Fringe 2008

Dublin Fringe Festival 2008 Sep 6– 21

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Director's Welcome Dublin Fringe Festival Programme 2008

Pushing the Envelope

First Glance

Guaranteed Fresh

In Motion

Outer Space

On The Streets

Secret Garden

Lets Get Visual

Special Events Venue Index Map About Us Thank You Index Fringe Awards 2009 Patron Scheme Other Dublin Events Daily Guide

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Contents

La Clique

The Four Horsemen Project

100+ S Bygones (I det fortflutna)

Susan & Darren

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The Art of Laughter

Red Bastard

Dance Double Bill 1

Shows Polaroid

City Breaks

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Moonflight

Director's Welcome (& Goodbye!)

Dear Friends and Supporters, I have great pleasure saying goodbye to Dublin with a programme line-up that confidently demonstrates the much grown stature of the festival, as well as the strength, diversity and professionalism of new artistic work created in Ireland. It fills me with gratitude and pride to have been able to lead this festival for the last four exciting years.

You will find over 100 shows and events in the following pages which we selected from over 500 applications. The call out was to everyone who had something new to say, wanted to inspire, change the world or simply make their mam proud, and we were absolutely overwhelmed with the ideas that were sent our way. At times it felt like working in a dream factory; choosing the best projects of hundreds of the most creative people working in the industry, it was truly exhilarating.

Wait ‘til you see what’s in store…..!

In order for you to find easily what interests you most, and also to tempt you to try something less familiar, we are introducing a larger number of sections by which the shows are grouped.

Guaranteed Fresh shows exciting Irish productions of contemporary plays that are either brand new productions, or new to Dublin.

A marvellous variety of new dance works will set you In Motion, including our celebration Day of Dance (pg 25), while four of Dublin’s most dynamic art galleries, namely Monstertruck, thisisnotashop, The Science Gallery and Gallery Number One (all pg42) encourage us to Lets Get Visual.

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Works in our FIRST GLANCE category are premieres of new Irish plays: which include REP TILLIAN (PG17) by Shona McCarthy, BEFORE COLOR (PG16) by Peter Dunne, THE DARKROOM (PG18) by Neil Watkins and Patrick McCabe’s new

We are further transporting the festival spirit On The Streets with a range of free out door performances, from Ireland’s first flash mob-opera to unique street performance work. Compagnie Beau Geste for instance will perform an emotional and romantic (!) duet between a man and a JCB digger at Grand Canal Square as part of our Equilibre (pg32) series.

In the PUSHING THE ENVELOPE section you will mainly find international work that takes art forms to new levels and can’t properly be described as either a dance, theatre or music event. To give you a taste: VOLCANO (PG12) from Canada, revive the sound poetry of the Four Horsemen group of the 70’s with a spectacular dance and multimedia performance that has to seen to be believed.

Berlin’s ANDCOMPANY&CO (PG12) reflect on lost utopias through a collage of absurd documentary theatre, well known melodies and a visual arts installation while QUARANTINE’S SUSAN & DARREN (PG12) celebrates a real life mother/son relationship that will touch the hearts of even the most cynical.

Infamous New York Composer JOHN MORAN (PG12), and the consistently brilliant JO STRØMGREN KOMPANI (PG12) will also be back with newly acclaimed productions.

Dublin’s hidden treasure, the delightful Iveagh Gardens, will be the venue for our Hennessy Spiegeltent as well as our new Festival club.

For 16 days and nights we will transform The Secret Gardens into an enchanting fairground full of magical entertainment. An absolutely mouthwatering music programme will have you partying late into the night, and yes, La Clique (pg37) will be back with brand new acts as well as old favorites to win your hearts and set your pulses racing yet again.

Special Events includes a great series of intensive workshops (pg43) and masterclasses aimed at professionals who are interested in widening the spectrum of their own practice and also Jos Houben’s extraordinary The Art of Laughter (pg44).

At the back of the brochure there’s a DAILY GUIDE to the festival, which lists all the shows that are on every day by time.

But before you start tearing through these pages, let me give thanks to all those who have worked with and helped me during the last few years, especially my brilliant board of directors and the many generous sponsors. But most of all my much admired team who deserve all the credit for making and shaping this festival into what it is today.

Here it is now. Enjoy!

I know I will Wolfgang Hoffmann Director

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play, APPOINT MENT IN LIMBO (PG16) Many more thrilling new Irish works can be seen, but you will have to go to Outer Space, as those works will be created for specific locations and often for limited number of audiences.

Grasping The Floor With The Back Of My Head

The Darkroom

1 Fes Bastien and Bastienne

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A Distinct Glimpse

Little Red

stival Drinking Dust

Workshop Programme

IMMATATE

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I’ve been thinking about what it might mean to “push the envelope”. The phrase comes from mathematics and was introduced into general usage by Tom Wolfe in his 1979 book about the space programme, The Right Stuff. It is used in engineering to describe an attempt to extend the limits of performance, going to extremes, taking something beyond its normal course. I guess that’s why they chose it for the name of this section of the programme.

MIMIC

I looked it up in PC Magazine and discovered a related expression: “bleeding edge”. A pun on "leading edge" (aren’t they witty, those scientists), it implies that using the latest technology is often risky because it has not been tested with enough users and may not perform as expected. Introducing an advanced product or service is also risky because the user community may not be ready for it or really want it.

But these artists are all willing to take that risk. And that, in a way, is what Fringe is all about.

Being ahead of the pack. Bringing an audience something they have never seen before. Driving right up against the edges of theatre, dance, music, comedy, performance and seeing what they might rub up against. Pushing the envelope so hard that the postman might have trouble fitting it in your letterbox.

At a lecture I attended by the actress Fiona Shaw last summer I asked what she thought was so special about live performance, what it could do that other media could not.

“It can knock your socks off” she replied, and I think I know what she meant. There have been times when I’ve been at a live event, where I have felt that the performers are pushing at the boundaries of what I thought about art and life, and

I’m feeling my socks knocked, and I know this is the real deal.

This year's Fringe programme will feature shows based on Stephen Hawking’s teachings (I’m So Close It’s Not Even Funny) and performers’ real mothers on stage (The Show about The Show and Susan and Darren).

People will fly to the moon on an inflatable mattress (Moonflight) and St Bono will provide divine inspiration (Eejit of Love).

I have been at performances which have come at the world from such a left field angle that I’ve laughed myself to pieces. I saw the work in progress of Priscilla Robinson’s The Show about The Show earlier this year and felt her work was so unique and refreshing that I thought it actually might be good for your health to spend time at one of her performances.

There are companies and artists here who are smashing the boundaries between music, dance and theatre.

John Moran’s performances with Saori are like nothing you’ve ever seen, blending lip synching, split second synchronicity and spiky wit to extraordinary effect.

Anyone who saw their show in 2006 will know what I mean, everyone else should see what you’ve been missing. This year they’re bringing with them downtown New York rising star Joseph Keckler, who also

POLAROID

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BY TOM CREED —

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EEJIT OF LOVE

presents his genre-bending double bill Human Jukebox and Cat Lady.

They’re not the only performers blending music and performance in new and innovative ways. Volcano’s Four Horsmen Project brings together perfomers, designers and animators from across Canada to explore the avant-garde sound poetry of 1970s innovators the Four Horsemen, using sound, breath and the human body. schindel killius dutschke’s Moonflight features Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and German folk song in an innovative musical look at space exploration. Eejit of Love is that rare and promising thing: a piece of new Irish musical theatre.

Composer Ian Wilson, choreographer Anne Gilpin, trumpeter Mark O’Keeffe and designer Conleth White collaborate to create an atmospheric multi-sensory immersive landscape in Tundra. Mute Comp’s Grasping The Floor With The Back Of My Head blends high octane dance and visceral physical theatre with exhilarating live music.

We are familiar with Jo Strømgren’s unique and idiosyncratic combination of physical rawness and humour from The Hospital and The Convent in past Fringes. This year’s Polaroid is a snapshot of what’s really going on around the North Pole. It was made with performers

from Greenland and astonishingly was the first Greenlandic theatre performance in history to perform at the Royal Danish Theatre – even though Greenland has been a Danish colony for almost as long as the theatre has existed.

There are other shows which push the envelope in trying to find new ways to understand the world we live in. Ecole Jacques Lecoq graduates Theatre Why Not’s I'm So Close It's Not Even Funny tries to make sense of what time is and why it matters to us. And one of the most acclaimed young companies in Europe at the moment, andcompany&Co., present Little Red, “a docu-tale of a past which could have been our future”, a look at the failure of communist utopia from the vantage point of the 21st century. They combine a playful postmodern aesthetic with intense philosophical inquisitiveness, innovative light objects and electronic music with real stories of Europe’s communist past. I’ve been looking forward to seeing this show for months and it will be a real breath of fresh air for Irish audiences and practitioners alike.

As will Susan and Darren.

Quarantine are one of the most exciting, surprising and dynamic companies in Britain today. In their own words they “question

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BOUFFON GLASS MENAJOREE

accepted conventions of theatrical performance, and ignore boundaries between artforms… borrow and steal from visual art, live art, music and dance – and from real-life events, journeys, conversations, films, cooking, books and arguments.”

They have worked with young working class men, three generations of a Glaswegian family, and most recently a group of old people, children and animals (for a show called Old People, Children and Animals). This show will feature a dance workshop for the audience, a performance by a dancer and his real mother, and a buffet prepared by the audience.

I read a press release for Eric Davis and Ten Directions’ Bouffon Glass Menajoree. “Imagine Borat parodying Tennessee Williams directed by John Waters. These deformed anti-clowns subversively make fun of everyone and everything.

Why would ANYONE do this to an American masterpiece?”

Why the hell not, I say. Bring it on and let’s see what happens.

The last people to attempt such an outrage in the Fringe were a new company who tackled Streetcar back in 1996. They were called The Corn Exchange and look where they’ve ended up…

---------Tom Creed is a theatre director. He is Associate Director of Rough Magic, joint Artistic Director of Playgroup and Theatre Curator of Kilkenny Arts Festival. His production of Mimic by Raymond Scannell is presented as part of the Fringe.

PUSHING THE ENVELOPE SUSAN AND DARREN

IM SO CLOSE ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY

THE FOUR HORSEMEN PROJECT

A CATEGORY WHERE YOU WILL FIND WORK THAT IS DRIVING ART FORMS TO NEW LEVELS. WORK THAT IS DIFFICULT TO PIGEONHOLE AS IT FREQUENTLY ENCOMPASSES (AT LEAST) MORE THAN ONE GENRE OR DISCIPLINE. WHATEVER THE COMBINATION OF THEATRE, DANCE, MUSIC, LIVE OR VISUAL ART, THESE EXCITING PIECES ALL OFFER ONCE-OFF SPINE TINGLING EXPERIENCES.

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TEN DIRECTIONS — United States

CAT LADY/ HUMAN JUKEBOX

JOSEPH KECKLER — United States

EEJIT OF LOVE

LITTLE DARK STA R —Ireland

Gentlemen callers beware! Tennessee Williams’ American Masterpiece is smashed to smithereens in this twisted, outrageous parody with a new ending determined by an audience member every night. Certain to surprise, shock and delight. Winner of 2007 NY Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production.

“Total theatrical sacrilege. Delicious!”

NYTheatre.com “Hilarious!” TimeOut NY A mother transforms her living room into a psychological theatre using cats as actors, while a son compulsively records, imagines, and relives experiences. New York’s Joseph Keckler uses his soaring, multiple octave voice and rich storytelling to spin dark and hilarious narrative portraits, uncovering the fantastic inner universe of the banal.

