities, prove too much for our virtual hero? A clown show for the 21st century. tinylife is a co-production between Ireland’s Mangiare Theatre Company and the John Brown Theatre of New York. Irish playwright and director Jaimie Carswell trained at the University of Birmingham and Alexander Kipp trained in performance at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. The two are regular collaborators of improvised and devised clown, commedia and buffoon shows.

Topping and Butch UK Fri 30 Sept > 7pm Venue Spiegeltent Duration 60mins Tickets ¤15 Join award-winning sexy satirists and regulars on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends Topping & Butch for this one-off performance in Dublin. Full-on performance numbers, news items, biting swipes at celebrities and politicians make this a must-see start to the Fringe’s final weekend. “Masters of innuendo… this is cabaret at its absolute best” ***** (Scotsman), “extremely funny” (Times), “a fantastic blend of gay and straight humour” **** (Fest) Official Sell-Out Edinburgh Fringe 2003/4, Prague Fringe 2005

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Tramps and Vamps Babylon Works & Spike Productions

Ireland

Mon 19 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 9:30pm Venue Focus Theatre Duration 60mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon 19—Wed 21 Sept), ¤15 (Thurs 22 Sept—Sat 01 Oct) Concession ¤12.50 PLEASE NOTE: No Sunday Shows

Tramps and Vamps is a drippingly delicious new adult musical comedy about subversive women living life on the wild side. From the fabulous to the grotesque and the posh to the poor, they include prostitutes, criminals, animals, a naturist and a lesbian sadomasochist. All twelve characters are presented and played by three feline-phantom poets, Kitty, Miss Pussy and Queenie the Transvestite Cat, who will seduce you with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Babylon Works produces original plays by Sam Slater with an emphasis on a physical and visual acting style. This is its second production and first collaboration with Spike Productions.

Troubadour Salim Ghouse

India

Mon 26 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 6:15pm Venue Filmbase Duration 60mins Tickets ¤8 (Mon—Wed), ¤12 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤10 Troubadour is a synonym for the eternal lover within us all. Based on the teaching of the great sufi Mevlana Jalauddin Rumin, this is an engaging and heartfelt tribute to the original storytellers of yore, the ‘tarabdaars’, who talked, sang and danced about the ‘mysteries’. This calm and compassionate performer brings you an ephemeral, beautiful and incredibly comforting experience which will feed the soul of anyone caught up in the everyday. Salim Ghouse, master in martial arts, film maker, director, writer and performer, is from India.

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Ireland

Mon 19—Sat 24 Sept > 6:15pm Venue Andrews Lane Studio Duration 55mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤12.50

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Womb The Attic Studio

Disturbing yet hilarious, Womb exposes the watcher to the dark underbelly of opiate addiction. Set in a Dublin maternity hospital Womb throws the most unlikely characters into situations that quickly spiral out of control. A riveting drama that unfolds to leave audiences stunned and craving more. Explosive yet compassionate this play births new and startling perceptions revealing the insidious nature of addiction. The Attic Studio is a recognized forum for actors, writers and directors living and working in Dublin boasting over 500 members

Tramps and Vamps | Babylon Works & Spike Productions

to date.

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Urban Ghosts Bedrock Ireland Mon 12—Sat 17 Sept Venue Ss Michael & John Tickets ¤10 (Mon), ¤15 (Tue—Sat) Concession ¤12.50 See both shows for ¤22 Bedrock presents a double bill of witty, haunting and off-beat theatre. Staged and set within a dark and wraithy odeum, Urban Ghosts will take you on an inner journey and outwardly toil with your sense of perspective and place. Since 1993, Bedrock has been staging challenging contemporary theatre nationally and internationally, creating the first Dublin Fringe Festival in 1995. Pale Angel Mon 12—Sat 17 Sept > 7:30pm & 9:30 pm Duration 60mins Ghosts are the glimpsed possibilities of other worlds. Pale Angel is about the experience of being haunted: by things you’ve done and things you failed to do. Based on themes in Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”, this performance seeks to create a unique and unforgettable fusion of theatre, dance and video. Self-Accusation Mon 12—Sat 17 Sept > 5:30pm Tue 13—Sat 17 Sept > 1pm Duration 45mins What are we responsible for and whose business is it anyway? There are no easy answers, but asking the questions can be exhilarating. Peter Handke’s infamous play is an intense, riveting and at times surreally funny exploration of the concept of duty.

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Ireland

Tue 27 Sept—Sun 02 Oct > 6pm Venue Ss Michael & John Duration 75mins Tickets ¤10 (Tue [preview]—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sun) Concession ¤12.50 Directed by Matt Torney

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Woyzeck Rough Magic Seeds II Showcase

Buchner’s classic drama tells the story of Woyzeck, a downtrodden soldier who is slowly breaking under the burden of intense social pressure. His boss tries to moralise him, his doctor only lets him eat peas and his wife sleeps with half the regiment. In this production, a troupe of burlesque players stage their own version of Woyzeck as a dark cabaret in a makeshift side-show tent. Featuring songs from the 20’s and 30’s Berlin cabaret, this production investigates the darker sides of humanity. This production is part of the SEEDS II programme facilitated by Rough Magic. Matt Torney is a graduate of the Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College. He works as both a theatre and film director. See pg 10, 26 and 36 for other events included in the

Urban Ghosts – Self-accusation | Bedrock

SEEDS II programme.

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I find it hard to choose highlights from this deliciously rich menu. The shows are all excellent and blindingly different. What they have in common is their ability to connect and communicate through the senses rather than just verbally and hopefully reach you on different levels and in different ways. While Rumble (pg 63) will totally impress you with (among many other things) astounding acrobatics, CoisCeimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Knots (pg 58) explores human relationships through movement and violent humour. Tropea (pg 65) and Automatic Id (pg 56) are witty or harsh reflections on our society while Les Chemins de Traverse (pg 59) and Sans (pg 64) are simply works of beauty, there to be enjoyed without further analysis. If this doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help to make your choice easier why not see the new works of Siamsa Tire (pg 62), who took a brave step and allowed their Irish dance heritage to be challenged by contemporary artists.

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At Swim Two Boys Earthfall UK Tue 13—Sat 17 Sept > 8pm Matinée Sat 17 Sept > 1pm Venue Samuel Beckett Theatre Duration 70mins Tickets ¤10 (Tue, Wed & Matinée), ¤16 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤14 Staged in a gradually-filling lake in front of a slow-falling waterfall, this show is inspired by Jamie O’Neill’s award winning novel. Set in Ireland in 1916, the work juxtaposes the developing love affair between two young men with political turmoil in Ireland and the slaughter on the Western Front – contrasting the dream of national liberation with the search for personal freedom. Incorporating archive film footage, live music, dance and text, this is Earthfall at its most evocative and moving. “A stunning concept all round” (The Stage) One of the UK’s leading dance companies, Earthfall forges radical choreography with live music and strong visual imagery.

Automatic Id (AID) Vania Gala Portugal Tue 20—Sat 24 Sept > 6:15pm Venue Project Upstairs Duration 41mins Tickets ¤10 (Tue—Wed), ¤16 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤14 An adrenalin-fuelled, raw and elegant show guaranteed to capture and dazzle. Inspired by images of car crashes, fights and modern movies, this one-woman show explores what identity might be in an age when our fragile sense of it is bombarded by external forces such as shopping, fitness, Hollywood, Ikea and highlighted hair. Angolan-Portugeuse Vania Gala is much sought after by companies all across Europe. Particularly acclaimed for the immediate physicality of her work, she has recently begun to concentrate on her solo work.

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Tue 13—Sun 18 Sept > 6:30pm Venue Project Cube Duration 45 mins Tickets ¤10 (Tue—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sun) Concession ¤12.50

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Double Bill Junk Ensemble/Myriad Dance

Adaptation of a Meeting Myriad Dance What if every cell in my body has the potential to perceive the uniqueness and originality of all there is? This question from the works of Deborah Hay was one of the starting points for the collaboration between choreographer Ella Clarke and dancers Jessica Kennedy and Aine Stapleton, to create a duet that investigates the adaptations we make in the act of meeting. Circus Freak Junk Ensemble Identical twins Jessica & Megan Kennedy perform bizarre stories from the world of travelling carnival, investigating the glittery façade of circus performers. Using a potent cocktail of music, theatre and dance, Circus Freak journeys into the eerie exotic

Adaptation of a Meeting | Myriad Dance

world of freak performers and melancholic clowns.

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Knots CoisCéim Dance Theatre

Ireland

Tue 20—Thurs 29 Sept > 8pm Matinée Sat 24 Sept > 4pm Venue Samuel Beckett Theatre Duration 60mins Tickets ¤10 (Tue 20—Wed 21 Sept), ¤18 (Thurs 22—Thurs 29 Sept) Concession ¤12 Matinée/Concession ¤10

Over 18’s

PLEASE NOTE: No Sunday Shows. First 15 tickets sold to each show will be only ¤6.

We spend our lives searching to ‘tie the knot’ with the perfect partner, but as soon as we think we’ve found them, the rest of our lives are spent examining the frayed ends. Mixing brutal and highoctane choreography, a menacing dose of psychoanalysis and a bunch of straight jackets, CoisCéim Dance Theatre collaborating with ex-DV8 virtuoso choreographer Liam Steel, expose the fine line between love and madness in this violent and extreme text-meetsdance show. Winners of the 2004 Fringe Sexiest Show CoisCéim Dance Theatre, over the last 10 years, has built itself an international reputation for producing quirky, witty and utterly original shows, bringing intelligent dance theatre to a whole new audience.

