 Love Actually, the seasonal romcom that has become a revelation and synonymous for so many with the festive period, will tour to Ireland and the UK this December with a full orchestra performing its soundtrack live to picture, in what is becoming an annual highlight of the holiday calendar for many.
Kicking off the holiday season and getting many into the spirit, the Love Actually Live Concert Tour will visit Bord Gáis Energy Theatre on 4th December. Tickets for this date are on sale now. Directed by Richard Curtis and originally released in cinemas in 2003, Love Actually tells ten separate yet interweaving stories of love around Christmas time. The film features an all-star ensemble cast, including Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Bill Nighy, Martine McCutcheon, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightley Rowan Atkinson, Martin Freeman, and many more. A full, live orchestra will perform Craig Armstrong’s evocative score at these shows, with the film being projected onto a huge screen. Armstrong is one of the UK’s most recognised film composers, with his work being awarded a BAFTA for his Achievement in Film Music. With the film becoming a Christmas tradition for many, audiences attending the Love Actually Live Concert Tour will be treated to a unique way to watch the film that has gotten so many into the holiday spirit for the last 15 years. Tickets available NOW
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 It's the most wonderful time of the year and as we move swiftly towards the festive season it also means Panto Time is fast approaching!
There's no place like DOME...The Pantodome at The Royal Hospital Kilmainham. The fab new home for the hugely popular Cheerios panto. And what a panto it is set to be! The star-studded cast features panto’s best double act, Alan Hughes (as Sammy Sausages) and Rob Murphy (as Buffy), Jake Carter as Prince Charming, Jenny Dixon as The Fairy Godmother, Michele McGrath as the Wicked Stepmother and Paul Ryder as Sparkle. Producers Karl Broderick and Alan Hughes are delighted to present their hugely respected annual panto in its new home at the fabulous PANTODOME. Situated in the fairytale setting of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, the PANTODOME is an exciting, state-of-the-art, theatre-style venue, purpose-built for the panto, the tallest structure of its kind ever to be seen in Ireland. The hugely popular Cheerios panto promises to retain the intimacy and magic that audiences have come to know and love. Written by Karl Broderick, who is Irelands longest running consecutive panto writer (22 years), Karl says their speciality is entertaining both children and adults alike. With parking on site, just 20 metres from our door, it’s the perfect family venue. If this is your first time at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham let us tell you a bit more about it……. on your visit to the Panto, why not pop into IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) located in the magnificent 17th century Royal Hospital Kilmainham and see exhibitions, take stroll in our beautiful Formal Gardens, enjoy a tasty treat in Kemp Sisters Café or browse the IMMA Shop for unique gifts. There is lots to see and do with ample parking available on site and just a few minutes from Heuston Station. Current exhibitions include paintings by Jack B. Yeats and Lucian Freud and a solo exhibition by the British artist Derek Jarman. The Cheerios Panto Cinderella runs from 5th December 2019 – 5th January 2020 and tickets are on sale now from the dedicated box office number 01 906 0111 or BOOK ONLINE Keep updated right HERE  Following on from the hugely successful production of Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan earlier this year, the Gaiety Theatre is delighted to present a major new production of McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore for early next year. Directed by Andrew Flynn this exciting new production of The Lieutenant of Inishmore will run at the Gaiety Theatre from 27 January 2020 for a very limited run. Tickets are on sale now from the Gaiety Theatre and Ticketmaster.