Plunge into the cartoon world of Reality TV and celebrity obsession. Star-crossed lovers Billy and Eileen are torn apart by XTV panelist Pete Popalypse’s arrival, who promises fame and fortune. A beguiling and hilarious new musical featuring Divine intervention by St. Bono with a little help from Billy’s Ma!

DATE 16-21 Sep VENUE Filmbase TIME 8.30pm LENGTH 70mins TICKETS €14/€12/€10

DATE 15-21 Sep VENUE

International Bar TIME 6pm LENGTH 60mins TICKETS €10/€8

DATE 8-14 Sep VENUE Samuel

Beckett Theatre TIME 9pm LENGTH 120mins PREVIEW 8 Sep MATINEE 14th/3pm TICKETS €18/€16/€14

GRASPING THE FLOOR WITH THE BACK OF MY HEAD

Twenty two scenes, using twenty two instruments, examine humankind’s ability to make endless obstructions for himself.

The mythology of Tarot inspires this frenetic, twisting, writhing tour de force of movement. Accompanied by live music from the band Valravn and featuring an elf from Norway. Wild and wonderful.

DATE 15-16 Sep

I’M SO CLOSE IT’S NOT EVEN FUNNY

Consumed by research, a scientist misses his own funeral, while Skype unites a couple separated by miles and hours and the bones of 5000 year old lovers are found locked in an embrace outside Venice. An absorbing theatrical exploration of time that Stephen Hawking would be most amused by.

DATE 16-21 Sep VENUE Players The-

atre TIME 7pm LENGTH 60mins PREVIEW 16 Sep MATINEE 21st/3pm TICKETS €15/€12.50/€10

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THEATRE WHY NOT — Canada

Upstairs TIME 9.15pm LENGTH 90mins TICKETS €18/€14

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MUTE COMP. PHYSICAL THEATRE — Denmark

VENUE Project

LITTLE RED

ANDCOMPANY&CO — Germany

MOONFLIGHT SCHIN DEL KILLIUS DUTSCHKE — Germany

PERFORMANCE RESEARCH EXPERIMENT #1 JESS CURTIS / GRAVITY — United States

POLAROID

PRESENTED BY: JO STRØMGREN KOMPANI — Norway

SAORI’S BIRTHDAY! JOHN MORAN — United States

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QUARANTINE PRODUCTIONS — United Kingdom

It’s the end of history...what’s to be done? Former and future communist stories lay the fondations of this electrifying docutale and create an exquisite confrontation of our current reality. A visually stunning and powerfully engaging experience from this acclaimed German company. Not to be missed. Supported by Project Arts Centre.

Expect the unexpected in a delightful celebration of all things lunar from this Berlin based trio of musicians and actors.

Surreal space travel episodes, circular theory formations, fresh comedy and a brilliant version of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata crossed with a famous German lullaby combine to make this show a festival highlight.

‘Performance Researchers’ are assessing your level of enjoyment throughout 11 ‘micro-pieces’, ranging from the most basic to the most spectacular. World renowned anal broom balancing, witty banter and profound commentary abound in this hugely entertaining audience participation cabaret.

This celebrated physical theatre company returns to expose what Greenlandic Inuits get up to when the nature documentary cameras stop rolling, when the helicopters leave and there are no outsiders watching. Arctic secrets are revealed in a new show from Sexiest Show Winners in 2005 and Best Production nominees in 2007.

Protégé of Philip Glass, revolutionary composer and choreographer John Moran presents his latest blending of dance, music and theatre, described by The New York Times as “one of the most important and artistically innovative works of the year”. Returning to Dublin once again with his silly, sweet and utterly luminous neighbour Saori to explore what would happen if she had a party?

Help Susan (58, cleaner with no performance experience) and her son Darren (28, dancer) prepare another infamous party. Expect devastation, intimate conversation and a lovely buffet as friends and neighbours pop round. Before each performance Darren will lead a free, ticketed dance workshop (all ages/ levels of dance experience welcome) which will alter the course of that night’s show.

Outrageously fun poetry brought to life with swirling animation, sonic hi-jinx and stellar performances combining physical and vocal virtuosity. A stylistic collision of VOLCANO IN ASSOCIATION WITH theatre, dance, sound and animation in tribute to Toronto’s legendary 1970s sound poets, The CROOKED FIGURE Four Horsemen. So far out...it’s back in.

DANCES AND

THE FOUR HORSEMEN PROJECT

GLOBAL MECHANIC — Canada

DATE 10-13 Sep VENUE Project

Upstairs TIME 6.45pm LENGTH 75mins TICKETS €18/€14

DATE 16-21 Sep VENUE Samuel

Beckett Theatre TIME 8.15pm LENGTH 60mins MATINEE 19th/4.15pm TICKETS €18/€16/€14 DATE 8-11 Sep VENUE Players

Theatre TIME 8pm LENGTH However long the audience wants!

TICKETS €15/€12.50 DATE 9-13 Sep VENUE Smock Alley TIME 8.30pm LENGTH 60mins MATINEE 13th/3pm TICKETS €17/€14/€10

DATE 8-13 Sep VENUE Project

Cube TIME 9pm LENGTH 50mins MATINEE

12th/4.30pm TICKETS

€15/€12.50/€10 DATE 15-19 Sep VENUE

Smock Alley TIME 8pm (workshop starts 7pm) LENGTH 90mins MATINEE 18th/1pm (workshop starts at 12pm) TICKETS €17/€14/€10 DATE 16-20 Sep VENUE Project

Upstairs TIME 7pm LENGTH 65mins MATINEE 18th/4pm TICKETS €18/€14/€12

TUNDRA

TRIPTYCH — Ireland

The Tundra is not only a physical landscape, but an environment where your imagination can run free. Dance, video, music and lighting from four of Ireland’s leading artists create an experience where you’ll forget you’re part of an audience and remember what it’s like to be completely aware of your senses.

DATE 8-13 Sep

(no show on 12th) VENUE Filmbase TIME 6.15pm LENGTH 45mins PREVIEW 8 Sep TICKETS €12/€10/€8 DATE 7 Sep VENUE The Empty

Space @ Smock Alley TIME 9.15pm LENGTH 45mins TICKETS €15/€12

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PRISCILLA ROBINSON — Ireland

The show about KuddelMuddel, last year’s (almost) Jane Snow award winning sell-out show that everyone wanted to squeeze into the performer’s flat to see. This year Priscilla tells the story of that show with slides, secrets, games, prizes and, if we’re lucky, a guest appearance by her mother (health permitting, she’s getting older by the second).

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THE SHOW ABOUT THE SHOW

What is immediately apparent from the line up of new plays in this year’s Fringe is that whilst Irish playwrights and theatre artists are looking to have their work performed just as readily abroad as at home, playwrights and artists from abroad are also flourishing here.

Dragonfly Theatre Company is only one instance of an Irish company who first gained approbation abroad, in the New York Fringe, before being acknowledged at home with the new writing award at last year’s Fringe. They look to build on this success with Shona McCarthy’s latest, REPTILLIAN , a play that is as daring in its linguistic léger de main – it’s a verse drama – as it is in its visual conception.

Among the most encouraging progressions for which the Dublin Fringe is a lodestone, is that international artists are making work in Ireland at the very frontline of their own development. The international mix of new plays for this year’s Dublin Fringe bears this out.

Pope Joan Theatre Company has, in its director Aoife Spillane-Hinks, a US artist who has grown considerably while creating work in Ireland. She has been instrumental in providing a spark for new writing in Galway for the last two years and is now working with compatriots and locals alike to put together A. M. Mac Eachern’s ALL DRESSED UP TO

GO DREAMING , a play which artfully references American popular culture from the thirties and forties just as it obliquely references recent American politics.

Another US play, John Crutchfield’s TWELVE TREATISES ON MEMORY

from Audacity Theatre Company, exemplifies some of the best qualities in current American playwrighting with its sheer uninhibited sense of fun when dealing with treacherous negotiations between former lovers – comprising in all twelve playlets of widely varying styles. It is getting its first professional production from director Una McNulty, the play having arrived with her through a wonderfully circuitous and indeed charmed route. thisispopbaby, in association with the Abbey Theatre, gives us two one-act plays from Irish writers who have their imaginative horizons in individual ways trained on America. Belinda McKeon must surely have written the greater part of TWO HOUSES while attending the Columbia University MFA writers’ programme in New York. She has clearly absorbed New York’s fearlessness and chutzpah in a story about messy teenage sexuality and entanglements with older men. Phillip McMahon’s INVESTMENT POTENTIAL charts with the lightest and truest touch the history of a love affair, its

final scene in Las Vegas poised between fantasy and fact while giving nothing away.

On this humble island it’s clearly been a strength, and a source of much of our neuroses, to be able to absorb influences indiscriminately from the US, the UK and Europe. The Attic Studio presents THOSE POWERFUL MACHINES from Irish writer Arnold Thomas Fanning, which he wrote when he was resident in the UK, and which resembles plays from the UK much more than it does anything Irish.

The play taps into London’s contemporary knife-edge atmosphere by locating a tense Pinteresque drama between three former anti-capitalist saboteurs to a potentially explosive denouément.

But not only influences. Elske Rahill’s HOW TO BE LOVED from Mirari Productions gives us Marilyn Monroe reincarnated as a Dublin woman. The strategy is that of the mask, literally so, when make-up and wig are taken into account. The atmosphere weirdly recalls Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Elfriede Jelinek’s Princess Plays, or Beckett’s Trilogy, even as the writing approaches the alienations of gender idendtity with something perfectly her own.

The mask – the persona – is repeatedly cover for the monologue in this year’s Fringe, curiously so, when you consider how often it is an actor-playwright who

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Twelve Treatises In Memory

Life After Love — Rehearsed Readings

is reaching for both the mask and the monologue. This is true not only of Elske Rahill but also of Phil Kingston and Elaine Murphy. Phil Kingston’s THE COMMON WILL sees him take up the mask of none other than Will Shakespeare, in an extraordinarily faithful, detailed, lively account of the years leading up to the writing of Hamlet. Themes of duplicity and cunning abound in a piece in which Elizabethan London has more than a whiff of celtic-tiger Dublin about it. Elaine Murphy’s LITTLE GEM from Gúna Nua confronts us squarely with the lives of three women, three generations, who gain their autonomy and our eternal love by the honesty of their look at themselves and the courage of their look at the world.

The monologue form is put to such diverse ends that you might think it stretched to breaking point this year.

It cleaves to the subjective like no other in Clodagh Downing’s play THE EVOLUTION OF LAUREN BEGAUN and again the delight is in meeting someone through a monologue whom you utterly believe. Paul Kennedy’s STOPPING BY THE WOODS from Squint Productions likewise winds you in to a consciousness getting to grips with itself in the familiarly upbeat Dublin idiom of Mark O’Rowe.

Then as if the idiom leads itself on its own merry dance, the final moment

is a breakdown in language with the precise effect that it breaks your heart.

The free-wheeling dramatic monologue is wonderfully capacious enough to accommodate the Dublin odyssey of Daniel Reardon’s ALL ROUND MY HEAD, the rhyming couplets proving to be an adventure equal to that in the narrative.