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Canada

Mon 26 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 1:05pm Venue National Gallery of Ireland Duration 45 mins Tickets ¤8 (Mon—Wed), ¤12 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤10

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Les chemins de traverse Van Grimde Corps Secrets

The hottest ticket in the Montreal arts scene: this is a collaboration between award-winnng jazz quartet Thom Gossage and the eloquent and naturally graceful dancers of Corps Secret, they improvise a conversation between dance and music in the most accessible and refreshingly enjoyble way. Structured by choreographer Isabelle Van Grimde and joined every day by a different Irish jazz legend it promises to be a divine experience. Of Canadian Isabelle Van Grimde, La Presse said ‘Her unique universe, whose speciality is the fusion of graphic purity and carnal sensuality’. Thom Gossage is a renowned jazz musician, whose Other Voices tour won the Opus Prize for Best Jazz Concert of the Year in 2002. See pg 83 for Thom Gossage in the Spiegeltent

Oxymoron Oxymoron Germany Tue 20—Sun 25 Sept > 6:30pm Venue The Ark Duration 60mins Tickets ¤8 Concession ¤6 Jeans or a tutu, ballet or breakdance, love or hate, Oxymoron is a fast and furious multi-media extravaganza complete with head spins, hip sounds and electronics. The fusion of contrasts and contradictions that characterise the modern human being are explored through acrobatics, live sound, video and wild and erotic dance. A cast of 14 artists bring you this breathtakingly lively show. This show is generously supported by BMW.

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Political Assassinator Yoram Mosenzon Israel Wed 14—Sat 17 Sept > 1:15pm Venue Project Cube Duration 30mins Tickets ¤6 (Wed), ¤8 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤6 An original and passionate piece that draws on and explores dancer Yoram Mosenzon’s time in the Israeli army. This immediate work examines the deadly complexities of the choices he was forced to make. A physical, political and forceful story that combines comic absurdity and deadly seriousness to examine the impossibility of entrapment and the violence inherent in conflict. Israeli Yoram Mosenzon has been working and living in Holland since 1999. He is trained in dance, choreography and experimental performance. His work combines physical theatre and performance art, with the body as the main creative source.

Remember This Rachael Lincoln & Mark Stuver

USA

Tue 27 Sept—Sun 02 Oct > 1:15pm Venue Project Cube Duration 40 mins Tickets ¤8 (Tue—Wed), ¤10 (Thurs—Sun) Concession ¤8 Follow this physically virtuosic couple through a full-bodied duet that explores the universally familiar peculiarities of love. The pair grasps at, grapples with and pull one another through moments of swooning giddiness and heart-sinking honesty as they dance through the repercussions of attachment and loss. Moments of gravity are balanced with touching humour. You are invited and cajoled into an emotional and immediate experience. Rachael Lincoln and Mark Stuver began their collaborative dance making in 2000. Exploring movement and text, set work and improvisation, the pair is striving for a dance vocabulary that is both innovative and compelling.

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Tue 13—Sun 18 Sept > 8:30pm Venue Project Cube Duration 90mins Tickets ¤10 (Tue—Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sun) Concession ¤12.50

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Resonance Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company UK

This Derry-based dance theatre company with a flourishing international reputation brings together an international ensemble of 7 performers for two related works by two choreographers. Resonance I explores the kind of passionate and problematic relationship that everyone understands. A couple can’t stand being close but can’t bear to be apart swinging from tender to aggressive, hopeful to nostalgic. This is a poetic and emotionally charged piece with a tragic and funny outcome directed by Dublin Fringe Festival director Wolfgang Hoffmann, three-time Edinburgh Fringe First Winner. Resonance II, directed by Israeli Ilanit Tadmor, is a visually exciting ensemble work in which the rules of the choreography are reinterpreted during each performance. The audience is taken on a whirlwind trip ranging from aesthetically beautiful to grotesque and hilariously surreal images.

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rEVOLUTION Siamsa Tíre – The National Folk Theatre Ireland Wed 14—Sat 17 Sept > 1:15pm Venue Roundroom, The Mansion House Duration 30mins Tickets ¤6 (Wed), ¤8 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤6 rEVOLUTION bursts the bubble of what is possible with the creation and staging of traditional art forms. The National Folk Theatre of Ireland has collaborated with contemporary dance artist Cindy Cummings and visual artist Andrew Duggan challenging the traditional steps by inverting them to bring out a new dynamic timing and weight. By juxtaposing the new choreography with video footage of traditional dances and by having the dance influenced by the video sequences, the work carries the form

rEVOLUTION | Siamsa Tíre – The National Folk Theatre

of the unique Kerry Munnix style out of its encapsulation.

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Germany

Mon 12—Sat 24 Sept > 8pm Wed 14 Sept > 7pm Matinées Sat 17 & Sat 24 > 2pm Venue O’Reilly Theatre Duration 90mins

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Rumble Renegade Theater

Tickets ¤10 (Mon 12—Wed 14 Sept & Matinées), ¤18.50 (Thurs 15— Sat 24 Sept) Concession ¤12.50

PLEASE NOTE: No Sunday Shows

Rumble throws you into a world of hip-hop gangland war and confronts you with an electric explosion of passion that seems to have nowhere to go. With the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet at its heart this ground-breaking production bombards the senses with arresting and often vicious choreography and pumping grooves. This is a slick and stylish show of intense energy. With its physical, funny and awe-inspiring connection of street culture and theatre, this is an adrenalin kick destined for Broadway, This show took the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by storm in 2004, selling out after just one performance and going on to take a Fringe First. Renegade Theater was founded by Markus Michalowski (trained circus performer and professional fight director), Zekai Fenerci (Godfather of the German HipHop scene) and French Choreographer Lorca Renoux (former b-boy in the Parisian ghettos who has also danced with Pina Bausch).

Rumble | Renegade Theater

This show is generously supported by the Alliance Française and The Goethe Institut

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Sans Martine Pisani & Cie du Solitare

France

Tue 27 & Wed 28 Sept > 6:15pm Venue Project Upstairs Duration 50mins Tickets ¤16 Concession ¤14 A show that tickles and giggles with up-beat joy. Sans is about the way a simple walk contains a thousand dances. It is about the clumsy trip and the accidental stumble that are peculiar choreographies in themselves. Martine Pisani’s delightful work has significantly awakened the often sombre contemporary world, and with the unashamed likeness of a child, connects the audience with meaning and movement. Parisian-based Martine began her career in the 1980s as a dancer, studying contemporary dance with David Gordon, Yvonne Rainer, and Odile Duboc before founding her own group, La Compagnie du Solitaire, in 1992. This show is generously supported by the Embassy of France

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Austria

Mon 12—Sat 17 Sept > 6:15pm Venue Project Upstairs Duration 55 mins Tickets ¤10 (Mon—Wed), ¤16 (Thurs—Sat) Concession ¤14

DFF2005 DANCE

Tropea Cie Laroque

Dancers in the mindless hands of bickering TV channel surfers. From a back stage screen two elderly “couch potatoes” zap from programme to programme, vainly searching to settle on something to stave off their boredom. From football to commercials, graphic news to trite talk shows, love stories to fictional horror their choices collide in an antagonistic personal duel. At the command of the remote control four dancers take on the life of the programmes, switching this way and that with lightning virtuosity and great technical skill. This is a playful, ironic comment on the real and the virtual. Helene Weinzierl danced for Rosas, Bruno Genty and Robert Bexler before founding Compagnie Laroque in 1995. This show is generously supported by the Embassy of Austria

Under The Skin Bridgman/Packer Dance

USA

Thurs 29 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 6:15pm Matinée Sat 01 Oct > 2pm Venue Project Upstairs Duration 70mins Tickets ¤16 Concession ¤14 Matinée ¤10 Raw, sensual and catapulting, this is an absolute treat of a show in which two explosive dancers, who have been dancing together since the 1970s, morph in and out of a video screen in a dizzying collision of image and reality. The breathtaking partnering of these two New Yorkers is clever, sensual, engaging and above all fun. Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer have collaborated in choreography and performance since 1978. Dance Magazine has described their work as “a tour de force” and The Village Voice summarised their performances as “… a pinnacle of clarity and craft.”

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Alongside shows in Bewleys (pg 83), the Project (pg 81), O’Reilly Theatre (pg 69) and on the street (pg 70), this year’s Spiegeltent is a musical smorgasbord; a league of nations of artists presenting theatre, burlesque, comedy, cabaret and music from 19 countries around the world. Each night Le Salon Perdu will come alive with a symphony of sounds including jazz, blues, tango, and even a hint of flamenco. For the cool cats among you, the masters will take you to the floor with a mixture of soul, funk, roots, dub-reggae and pop: ranging from psychedelic to post-modern. For the connoisseurs, the maestros await your presence with an extraordinary aural feast of contemporary music, experimental partnerships and opera: but not as we know it. Each of the Spiegel shows is for one night only. Blink and you’ll miss them. The only difficulty will be choosing what ‘not’ to go to! What’s more, when you buy a ticket to any 9pm show, your ticket price automatically includes entry into ClubSpeigel that night. Mingle with the artists, meet the highlights and the low lifes from the Fringe and let the night go on until the wee hours. This section is organised by date.