Oscar Award-winning director and playwright Martin McDonagh’s work is known and loved by both theatre and film audiences alike (In Bruges, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri). Audiences flocked to see The Gaiety Theatre production of The Cripple of Inishmaan last spring. Details of the sterling ensemble cast for The Lieutenant of Inishmore were announced earlier this week, which features exciting young stars of TV, film and theatre in Ireland and abroad today. Already making their mark on stages and TV screens across Ireland the cast includes Paul Mescal (BBC’s Normal People, The Great Gatsby), Aisling Kearns (Darklands, Asking For It), Alex Murphy (The Young Offenders), Cillian Ó Gairbhí (Blood, Darklands), Desmond Eastwood (Blackout, Normal People), Cillian Lenaghan (Blackout) and in his professional debut Pádraig O’Grady. They are joined by Don Wycherley in the role of Donny (Sing Street, Ballykissangel, Bachelor’s Walk). About The Lieutenant of Inishmore: On a lonely road on the island of Inishmore, someone killed Mad Padraic’s cat. He'll want to know who did it when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip-shop bombing in Northern Ireland. He loves his cat more than life itself, and someone is going to pay. Set in the 1990s, The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a clever satire on terrorism, the beautification of violence in contemporary culture and a hilarious farce in true McDonagh fashion. Director Andrew Flynn is renowned for his productions of McDonagh’s work which include The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Pillowman and A Skull in Connemara, which received 3 nominations in The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards. Other credits to date include Port Authority by Conor McPherson, The Thing About December by Jarlath Tivnan in collaboration with Andrew Flynn, The Mai by Marina Carr, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness, Pumpgirl by Abbie Spallen, The Weir by Conor McPherson, The Dead School by Pat McCabe, Defender Of The Faith by Stuart Carolan, Port Authority by Conor McPhearson (for which he was nominated as Best Director at The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards), Doubt by John Patrick Shanley (2 nominations in The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards), Eden by Eugene O’Brien, Faith Healer by Brian Friel, Philadelphia Here I Come by Brian Friel and Dockers by Martin Lynch. The Lieutenant of Inishmore runs at the Gaiety Theatre from 27 January 2020 for a very limited run. Monday – Saturday nightly at 7.30pm Matinees: Thursdays and Saturdays at 2.30pm Tickets are on sale now from the Gaiety Theatre and Ticketmaster from €18.50 (inc €1 restoration levy). BOOK NOW! Gaiety Theatre Box Office South King Street, Dublin 2. 0818 719388 10 am – 7 pm / Mon – Sat (subject to performance schedule) 24hr Gaiety Theatre Booking Tel: 08 18 719 388 Group Sales +353 (1) 646 8687 groups@gaietytheatre.com Wheelchair & Box Bookings +353 (1) 679 5622 All Ticketmaster outlets nationwide. No service charge for transactions in person at the Gaiety Box Office. Service charges apply to online and telephone bookings. For full range of ticket prices, charges and terms and conditions, visit Ticketmaster.ie Ireland's own Sharon Sexton to play leading role of Donna in MAMMA MIA! UK & International Tour17/10/2019  The sensational feel-good musical MAMMA MIA! is coming to Bord Gáis Energy Theatre from 10th December 2019 – 5th January 2020 as part of its UK & International Tour celebrating 20 years since MAMMA MIA! premiered in London in April 1999.
Irish actress / singer Sharon Sexton will take on the leading role of Donna, which was originally played in the very first stage production of MAMMA MIA! in 1999 by another Irish actress Siobhán McCarthy. Sharon’s recent credits include originating the role of Sloane in Bat Out Of Hell The Musical (The Manchester Opera House) and The Commitments (The Palace Theatre). The full cast are Sharon Sexton (Donna Sheridan), Sarah Harlington (Alternate Donna), Nicky Swift (Rosie), Helen Anker (Tanya), Rob Fowler (Sam Carmichael), Daniel Crowder (Harry Bright), Jamie Kenna (Bill Austin), Emma Mullen (Sophie Sheridan), Toby Miles (Sky), Marie Finlayson (Ali), Mariella Mazzilli (Lisa), James Willoughby Moore (Pepper), Eamonn Cox (Eddie) and Matthew Ronchetti (Father Alexander) will star in the production from 10th December. Completing the cast are Taylor Bridges, Ambra Caserotti, Martin Dickinson, Billy Downes, Katie Dunsden, Matt Kennedy, Lewis Kidd, Emma Odell, Blair Robertson, Kaine Ruddach, Ellie Rutherford, Chiara Sparkes, Amy Thiroff, Cameron