Out in the wilder regions of experimentation are two productions whose investigations are as much in the staging as in the language. In Neil Watkins’s THE DARKROOM from Gentle Giant Theatre Company, our greatest superheroes take centre-stage. And slug it out in duels. To the death. It’s an ingenious premise. To reflect further that Neil turns to heroic couplets and iambic pentameters to investigate the shadows that keep company with us all, and in particular the shadow of HIV, and that director Karl Shiels and designer Sarah Jane Shiels mean to keep it very dark, is to feel something very exciting in the making.

Peter Dunne’s BEFORE COLOUR from Wicked Angels investigates language as untruth, setting one young woman’s denials against the incontrovertible evidence of her two sisters’ self-harm. A staging with the fluidity of the colour spectrum is keeping pace here with the quicksilver changes in the dialogue.

Tucked away in the margins of the Fringe is STEP IT UP, a programme of

play readings, capturing a moment in the development of new work coalescing towards a production. There is no more pitiless, and consequently better, test for a play. The play has nowhere to hide, the audience’s experience is in the language alone. THICKER THAN WATER is about a prison break, and intriguingly so, the writer (who must remain unnamed for legal purposes) is currently doing time in Portlaoise prison. Shawn Sturnick’s CROWN JEWELS tracks down a nest of thieves in Dublin Castle but really the fun is all in the gay abandon.

On learning that Zelig, an emerging theatre company from Galway, premier Pat McCabe’s APPOINTMENT IN LIMBO for the Fringe – a play where a present-day lap-dance club is crosshatched with the outlandish folk heroes of 19th century Fenian and Orange ballads – I begin to think: the spirit of Flann O’Brien inhabits every particle of this adventure. Then I drift to thoughts of how this production is unthinkable anywhere else, and of how Flann O’Brien is the presiding spirit of the Fringe itself.

In the midst of the indecipherable blur of the Irish theatre scene is the Dublin Fringe, a lightning rod with all the potential to summon the utter clarity of the lightning bolt. Wear rubber when you venture anywhere near one of these productions

First / Glance Lightning strikes at this year’s Fringe ­ —

By Thomas Conway

Thomas Conway is a freelance director and Literary Manager with Druid.

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The Evolution Of Lauren Begaun

For more new Irish writing, check out some of the shows in our Outer Space section, including CITY BREAKS, STORYTAKER and WE’RE NOT REAL .

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All Dressed Up To Go Dreaming

NEW IRISH PLAY WRITING IS CENTRAL TO THIS YEAR’S DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL. THE QUALIT Y AND DIVERSIT Y OF SCRIP TS THAT WERE SUBMIT TED TO US INDICATES A NEW GENERATION OF PLAY WRIGHTS CARVING THEIR OWN WAY AND CREATING INSPIRATIONAL WORK. PRESENTED ALONGSIDE HUGELY TALENTED ESTABLISHED WRITERS, EXPECT EVERY THING

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FROM MUSICAL MONOLOGUES TO THREE ACT COMEDIC EPICS, FROM TRAGEDIES IN RHYME TO THE RETURN OF OUR POPULAR REHEARSED READINGS PROGRAMME.

All Around My Head

ROOMKEEPERS PRODUCTIONS

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All Dressed Up to Go Dreaming POPE JOAN THEATRE

COMPANY

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Appointment in Limbo

ZELIG THEATRE

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mystery tour, visiting old haunts, reconciling psychoses, experiencing epiphanies, and resolving once and for all to do the right thing. A new comedic play from acclaimed writer Daniel Reardon, delivered in sharp rhyming couplets with occasional musical interludes from the seagull.

IN A DARK CORNER OF A FORGOTTEN BUILDING AN EAGER SUITOR IN TOP HAT AND TAILS weaves Gershwin’s

melodies and Blake’s poetry into a devastating confluence of sex and geopolitics. Nostalgia is administered like a narcotic here, and loving art means loving violence. Written by A. M. MacEachern, directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks.

ON HALLOW’S EVE IN DUBLIN, THE GHOSTS OF IRELAND’S PAST DESCEND ON LIMBO, the capital’s newest

strip-club. After pints and lap-dances, will ‘The Man From God Knows Where’ offer redemption or condemn them to a vile, suffering existence? A viciously funny new play by Patrick McCabe, author of Breakfast on Pluto.

Before Colour

THE STARS OF LAST YEAR’S SMASH HIT WAITING FOR IKEA ARE BACK, AND THEY’RE GOING ALL HOLLYWOOD!

— Ireland

Against a backdrop of 1930s film glamour the celebrity obsessed, power consumed Brookes family use their daughters as currency to fulfil their own dreams. Before Colour unearths a dark world where beauty is paramount and starlets are royalty. Written by Peter Dunne.

WICKED ANGELS

How to be Loved MIRARI

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IS THAT SEAGULL OVER THERE YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL? A lunatic and a seagull embark on a magical

ONE WOMAN, ONE OBSESSION, ONE DEAD STAR.

Catherine knows that she’s different – can’t stand the day to day of life, you know? She’s used to bigger things. A life of light. Join her journey into the grip of celebrity as she prepares to reveal her secret for the first time. Written by Elske Rahill, directed by Maisie Lee.

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15 - 20 SEP

VENUE BEWLEYS CAFÉ

THEATRE

1PM 50 MINS TICKETS €12/€10/€8 TIME

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8 - 13 SEP

VENUE INTERNATIONAL

BAR

1/2PM 20 MINS PREVIEW 8 SEP TICKETS €8/€6/€4 TIME

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9 - 14 SEP

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BECKETT THEATRE

6.40PM 80 MINS TICKETS €18/€16 TIME

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DATE

15 - 20 SEP

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Love 2.0

THISISPOPBABY

IN ASSOCIATION

WITH THE ABBEY THEATRE

— Ireland

Reptillian

DRAGONFLY THEATRE

— Ireland

Step It Up: Rehearsed Readings Day 1 A-PICKING AT A BONE (CARMEL WINTERS),

SPIDER (ARTHUR SHERIDAN), LIFE AF TER LOVE

(BILLIE TRAYNOR)

— Ireland

Step It Up: Rehearsed Readings Day 2 THE CROWN JEWELS

(PREPOSTEROUS THEATRE),

LEAP OF FAITH (THEATRICAL THEATRICS

PRODUCTIONS), THICKER

THAN WATER

(PRODUCED BY

GEOFF POWER)

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Lorraine’s poppin’ pills ‘cos it turns out she is a bit of a mentaller after all. And grand-daughter Amber’s having strange side effects from that exercise DVD with yer one from Coronation Street. Written by Elaine Murphy. Directed by Paul Meade.

SEX. MONEY. POWER. REPUTATION. thisispopbaby present two new short plays by two of Ireland’s most exciting emerging writers. Commissioned by the Abbey Theatre as part of their 20:LOVE season, Two Houses by Belinda McKeon and Investment Potential by Phillip McMahon tackle the thorny theme of love in modern Ireland.

Directed by Deirdre Molloy.

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€15/€12.50/€10 DOROTHY BELIEVES HER 53RD BIRTHDAY WILL MIRROR EVERY OTHER DAY: cleaning the house and reciting poetry

to her beloved turtles while her husband Richard works late with his young secretary and her son avoids the ruthless ‘Ten-Toke Tony’. But past and present events collide with catastrophic consequences for everyone, even the turtles.

Written by Shona McCarthy, winner Fishamble New Writing Award 2007.

FOLLOWING THE SUCCESS OF LAST YEAR’S REHEARSED READINGS, DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL IS DELIGHTED TO PRESENT STEP IT UP, a platform for script-

based work that captured our imagination and sparked our curiosity. Taking place over two Sundays, six emerging writers showcase their new work, with facilitated discussion and refreshments.

2PM - A-PICKING AT A BONE by CARMEL WINTERS. A toddler is

3.30PM - SPIDER

by ARTHUR SHERIDAN. A

4.50PM - LIFE AFTER LOVE by BILLIE TR AYNOR.

drug addicted teenage snatched, another child is daughter who seeks out to blame. Only fifteen, his her real parents only to mother attempts to piece find out its too late. together what happened and why.

The Rough (Middle Aged Woman’s) Guide to make up, men and parenthood from newly divorced Daisy Magill.

1PM - THE CROWN JEWELS by SHAWN STURNICK. A comic

3.15PM - LEAP OF FAITH by DAVID LYDON.

4.45PM - THICKER THAN WATER is a fictional

A young and prosperous writer-for-hire is waiting to emerge from the shadow of ghost-writing with one extra day to complete his book.

crime story written by a current inmate of the Midlands Prison that delves into the paranoid, tense, male mind-games of crime.

game of “Cluedo” where nothing’s sacred and everybody’s guilty of something. The Irish Crown Jewels have been nicked and King Edward VII is determined not to find out who dunnit.

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You Are Here > First Glance

GÚNA NUA AND

KAY IS THE ‘WRONG SIDE OF SIXTY’, AND IS OFF TO ANN SUMMERS IN SEARCH OF SOME ANSWERS. Daughter

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Little Gem

Stopping by the Woods

IT WAS JUST ANOTHER DAY OF SHOPLIFTING FOR GAVIN AND FR ANK, that was until Frank thought it was a

PRODUCTIONS

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good idea to hijack the funny looking bloke’s funny looking car. Now Frank’s gone and Gavin is left to face the music. A tragi-comic story of one man’s fumbling attempts to come to terms with who he is. Written by Paul Kennedy.

The Common Will

BISHOPS ARE BURNING BOOKS, THE SPANISH ARE ABOUT TO SAIL UP THE THAMES AND WILL SHAKESPEARE’S FELLOW PLAYWRIGHTS ARE GETTING STABBED IN TAVERNS .

SQUINT

PAINTED FILLY

— Ireland

Can our hero steal a theatre, juggle his lovers and still write a long play about a gloomy Danish prince? Find out in this short play about a desperately talented man. Written and performed by Phil Kingston.

The Darkroom

DC AND MARVEL SUPERHEROES AND SUPERVILLAINS FACE EXTINCTION. The Anarchic Invincibility Deficiency

THEATRE

COMPANY

GENTLE GIANT THEATRE

COMPANY

— Ireland

The Evolution Of Lauren Begaun CLODAGH

DOWNING

Syndrome unmasks masked idols and Supermen fade to grey.

When the world falls darker than Joker’s soul, something sharper than Wolverine’s claws will save us. Heroic Couplets, comic book duality and a touch of La Ronde from awardwinning writer Neil Watkins. Directed by Karl Shiels.

THE ATTIC STUDIO

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8 - 13 SEP

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INTERNATIONAL BAR

6PM ­70MINS PREVIEW 8SEP TICKETS €10/€8 TIME

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8 - 13 SEP

VENUE BEWLEYS CAFÉ

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€15/€12.50/€10 ONE DAY, ONE SCENE, ONE UNFORGETTABLE ACT OF VIOLENCE. Lauren devoted her life to her demented mother,

until she found her dark side. A twisted comedy about psychosis, vegetables and the quest for freedom. Written and performed by Clodagh Downing. Directed by Nicole Rourke.

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Those Powerful Machines

DATE

“THEN THEY GET ME ON THE FLOOR, ON MY BACK, AND I REALISE, THAT’S THAT, I’M JUST A HOLE,” Trace. “Fuck

crutches. What I got, no-one can take away with crutches,” Roddy. “They could be radical vegetarians for all I know,” Clanger. A new play about Sex, Power and Semtex by Arnold Thomas Fanning. Directed by Graham Cantwell.