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Mon 12 Sept Opening Extravaganza > 10:30pm—Late Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤15 Come and celebrate the official opening of the Dublin Fringe Festival in the glittering Spiegeltent for a night of madness, mayhem and merriment. The line-up includes snippets from forthcoming Spiegeltent shows. Limited number of tickets available. Book early.

Tue 13 Sept Emmett Tinley

Ireland

> 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50 Coming straight out of 12 years as lynch-pin and front man with The Prayer Boat, Emmett Tinley is out on his own with his latest solo album Attic Faith, produced by renowned Dutchman Victor van Vugt. His songs – collages of images and words – are borne out of everyday experiences and adventures.

La Fille du Cirque – Camille O’Sullivan

Ireland

> 9pm—10:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤19 “Raunchy, dangerously fragile… a real star” ***** (Edinburgh Evening News) Following five sell-out seasons in the UK and Australia, and recently awarded Best Music 2005 Brighton Fringe, Camille returns to Dublin to perform the music of Jacques Brel, Nick Cave, Tom Waits and David Bowie. Performing in English, French and German, Camille enthrals audiences with her stunning voice and passionate, dramatic performances. “the undoubted star of the 2005 Adelaide Cabaret Festival” (Sunday Mail)

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> 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50 Cult underground cabaret VOLTA presents an original show with

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Wed 14 Sept Club VOLTA Ireland

live acts including film, animation, bluegrass music and sultry burlesque dancers. Get ready for the Spiegeltent to be set alight by The Cockettes of Cabaret and a host of surreal characters like the morally outraged Captain Birdseye and camp crooner Gerry Adams.

Dirty Rotten Cabaret – Fallen Angels

Ireland

> 9pm—10:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤17 WINNER OF BEST SHOW, SPIEGELTENT 2004, The Fallen Angels present a brand new cabaret on the raw, subversive side of respectability. They weave razor-sharp satire, audience participation, original song, and silliness seamlessly together. “This is a fabulous feast of grown-up fantasy. You’ve been warned!” (In Dublin Magazine)

Bang on a Can All-Stars USA proudly presented by the O’Reilly Theatre > 9:30pm—11pm Venue O’Reilly Theatre Tickets ¤30 Concession ¤25 Sexy and loud, Bang on a Can All-Stars’ concerts are marathons, extravaganzas of composers and styles from the cerebral to the surreal. Each concert is an eclectic supermix complete with dazzling displays of virtuosity. “…combining the power and punch of a rock band with the precision and clarity of a chamber ensemble.” (The New York Times) Supported by The Irish Times and The Arts Council

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Thurs 15 Sept Brass Picnic – Glue Factory

Ireland

> 7pm Venue Various, ask at the box office Duration 45 mins Tickets ¤50 16 mobile brass musicians, 16 picnic baskets, 16 musical chairs and 16 guests at 16 points around the city. Lavished with food and drink, experience a private musical performance of your very own. Sated, you and the other lucky guests gather together to enjoy a playful public spectacle that will leave everyone feeling much happier. Glue Factory is an experimental theatre project born out of last year’s Dublin Fringe success, Hongongalongalo. **** (Irish Times) Only 16 tickets will be available for this one-off charity event in aid of Self-Aid International

Mary Coughlan

Ireland

> 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤15 The jazz and blues-infected timbre of the Coughlan voice is legendary. She sings from the soul, mixing a wry and laconic humour with a voracious stage presence. Unparalleled for more than 20 years Mary Coughlan is the undisputed ‘Lady of the Blues’. The lights are low, the tables are set, the stage of Le Salon Perdu awaits.

Fringe Uncovered > 8pm—Late Venue Spirit Tickets ¤15 A goodie bag of Fringe Best! A head-bending line-up, from comedy to break dancing, psychedelic rock, electro fun and dirty house …this night has it all! See www.fringefest.com for details.

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> 9pm—10:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤17

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Thurs 15 Sept Continued Jah Wobble & his English Roots Band presented by Crawdaddy Featuring Ronnie Drew and special guests. Credited with introducing dub reggae music to the punk generation, bass

supremo Jah Wobble co-founded Public Image Limited with John Lydon in 1978 and his solo career has since excelled in as wide a range of musical genres as just about anyone on earth. Collaborators include Primal Scream, The Edge and Brian Eno.

Fri 16 Sept Martha & Eve

Cyprus & Greece

> 7pm—8:30pm Duration 90mins Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50 In your face, no holes barred, raunchy, rocky and soulful. Expect a sizzling evening of cross-cultural fiery percussion, steely-edged driving guitars and two of the finest rock and soul female voices around. Impeccable harmonies and infectious humour, this knock-

A Brass Picnic | Glue Factory

out performance is live music at its most charismatic and infectious.

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Fri 16 Sept Continued The Tassel Club Ireland > 9pm—10:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤17 Ireland’s only burlesque show returns with a jaw-dropping line up. The show is packed with live jazz, international tassel-twirling burlesque stars, outrageous comedy and lively song. Come dressed in 1950’s suits, corsets, feather boas and feel part of this unique show! Starring the fabulous Gwendoline Lamour (UK) and the glittering Fancy Chance (San Francisco).

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Sweden

> 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤15 Taut tango and fresh jazz blended with a sensuality that at times

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Sat 17 Sept New Tango Orquestra

borders on ecstasy, New Tango Orquestra is renowned for their unique music and animated live shows, being billed as the future of new tango. Their music is at once a game, a cry and an echo of heartbreaking love that is guaranteed to tickle your senses. Taking up where Astor Piazzola left off, this groundbreaking ensemble is an eclectic mix of well known bluegrass, jazz, classical and folk musicians, who started experimenting with newly composed music in 1996.

Andertango The Tango Show Monina Paz Argentina & Ireland > 9pm—Late Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤17 Tango inhabits a world where everything can be said with the flick of a leg, the twist of a wrist and the tap of a foot. Sensuous and sophisticated, it is an expression of romance, of mood and emotion, of love gone wrong, of heartbreak and passion, of life and death. It’s an intimate, silent conversation between the dancers. Buy a ticket for both shows in this great celebration of Tango and dance to closing time for just ¤28.00

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Sun 18 Sept Kroke Poland > 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50 Kroke create an unusual, distinctively eastern and wonderfully exotic sound. Discovered by Steven Spielberg during the shooting of ‘Schindler’s List’, their music draws inspiration from Klezmer – an ancient folk music of the Eastern European Jews. It is a form of prayer, a salutation to the wonders of life. Kroke invite you to revel in humanity, in which the audience and the musicians are involved in this celebration equally.

Havana Son Ireland presented by Improvised Music Company > 9pm—Late Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤17 Havana Son is a rigorously authentic take on son, the guitar driven acoustic idiom that is the precursor to the modern salsa sound. The line-up includes Ariel Hernandez, Tony Moreiro, Adrew Csibi, Eddy McGinn, Stefano Muscovi and Conor Guilfoyle. The engaging voice of Habanero Evelio Galan brings the enduring music of Cuba to his adopted homeland here in Dublin.

Mon 19 Sept Café Mediterranea

Ireland

> 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50 Evoked through the blue smoke, red wine, coffee and French beer of Café Bohême this intimate evening offers an assortment of dreams, although Soho’s seedier side of peep shows, pimps and private dancers is never far away… “Derby Browne offers… the smooth control of dependable chansons and the lambent arrangements of a Parisian café” (The Irish Times)

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Sweden

> 9pm—10:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤17 Döderskratt is an expression sprung out of an old Swedish folk

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Mon 19 Sept Continued Döderskratt – Teater Sláva

song; a laugh in the face of death, a chuckle of relief after a life hard lived, a dry death rattle. Teater Sláva’s music is a chain of sound, rhythm, movement and spatial harmonies of middle age hymns, colourful whirling mosaic of folk music, dark gravity of jazz singing and the raw marrow of rock. See Pg 18 for Teater Sláva show.

Tue 20 Sept Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Café Mediterranea

> 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent See Pg 23

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Tue 20 Sept Continued Yat-Kha Tuva Mongolia presented by Crawdaddy > 9pm—10:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤17 Led by the irrepressible Radio 3 ‘World Music Award’ winner Albert Kuvezin (founding member of Huun Huur Tu, 2004 Spiegeltent) Yat-Kha marries the ancient art of ‘Khoomei’ throat-singing with punk inspired electric guitar. Albert’s bone-shaking double-bass growl, coupled with his high harmonics, is an unforgettable aural assault on your senses.

Wed 21 Sept Czechomor Czech Republic > 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50 Combining violin, cello, electric & acoustic guitar with accordion and occasionally the Czech bagpipe, cult world music band Czechomor explode onto stage with raw vitality. Rooted in Moravian folk music, their repertoire reflects the passion and anguish of a region moulded by Ottoman raids and Napoleonic battles. The show features the stunning vocal talent of Iarla Ó Lionáird who collaborated on their No 1 album What Happened Next.

A Little Mór presented by Amanda Guestlist > 9pm—Late Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50 Showcasing some of the most exciting acts emerging in the independent Irish music scene Little Mór has been described by The Irish Times as “the closest thing Ireland has to Sónar”, the renowned new music and multi-media festival in Barcelona. Previous acts include The Warlords of Pez, Fred and Dry County. Further details available on www.fringefest.com

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Ireland

> 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50

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Thurs 22 Sept Dublinsongs Conor Linehan & Cathal Synnott

Dublinsongs is a humorous and satirical take on contemporary life in Dublin as we know it. A magnificent collaborative collective of ten will perform entirely new material by composers and writers including Conor Linehan, Cathal and Andrew Synnott. Performed in styles veering wildly through cabaret, pop and jazz singers include Lisa Lambe and Susannah de Wrixon.