Vear, Sarah Wilkie and Robert Knight. From West End to global phenomenon, MAMMA MIA! is Judy Craymer’s ingenious vision of staging the story-telling magic of ABBA’s timeless songs with a sunny, funny tale of a mother, a daughter and three possible dads unfolding on a Greek island idyll. MAMA MIA! IS ON AT BORD GÁIS ENERGY THEATRE, DUBLIN Tuesday 10th December 2019 – Sunday 5th January 2020 Tickets from €25 - €65 BOOK TICKETS NOW! For more info on MAMMA MIA! UK & International Tour, click HERE  25 years ago, 7 minutes changed the face of Irish dancing forever. The Eurovision interval act performance gave millions of people a new and exciting glimpse of the future of Irish dance. It could have ended there, but it didn’t – in fact producer Moya Doherty, composer Bill Whelan and director John McColgan were only beginning their Riverdance journey, a journey which has already lasted 25 years and one we invite you to celebrate with us in February 2020 when Riverdance - 25th Anniversary show will premiere at 3Arena Dublin, the exact spot where it all began. Tickets for these dates go on sale this Thursday 10 October at 9am from Ticketmaster. Riverdance - 25th Anniversary Show is a powerful and stirring reinvention of this beloved family favourite, celebrated the world over for its Grammy Award-winning music and the thrilling energy and passion of its Irish and international dance. Since it began, Riverdance has toured the globe. The show has been performed over 12,160 times and seen live by over 27.5 million people in 546 venues worldwide. Now it is coming home to celebrate another milestone on that journey. Twenty-five years on, composer Bill Whelan has rerecorded his mesmerising soundtrack while producer Moya Doherty and director John McColgan have completely reimagined the ground-breaking show with innovative and spectacular lighting, projection, stage and costume designs. The 25th Anniversary show catapults Riverdance into the 21st century and will completely immerse audiences in the extraordinary and elemental power of its music and dance. The cast for this tour will feature, for the first time, many dancers and musicians who were not even born in the year that the show first opened; 1995 at the Point Theatre. Twenty-five years on, both new and devoted fans of all ages will once again fall in love with the magic of Riverdance – the original, and still the best. Tickets for Riverdance - 25th Anniversary Show go on sale Thursday 10 Oct at 9am. Dates: Thursday 6 February (preview), Friday 7 February, Saturday 8 February (2pm matinee and evening) & Sunday 9 February 2020. Booking: All usual Ticketmaster outlets Nationwide. 24hr Credit Card Bookings 0818 719300 (ROI) / 0844 277 4455 (NI) Book ONLINE For more Information click HERE Fun Facts about Riverdance:
Among the 27.5 million people who have seen Riverdance live are:
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 Rob Becker’s Defending the Caveman, the longest running one-man show in Broadway history, is back to challenge and demystify the differences between the sexes. Dubbed by reviewers as “hysterically funny” the Oliver Award winner for ‘Best Entertainment’ in 2000, Defending the Caveman has sold over 8 million tickets in 45 countries and has been translated into over 18 different languages. Defending the Caveman has won the hearts of millions across the globe and now it has its first ever Irish tour! The tour kicks off on 27 September (full tour venues below) Using psychology, sociology and plain old observational comedy, Defending the Caveman highlights the battle of the sexes – the stereotypical and yet, undisputedly true differences between men and women. Why do men greet each other with insults? Why does it take women so long to get ready? Why can’t men talk about their feelings… And why does it seem that women can’t stop? Defending the Caveman has become a peacemaker and a celebration of the differences between the sexes. Professional stand-up comedian, and one of the busiest Irish headline acts on the circuit, Tom O’Mahony brings his energetic and brilliantly funny persona to the stage to take the audience on a unique comedic journey that brings the house down with every performance. Tom has starred alongside the legendary and late, great Rik Mayall as “Tarquin” in RTE’s Damo & Ivor, he has featured in the hit TV show Bridget & Eamon, was a regular on Republic of Telly, Irish Pictorial Weekly, 3e’s Uploaded-Uncut, Virgin Media's Six O’Clock Show and Irish Ghost Hunters. Tom also regularly appears on national radio, 2FM’s Breakfast Republic and Newstalk. As well as playing every major comedy festival both here and abroad, he has supported for the likes of MTV's Tom Green, Mock the Week's Tom Stade, Jason Byrne and Tommy Tiernan.  Tour dates