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You Are Here > New Writing

Twelve Treatises on Memory: An Epistemological Slapstick (With Sock Puppets)

€15/€12.50/€10 MARK AND BETH WERE EACH OTHER’S FIRST LOVES. FIFTEEN YEARS LATER THEY’RE ABOUT TO MEET AGAIN. Mark,

stuck in an 80s time warp, thinks he remembers it like it was.

Beth, now achieving multiple orgasms with six-pack Joe (or is she?) won’t play ball. The past is about to get bloody in John Crutchfield’s savagely funny look at love, memory and bad timing. Directed by Una Mac Nulty.

15 - 20 SEP T36 TIME 6.15PM LENGTH ­80MINS PREVIEW 15 SEP DATE

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€15/€12.50/€10

A Recipe for Success

By Deirdre Roycroft

SERVING SUGGESTION / These balmy September evenings always carry a frisson of excitement on the wind. It’s the heady memory of back-to-school, that last fling of summer before the nights close in. And what better way to capture the mood than a generous helping of freshly picked entertainment, served with some witty dialogue, nuggets of drama and accompanied by a glass of delightfully irreverent comedy. A careful balance of home-grown material with imported ensures those comforting notes are complemented by that brand of vaudeville the Americans do wonderfully well.

So, the first thing to do is gather your ingredients. The most important thing to remember with this dish is freshness. Flavours are at their most intense the first time they hit your palate, and all of these ingredients have been carefully chosen to give you that oomph! of the new.

HELP

PANTOMIME

h s e r F d e Guar an te

An absurdist platter 6 plays on the one plate.

Evocatively and wittily flavoured with comedy, monkeys and music.

All in the Timing, Inis Theatre A dollop of cyberspace teenage cyberspace to be exact.

No cyberspace is quite as fastpaced and cutting-edge as the teenage. Chatroom, Calipo A shot of the macabre It’s important that you keep this chilly, as the freezer is an essential theme. They Never Froze Walt Disney, Theatre Makers 60 mins of a Dublin wise -guy Fast-paced and lippy this dish is as charming as the city. Whacker Murphy’s Bad Buzz, City Theatre An intense serving of talent One man and his piano tear the country asunder.

Mimic, Tobacco Factory

WASH IT DOWN WITH A quirky, self-reflective little number / Surprising on the nose, with distinctive notes of comedy and a definite aftertaste of Beckett meets Seinfeld. Help! Mabinog A dark, fruity, full-bodied experience / bringing with it the heat of the Caribbean. Longer notes, engaging themes. One to linger over. Pantomime, Arambe Productions

and reassembled. Designs redrawn.

There may have been tears, curses, and implement flinging. But rest assured that by the time you buy that ticket, the drama will be firmly on the stage, where it belongs –for your entertainment. A meal is always decided by the company.

Those long, complicated evenings with old friends, those sparkling, burbling teas with new ones.

Or those most delicious purely private indulgences you share only with yourself. So peruse the programme, choose your company, buy your ticket and feed your soul.

PREPARATION By the time you set eyes on this feast of creativity, the ingredients will already have been through a rigorous selection process at the hands of diligent directors. Before your bottom hits the seat, the actors will have sweated nicely in their Deirdre Roycroft is a theatre own juices for up to four weeks. maker and performer.

Plays will have been chopped up

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YOU WILL NEED 21 actors A good mix of type, sex and age is important here.

8 companies The Fringe have sourced some top Irish produce. Ursula Rani Sarma, Tommy Tiernan, Bisi Adigun, Enda Walsh, Tom Creed, the delectable Iseult Golden and David Horan have all lent their skills.

7 venues Old reliables include Project Cube, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Players, Bewleys, T36, Smock Alley, with a quick jaunt to the coolness of Filmbase just to keep you at the table.

A deeply savoury braise Love, storms and darkness, simmered for months and seasoned with craft.

The Magic Tree, Djinn Theatre

You Are Here > Guaranteed Fresh

THEY NEVER FROZE WALT DISNEY

Guaranteed Fresh • With our Fringe theatre stamp of approval, this category encompasses plays by emerging Irish writers that have not been seen in Dublin, as well as new productions and premieres of established plays by Fringe favourite companies. You know you’re getting quality with Guaranteed Fresh!

h s e r F d e Guarante All in the Timing • INIS THEATRE • Ireland •

Chatroom • CALIPO • Ireland •

Help! • MABINOG • Ireland •

Mimic •

Ireland •

Pantomine • ARAMBE PRODUCTIONS • Ireland •

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You Are Here > Guaranteed Fresh

TOBACCO FACTORY THEATRE •

Some of America’s cleverest comic writing from David Ives, presented by Fringe award winners. How to get together, speak the same language, understand the nature of time, infinity… and the music of Philip Glass! Prepare for a wild slice of cerebral vaudeville to expand the mind and titillate the cerebellum. “Feel-good theatre of metaphysics” NY Times

Date 8-13 / 15-20 Sep Venue Bewleys Café Theatre Time 8.30pm Length 85 mins Preview 8 Sep Tickets €14/€12/€10

Welcome to a safe and neutral place where no one knows your name... Welcome to cyberspace. Six teenagers type and chat. A game begins that will involve foul deeds, manipulation and the ultimate act of rebellion. Calipo proudly presents Enda Walsh’s critically acclaimed play. “The writing is taut, vivid, cool, scary and often funny” The Times

Date 8-13 Sep Venue Smock Alley Time 6.30pm Length 60 mins Preview 8 Sep Matinee 11/12 Sep @2.30pm Tickets €15/€12.50/€10 (group rate €10)

Second-rate comedian Eleanor Tiernan has 24 hours to get funny. Her warm up gig for the auditions at the infamous Mullingar Comedy Festival was shite: can her cousin Niamh help? Devised by Niamh, Eleanor & Tommy Tiernan, Help! is a play described as “Samuel Beckett meets Jerry Seinfeld” (Metro).

Date 15-20 Sep Venue T36 Time 8.30pm Length 60 mins Matinee 20 Sep @2pm Tickets €15/€12.50/€10

Julian Neary, comedian, returns to the Ireland he rebelled against as a child and finds a landscape of abandoned houses and ruined shopping centres. A one-man tour-de-force at a piano, about what might happen to a nation that forgets its heritage. Written and performed by Raymond Scannell. Directed by Tom Creed.

Date 17-21 Sep Venue Samuel Beckett Theatre Time 6.10pm Length 80 mins Matinee 21 Sep @2pm Tickets €15/€12

In a guest house in Tobago, Harry, a retired English actor, devises a pantomime to attract customers. In his production, Crusoe is black and Man Friday is white. An exploration of the ‘unfamiliar’ through a ‘familiar’ text, addressing the continuing discourse of race, migration, interculturalism and identity in Ireland. Written by Derek Walcott.

Directed by Bisi Adigun.

Date 8-13 Sep Venue T36 Time 7pm Length 100 mins Preview 8 Sep Matinee 13 Sep @2pm Tickets €15/12.50/€10

COMPANY • Ireland •

They Never Froze Walt Disney • THEATRE MAKERS • Ireland •

Whacker Murphy’s Bad Buzz • CITY THEATRE DUBLIN • Ireland •

Date 16-20 Sep Venue Project Cube Time 9.15pm Length 70 mins Preview 16 Sep Matinee 19 Sep @3pm Tickets €15/€12.50/€10

A chilly tale of romance, remorse and refrigeration in rural Ireland. Written by Jody O’Neill and directed by Jack Healy, this darkly comic piece traces the lives of Marie and Paudie, from the 1960s to present day, flashing between their first encounters and the highly suspicious circumstances that reunite them many years later. “The comedy is assured, beautifully pointed” The Irish Times.

Date 8-13 Sep Venue Players Theatre Time 6.15pm Length 60 mins Preview 8 Sep Matinee 12 Sep @2.30pm Tickets €15/€12.50/€10

When a dodgy deal goes tits-up Whacker finds himself 1,500 squids in debt to Jimmy Mo Mo, the biggest nutbag around. Even Scags Murphy and Ed the Horse Mooney can’t help. Reality bites, and spits, when trying to pull Polish temptress Maria. Will Jimmy Mo Mo get his cash or will Whacker suffer the ultimate consequence? Written by Edwin Mullane.

Date 8-13 Sep Venue Filmbase Time 8.30pm Length 60 mins Matinee 12 Sep @3pm Tickets €14/€12/€10

You Are Here > Guaranteed Fresh

DJINN THEATRE

The story of a love born in a very dark place between a man who wants to belong and a woman who wants to be forgotten. On a stormy night, they shelter in an abandoned summer home on Dublin’s coast and tentatively discover what unites and divides them. Written and directed by Ursula Rani Sarma.

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The Magic Tree •

What should you expect from the contemporary dance offerings of a Fringe Festival? Would you agree that the work should be a bit raw, edgy, provocative, and undoubtedly multi- or cross-disciplinary? And that it may even be hard to categorize as dance except that you should find movement at the core – rather than text, or clowning, or music? But you might say that the movement may not be what you think of as dance – steps, combinations, a formality of line. Rather, it might be messy, pedestrian, gestural. Will the Dublin Fringe Festival 2008’s dance series, IN MOTION, match these expectations?

Well, the work of the Americans I know – Jess Curtis’ work for Croí Glan and the two solo adaptations of Deborah Hay’s work by Emma Fitzgerald and Julie Lockett – certainly should, but in less obvious ways. Curtis will here collaborate with Tara Brandel and Rhona Coughlan, giving them the chance to explore their own and each others’ bodies. Like girl jonah, who performed in the 2008 Dublin Dance Festival, these two very different dancers, one a wheelchair user, will interweave their personal movement vocabularies with bits of narrative. Curtis comes from the (in)famous San Francisco collective Contraband, worked with a French nouvelle cirque company, and now lives between San Francisco and Berlin. His experience in aerial work might well be a component of Assymetrical Tendencies Deborah Hay poses impossible problems to solve, e.g, “what if every cell in my body had the potential to realise the uniqueness and originality of time?” Or, “what if every cell in my body were moving in a different direction?”

Her work is created – in both solo and group configurations – around these imaginative puzzles. How each choreographer/dancer responds to such conundrums is the genesis of the creation of the work. Coached by Hay, there is ample room for individuality but each dancer must practice her/his piece every day for at least 30 days before Deborah will sanction its performance. A Judson-era pioneer who worked away almost hermetically in Austin, TX since 1976 renowned only among a small circle of dancers, Deborah Hay’s recent work has garnered significant attention, has been supported in France by the National Choreographic Centre in Angers and in Germany by The Forsythe Company, and is touring widely. The double bill of Hay’s work in the Fringe (Solo Adaptations: The Ridge / The Runner) is performed by Emma Fitzgerald and Julie Lockett.

Laurie Uprichard

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IN G T H E STRETCH ANCE NS OF D IO IT IN F E D

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Assymetrical Tendencies

Mobile

The ever delightful junk ensemble will examine dereliction and abandon in a site-specific work to be presented in a warehouse. Entitled Drinking Dust. the Kennedy sisters will collaborate with two theatre directors (Brokentalkers) and plan to incorporate interactive elements.

Megan Kennedy will also take part in A Distinct Glimpse, a collaboration with choreographer Gavin Kostick (winner of the 2007 Spirit of the Fringe Award), composer Natasha Lohan, and designer Aedin Cosgrove that promises a “storming piece of dance.”

Embedded in the Fringe’s dance triple bill, Norwegian choreographer Henrik Kallund, in a solo for Anne Schmidt, attacks the issue of finding one’s identity under the constant bombardment of the media. The work intends to use rapidly changing lights to highlight the potential of rapid changes of persona.