The Peepshow Stars – Larry Beau

Ireland

> 9pm—10:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤17 An erotic and surreal music show featuring the whistling minstrel, Larry Beau (Ghosts of Pleasure, Spiegeltent ‘04), a 4-piece android choir and a troupe of tap-dancing disco nymphs, choreographed by Charlotte de Brabander. Set in a futuristic purgatory, Peepshow Stars will trap you into a voyeuristic world of temptation and desire. Weird and wonderful. ‘A haunting, romantic dark fairytale, melancholy and macabre’

The Peepshow stars | Larry Beau

(Sunday Independent)

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Fri 23 Sept Jazz with Colm O’Sullivan, Myles Drennan, Dave Redmond & Sean Carpio Ireland > 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50 A super quartet, this wonderfully integrated jazz ensemble led by some of Ireland’s foremost jazz musicians brings a brand new repertoire to the Spiegeltent including many songs gifted to flautist O’Sullivan by the immortal saxophone legend Benny Carter. Pianist Drennan, bassist Redmond and sensational drummer Carpio, form quite simply this country’s finest rhythm section and collaborators in the past include world renowned guitarist Louis Stewart and preeminent US singer and pianist Bob Dorough.

Reel People (Live) & Soul Food DJs presented by Remedy

> 9pm—Late Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤20 The quintessential 21st Century British soul band. Fusing elements of contemporary club music with inspired song-writing and incorporating the best traditions of soul, R&B, house and hip-hop, this 7-piece are a super-group of London’s finest, featuring members from Moloko, Incognito, US3 and the Basement Jaxx crew. For fans of music with soul, this show is unmissable

Sat 24 Sept Music for Kids Ireland Contemporary Music Centre > 1pm—4pm Venue Contemporary Music Centre Tickets ¤6 A light instrument – you trigger various sounds by moving your hands over a series of pipes. The sounds are different for each pipe so you could play a hectic array of sounds by just waving your hands.

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> 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50

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Sat 24 Sept Continued L’Altra USA presented by Crawdaddy Intense and atmospheric, the music of Chicago-based L’Altra (Joseph Costa and Lindsay Anderson) is a cross between the shoe-gazing Indie sounds of My Bloody Valentine and the more traditional influences of a classically trained child-prodigy. “A moody mix of baroque balladry, decorated with ambient electronics – simultaneously soothing and unnerving” (Rolling Stone)

Tru Thoughts Night with Alice Russell, Quantic Rob Luis, TM Juke & Live Band (LP Launch) UK presented by Choice Cuts Entertainment > 9pm—Late Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤20 Alice Russell has shaken the world soul scene with her flawless This exclusive Spiegeltent show will be the debut live performance of her solo LP. Joining her on the night will be Quantic Soul Orchestra’s Will Holland and Tru Thoughts label-head Rob Luis. Future collaborators include Groove Armada and Massive Attack.

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Tru Thoughts Night | Presented by Choice Cuts Entertainment

voice and collaborations with Quantic Soul Orchestra & Bah Samba.

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Sun 25 Sept Unplugged – Crash Ensemble

Ireland Ireland

> 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50 One of Ireland’s most dynamic and innovative performing groups embrace the acoustic side of contemporary music with works by Arvo Pärt, Kevin Volans, Gerald Barry and Helmut Lachenmann for strings and piano. Crash Ensemble is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and managed by the O’ReillyTheatre.

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> 1pm—4pm Venue Contemporary Music Centre Tickets ¤6

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Sun 25 Sept Continued Music for Kids Ireland Contemporary Music Centre See page 78 for further details

Cool Like Water – Donal Dineen

Ireland

> 8pm Venue Project Tickets ¤20 Cool like water, the music we love flows through our lives from a source sunk deep by the very first sensations of sound. It’s our touchstone, our rock, our reverie. Donal Dineen will be relocating his Small Hours music box from station to stage and add some colour to the sound with a super-8 motion picture show. Collaborators on the night include Lisa Hannigan, Iarla Ó Lionáird and Emmett Tinley.

Rouge – Mister T Productions

Ireland

> 9pm—Late Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤20 Dark, twisted and utterly without shame, Rouge combines savage cabaret, comedy and burlesque with all the chaotic unpredictability that Dublin’s well-loved eccentric Tonie Walsh [Horny Organ Tribe, H.A.M., Powerbubble, ELEVATOR and Dublin’s Alternative Miss Ireland] can offer. This is a slightly depraved, Spiegel-specific version of the cabaret club Rouge.

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Mon 26 Sept Faun Fables USA > 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50 Described as musical magicians, Dawn McCarthy and Nils Frykdahl write songs that capture the terror and wonder of the natural world. McCarthy’s astonishing voice, at once tribal and ethereal, generates a feral energy sounding like nature in all its howling ferocity. Intricate webs of chiming guitars and overlapping voices provide an Apollonian structure for the peaks and valleys of Dionysian lullabies. In a world sodden with mundane singersongwriters, the vivid, self-made mythology of Faun Fables is almost apocryphally compelling.

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> 9pm—10:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤17 Eschewing the standard rock idiom, Chuzzle weaves his magical

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Mon 26 Sept Continued Chuzzle Ireland

musical threads breaking new ground with his guttural lyrics and his ‘psychedelicate’ sonics, adding much needed colour and real emotion to an often jaded music scene. His trump card? Great songs. They’re infectiously catchy, they’re pop, they’re fun, they’re challenging, they’re different.

Tue 27 Sept Other Voices – Thom Gossage

Canada

> 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50 Drummer and composer Thom Gossage is one of the most original musicians on Canada’s jazz scene. His pieces are travelogues from a strange country, buoyant, fast moving and downright eerie by turns. Other Voices bristles with a startling energy, surpassing the simple sum of the talents involved and expressing itself in a glowing collective language all of its own. See Pg 59 for Van Grimde Corps Secret show.

Neues Songspiel – Songspiel

Ireland

> 8:30pm Venue Bewleys Café Theatre Duration 90mins Tickets ¤10 (Tue & Wed), ¤15 (Thurs—Sun) Concession ¤12.50 An evening salon full of sparkling stories, each with its own style, wit, kick, edge and character. Neues Songspiel are stories told through song and the smoky tales and inventive adventures that form this simple yet vivid show are gathered from everywhere and everyone from Sondheim to the Balkans, Tom Waits to Monteverdi. This show will run for a week.

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Tue 27 Sept Continued Night and the City – Maria Tecce

Ireland

> 9pm—10:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤17 Saunter down dimly lit alleys, lonely boulevards and hot jazz clubs with divas, lovers, mistresses and whores, for a night of longing and seduction, where loneliness and heady hedonism dance side by side. An intoxicating cocktail stirred by Tom Waits, Cole Porter, Eartha Kitt and Peggy Lee. “A sensual angel on stage…” (The Irish Times)

Wed 28 Sept Post Holocaust Pop

Germany

> 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50 This cult band from Berlin is no slave to any style god. New York frontman Howard Katz Fireheart’s performance is as physical as that of a whirling dervish and his voice gives life to his songs with rudeness and gallantry. Weaving gigantic stringscapes and rhythmic harmonies together with a repertoire of sounds and effects. And

Post Holocaust Pop

somewhere in the East plays a lonely guitar.

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Ireland

> 8:30pm Venue Bewleys Café Theatre See Pg 83 for further details

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Wed 28 Sept Continued Neues Songspiel – Songspiel

Caroline Moreau & Oleg Ponomarev with Ariel Hernandez France/Russia > 9pm—10:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤17 When sultry French chanteuse Caroline Moreau and masterful Russian violinist Oleg Ponomarev take to the stage, the result is a mesmerising mix of virtuosity, playfulness and intensely passionate music. You will be propelled across continents and musical genres, from gypsy jazz, to flamenco, to the timeless music of Gainsbourg and Piaf. “a brilliant gig – vive la France!” (Hot Press)

Thurs 29 Sept Goodiepal (Kristian Vester) Faroe Islands presented by Amanda Guestlist > 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50 Goodiepal (Kristian Vester) is an eccentric genius. Hailing from the Faroe Islands he melds his interest in standard instrumentation with contemporary electronics. Once a ‘sound designer’ for the likes of Nokia, Hitachi and Carlsberg, Goodiepal is now considered one of the most exciting enigmatic electronic artists around.

Neues Songspiel – Songspiel

Ireland

> 8:30pm Venue Bewleys Café Theatre See Pg 83 for further details

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Thurs 29 Sept Continued Songs to Drown by Jollyship the Whiz-bang USA > 9pm—10:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤17 Pyrate Puppet Rock Opera Consortium In Europe for the first time, this NYC ensemble fuses bawdy puppetry with nautically themed rock music. Infectious tales of piracy, madness and filthy sea shanties, pitch and yaw upon swelling synthesizers, accordion and electric guitars. “A swashbuckling puppet show that’s a little bit raunchy – and a lot of rock and roll” (TimeOut NY)

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> 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent See Pg 49 for further details

Neues Songspiel – Songspiel

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Fri 30 Sept Topping and Butch

Ireland

> 8:30pm Venue Bewleys Café Theatre See Pg 83 for further details

Disco-Brasil!