Friday, 27 Sept 2019 Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray Saturday, 28 Sept 2019 Strule Arts Centre, Omagh Thursday, 3 Oct 2019 Waterside Theatre, Londonderry /Derry Friday, 4 Oct 2019 Ramor Theatre, Virginia Saturday, 5 Oct 2019 Birr Theatre & Arts Centre Sunday, 6 Oct 2019 Station House Theatre, Clifden Thursday, 10 Oct 2019 Riverside Theatre, Coleraine Friday, 11 Oct 2019 Theatre at the Mill, Newtonabbey Thursday, 17 Oct 2019 The Market Place Theatre, Armagh Friday, 18 & 19 Oct 2019 Theatre Royal, Waterford Sunday, 20 Oct 2019 Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny Thursday, 24 Oct 2019 University Concert Hall, Limerick Friday, 25 Oct 2019 Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise Saturday, 26 Oct 2019 An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk Sunday, 27 Oct 2019 Mullingar Art Centre Friday, 1 Nov 2019 Town Hall Theatre, Galway Saturday, 2 Nov 2019 Iontas Theatre, Castleblayney Friday, 8 Nov 2019 Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone Saturday, 9 Nov 2019 O’Reilly Theatre, National Opera House, Wexford Full details and tickets HERE  Following the success of the WB Yeats and WH Auden Poetry Hours, The Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation is delighted to return to the Abbey Stage to celebrate the genius of Wilde.
This sold-out event will be a rare opportunity to hear author Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde’s only grandson, speak about his grandfather and read Josephine Hart’s introduction to Wilde’s universally acclaimed and moving masterpiece The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Celebrated actor Simon Callow (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love, A Room with a View) will read the ballad. “My grandfather believed firmly in the music of words, irrespective whether in poetry or in prose, and the vital importance of literature appealing to the ear not just the eye, so it’s wonderfully appropriate that we should celebrate the life of Josephine Hart through an hour of Oscar’s poetry here in Dublin where words are so much the life-blood of the city.” MERLIN HOLLAND “Bringing Oscar Wilde back to Ireland always seems right. And to be performing his poetry, especially his last work, ripped out of his bowels after two years’ incarceration in an English jail, seems particularly apt. He never thought of himself as anything other than a poet. And Josephine Hart, that blazing beacon of a woman, Mullingar’s favourite daughter, never wavered about the importance of the everyday experience of poetry. So where better to speak Wilde’s words than fifteen minutes away from his birthplace, in the theatre founded by a poet, with the Josephine Hart Foundation.” SIMON CALLOW All profits from the evening are being donated to the Abbey Theatre Development Fund and the King George V Fund for Actors and Actresses in need. BOOK TICKETS HERE  Menopause The Musical has been a smash hit in theatres across Ireland since 2007, and played to sold-out crowds earlier this year at the Gaiety Theatre. Today, details were announced of the Irish premiere of the long-awaited sequel Menopause The Musical 2 which opens 26th May at the Gaiety Theatre for two weeks only. Tickets go on sale this Friday 6th Sept. In our brand-new show, Cruising Through Menopause, the hysterical sequel to the smash-hit show Menopause The Musical®, we fast forward five years to catch up with the same four characters as they set off on the high seas for tales of their lives, loves and losses. Hot flushes, night sweats, mood swings, memory lapses, weight gain - these are a few of our favourite menopausal things! Cruising Through Menopause is a hilarious, heartfelt, reassuring and unflinching look at the joys of menopause and friendship. When your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns, it’s hard to find true friends. But step on board and we’ll take you on a trip of self-discovery, love and friendship all backed by a soundtrack of toe-tapping parodied hits! For these four ladies the menopause was not the beginning of the end, but the beginning of a beautiful friendship where love conquers, and friendships never fail. So, all aboard and we’ll have you laughing, singing and maybe even dancing on-stage, as you join us for Menopause The Musical® 2 - Cruising Through Menopause. Star cast to be announced. Join us on Facebook The show is sponsored by iMEDicare Age advisory 16+ Dates: 26th May – 6th June 2020 Performances: Tues – Thurs - 19.30 Fri - 17.00 & 20.30 Sat - 16.00 & 19.30 Tickets from €21 including a €1 restoration levy Booking: Gaiety Theatre Box Office South King Street, Dublin 2. 