Barcelona choreographers Germana Civera and Jordi Cortes will create The Forest, described as dark, primeval, Shakespearean. Civera, who is also based part of the year in the south of France, had a recent work, Fuero(n), presented at Montpellier Danse. Cortes worked in London with DV8 and Wendy Houstoun, and is an accomplished dancer/actor.

Rounding off the triple bill is Mark Riebort, who studied boat building and dance in Norway, as HE tries to figure out how he ended up here.

A programme of two double bills of Scottish dance will include Mobile, a work exploring possibilities for movement with crutches, investigating choice and denial by Claire Cunningham. Also on this varied bill are Danceihayami, a company that incorporates the Bharata Natyam form of classical Indian dance with Celtic music, and Collette Sadler’s The Making of Doubt.

Working with musician Emily Aoibheann, Deirdre Murphy’s Wax Hands, as part of the Fringe’s celebratory Day of Dance in DanceHouse will investigate the boundary between life and death, imagining the freedom of a weightless, bodiless state.

These amazing descriptions, coming from the dance artists in the Fringe, lead me to add and, indeed stress, that beyond the expectations outlined in the first paragraph above, a most important consideration cannot be overlooked.

These choreographers are working rigorously and with considerable discipline to create such pieces. They may stretch your definitions of dance but they are serious investigations into movement and/or into issues of consequence in today’s world.

Laurie Uprichard

BY

IN G T H E STRETCH E OF DANC S N IO IT D E F IN

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Rhythmic Space Drinking Dust

If you are a professional performer, you may also be interested in the Fringe’s exciting programme of intensive physical workshops (pg 43). This is an ideal opportunity for theatre and dance professionals to train outside the box, acquire some special skills and widen the horizon of your own practice.

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Wax Hands

You Are Here > In Motion

Laurie Uprichard is Artistic Director of the Dublin Dance Festival

our dance category is a joyous celebration of all things physical. showcasing the best of irish and international dance, this section incorporates a not-to-be-missed once-off day of dance, shows in both traditional theatres and site-sensitive venues, and the return of our popular dance bills (where you get to see a selection of pieces specially chosen in one go by the festival director).

A Distinct Glimpse ---------KLoCK Productions Ireland

Spirit of the Fringe Award 2007 winner Gavin Kostick returns with a wholly original collaborative performance piece featuring Megan Kennedy, Natasha Lohan, Aedin Cosgove and very special guests.

Their collaboration marks an attempt to put right a terrible wrong committed in 1972 by a six year old boy at the Lady Mayor of Crewe’s banquet. Supported by Project Arts Centre.

Date 16-20 Sep Venue Project Cube Time 1pm Length 45 mins Preview 16 Sep Tickets €12/€10/€8

Bridge ---------Niamh Condron & Julyen Hamilton Ireland/UK

Look under the bridge, what lies beneath? What's keeping the bridge from crashing under our feet? What will happen when we get to the other side?

What have we left behind? Bridge is a duet that transforms an empty space into a poetry of bridged lands and places amidst air.

Date 18-20 Sep Venue Back Loft Time 9 pm Length 50 mins Tickets €12/€10

Bygones (I det fortflutna) ---------Ingun Bjornsgaard Prosjekt Norway

How can memor y, and the emotions it evokes, colour our subsequent experiences?

Ingun Bjornsgaard, one of the most highly regarded choreographers working in Europe today, brings together a talented ensemble to interweave classical and contemporary dance styles in this powerful piece.

Date 19-20 Sep Venue Project Upstairs Time 9.15pm Length 55 mins Tickets €18/€14

Dance Double Bill 1 ---------Scottish Dance Exchange, presented

by Dancebase (Scotland’s National Centre for Dance) & Richard Wakely United Kingdom

The Making of Doubt by Stammer: Award-winning Scottish choreographer Colette Sadler brings you a sensory journey in and out of reality. Using movement, trickery and illusion, this questions the notion 'is seeing really believing?' Featuring a very surprising cast and an epic sound score by the mythical Zoviet France. mobile by Claire Cunningham: A solo dance piece weaving the themes of choice and denial by Fringe 2007 award nominee Claire Cunningham. Crutches entwine with rope to form a ‘mobile’ structure, offering adventures and platforms from which to aerially explore and explain her realities.

Date 8-10 Sep Venue Project Upstairs Time 9.15pm Length 90 mins Tickets €18/€14

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Date 11-13 Sep Venue Project Upstairs Time 9.15pm Length 75 mins Tickets €18/€14

Day of Dance ---------Dublin Fringe Festival in association with Dance Ireland Ireland

Join us in celebration of the moving body in this packed-with-activity Day of Dance. Enjoy new dance works from Irish and international choreographers, including screenings of dance films, followed by facilitated post-discussion rounds with the creators. Give your opinion on the state of dance in the first dance-specific Open Space Forum in Ireland, or just dance yourself into oblivion in the contact improvisation dance jam. The only requirement is curiosity! For full line up and schedule please check www.fringefest.com

Date 7 Sep Venue DanceHouse Time 12pm - 9pm Tickets €15/€10

Drinking Dust ---------junk ensemble Ireland

Come with us to a lost location. A broken stor y in a burnt-out building, this is the gritty place that you left behind. junk ensemble (Winner Jayne Snow Award 2007) presents Drinking Dust, a new site-specific dance theatre piece in collaboration with Brokentalkers (Winner Sexiest Show 2006) that looks at abandonment in our life and city. "junk ensemble have guts and ingenuity" The Irish Times.

Date 8-13/15-20 Sep Venue Meeting Point: Outside Smock Alley Time 8.30pm Length 60 mins Preview 8 Sep Tickets €14/€12

Rhythmic Space ---------Irish Modern Dance Theatre Ireland

The artist’s studio is the setting for this seamless amalgamation of expressive theatricality, athleticism and culture. No set, no lighting, no edifice. Witness nine talents from across the globe in an unhindered picture of the vitality, virtuosity and bravery that they bring to their work day in, day out.

Date 15-20 Sep Venue Temple Bar Gallery & Studios Time 6.30/8.30pm Length 40 mins Matinee 18 Sep @ 1pm Tickets €10/€8

Solo Adaptations: The Ridge/ The Runner ---------Emma Fitzgerald and Julie Lockett Ireland

What if ever y cell in our bodies had the potential to realise the uniqueness and originality of all that there is? Emma Fitzgerald and Julie Lockett, choreographed by the radical Deborah Hay, manifest spontaneous love songs, delicious curves, fake pliés and a pot of gold while negotiating the answer to this fascinating question.

Date 9-10 Sep Venue Project Cube Time 1pm Length 40 mins Tickets €12/€10

Dance Double Bill 2 ---------Presented by Dancebase, Scotland’s National Centre for Dance, and Richard Wakely United Kingdom

Ananda By DanceIhayami: Dynamic footwork, chiseled geometry of movement, meaningful hand gestures and facial expressions; a colorful, joyful and upbeat celebration of form and the Indian classical dance form Bharatanatyam. Choreography by Priya Shrikumar.

Without A Hitch By Random Aspects: Backstabbing B-boys killing the beat and each other.

Three guys are dying to impress; but as they break, pop and lock, their friendships go sour. Influenced by Hitchcock and film noir, they throw a scent of the sinister into break dance.

Date 11-13 Sep Venue Project Cube Time 1pm (4.30pm on 13th Sep) Length 45 mins Tickets €12/€10

You Are Here > In Motion

iDentity dFragments (Henrik Kaalund): Who are you really? Can you find your true identity in a society increasingly influenced by the media?

In a razor sharp choreography, beautiful Anne Schmidt changes who she is in the blink of an eye and the flash of an insistent camera.

He (Maik Riebort): Confession, the act of concession, is a fragile moment that sets us free.

It’s our motivation for change. Enter into a solo dance performance about the personal moment of confession and the need of man to bare his soul.

The Forest (Alta Realitat): Oscillating between installation and performance with live music, The Forest becomes a primeval biological vision of flowing body movement. How do we perceive ourselves and those around us? Created and performed by Germana Civera & Jordi Cortez Molina (winner Best Performer Award Fringe 2005 for Lucky).

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Dance Triple Bill ---------iDentity dFragments (Henrik Kaalund), He (Maik Riebort), The Forest (Alta Realitat) Germany/Spain

I am sitting at a table for two in a café on Pearse Street. Across from me, my boyfriend is wearing headphones and gazing deep into my eyes. When he speaks he sounds assured, half philosopher, half poet. A voice in his ear is feeding him his lines. If only real life were this tightly scripted.

Directed by the voices in our ears we shape plasticine heads onto tiny plastic figures and move them across the stage (which is actually the table but we keep forgetting this). Doing what I'm told, I draw a door with chalk so my character can leave her lover. My boyfriend drips red liquid into my glass of water. I drink the "blood".

The other people in the café go about their coffee drinking and cake eating business oblivious to the drama being played out between us. When it is all over we walk out, feeling as though we've been through an emotional mangle. Just the thing to spice up an otherwise boring Wednesday night.

Etiquette, the half hour show that is part of the Outer Space segment of the Fringe programme this year, is a treat for the senses that should not be missed by anyone who appreciates the blurring – in this case the obliteration – of the lines between audience and performer. Set in churches, disused buildings, bars, stairwells, galleries, hotel rooms and schools, these productions show us what is possible when we take theatre out of the cosy confines of more conventional spaces.

Twenty years ago I had my first taste of what might best be described as 'theatre outside of the theatre' when I featured in a Dublin Youth Theatre production of Sean O'Casey's The Plough and The Stars. The action took place in a quasitenement building on Gardiner Street before moving out into the streets which were done up in 1916 slum style. I was a Salvation Army woman on the street, noisily god bothering passing members of the audience. The play was a huge success with punters and not just because the interval took place in a pub.

I've been a sucker for what is often dubbed 'site-specific' work ever since. My personal highlight of a previous Fringe was Tom Swift's Drive By. The truth is I've forgotten much of the theatre I've seen while sitting in comfortable seats watching actors performing a safe distance away on stage.

I will, however, never forget driving into the Power Station at Ringsend, getting my windscreen wiped, tuning in the car radio and being bombarded, while still sitting in the car, by that relentlessly visceral 25-minuteglimpse inside the mind of a boy racer. I haven't thought about 'joy riding' the same way since.

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La Voix Humaine

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With any luck I will catch them all but the one I'm most tickled by is Storytaker by Patrick Bridgeman, an exploration of identity set in the stairwell of a performance art space where the audience is given the power to decide the outcome of the story.

Lately, there's been some soulsearching about the definition of "site specific". Purists say it is "performance specifically generated from or for one site". I'm not convinced. La Voix Humaine, one woman's experience of being dumped on the phone, was not written by Jean Cocteau to be performed in the James Joyce Centre, but this space is guaranteed to inform and enhance what is expected to be one of the highlights of Fringe.

Site-specific. Site-enhanced.

Site-generic. Site-sympathetic.

These productions deserve better than hyphenated labels. In the end, wherever and however it takes place, this is theatre.

Exciting, challenging, amusing, uplifting, uncomfortable, exhilarating theatre.

Go see for yourself.

We're Not Real

The Woman Who Left Herself

Luck

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Roisín Ingle is a freelance journalist.

By Roisín Ingle

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So what's in store this year?