Ireland

> 9pm—Late Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤20 A massive samba celebration with live carnival rhythms and Brazilian beats from a host of musicians, DJ’s and dancers. Combining acrobatics from Oficina da Capoeira, furious AfroBrazilian batucada from Dublin’s own Happy City Samba Band and an explosive mix from 30 years of the hottest Brazilian Funk, Forro and Samba-Reggae bands, with Babalonia DJ’s, Sansao & Lex Woo. Pure Brazilian heat.

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Sat 01 Oct Fringe Uncut

Various

> 2pm—6pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets Free Join us outside the Spiegeltent to hear the new and the next in the Dublin music scene. This is talent in the raw, still hungry for that first signing – grab them before they go global. Further details available on www.fringefest.com

port-royal [Resonant] Italy Presented by Amanda Guestlist in association with Lazybird > 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50 Ambient sounds and hauntingly beautiful soundscapes created from understated electronic beats and subtle vocal samples. This Genoabased 5-piece guitar collective provide the perfect accompaniment to hazy September skies and the crunch of autumn leaves.

Neues Songspiel – Songspiel

Ireland

> 8:30pm Venue Bewleys Café Theatre See Pg 83 for further details

The Remedy Birthday Party featuring Bugz in the Attic UK Presented by Remedy > 9pm—Late Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤22 Celebrate in style with Bugz in the Attic Sound System, Kistar and The Soul Food DJs. Bugz’ sound and set-up nestles somewhere between Parliament, Soul II Soul and Basement Jaxx. After the success of the Bugz Remixed album and ‘Booty La, La’ receiving the single of the year at BBC Worldwide awards, Bugz now emerge with their new sound system. This show will feature Djs, MCs, vocalists and percussionists. Get tickets early – this show is going to be road blocked.

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> 7pm—8:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤12.50

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Sun 02 Oct Violating Messages/Songs of Kurt Weill – Maria de Moel & Ronán Murray Ireland The seedy, haunting songs of Kurt Weill, viewed through the eyes of gangster/whore/housewife open an exploratory window into how toxic a relationship can become. Her husband poisons her naïve outlook on life with deceit and indifference. One woman and a pianist ask us to consider how could this woman end up anything but bitter? Mezzo-soprano Maria de Moel is a singer with the National Chamber Choir of Ireland. Ronán Murray’s repertoire extends from classical organ music to jazz piano and song writing.

Neues Songspiel – Songspiel

Ireland

Bernie’s Lounge

The Netherlands

> 9pm—10:30pm Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤17 A sweltering hot ménage à trois between afrobeat, funk and latin tunes. Join Bernie’s Lounge for an electric jam that will hit you like a tempestuous tropical hurricane mixing Balkan bounce, Latino grooves and a fresh jazz spirit. With three fumaroles, a banging bass, pumping drums and live mixing, this 12-piece Amsterdambased collective will knock you for six with a ricochet of surprises around every corner.

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Violating Messages/Songs of Kurt Weill | Maria de Moel & Ronán Murray

> 8:30pm Venue Bewleys Café Theatre See Pg 83 for further details

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Often dismissed as off-the-wall, Live Art dissects the anatomy of the norm and disregards the conventional in an attempt to slow us down and make us see, hear and feel. For me, where theatre is pretend and structured, live art is real but often free form. I was intrigued by Ray from Operation SeaSaw (pg 95) describing music in a three dimensional way, as if it was a sculpture. Through talking with him and other artists, I realised that there are people out there who have sensitivities beyond the everyday.

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Audience of Two Karl Him Ireland Mon 26 Sept—Sat 01 Oct > 7pm & 8pm Venue 5 Scarlett Row Duration 30 mins Tickets ¤10 An audience of two (literally) will be given ring-side seats to experience the ambient music of Karl Him. Seated on the left or right of the performer the audience will be able to follow Karl’s sonic and visual developments. An intimate and interactive performance using sounds from guitar, piano, birdsong, wind and sea to name a few, Karl is striving to develop new sounds and outlets with which to view/listen.

Bed & Breakfast Heike Schmidt Germany Wed 14—Sat 17 Sept > From 11pm—9am following morning Venue Avalon House Duration All night Tickets ¤20 Concession ¤15

Ticket prices include breakfast

When you lie awake at night wouldn’t it be wonderful if someone calmed your thoughts and chased away your fears? Bed & Breakfast starts when other performances end; when the night begins. Tucked up in your dorm bed you will be sung into a peaceful sleep, with lullabies from across the world by performers acting as watchful guardians of your dreams. Audience numbers limited, book early. Please note: This performance starts at 11pm sharp and is an all night event.

Heike Schmidt, Franziskus Rohmert and Erwin Jans are looking for new ways of communicating with the public from unexpected perspectives.

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Tue 13—Sun 18 Sept > 6:15pm Venue FilmBase Duration 60mins Tickets ¤8 (Tue & Wed), ¤12 (Thurs—Sun) Concession ¤10

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Death in Dún Laoghaire Gary Coyle Ireland

Alternatively dark and funny, Death in Dún Laoghaire is a moving yet slightly jaundiced view of Ireland in the past, one man’s nonnostalgic ruminations of his home town told through photography and storytelling. Gary Coyle is an artist for whom performing in front of a live audience is a new adventure.

Love Story Project Florian Thalhofer Germany Thurs 15 Sept—Thurs 29 Sept > All day Installation Venue Project foyer Tickets Free An interactive documentary installation where people from very different cultures all try to explain one phenomenom, love. ‘What is love?’ Florian Thalhofer, posed this question to young people from Dublin, Berlin, Cairo and Singapore. Without claiming universal validity, the answers provide a new perspective not just on your own culture but also that of others. You are invited to leave your own mark. Florian Thalhofer, media artist, gives lectures at the University of the Arts, Berlin, is the inventor of the [korsakow-system] and is suspected of garden dwarf robbery. This show is generously supported by The Goethe Institut

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Nothing Happens: an evening of disappearing acts Smith/Wymore USA Wed 21—Sun 25 Sept > 6pm & 8pm Venue Meet at Fringe Box Office Duration 50mins Tickets ¤8 (Wed), ¤12 (Thurs—Sun) Concession ¤10 If you stare at people long enough will they disappear? Set in an apartment living room this intimate and madcap multimedia duet brings to life characters found in old world sideshows and magic shows to investigate anguish, eccentric dancing and predictions about the future. Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts is a California-based dance theatre multimedia company which has won numerous awards for their innovative, interdisciplinary performances.

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Ireland

Tue 20—Sun 25 Sept > 8pm Fri 23—Sun 25 Sept > 6pm Venue FilmBase Duration 50mins Tickets ¤10 (Tue), ¤14 (Wed—Sun) Concession ¤12

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Music Odyssey Operation SeaSaw

Through a startling use of surround sound, film, dance, light, electronic and live music, Operation SeaSaw uniquely sculpts a remarkable three-dimensional interpretation of Homer’s Odyssey with Music being the lost hero, far from home and in danger. Performed in conjunction with dancers from the very old to the very young Music Odyssey is a truly tactile and transformative experience. “Epic Electronica” (Hotpress)

The Observation of Hibernalian Laws Milker Corporation Ireland Thurs 22 Sept—Sat 24 Sept > 1pm—4pm & 5pm—8pm Venue STUDIO 16 at Temple Bar Galleries & Studios Duration 3 hour installation Tickets Free Jennifer Walshe welcomes you to the imaginary country of Hibernalia; a place where sound is the most important part of everyday life. Wander in and out of this new world as you please and delve in to a place where sound exists as a living, breathing entity. In Hibernalia, violas are injected with melodies made from marshmallows and vowel sounds are extracted from gossip magazines. “Without a doubt, hers is the most original compositional voice to emerge in Ireland in the last 20 years.” (The Irish Times). Jennifer Walshe’s recent projects include XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS!!!, an opera for Barbie dolls and the Bed of Soft, commissioned by the Project Arts Centre, Dublin

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Tumbledowntown PERFORMANCE LAB @ ROUNDABOUT THEATRE

Ireland

Mon 12—Sun 18 Sept > 6pm & 7pm & 8pm Venue Axis Arts Centre Ballymun Duration 45mins Tickets ¤8 Concession ¤6 Ballymun – the monolithic marker of 1960’s concrete social idealism is currently undergoing the largest regeneration in Europe. Performed in this crumbling landscape Tumbledowntown is a new work written by teenagers living in the area. Taking place in one of the abandoned flats it invites you to excavate the past, present, myth, reality, dreams and nightmares that are embedded within the tower block. Walk through childhood memories recorded by young people from 8 years and up and witness the personal stories of those whose experiences ghost the apartments walls. “An elegy to Ballymun… it is a clash of love and hatred, hope and despair, family unity and domestic warfare. Disturbingly realistic, this young company have a zeal about them.” (The Irish Times)

Who I Become Edge 21 Ireland Tue 13—Sun 18 Sept > 8:15pm Venue FilmBase Duration 40mins Tickets ¤8 (Tue & Wed), ¤12 (Thurs—Sun) Concession ¤10 Secret People. Hidden Lives. A total and thrilling sound experience that delves into the real and imagined facades we create in our everyday lives. Who I Become circles around a series of candid interviews revealing peoples secret personas and is edited against a sensational world of sound. Annemarie Curran and Maria O’Leary present a gripping experience with creative audio, wild track and voice that offers us a place and space in which to open up and unravel our own layers.