0818 719388 10 am – 7 pm / Mon – Sat (subject to performance schedule) 24hr Gaiety Theatre Booking Tel: 08 18 719 388 Group Sales +353 (1) 646 8687 groups@gaietytheatre.com Wheelchair & Box Bookings +353 (1) 679 5622 All Ticketmaster outlets nationwide. No service charge for transactions in person at the Gaiety Box Office. Service charges apply to online and telephone bookings. Click here for full range of ticket prices, charges and terms and conditions.   The year is galloping towards the silly season and this doesn't just mean Christmas lights and shopping for us! It is one of the best times of the year as Panto season comes to town too. It's all good news this year as producers Alan Hughes & Karl Broderick (Anthem Productions) announced that Pop singer and Dancing with the Stars winner Jake Carter will take to the stage this December in the hugely popular Cheerios Panto. "We are very excited to move to the fairytale setting of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham and the magical venue that is The PANTODOME", said producer Karl Broderick. But what exactly is The PANTODOME? .. "It's a luxury state-of-the-art theatre-style venue, the first of it's kind to ever be seen in Ireland. But it's very intimate, it was very important to us to make sure that every seat is the best seat in the house. It's fantastic to have the very talented Jake on board", continued Karl. He will join panto’s best double act, Alan Hughes (as Sammy Sausages) and Rob Murphy (as Buffy) in this magical adventure. Jake will play the dashing Prince..who'd rather be a commoner.  We managed to have a chat to Jake and he had this to say
"I really can’t wait to perform as the Prince in the Cheerios Panto in the PANTODOME. I’ve heard so many great things about this panto and I'm so excited to be a part of this years production.” Well, we can't wait either Jake! Ireland’s first PANTODOME in the beautiful grounds of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham is a luxury, state-of-the-art, theatre-style venue purpose-built for the panto. The panto may have moved from the Tivoli to this new venue but it will retain the intimacy that audiences have come to know and love. The team are determined to stage the funniest and most exciting Cheerios Panto ever, written by Karl Broderick, who is Irelands longest running consecutive panto writer (22 years). Come along and discover for yourself that there really is ... No Place like DOME. Tickets for the Cheerios Panto Cinderella are on sale now from the dedicated box office number 01 906 0111 with the show running from 5th December 2019-5th January 2020 For more info and to keep in the loop with all the PANTODOME news, click HERE  Artistic Director Willie White announced details of the programme for Dublin Theatre Festival 2019. Three weeks of performances, with world premieres of new work and reimagined classic texts, inspiring international projects and an expanded season of Theatre for Children. Performances will take place all over the city from 26 September - 13 October. The works in this year’s programme deal with many contemporary topics but they also reach beyond those, to a poetic enquiry about the times we live in. The Festival is delighted that 10 world premieres are included in this year’s programme. Priority booking for friends of the Festival is open now HERE General booking opens 14 August. The programme includes:
 “Our festival celebrates the collective experience of live performance and contributes to the social and cultural life of Dublin. However, it is getting more and more difficult to make art in the city. The landscape is changing all around us. There are fewer theatres in Dublin now than there were twenty years ago, studio spaces are closing and club nights are disappearing. It’s time to speak up for Dublin to ensure that it can continue to be a place that is diverse, creative and inspiring. We will get the city we ask for and I would like one that is made for people and for the future.” Artistic Director, Willie White. The programme in detail: J.M. Synge’s is one of Ireland’s greatest writers. His The Playboy of the Western World was met with controversy when first staged at the Abbey in 1907. DTF and the Lyric Theatre are proud to present a new production of this brutally hilarious masterpiece, directed by exciting young director Oonagh Murphy on the Gaiety stage (from 24 Sept- 5 Oct). Cast includes Eloïse Stevenson as Pegeen Mike and Michael Shea as Christy Mahon. Following on the success of his acclaimed re-imagining of the famous ballet, Swan Lake/Loch na hEala, DTF are delighted