In Rock Paper Scissors you sit at a school desk – a captive audience of one – to experience the cross pollination of visual art, theatre and dance. Down on Burgh Quay, a bouncer takes your invite before you enter a daydream belonging to The Woman Who Left Herself. Only three people across the whole festival will get to experience Paranoid which will whisk them across the city on a whacked out journey where nothing is as it seems. You can experience the sensory thrill of being both audience and performer with Drinking Dust, the Outer Space offering from the always-brilliant Junk Ensemble, directed by Brokentalkers. In Love and Other Disguises, you'll be the audience and congregation at a wedding in the Unitarian Church.

Elsewhere, four young writers from Dublin Youth Theatre use the company's house on Gardiner Street to explore reality in We're Not Real. While It's A Domestic is dinner as performance art with Maedbh Cheasty from You're Only Massive inviting us on a culinary trip down memory lane.

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During Fringe Festivals past I could mostly be found hanging out at The Personality Café, an ever-changing happening which fed into my desire as an audience member to be surprised, stimulated and catapulted from my comfort zone. I expect nothing less from the Outer Space programme.

A deserted car park in the Docklands? An old abandoned school room? The stairwell of an office block? This year we are presenting exhilarating work in more non-traditional venues than ever before – environments that add to the performance and also performances that were created specifically for a particular environment. Whether seated on a church pew, squished into an all-too-intimate hotel room, blindfolded on the floor or led around the city, our Outer Space programme is sure to surprise, thrill and fulfill your expectations.

Antics Rogue Show / Will St Leger / Ireland

An anarchic art show where a crew of street artists will rework your boring suburban paintings into urban masterpieces. Dust off your crappy supermarket canvases, get those old landscapes and vases out of the loft and let us pimp your art!

Winner of the Fringe Special Award for last year’s Art Raid.

Date / 12-14 Sep Venue / The Red Space Time / 6.30pm Length / 90 mins Tickets / €15

Arabian Night / Group X / Ireland

Blindfolded and lying on the floor, experience a sonic rendition of an urban thriller about five lonely people whose destinies cross, bringing love, lust and torture on a sultry summer’s night. A provocative and daring staging of an award-nominated play in which the audience’s imagination is the only constraint.

Date / 10-18 Sep (no show on 14 Sep) Venue / Goethe Institute Time / 8pm Length / 80 mins Tickets / €15/ €10

City Breaks / GoLightly Theatre / Ireland

Release your inner voyeur and join Samuel in his hotel room, where he locks himself in with the Polish maid and avoids his own birthday party guests. For everyone who has ever wondered what the noises in the next room are. Get away, and get away with it. Written by Shane Carr.

Date / 8-11/15-18 Sep Venue / O’Shea’s Hotel, 19 Talbot Street Time / 6.30pm/8.30pm (no 6.30 show on 8th) Length / 50 mins Preview / 8 Sep @ 8.30pm Tickets / €12/ €10

Etiquette / Rotozaza / United Kingdom

Be both actor and audience for this half-hour experience for two people in a public space.

Headphones direct what you say and do, and no one else around you is involved. There is a kind of magic – for it to work you just need to listen and respond accordingly.

“Gripping” New York Times

Date / 6-21 Sep Venue / Curved Street Café Time / Every half hour from 10am Tickets / €5

It’s A Domestic / You're Only Massive / Ireland

Cook and eat dinner with your host as she tells you stories and sings you songs in an intimate domestic space. Fringe regulars You’re Only Massive connect the lines between skills lost and found, parents who always eat fish on a Friday and children who eat strawberries in December.

Date / 16-21 Sep Venue / The Red Space Time / 7.30pm Length / 90 mins Matinee / 17 Sep @ 2.30pm Tickets / €18/ €15 including dinner

La Voix Humaine / Randolf SD I The Company / Ireland

Everywhere across the city somebody is getting dumped, swathed in coffee and cigarettes. Getting dressed up and getting even, getting dressed down and sinking into darkness. It’s a glamour of depression. Bear witness to the end of the affair. A woman contemplates the despair of her situation, alone with a telephone, a bed, her grief and you.

Date / 8-13 /15-17 Sep Venue / James Joyce Centre Time / 9pm Length / 45 mins Preview / 8 Sep Tickets / €15/ €10

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Date / 8-13 Sep Venue / Unitarian Church St Stephen’s Green Time / 6.15pm Length / 55 mins Tickets / €14/ €12

Luck / Making Strange Theatre Company / Ireland

RSVP for this cocktail party paying homage to the host’s Las Vegas childhood. Over cocktails and nibbles, she’ll regale you with true tales of growing up a professional gambler’s daughter and ask, is it possible to make your own luck? Making Strange Theatre Company (Jayne Snow Award 2006) in collaboration with Dodd Loomis and Shawn Sturnick.

Date / 7-14 Sep Venue / Pantibar Time / 6.15pm Length / 60 mins Preview / 7 Sep Tickets / €12/ €10

Paranoid? / Red Bear / Ireland

Have you ever questioned your mind, motives or morals? Embark on a surreal adventure through the city and meet fabulous and freakish performers that will confuse, delight and seduce you. Throughout you’ll suspect everybody who comes your way. Paranoid?

You should be. Bid online for your chance to be one of only three participants! Want more? www.myspace.com/paranoidfringe

Date / 6/13/20 Sep Venue / Secret meeting point Time / 1pm Length / 120 mins Tickets / To the highest bidder

Rock Paper Scissors / RYT Performance Lab / Ireland

Sit at the school desk. Wait for instruction. Watch the clock. No talking. The bell dictates everything, creating a game of chance where theatre, dance and visual art clash, compete and combine in a myriad of extraordinary stories under the roof of the disused Comprehensive School in Ballymun.

Date / 10-21 Sep Venue / Old Ballymun Comprehensive Time / 7.30pm Length / 90 mins Preview / 10-13 Sep Tickets / €12/ €10

Storytaker / Channel Changers / Ireland

Imagine waking up in a foreign place, suffering total memory-loss and being offered someone else’s identity to use as your own. An intimate audience follows one such Storytaker around a converted stairwell space, experimenting with the elusive fourth wall and eventually deciding the final outcome of the show.

Date / 13-21 Sep Venue / The Lab Time / 6.30/8.30pm Length / 45 mins Tickets / €12/ €10

The Woman Who Left Herself / Jouissance Productions / Ireland

On the anniversary of her disappearance a missing woman invites you to a party in a candlelit otherworld. During this eerie, intimate experience you’ll accompany her on the journey of self. En route expect melody, games, cakes and identity mistakes. Pack your dreams, reawaken Burgh Quay and come to know The Woman Who Left Herself.

Date / 17-21 Sep Venue / Common Place, 10 Burgh Quay Time / 9.00/10.30pm Length / 30 mins Tickets / €8/ €6

We’re Not Real / Dublin Youth Theatre / Ireland

Become a man, run away, take back the truth, create a new world. Discover the realities of four young writers at four short shows performed in different rooms. With reality as their starting point these pieces are written, directed and performed on their own stomping ground.

Date / 9-13/16-20 Sep Venue / DYT Building Time / 7/8.30pm (no 8.30pm show on 9th) Length / 60 mins Preview / 9th (7pm) & 10th (7pm & 8.30pm) Tickets / €12/ €8

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The sell-out smash of the 2007 Galway Arts Festival comes to Dublin. Against all the odds, despite all the obstacles, she’s getting married. And nothing’s going to stop her. Airport terrorist threat? Easy! The groom’s doubts? Pah! Dead vicar? Who cares? Mad cap story telling and full-throttle dance numbers with music by Mundy.

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Love and Other Disguises / Catastrophe Theatre in collaboration with Chrysalis Dance / Ireland

Dubliners are natural performers. It’s something to do with the perma-grey colour of the city that encourages extroversion in individuals. It’s not all entertaining, mind you. Streetshouters, bar-bores and poetic asspinchers are the price you have to pay for the odd piece of unearthed gold.

It’s inconsistent; you can’t bank on it for nuttin’. You could kill a whole day waiting for some street urchin on horseback to drop a witticism and come away with nothing but “Ask me fart”.

But that’s the way we roll here: brief summers and short bar openings. There is beauty, but is it ever over quickly.

On the Streets is the Fringe Festivals programme of events that attempts to encapsulate and respond to the ephemeral charisma of Dublin. It’s got the loyal Fringe audience in mind but it’s also constructed in such a way as to grab the public who might, when questioned what they think of theatre, reply, “Ask me fart.”

The performances take place in parks and public places and they’re mainly free, which is more than enough encouragement for a city where we’re still burning fifty bucks on a night out, just complaining about it more. They’re organised so tight as to appear almost random; sporadic performances popping up and catching the sort of people who could see themselves in drag far sooner than they could ever see themselves in a dance venue. Caught off guard, they are liable to get involved in the Fringe Festival whether they like it or not.

Transport Exceptionnels could be an homage to the construction workers and their machines that have been such a constant in the city over the past decade. A dance between one man and his digger, the dancer willing the machine, a seven-tonne, yellow beast with personality, to swoop and bow like a lion tamer. A car can be temperamental; can a JCB not suffer emotions too?

Transport Exceptionnels forms one part of a trio of French performances curated by the Fringe called Equilibre (balance), important when you’re being held in the air by a machine not known for its sensitivity. The remaining shows of the Equilibre series include an unpredictable tight rope ballet (Les Etoiles) and a man inside a cube filled with water, trying not to drown (NousTube # 2). Equilibre takes place in Grand Canal Square over the middle weekend of the festival, symbolic as it’s also a piece of land built on balance and the hope that it won’t go underwater.

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The Urban Playground

War of the Roses III

Taking things to a way more intimate level, Blackbox is one of those shows where you can guarantee there’ll be more people on stage than in the audience, but that’s not a diss. The audience (of one) sits inside a black box with slats built into each wall; the performers then put on their show from the outside.

The slats are controlled by the performers. As interesting as it might be for the one person trapped inside, anyone on South King Street that day will be presented with the way more interesting, ridiculous scene of a group of actors trying to get a warm response from an inanimate, black box. If the Parkour guys were there, they’d probably climb it.

Residents of Dublin may be drawn to a show called Exposures.

Calling it a show is right but not quite on the money; calling it a game is closer. Imagine you’ve lost your memory. Someone tells you a bit of background info about who you really were – a completely different person from who you actually are – and then you’re launched on a mission to discover as much as possible about this person that you’re pretending to be. The city is complicit. Shopkeepers, taxi drivers, people just passing by. You take photos as you go along and then in the true spirit of audience participation, your photos get to be part of a group exhibition at the end of the festival.

Parkour? Remember that modern, urban sport invented by a group of French guys who lost the keys to their third-floor apartment one night? The Urban Playground will be doing public workshops and performances in four different areas around the city, no lies. Unlike the very private Pinocchio , which is a show set in a car for an audience of three. The car drives around both interacting with the city and ignoring it.

At the end of the show, the driver dumps you out on the street somewhere with loose directions to get back to your loved ones. This show works particularly well for people who don’t live in Dublin.

The On the Streets section of the Fringe Festival is a bit like the grandmother at the wedding trying to pull everyone off chairs to join in the dancing. It’s gotten involved and it wants you to too, but there are some shows that let you be lazy. War of the Roses III and Bastien and Bastienne for example. Bastien and Bastienne is a flash mob opera, which means a Mozart score sung by three professionals and whoever else wanders into whichever park they’ve chosen on the day (skylarks and tone deaf welcome), and War of the Roses III is a large scale choreographed, and I stress choreographed, fight outside the Civic Offices.