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Tumbledowntown | Performance Lab @ Roundabout Theatre

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The visual arts programme is once again at the heart of the Fringe as it interrupts the landscape we pass everyday, making us reassess, remember and rethink the familiar in unanticipated ways â&#x20AC;&#x201C; presented this year by a broader range of artists, across a variety of media. From a celebration of Moore Street to a presentation from IMMA of emerging talent and a group of international artists who will sketch, scribble and sculpt based on this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shows, this really is a rich and invigorating programme of works. Open your eyes and look.

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Precaution Presented by Irish Museum of Modern Art and Young Fringe Ireland Tue 13 Septâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sun 02 Oct Tickets Free PLEASE NOTE: IMMA is not open on Mondays

Precaution is the title of a group-exhibition, that involves an exciting and innovative collaboration between Young Fringe and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The focus of the exhibition is on artists who are just starting out in their careers and will include film, installation, sculpture, drawing, print, painting and photography. This collaboration between Young Fringe and IMMA offers audiences the opportunity to engage with original and inspiring artists emerging on the contemporary visual arts scene. Working within the Museum building and extending out into the grounds, the artists will realize both site-specific pieces and gallery-based work. Curated by Janice Hough, Johanne Mullan and Marguerite Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Molloy from IMMA Participating artists include John Beattie, Nina Canell, Paul Coffey, Caroline Donoghue, Brigette Heffernan, Vanessa Donoso Lopez, Eilis McDonald and Eoin McHugh.

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Moore Street Project Fire Station Artists’ Studio

Ireland

Mon 26 Sept—Sun 02 Oct > All day installation Venue Moore Street With proposed developments poised to annihilate Moore Street as we know it, this is one of the last times you will be able to experience this integral and historic area that has played a vital part in the lives of generations of families, visitors and locals alike. Moore Street is endearingly obnoxious and unapologetically true to itself and as such attracts all walks of life. Today it is a multicultural melting pot, with African, Asian and Eastern European traders joining the charismatic “pram ladies”, reflecting this unique spectrum of modern day Ireland. Fire Station Artists’ Studio invites you to take part in a public visual art event on the pavements and amongst the walls, shop fronts, interiors and stalls of Moore Street and the Ilac Centre. Over a 3—4 hour period at the beginning and end of each day, before and after the street is brought to life by traders, you can happen upon a variety of art works that document and celebrate one of the last bastions of old Dublin.

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International

Sun 18/25 Sept & Sun 02 Oct > From 3pm Venue The Back Loft @ La Catedral Duration 3 hour installation Tickets Free Across the Fringe a group of international visual artists will be working alongside Fringe performers, capturing their body

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movements, scratching them onto paper, streaking them on canvas, even carving them in wood. Culminating in an exhibition which will be shown in an unusual space where audiences and performers alike can wander in and out and respond to what they see. This group of independent artists, who have come together on this project, include Jeanne Merer (France), Mateo Legazpi Dolset (Spain), ElenB (Italy), Eamonn Robbins (Ireland), Colm Mac Athlaoich (Ireland), Dave Hedderman (Ireland), Costanzo Idini (Sardinia) and Ben Readman (Ireland)

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StreetSmart Fringe takes to the streets infecting Temple Bar every weekend with a visual, loud, colourful cacophony of entertainment and energy. Generously supported by Smart Cars.

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All day at the Spiegeltent, Sunday 02 October Please join us for live music, face painting, storytelling, acrobatics, and fun on Sunday 02 October from noon.

Dublin Theatre Festival 2005 30 Sept—15th Oct The Dublin Theatre Festival is proud to showcase a bold, diverse and audacious international programme, as well as a celebration of the richness and the strength of Irish theatre. From the original music/theatre creation based on the work of The Smiths entitled

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Some Girls are Bigger than Others to the award-winning political docudrama Blood Sunday, 2005 promises to be a year to remember. For further details, please visit www.dublintheatrefestival.com

Sound & Vision An unique multi-media exhibition involving some of Ireland’s up and coming graphic designers with a soundtrack provided by an eclectic mix of Ireland’s best musical talent. Musical acts inlcude, Relica, Channel One, The Angels of Mons & Tadhg Cooke. Graphic designers, Click, will work closely with each musical act to produce an exhibition of both parties’ works and James Goulden (AAA Photographs), who has photographed some of the best live artists to appear in Ireland over the past three years, will hold an exhibit of his work. Full creative license has been given to all acts involved which should lead to an interesting night for all who attend. For further information, see our website: www.fringefest.com

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Workshops This is your chance to get active and learn from the best. Our inexpensive workshops are open to everybody unless otherwise stated and are generously supported by the Ireland Funds, the Association of Professional Dancers in Ireland and the Arts Council. For further information on these workshops and to book yourself in, please see our website: www.fringefest.com

12—18 Sept Break Dance for B-Boys & B-Girls Lorca Renoux (Germany) Tue 13—Sat 17 Sept Venue O’Reilly Theatre Tickets ¤60, ¤15 per single session Company Training Laroque Dance Co. Helene Weinzierl (Austria) Tue 13—Sat 17 Sept Venue Project Arts Centre Tickets ¤60, ¤15 per single class Performance Workshop Jordi Cortez Molina (Spain) Wed 14 & Thu 15 Sept Venue Project Arts Centre Tickets ¤40 Contact Improvisation Steve Batts (Northern Ireland) Fri 16 & Sat 17 Sept Venue Project Arts Centre Tickets ¤30 Fan dancing and Tassel twirling Fancy Chance (USA) & Gwendolyn Lamour (UK) Sat 17 Sept Venue Project Arts Centre Tickets ¤15 Tango Workshop Monina Paz (Argentina & Ireland) Sat 17 Sept Venue Spiegeltent Tickets ¤5 Improvisation for Musicians & Dancers New Tango Orquestra (Sweden) Sun 18 Sept Venue Project Arts Centre Tickets ¤10

19—25 Sept Break Dance for B-Boys & B-Girls Lorca Renoux (Germany) Tue 20—Sat 24 Sept Venue O’Reilly Theatre Tickets ¤60, ¤15 per single session Tap Dance Thaddeus Phillips (USA) Thu 22—Fri 23 Sept Venue Project Arts Centre Tickets ¤20 Release Technique Vania Gala (Portugal) Tue 20—Sat 24 Sept Venue Project Arts Centre Tickets ¤60, ¤15 per single class Body Voice Work Teater Sláva (Sweden) Tue 20—Sat 24 Sept Venue Project Arts Centre Tickets ¤60, ¤15 per single class

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Ballet Ireland Masterclasses Jolinda Menendez (Spain) Wed 28—Thu 29 Sept Venue Archbishop Byrne Hall Tickets ¤20, ¤15 per single class (Advanced or professionals only) Company Training Jo Strømgren (Norway) Tue 27 Sept—Sat 01 Oct Venue Project Arts Centre Tickets ¤60, ¤15 per single class Script Surgery for Writers Nadine Desrochers (Canada) & Christine Madden (Ireland) Mon 26 Sept—Sun 02 Oct Tickets ¤60, ¤15 per single class Partnering & Choreography Rachael Lincoln & Mark Stuver (USA) Mon 26 Sept—Sat 01 Oct Tickets ¤60, ¤15 per single class Dance & Video Art Bridgeman & Myrna Packer (USA) Fri 30 Sept—Sat 01 Oct Venue Project Arts Centre

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SEEDS II Seminar Rough Magic (Ireland) Sun 02 Oct Venue Ss Michael & John Tickets ¤10 Tai Chi Rejuvination Salim Ghouse (India) Tue 26 Sept—Sat 01 Oct Venue Filmbase Tickets ¤60, ¤15 per single session

Poetry Slam Sat 18 Sept > 12:30pm Venue St. Stephen’s Green Bandstand Think poetry – think boring. Think poetry – think highbrow. Think poetry – think again. Alive, energetic, entertaining and loads of fun, Poetry Slam is the art of competitive performance poetry. Originating in Chicago in the 1980’s it is now a global phenominom with world championships being held annually. Come along to watch the best slammers in town do their thing. You can even give it a go youself and enter the open-mike Poetry Slam competition.