to welcome back, and partner Michael Keegan Dolan and Teaċ Daṁsa in a world premiere co-production of a new mythic yet timely production - Mám a meeting place between soloist and ensemble, classical and traditional, the local and universal. Bringing together concertina player Cormac Begley, the European Classical contemporary collective stargaze and 12 international dancers at O’Reilly Theatre (from 25 Sept). Directed by Graham McLaren, the Abbey Theatre presents a new work by Dermot Bolger Last Orders At the Dockside, in which over the course of an evening hidden tensions expose fault lines in their complex relationships (from 26 Sept). Hecuba, by Marina Carr is a passionate re-imaging of the aftermath of the Trojan War and the events surrounding its ionic characters. A drama of a complex and powerful woman from Rough Magic (from 25 Sept). The Alternative by Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney was chosen as A Play for Ireland by Fishamble: The New Play Company, following an extensive 2 year process. Asking questions such as, What if Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom? Based in 2019, it is the eve of the Referendum and British Prime Minister Ursula Lysaght is returning to her hometown of Dublin to convince voters to remain (from 24 Sept). The Beacon, a new play commissioned by Druid marks Nancy Harris’ Druid debut and her return to the Gate after her adaptation of The Red Shoes. Directed by Garry Hynes, cast includes Jane Brennan, Rae Gray, Cillian Ó’Gairbhí and Marty Rea (from 2 Oct). From Belgium, Your Words in my Mouth, a conversation about love reconstructed in a series of venues usually reserved for insiders : a football stadium, a hairdresser’s, a council chamber and a Freemason’s Hall. Members of the audiences are invited to lend their voices to other people’s words in this very unique experience from Anna Rispoli, Lotte Lindner and Till Steinbrenner (from 1 Oct). Described as a love story, an investigation, an exodus, Faultline from ANU Productions and Gate Theatre propels audiences through a living history based on source materials from the Irish Queer archive (from 26 Sept). After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, performance artist Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers. Carving out a place for themselves as one of the UK’s most prominent trans voices, Alabanza presents a performance in Burgerz, that is timely, unsettling and powerful. From 9 Oct. From Aine Flanagan productions & Seiriol Davies (UK), the multi-award-winning How to Win Against History at the Civic, is a frothy glossy costume drama about the 5thMarquis of Anglesey who burned brightly, briefly and transvestitely at the end of the 19th Century before he died at 29 and his family burned every record of him (from 25 Sept). At the Gate, a production of Beckett’s Room by Dead Centre with Mark Halloran. This is the biography of a room. A play without performers, it tells the story of the apartment in Paris where Samuel Beckett live with his partner Suzanne during the Second World War (from 24 Sept). Nicola Gunn (Australia) returns to Dublin Theatre Festival, with a simple premise - exploring in depth the moral dilemma of what to do if you see a man throwing stones at a duck. Shifting from anecdotes to comedy to the unexpectedly profound she dissects the excruciating realms of human behaviour and navigates the moral and ethical complexities of intervention in Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster (from 26 Sept). A live redubbing of the Pier Paolo Pasolini’s controversial 1975 film Saló or the 120 days of Sodom. Dylan Tighe and the Abbey Theatre’s production Pasolini’s Saló Redubbed, daringly transposes Pasolini’s notorious final film to Ireland (from 26 Sept). Ray Scannell makes his festival writing debut with a new apocalyptic black comedy with live music and original songs The Bluffer’s Guide to Suburbia, which lovingly exposes a generation of adult children living back in the home. Directed by Tom Creed at Project (from 26 Sept). Forced Entertainment (UK) return to Dublin with Real Magic which takes the audience on a hallucinatory journey, creating a compelling virtuoso performance about big systems, small traps and yearning for change (from 8 Oct). Following sell out runs at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and London’s National Theatre, Us/Them is a thrilling piece of theatre which retells, from the perspective of a child, three days when 1,200 people were held hostage by terrorists in Beslan. BRONKS & Richard Jordan Productions with Theatre Royal Plymouth in assoc with Big in Belgium & Summerhall (from 8 Oct). A bittersweet new