Joyrides, dancing JCBs, Opera and fake blood by the gallon.

If none of these things are to your taste, I hear the West is beautiful in September.

Transport Exceptionnels

Bastien and Bastienne

Exposures

Blackbox

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Conor Creighton

It’s party time at Fringe time! We continue to take over the streets this year with a rip-roaring selection of outdoor events. From intimate performances made for one person at a time, to large scale flash mob events that will stop you in your tracks, the majority of these happenings are free and suitable for all of the family.

Our outdoor programme is made possible with the ongoing support of Dublin Docklands Development Authority and Dublin City Council.

ON

S E TH

S T E TRE

Bastien and

Ireland has never had a flash mob opera before

Date 12-Sep

Bastienne

– until today. Crash the party and sing along as

Venue St Patrick’s

Opera Theatre

one of the country’s most celebrated, dynamic and

Cathedral Park

Company

entertaining opera ensembles present this quirky

Time 5.15pm

_Ireland

one act singspiel by Mozart, against the stunning

Length 45 mins

backdrop of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. See

Tickets Free

www.fringfest.com to download scores and for practice videos.

Blackbox

A five minute theatrical trip performed for your

Date 7-18 Sep

Bootworks

eyes only by a cast of six outside the smallest

Venue South King

Company

theatre auditorium in the world.

Street

_United Kingdom

darkened box for a brief peep out to this twisted,

Time 12-2pm

eyeball slicing, horse-dragging, surrealist Dali-

Length 5 mins per

esque world.

show

Step inside the

Tickets Free Equilibre

Dublin Fringe Festival and Dublin Docklands Development

Date-Time

Dublin Fringe

Authority, are proud to present a trio of fantastic French

12 Sep-1pm/6pm

Festival and

physical theatre pieces that explore tension, suspension and

13 Sep-3pm

Dublin Docklands

counterpoise. Hold your breath! Don’t let go! A perfect day

Venue Grand Canal

Development

out for all of the family. Supported by The Cultural Service

Square

Authority

of the Embassy of France in Ireland and CULTURESFRANCE.

Length 70 mins

_France

Les Etoiles (Cie Les Colporteurs): Balancing on a

Tickets Free

structure made of pipes and wires, four tightrope walkers perform two poetic tales of predictable encounters in an unpredictable ballet.

Transports Exceptionnels (Cie Beau Geste) A tender love duet between a dancer and a mechanical digger accompanied

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by the dramatic voice of Maria Callas. Iron meets flesh with unexpected grace in this witty interpretation of the pas de deux tradition.

NousTube # 2 (Jörg Muller & Jess Curtis) A cylinder full of water, a gigantic test tube with somebody (or something) trapped inside. Splishy splashy movement, there’s a weird fish bubbling at us!

Be transported

into an odd world of weightlessness, made up of rhythms, vibrations, unheard noises and moreover...silence.

Exposures

You are led to a secret location where you’re given

Date 8-14/16-20 Sep

Andy & Polly

a disposable camera and a handful of clues. Skulk

Venue Meeting Point:

_United Kingdom

your way through alleyways and parks, rediscover the

Fringe Box Office @

city and capture in pictures a hidden underworld

Filmbase

of epic parties, reckless romances and dangerous

Time 12-2pm

encounters. All photographs are included in a

Length However long

special exhibition and party in The Back Loft on

it takes

Sunday 21st September at 4pm.

Tickets €12/10

Magic Moments

Let us light a fire in your heart. Let us come up

Date 6-21 Sep

Project Brand

behind you, tap you on the shoulder and whisper a

Venue A different

New

secret. The world can change in a moment. A magic

location every day

_Ireland

moment. One minute of delight and danger a day,

Tickets Free

every day of the Fringe. Keep watching. We’ll find you.

Pinocchio

Shrouded in black in a dark alley, a woman waits by

Date 16-21 Sep

Silvia

her car. Get in with two others and get lost with

Venue Meeting Point:

Mercuriali and

her in a cacophony of sirens and radios as you drive

Outside Project Arts

Gemma Brockis

through Pinocchio’s city. With new eyes and new

Centre

_United Kingdom

ears, you are, briefly, part of this great Dublin

Time 8pm/9pm/10pm

diversion, until her car disappears, heading to the

Length 40 mins

sea.

Tickets €10/8

Urban Playground

The Urban Playground team and Dublin’s free runners

Date 8-11 Sep

II

Urban Ghosts synergize and reanimate well known city

Venue Various

Prodigal Theatre

locations. Four unique one-off performances blend

locations, check

_United Kingdom

Parkour, breaking and contemporary dance. With only

www.fringefest.com

hours to react to each new spot, the UPG team will

Time 5.15pm

bare their skills, souls and skins on the streets of

Length 30 mins

Ireland’s capital.

Tickets Free

War of The

Lock up your daughters (and some of your sons).

Date 14-Sep

Roses III:

They’re back and this time it’s personal! Following

Venue Civic Offices

Back in Black

on from hugely popular runs during Fringe ‘06 and

Amphitheatre

Whiplash

‘07 Whiplash, with their cast of thousands, bring

Time 9pm

_Ireland

you the final installment of their epic trilogy.

Length 50 mins

Dark, Satanic and as Moody as a transition year

Tickets Free

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student.

By Eamon Sweeney

3epkano

“The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in and no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place.”

The Secret Garden — Francis Hodgson Burnett

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Gardens will host the Hennessy Spielgeltent for the Dublin leg of its annual European jaunt with an entertainment schedule that is both eclectic and exciting.

Even though a new entrance has opened on Hatch Street in recent years, this magnificent park remains unknown territory for many Dubliners. After spells at St George's Dock and Wolfe Tone Square, the Hennessy Spiegeltent will show the Gardens off in spectacular visual and sonic styles. And that’s not all…

“In the gardens, we can include a second tent for theatre

and cabaret performances and for the artists' club, which has long been a dream of ours,” reveals Programme Director Jennifer Jennings.

“We can also colour the already stunning environment with art installations and surprises.”

“A lot of people don't even know the Iveagh Gardens exists, that's why we have called it The Secret Garden. I think it’s going to make for great days and nights out relaxing with family and friends, surrounded by worldclass entertainment, good food and a gorgeous environment.”

In a world saturated with music festivals and a never-ending treadmill of gigs and tours, the Fringe more than lives up to its name and offers something far more challenging and unique.

Concerts are ten-a-penny these days, so the Fringe flips the script and invites the artists to do the scheduling, curating their own nights and allowing spontaneity and fun to flourish.

There are also some marvellous mavericks visiting the tent, such as Mark E. Smith and Fugiya and Miyagi. Both are

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Round She Goes

It’s time to explore our own Secret Garden…

Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens were landscaped in 1865 as part of the International Exhibition.

The creation of the Gardens aimed "to afford the people of Dublin and its neighbourhood national amusement."

143 years later, the Dublin Fringe Festival 2008 will be affording the people of Dublin and beyond both national and international amusement on a scale never seen before in this beautiful hidden corner of Dublin.

This September, the Iveagh

Trojan Sound System

Mad Mabe And The Lost Girls THE CAT’S MIAOW PART II.

And that’s only the beginning…Duke Special will present his own self-styled SILOUETTE OLD TIME MYSTERY R ADIO SHOW , 3epkano

will collaborate with Donal

Dineen for a sense-shattering amalganation of sounds and visuals in the ELECTRIC PICNIC PALACE , while Cathy Davey will explore the darkside with SONGS THAT SCARE CHILDREN (BUT IN A VERY BEAUTIFUL WAY).

The aptly named PSYCHO FEST will feature some of

Dublin’s most fabulous freaks in the shapes of the Mighty Stef, the Things, Humanzi and the The Dagger Lees (formerly Stagger Lee). On the opposite end of the spectrum, the Jimmy Cake, Republic of Loose, David Turpin and Pony Club amongst others will be offering their own personal musical homage to Oscar Wilde in WILDE ON. Add in the ROYAL IRISH

groundbreaking schedule the likes of which the Iveagh Gardens has never seen in its history.

This sense of wonder will be further deepened and enhanced through a thrilling bill of fun, fare and entertainment on offer at Fringe ’08. Highlights in the smaller Bosco tent include the extraordinary anti-clown RED BASTARD ,the always charming AMY G and the family friendly theatre shows CHRONICALS OF A SLEEPLESS MOON & MAD MABE AND THE LOST GIRLS.

This year’s Fringe activities are arguably the most important development in this hallowed green space since the commencement of a conservation and restoration scheme in the ACADEMY OF MUSIC’S 22-PIECE Gardens in 1995, which helped JAZZ ENSEMBLE , the return of the create a sense of wonder in the Beat 'n' Blow for a big BR ASS OFF, Gardens by restoring the maze, KAREN EGAN and the sensational cascade and gorgeous fountains show LA CLIQUE , along with to their former glory. Like Mary in the VERTICAL RHYTHM CLUB, the Secret Garden, we’ll have no MARIA TECCE and AFTERNOON intention of ever going to sleep.

TEA DANCES , and you’ve got a

The Fall

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and spine-tingling as, “Good Evening…We are The Fall.”

This year’s Hennessy Spiegeltent line up documents the evolution of contemporary electronic music, from THE SUGARHILL GANG ; the creators of the very first chart hip-hop hit, to the dubstep pioneers of tomorrow. Indeed, the legendary TROJAN SOUND SYSTEM will provide a timely reminder of the very beginnings of the dubstep genre.

Another Fringe tradition is letting the artist take their own show by the horns and turn it into something spectacular.

Camille O’Sullivan won the Best Spiegeltent Show award at last year’s Fringe and this year she presents a sequel with

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involved in radically different types of music, but share an uncompromising musical vision and determined attitude.

Mark E Smith's everchanging post-punk collective have just released no less than their 27th studio album, Imperial Wax Solvent. Live, they're sensational. “By wide consensus of anybody with half a music taste, THE FALL are the best band ever to grace the face of this earth."

As Mark E Smith himself said these words, perhaps one should take that with a large grain of salt, but the legendary Mancunian has a point.

The late and great John Peel adored this band and reserved a special section for them alone in his sprawling record collection.

Mark E Smith’s profile is strong as ever with the publication of his autobiography Renegade – The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith.

There are few introductions in modern music as direct

Come with us to magic place The Hennessy Spiegeltent has moved to the beautiful surroundings of the Iveagh Gardens, right in the heart of the city centre. Join us for 16 days of unadulterated pleasure and passion where every

C H RO N I C L E S OF A SLEEPLESS MOON

The Suitcase Royale AUSTR ALIA

MAD MABE AND THE LOST GIRLS: BETTER THAN A B L AC K H O L E

MoVe Trans-Theatre

night is a one off explosive experience, an event to remember. There will be music, dancing, good food and great company, including the eagerly awaited return of the hottest show in town, La Clique. We have added a second tent

Something strange is happening atop Roogs Hill, a plan to go underground is afoot and all the cows in the district are dead. In an improbably daft, dastardly adventure, the Butcher and the Doctor are up to something and the Newsman sniffs a story that will take him underground, deep into the dead heart of Australia.

8-13 Sep Bosco Theatre TIME 6.15pm LENGTH 55 mins MATINEE 13 Sep @ 2pm TICKETS €15/ €12.50/€10

The looking glass has shattered and beauty is the beast so do NOT go to this outpost of insanity in the Bosco Theatre. Contortionists and acrobats from France will not be there. No half-human, half-helium lost girls will attack. You will NOT Laugh and no children above 8 will enjoy this spectacle.