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Fringe Awards Each year, we make awards to companies and individuals who have excelled in the Fringe. The awards are: Project Arts Centre/Dublin Fringe Festival Spirit of the Festival award — This is awarded to the company who best personified the spirit of the Dublin Fringe Festival. eircom Best Use of Technology Award — eircom has very generously agreed to support a new award for the company who most effectively and imaginatively use technology in their show. This award will be voted on by you, our audience. To see excerpts from the shows up for consideration, log on to www.eircom.net The Jayne Snow Award will be presented to the individual or group, resident in Ireland, in this year’s Fringe who best exhibits the qualities of innovation, bravery and risk taking in the pursuit of artistic excellence. Previous recipients include Morna Reagan, Rex Levitates, Lisa McLaughlin and Rebecca Walters. Other awards include: Sexiest Show, Best Production, Best Male Performance & Best Female Performance

Theatre Shop 2005 12th Annual Conference presents International Networking Fri 23 Sept > 10am–1pm & 2pm–5pm Venue TBC Theatre Shop, Ireland’s international resource organisation for theatre and dance, in association with the Dublin Fringe Festival, presents a day-long networking event for professional presenters and producers from Ireland and abroad. The day, comprising discussions, workshops and one-to-one meetings will afford professional companies and individual producers the opportunity to network with key international theatre and dance presenters from various parts of the globe. For registration fees & further information contact: Information & Events Manager, Theatre Shop T +353 (0)1 6704906 email admin@theatreshop.ie or visit www.theatreshop.ie

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Director Wolfgang Hoffmann Executive Producer Bea Kelleher Programme Manager Maedhbh McCullagh Office Administrator Holly Maples Publicist Nik Quaife Press & Copywriter Layla O’Mara Young Fringe Programmers Graham Maine & Orla Dunne Box Office Manager Sarah Smyth Assistant Box Office Manager Susan O’Grady Production Manager Adrian Acosta Technical Manager Aidan Wallace Interns Yelena Derk, Caroline Kavanagh & Brandon Roberts Spiegeltent Venue Manager Steven Gove Website Partners Xwerx Design Zinc Design Fringe Family Photography Eoghan Kavanagh Fringe Family Stylist Siobháin O’Donovan Programme Printing BUD Potsdam, Germany Festival Auditor Donal McKenna IT Supply and Support Calnet IT Fringe Solicitor Gordon Judge Board of Directors Sean Páircéir (Chair), Una Carmody, Emile Daly, Tambra Dillon, Alan Maloney, Lynne Parker, Ronan Smith, Barney Whelan. Huge, riotous rounds of applause and immeasurable gratitude to our additional Box office, technical and hospitality staff, distributors and all of our Fringe volunteers. Our former director Vallejo Gantner has crossed the Atlantic to the bright lights of New York – we hope you go on to take over the world. To former Board member Willie Kavanagh, our deepest thanks and appreciation for your energy, enthusiasm and help. Without the folk below none of this coulda happened. We want to thank them, if you see them in ClubSpiegel, you should too: Carol Booth, Catherine Boothman, Madeline Boughton, Moray Breshnian, Chris Butler, Al Byrnes, Joanne Byrne, C3 Imaging, Dominic Campbell, Central Hotel, Robin Clarke Byrne, Finola Cronin, Sandra Curran, Fionnuala D’Arcy, Jane Daly, Ken Devine, Eamon Doran, Jo Duffy, Barbara Ebert, Diego Fasciati, Jimmy Fay, Serge Francois, Rob Furey, Jean Michel Garcia, Colin Gerrish, Jack Gilligan, Jeff Gormly, Grafton House, Mary Hickson, Irish Landmark Trust, Jonathan Jacobs, Paul Johnson, Richard Johnson, Alison Kelly, Marina Kobler, Leon Kinsella, Loretta Lambkin, Roisin Lonergan, Alan Magee, Una McCarthy, Fiach MacConghail, the McCullagh chlann, Greg McElherron, Donal and Martina McKenna, Dermot McLaughlin, Kieran McLoughlin, Martine Moreau, Pat Moylan, Matthias Muller-Wieferig, Mark Mulqueen, Sean Murphy, Marie-Louise O’Donnell, Niamh O’Donnell, Barry O’Kelly, Jessie O’Reilly, Louise O’Reilly, Rob & Catriona O’Reilly, Yvonne O’Reilly, Dairne O’Sullivan, Peepings & Deedings, David Quinlan, Marina Rafter, Tony Reilly, Conor Rooney, Andrew Rudd, Annie Ryan, Sinead Ryan, Helen Seymour, Ciaran Shanley, Paula Shields, Don Shipley, Patrick Sutton, Conleth Teevan, Patrick Thomas, Jenny Traynor, Michael West, Rachael West, Willie White, Duilte Woods, Carmel White, Enid Reid Whyte and all at Zinc. Special Thanks to our reading panel: Thomas Conway, Belinda McKeon, Christine Madden.

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DFF2005 INDEX

• 125 Live – Young Fringe in assoc. with OPW 10

• Choice Cuts Management – Tru Thoughts 79

• 4.48 Psychosis – Rough Magic 10

• Chuzzle 83

• 4play – Switch 43

• Cie du Solitare – Sans 64

• A Clean Sweep – Plutot La Vie 11

• Cie Laroque – Tropea 65

• A Little Mór – Amanda Guestlist 76

• Circle X Arts – Steiner Graffiti 40 • Circus Freak – Junk Ensemble 57

• A Quiet Afternoon – Stamping Ground Theatre 11

• Clean Canvas – The Artist Needs A Wife 43

• A Season in Hell (After Rimbaud) – The

• Club Volta 69

Stomach Box 13 • Cool Like Water – Donal Dineen 81 • Adaptation of a Meeting – Myriad Dance 57 • CMC – Music for Kids 78 • Adrenalin – Semper Fi 12 • CoisCéim Dance Theatre – Knots 58 • Aisteoiri na Tíre – Imithe ne Gaelaigh 24 • Community Technical Aid – It’s a Cultural Thing • Amanda Guestlist – A Little Mór 76

or is it? 24

• Amanda Guestlist – Goodiepal (Kristian

• Comuna Baires & Fare Anima

Vester) 85

– Haci Guigo: 8,15 22

• Amanda Guestlist in assoc with Lazybird

• Corn Exchange – The Birthday Show 42

– port-royal [Resonant] 88 • Cortes Molina, Jordi – Lucky 27 • Andertango The Tango Show – Monina Paz 73 • Coyle, Gary – Death in Dún Laoghaire 93 • Angel Exit – Master Shuttlefate 28 • Coughlan, Mary 70 • At Swim Two Boys – Earthfall 56 • Crash Ensemble – Unplugged 80 • Audience of Two – Karl Him 92 • Crawdaddy – Jah Wobble 71 • Automatic Id (AID) – Vania Gala 56 • Crawdaddy – L’Altra 79 • Babylon Works – Tramps and Vamps 50 • Crawdaddy – Yat-Kha 76 • Bang On A Can All-Stars – O’Reilly Theatre 69 • Crooked House Theatre Company – Room • BareBones Theatre Company – The Blue

Rage 34

Ointment 45 • Cul de Sac – Leo Tarmac 14 • Bed & Breakfast – Heike Schmidt 92 • Czechomor 76 • Bedrock Productions – Urban Ghosts (Pale) • Danny and the Deep Blue Sea – Risk

Angel 52

Productions 14 • Bedrock Productions – Urban Ghosts (Self• de Moel, Maria & Murray, Ronan – Violating

Accusation) 52

Messages 89 • Beehive Theatre Co. – Spiked / Butterfly Fairy • Death in Dún Laoghaire – Gary Coyle 93

/ Bookworms 38 • Bernie’s Lounge 89

• Dineen, Donal – Cool Like Water 81

• Bookworms / Spiked / Butterfly Fairy –

• Dirty Rotten Cabaret – Fallen Angels 69

Beehive Theatre Co. 38

• Disco Brasil! 87

• Brass Picnic – Glue Factory 10

• DIY Theatre & Kneeling Bus Theatre – One

• Bridgman/Packer Dance – Under The Skin 65

Good Marriage 31

• Bugz in the Attic – Remedy Birthday Party 88

• Döderskratt – Teater Sláva 75

• Butterfly Fairy / Spiked / Bookworms –

• Doin’ Time Through the Visiting Glass – Ashley Lucas 15

Beehive Theatre Co. 38

• Dr. Dappertutto Theatre – Frank Pig Says

• Café Mediterranea 74

Hello 20 • Calypso Theatre Co. – I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given to Me By A Lady

• Dublin Heads – Shay Linehan 15

from Rwanda 23

• Dublinsongs – Conor Linehan & Cathal

• Cambridge University – Eveline 17 • captured movements 103

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RESONANCE 61 • Edge 21 – Who I Become 96 • ¡EL CONQUISTADOR! – The Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental 16 • Eveline – Cambridge University 17 • Exile – Teater Sláva 18 • EXIT 3. Black on White – SlaughterHouse 19 • Fallen – Veser Aue Gefüge 19 • Fallen Angels – Dirty Rotten Cabaret 69 • Fare Anima & Comuna Baires – Haci Guigo: 8,15 22 • Faun Fables 82 • Fire Station Artists’ Studios – Moore St. Project 102 • Flipside & Spacecraft – The Friends of Jack Kairo 45 • Focus Theatre – Stop the Tempo! 41 • Framemakers 20 • Frank Pig Says Hello – Dr. Dappertutto Theatre 20 • Fringe Uncut at Spirit 70 • Full Blown Rose – Roz Hammond 21 • Gala, Vania – Automatic Id (AID) 56 • Getting Attention by Martin Crimp – Tardy Lasso 21

• Independent Youth Theatre – Loaded 27 • It’s a Cultural Thing or is it? – Community Technical Aid 24 • Jah Wobble – Crawdaddy 71 • Jo Strømgren Kompani – The Hospital 44 • John Brown Theatre & Mangiare Theatre Company – tinylife 49 • Jollyship the Whiz-bang – Songs to Drown by 86 • Junk Ensemble – Circus Freak 57 • Kneeling Bus Theatre & DIY Theatre – One Good Marriage 31 • Knots – CoisCéim Dance Theatre 58 • Kroke 74 • La Fille du Cirque – Camille O’Sullivan 68 • L’Altra – Crawdaddy 79 • Lament for Art O’Leary – Théâtre Lumière 25 • Larry Beau – The Peepshow Stars 77 • Lazybird in assoc. with Amanda Guestlist – port-royal [Resonant] 88 • Leo Tarmac – Cul de Sac 14 • Les chemins de traverse – Van Grimde Corps Secrets 59 • Les Spectacles Remy Renoux – Monty Python’s Flying Circus – At Last, in French 30