play by Billy Roche, from Decadent Theatre, A Love Like That, is set in a provincial library on the cusp of its transfer to new premises. Senior librarian Ellen faces betrayal on all sides but her warrior self finds hope and light in the process of change. Directed by Andrew Flynn (from 1 Oct). An amalgam of interviews gathered by Fionnuala Kennedy, Removed is a funny and affecting story told by ‘Adam’ that offers insight into the NI care system. From Prime Cut Productions NI (from 9 Oct). From Moonfish, the Abbey and Galway International Arts Festival in assoc with Town Hall Theatre, comes Redemption Falls freely adapted from the novel by Joseph O’Connor. A bleak and beautiful story, told through the folk music of Ireland and America (from 9 Oct). From Portugal, Raquel André has collected more than 200 ‘lovers’ to date - people of all nationalities, ages and genders who have agreed to meet her and to build a fictional intimacy within the span of an hour. The encounter is real, the flirtation is fiction in Collection of Lovers (from 10 Oct). From Sweden/Estonia, Physics and Phantasma is a study of the artist’s relationship with an audience, and the space in between. Iggy Lond Malmborg fills the theatre space with fantastical theatre magic (from 11 Oct). Tiago Rodrigues AD of Teatro Nacional Portugal, tells the story of a prompter at the theatre who after 40 years reluctantly steps out of the shadows and shares stories from her decades of working in the theatre - Sopro from 11 Oct. In 2017, 100 people set out to walk from London to Jerusalem calling for equal rights for all in the Holy Land - 9 walked the whole way. Walking to Jerusalem is a feat in virtuoso storytelling accompanied by video montage and live footage along the route. From Passion Pit Theatre, in association with Amos Trust, Hodder & Stoughton & The New Theatre (from 1 Oct). Dublin City Arts Office brings OBIE award-winning Nilaja Sun back to Dublin following the success of No Child … (DTF 2010). The critically acclaimed Pike St casts new light on the phrase ‘it takes a village’, as a community comes together to help a desperate mother (from 2 Oct). The Sleepwalkers, a new work from Pan Theatre and Dublin Youth Theatre collaboratively created from ideas generated by DYT members and found texts, asked the question: What does it mean to be awake? (from 2 Oct) A new play by Tim Crouch, renowned for his profoundly moving plays that strip the theatrical event down to its purest form. Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation, is presented through combined stage action and illustrated text (from 2 Oct). This year’s programme sees an expanded Theatre for Children presented by DTF in partnership with The Ark. It includes a new work commissioned by The Ark - The Haircut.
Festival+, continues the drama off stage with a series of talks, critical events, exhibitions, tours and work-in-progress showcases. This programme of events includes networking opportunities for theatre practitioners, young critics panel, a theatrical walking tour and an audio journey through 14 Henrietta Street. Work-in-progress showcases this year features:
Booking details: Priority booking for Friends of the Festival is now open. To become a friend contact +353 1677 8439. Public Booking opens 14 August at 10am. Online: dublintheatrefestival.ie Phone: +353 1 677 8899 In person: DTF box office, Festival House, 12 East Essex Street East, Temple Bar, D.2. Making theatre accessible to ever more audiences:
The Festival continues to try to reach as wide an audience as possible with a range of discounts including ‘Final Call’, where a limited number of €10 tickets for selected shows are available on the day of the performance and ‘Open House’ where you can register your community organisation (e.g. welfare groups, special needs groups and registered charities) to avail of €10 tickets to selected performances. Support Irish Theatre Artists: DTF Futures is a new fundraising initiative created to support the next generation of Irish theatre artists through commissioning, developing and co-producing new work, creating a more sustainable infrastructure for the practitioners of today and future generations. To support contact development@dublintheatrefestival.ie Supporters: Principle funder The Arts Council Grant aided by Dublin City Council, Fáilte Ireland, Dublin Fundraising Fellowship, Tourism Ireland and the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. Proudly supported by sponsors including The Irish Times, RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ Supporting the Arts, Blackwater Distillery and Olytico. |
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