• Ghouse, Salim – Troubadour 50

• LightSwitch – SPURT!SISTER!SPURT! 39

• Giddy Productions – Mind Your Fingers 29

• Liliom – Rough Magic 26

• Glass Jellyfish Productions – The Miserable

• Lincoln, Rachael & Stuver, Mark – Remember

Failure of Bernard Comiskey 46 • Glue Factory – Brass Picnic 70 • Goodiepal (Kristian Vester) – Amanda Guestlist 85

This 60 • Linehan, Conor and Synnott, Cathal – Dublinsongs 77 • Linehan, Shay – Dublin Heads 15

• Gossage, Thom 83

• Loaded – Independent Youth Theatre 27

• Haci Guigo: 8,15 – Comuna Baires & Fare

• Lonesome Crowd Theatre Company –

Anima 22

Propelled Upright 32

• Hammond, Roz – Full Blown Rose 21

• Love Story Project – Florian Thalhofer 93

• Havana Son – IMC 74

• Lucas, Ashley – Doin’ Time Through the Visiting

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Making Strange Theatre Company 23 • Him, Karl – Audience of Two 92 • Hoax Productions – Raw Beef 33 • I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given to Me By A Lady from Rwanda – Calypso Theatre Co. 23 • IMC – Havana Son 74

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• Earthfall – At Swim Two Boys 56 • Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company –

Glass 15 • Lucky – Jordi Cortes Molina 27 • Lunch by Stephen Berkoff – Wall Fly Theatre Productions 28 • MAD Productions – The Masterpiece 46 • Making Strange Theatre Company – Hedwig and the Angry Inch 23 • Mangiare Theatre Company & John Brown Theatre – tinylife 49

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• Propelled Upright – Lonesome Crowd Theatre

• Martha & Eve 71

Company 32

• Master Shuttlefate – Angel Exit 28

• PUTTING UP A FRONT! THE WORLD’S WIFE –

• Milker Corporation – The Observation of

Vagabond 32

Hibernalian Laws 95

• Raw Beef – Hoax Productions 33

• Mind Your Fingers – Giddy Productions 29

• Reel People – Remedy 78

• Mister T Productions – Rouge 81

• Remedy – Reel People 78

• MONDAY Theatre at Green Hours – The

• Remedy Birthday Party Featuring Bugz in the

Sunshine Play 47

Attic 88

• Monty Python’s Flying Circus – At Last, in

• Remember This – Rachael Lincoln & Mark

French – Les Spectacles Remy Renoux 30

Stuver 60

• Moore St. Project – Fire Station Artists’

• Renegade Theater – Rumble 63

Studios 102

• RESONANCE – Echo Echo Dance Theatre

• Moreau, Caroline & Ponomarov, Oleg 85

Company 61

• Mosenzon, Yoram – Political Assassinator 60

• rEVOLUTION – Siamsa Tíre – The National Folk

• Murray, Ronan & de Moel, Maria – Violating

Theatre 62

Messages 89

• Risk Productions – Danny and the Deep Blue

• Music for Kids – CMC 78

Sea 14 • Music Odyssey – Operation SeaSaw 95 • ROMCOM – Rotozaza 34 • Myriad Dance – Adaptation of a Meeting 57 • Room Rage – Crooked House Theatre • Neues Songspiel – Songspiel 83

Company 34

• New Tango Orquestra 73

• Rotozaza – ROMCOM 34

• Night in the City – Maria Tecce 84

• Rouge – Mister T Productions 81

• Nothing Happens: an evening of disappearing

• Rough Magic – Seeds II (4.48 Psychosis) 10

acts – Smith/Wymore 94 • Rough Magic – Seeds II (Liliom) 26 • Ocean of Sugar – The Timekeepers 48 • Rough Magic – Seeds II (Seminar) 36 • One Good Marriage – DIY Theatre & Kneeling • Rough Magic – Seeds II (Woyzeck) 53

Bus Theatre 31

• Rough Magic – Seeds II (Reading 1 – The

• Operation SeaSaw – Music Odyssey 95

Bonefire) 36 • O’Reilly Theatre – Bang On A Can All-Stars 69 • Rough Magic – Seeds II (Reading 2 – Snap) 53 • O’Sullivan, Camille – La Fille du Cirque 68 • Rough Magic – Seeds II (Reading 3 – The Onion • O’Sullivan, Colm 78 • Orpheus or how to undress your feathers –

Game) 36 • Rumble – Renegade Theater 63

Toaca Studio Bucharest 31 • Sandkorn Theater Berlin – Snow White 37 • Oxymoron 59 • Sandkorn Theater Berlin – Still Alive 41 • Paz, Monina – ANDERTANGO THE TANGO SHOW 73 • PERFORMANCE LAB @ ROUNDABOUT THEATRE – Tumbledowntown 96

• Sans – Cie du Solitare 64 • Schmidt, Heike – Bed & Breakfast 92

• Plutot La Vie – A Clean Sweep 11

• Scottish Youth Theatre – Dying for It 16

• Poetry Slam 107

• See No Evil – Trap Door Theatre Co. 37

• Political Assassinator – Yoram Mosenzon 60

• Seeds II – 4.48 Psychosis (Rough Magic) 10

• Ponomarov, Oleg & Moreau, Caroline 85

• Seeds II – Liliom (Rough Magic) 26

• Pop Holocaust Pop 84

• Seeds II – Seminar (Rough Magic) 36

• port-royal [Resonant] Presented by Amanda

• Seeds II – Woyzeck (Rough Magic) 53

Guestlist in assoc with Lazybird 88 • Precaution – IMMA 100

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• Sandwich – The Road Show Theatre 35

• Seeds II – Reading 1 – The Bonefire (Rough Magic) 36

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• The Observation of Hibernalian Laws – Milker Corporation 95 • The Peepshow Stars – Larry Beau 77

• Semper Fi – Adrenalin 12

• The Road Show Theatre – Sandwich 35

• Siamsa Tire The National Folk Theatre –

• The Stomach Box – A Season in Hell (After

rEVOLUTION 62 • SlaughterHouse – EXIT 3. Black on White 19 • Smith/Wymore – Nothing Happens: an evening of disappearing acts 94

Rimbaud) 13 • The Sunshine Play – MONDAY Theatre at Green Hours 47 • The Tassel Club 72

• Snow White – Sandkorn Theater Berlin 37

• The Timekeepers – Ocean of Sugar 48

• Songs to Drown by - Jollyship the

• Theatre Lumiere – Lament for Art O’Leary 25

Whiz-bang 86 • Songspiel – Neues Songspiel 83 • Spiked / Butterfly Fairy / Bookworms – Beehive Theatre Co. 38 • Spoon Fed – The Attic Studio 38

• Tinley, Emmett 68 • tinylife – Mangiare Theatre Company & John Brown Theatre 49 • Toaca Studio Bucharest – Orpheus or how to undress your feathers 31

• SPURT!SISTER!SPURT! – LightSwitch 39

• Topping and Butch 49

• Stamping Ground Theatre – A Quiet

• Tramps and Vamps – Babylon Works 50

Afternoon 11 • Steiner Graffiti – Circle X Arts 40 • Still Alive – Sandkorn Theater Berlin 41 • Stop the Tempo! – Focus Theatre 41 • Stuver, Mark & Lincoln, Rachael – Remember This 60 • Switch – 4play 43 • Synnott, Cathal & Linehan, Conor –

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• Seeds II – Reading 2 – Snap (Rough Magic) 36 • Seeds II – Reading – The Onion Game (Rough

• Trap Door Theatre Co. – See No Evil 37 • Tropea – Cie Laroque 65 • Troubadour – Salim Ghouse 50 • Tru Thoughts – Choice Cuts Management 79 • Tumbledowntown – PERFORMANCE LAB @ ROUNDABOUT THEATRE 96 • Under The Skin – Bridgeman/Packer Dance 65 • Unplugged – Crash Ensemble 80

Dublinsongs 77 • Urban Ghosts – Pale Angel (Bedrock • Tardy Lasso – Getting Attention by Martin

Productions) 52

Crimp 21 • Urban Ghosts – Self-Accusation (Bedrock • Teater Sláva – Döderskratt 75 • Teater Sláva – Exile 18 • Tecce, Maria – Night in the City 84 • Thalhofer, Florian – Love Story Project 93 • The Artist Needs A Wife – Clean Canvas 43 • The Attic Studio – Spoon Fed 38 • The Attic Studio – WOMB 51

Productions) 52 • Vagabond – PUTTING UP A FRONT! THE WORLD’S WIFE 32 • Van Grimde Corps Secrets – Les Chemins de Traverse 59 • Veser Aue Gefüge – Fallen 19 • Violating Messages – Maria de Moel & Ronan Murray 89

• The Birthday Show – Corn Exchange 42 • Wall Fly Theatre Productions – Lunch by • The Blue Ointment – BareBones Theatre

Stephen Berkoff 28

Company 45 • Who I Become – Edge 21 97 • The Friends of Jack Kairo – Flipside & Spacecraft 45 • The Hospital – Jo Strømgren Kompani 44 • The Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental – ¡EL CONQUISTADOR! 16 • The Masterpiece – MAD Productions 46

• WOMB – The Attic Studio 51 • Woyzeck – Rough Magic 53 • Yat-Kha – Crawdaddy 76 • Young Fringe in assoc. with OPW – 125 Live 10

• The Miserable Failure of Bernard Comiskey – Glass Jellyfish Productions 46

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