15-21 Sep Bosco Theatre TIME 6.15pm LENGTH 60 mins PREVIEW 15 Sep TICKETS €15/ €12.50/€10

La Clique’s rollerskating comic sweetheart is back, doing her best to keep it together while letting it all hang out. At once a silly passionate cabaret exposé and a treatise on the alchemy of slapstick.

Some explicit content with mild to seething cultural significance.

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Are you ready? Prepare for a manipulative, surreal, and dictatorial rampage on pop culture, politics...and you. America’s premiere Bouffon (think grotesque Anti-Clown) is one part juvenile delinquent and two parts sadistic schoolteacher. “One of the hottest, funniest performance artists on the scene today” Backstage. “Very, very funny” NY Times.

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A sultry night of performance charged with raw sensuality and elegance. Following a sell out show in 2007, Viva sees Argentinean tango, Spanish ballads and swinging jazz moving seamlessly between the words of master love poet Pablo Neruda. Powerful vocals and effortless style promise an intimate evening with one of Europe’s hottest jazz and cabaret artists.

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RO U N D SHE GOES

Amy G UNITED STATES

RED BASTARD

Eric Davis

V I VA !

Maria Tecce IREL AND

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this year, the charming Bosco Theatre, home to even more theatre, cabaret, comedy and our exclusive festival club. Be surprised, soothed, confounded, intrigued and electrified in our very own Secret Garden.

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7-11 Sep Bosco Theatre TIME 8.45 pm LENGTH 60 mins TICKETS €15/€12.50 VENUE

16-21 Sep Bosco Theatre TIME 8.30pm LENGTH 55 mins TICKETS €15/€12.50 VENUE

12-13 Sep Bosco Theatre TIME 8.45 pm LENGTH 65 mins TICKETS €17/€15 VENUE

OPENING B AT U C A D A !

PA R T Y

Dublin Fringe Festival & Babalonia IRELAND, UK & BRAZIL

LA CLIQUE

Spiegeltent International Productions

INTERNATIONAL

LA C H A R L ATA N N E

Karen Egan IRELAND

C AT H Y D AV E Y PRESENTS S O N G S T H AT SCARE CHILDREN (but in a very beautiful way)

In association with Hum & Aiken Promotions

6 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 9.30pm TICKETS €15

Celebrating the grand opening of the Dublin Fringe Festival, witness this explosive mix of drummers, dancers, artists, DJs and musicians mashing up two of Dublin's hottest club nights, Babalonia and Disco-Brasil! Sizzling afro-latin flavours and tough, underground dancefloor styles meets live samba from Happy City and breath-taking acrobatics from Mundo Capoeira for this access all areas tropical party.

Basil Isaac’s percussion frenzy and Spiritual South’s electrorganic energy headlines this unforgettable Saturday night out. After-party at Southwilliam, 52 Southwilliam Street, Dublin 2. Seu mágico carnaval!

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After its sell-out run last year, the global phenomenon arrives back in town with some brilliant new acts intent on seducing us all over again. An inspired mélange of cabaret, burlesque, circus and contemporary vaudeville, La Clique is exotic, erotic, mesmerising and breath-stoppingly skilled. Celebrate the sensuality and unadulterated pleasure of a night in the world’s most exquisite salon. Be quick, this will sell out early!

DATE 5-21 Sep (no show on 14th Sep) VENUE Spiegeltent TIME 7pm PREVIEW 5 Sep TICKETS €35/€32/€25

Pretender, fraudster, impostor, fake – voilà La Charlatanne.

Nominated for Best Spiegeltent Show 2006, La Egan returns with bold, brassy rhythm, attitude and signature comic timing.

Intermingling Cohen, Brel and Dietrich with her original hits, and supported by a five-piece band, she presents a cocktail of charismatic characters, sexy burlesque and unmissable magic.

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Since my first nightmare I've been hooked.The giddy terror of a spooky lullaby that only a child can fully appreciate.

This very special show is dedicated to all the eerily mystifying music of our childhoods that shaped our imaginations. From songs by Gilbert & Sullivan and Gershwin to songs from The Night of the Hunter, South Pacific and Hans Christian Andersen.

Check www.fringefest.com for spooky lullaby line-up.

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Crawdaddy presents an evening of post-punk combining the legendary and the rising stars. Truly iconic, The Fall are fronted by the incendiary Mancunian Mark E Smith. According to the late BBC DJ John Peel, The Fall are "always different; always the same" and 50 singles, 26 studio albums and an estimated 50 live and compilation albums testify to this. Support in the Spiegel comes from the new order of wonderful Irish cacophony makers Rarely Seen Above Ground.

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Duke Special, friends and special guests, human or otherwise, will present an old time radio show extravaganza which will rend the airwaves electric, the mind perplexed and the night unforgettable. Spend an uplifting evening in the company of your Radio Host, The Duke, and his cohorts. Not to be missed!

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It’s mayhem in the Spiegel! Dublin’s premier promoters of garage punk, Psychotic Reaction, bring their annual Psycho Fest event to the tent with some of Ireland’s hottest rock acts sharing the bill. It's Humanzi's first show in Ireland in nearly two years, and combined with feverish energy of The Things and The Dagger Lees (formerly Stagger Lee) and The Mighty Stef, this is sure to be a banging night of fresh, raw and diverse sounds.

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VENUE

7 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 9.30pm TICKETS €22.50 VENUE

8 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 9.30pm TICKETS €20 VENUE

IRELAND

UNITED KINGDOM

THE SILHOUETTE OLD TIME M Y S T E RY RADIO SHOW

Duke Special and Friends

9 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 9.30pm TICKETS €29.50 VENUE

10 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 9.30pm TICKETS €20 VENUE

NORTHERN IRELAND

PSYCHO FEST F E AT U R I N G HUMANZI, THE THINGS, THE DAGGER LEES AND THE MIGHTY STEF

Psychotic Reaction IRELAND

11 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 9.30pm TICKETS €15 VENUE

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Presented by Crawdaddy

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INTRODUCTION TO DUBSTEP: SKREAM, PLASTICIAN & SAFETY BOY

Presented by Crawdaddy

UNITED KINGDOM & IRELAND

SHOW & PROVE

Presented by Choice Cuts IRELAND

BR*SS OFF!

Presented by Dublin Fringe Festival GERMANY

THE ELECTRIC PICTURE PA L A C E

3epkano & Donal Dineen

12 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 9.30pm TICKETS €20

Explore the dark moods, bass and sparse rhythms of dubstep with three of the genre’s artists at the top of their game.

Skream is the 21-year-old wunderkind of the genre. Plastician has also been spearheading dupstep with a BBC One residency.

Combined with the sounds of local dubsteptician Safety Boy, this is the definitive introduction you'll need to the most exciting sound of 2008.

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The best breakers in the land showcase new moves and routines to the tastiest tunes in town. This exclusive event is a must for anyone into Breakdancing and Hip Hop dance. Ireland and Europe’s most skillful B-Boys and B-Girls perform head to head along with solo and group routines. All ages and families welcome.

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Saturday night at the Spiegel explodes into top brass action with the return of last year's Red, Hot & Brass favourites, the celebrated 11-piece Beat 'n' Blow from Germany. Dance 'til you drop at this revolutionary fusion of jazz, funk, hip hop and world styles.

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Known primarily as the purveyor of the finest electronica on The Small Hours¸ Dineen’s film work is a true labour of love.

Complimented pefectly by the lush arrangements of 3epkano, who are revitalising the original cinematic experience of silent screen and live orchestral accompaniment.

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Dance to the beat of the original Hip Hop & Funk group who’ve had generations hip hoppin’ with their ubiquitous ‘Rapper’s Delight’, 'Apache' & '8th Wonder' anthems. True pioneers, the Sugarhill Gang have influenced the top showmen of today’s scene, from De La Soul to Kanye West & Jay-Z. Exclusive to the Dublin Fringe Festival, SHG will be performing their 30th year anniversary party concert complete with a live band.

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A perfect evening in the park. The RIAM’s 22-piece Jazz Ensemble’s return to the Spiegeltent features the original Jazz Band version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Newly composed jazz ballads from pianist Conor Linehan accompanied by sultry tones from leading vocalists and guest soloists Lyle Mays and Pat Metheny, Matthew Halpin and Karl Ronan, in this celebration of classical and contemporary jazz.

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The mad kitty is back! Awarded Best Spiegeltent Show in 2007, international superstar Camille O'Sullivan curates another dark, delicious variety show of the top tomcats and kitties from music, circus, dance and theatre and sings a few purrrrrrrfect tunes herself. Contemplate love, sex, drama and death under the velvet drapes. Guest star line up from www. fringefest.com

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13 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 2pm TICKETS €10 per person/ €20 for family of four VENUE

13 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 9.30pm TICKETS €15 VENUE

14 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 6.00pm TICKETS €15 VENUE

IRELAND

SUGARHILL GANG

Presented by Choice Cuts USA

Royal Irish Academy of Music Jazz Ensemble with piano soloist Conor Linehan

15 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 9.30pm TICKETS €15/€12 VENUE

IRELAND

T H E C AT ' S M I A O W PA R T I I

Curated

by Camille O'Sullivan with Friends IRELAND

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RHAPSODY IN T H E PA R K

14 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 9.30pm TICKETS €25 VENUE

16 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 9.30pm TICKETS €20 VENUE

UNITED KINGDOM

WILDE ON

Presented by Hum & Aiken Promotions IRELAND

VERTICAL RHYTHM CLUB

DubLindy IRELAND

DYNAMICS & TROJAN SOUND SYSTEM

Presented by Choice Cuts

FRANCE & UNITED KINGDOM

SHALL WE DANCE

Ragroof Theatre UNITED KINGDOM

AN EVENING W I T H F U J I YA & M I YA G I

Presented by Steo da Cat UNITED KINGDOM

THE GOLDEN AGE OF FRINGE: BEST OF THE FEST AND FRINGE AWARDS CEREMONY

Presented by Dublin Fringe Festival

INTERNATIONAL

DATE

Leading Irish musical and visual artists alongside Wilde aficionados present new, unheard and unseen work for a specially conceived, multimedia celebration of Oscar Wilde. Line-up includes Cathy Davey, The Jimmy Cake, Rhob Cunningham, Karl Him, DJ Morgan, the Pony Club, Republic of Loose and David Turpin. For full stellar line up check on www. fringefest.com.

DATE

The floor’s jumping and the glamour is high, so come little baby, come on by. Celebrate the decadent romance of the jazz age and marvel at a cabaret evoking hot Harlem nights with The Hi Tones. Be retro, ravishing or refined and join Hep Cats and Jive Bunnies to party like its 1939.

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Two of the most talked about sound systems share centre stage for an exclusive Fringe one off. The Dynamics are renowned for their interpretations of classic songs by The White Stripes, Bob Dylan & Curtis Mayfield. The Trojan Sound System are roots reggae at its finest led by legendary UK selector Earl Gateshead and fronted by some of the finest vocalists/ chatmasters around. This show is a sureshot classic.

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As the band strikes up and the glitter-ball twirls, the bandstand is brought to life by glamorous dancing couples from the roaring twenties through to the thrifty fifties. Witty, moving, and energetic, Ragroof's Shall We Dance is followed by a glittering Afternoon Tea Dance for you to take part in. Two fantastic shows in one!

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This infectious Brighton electronic dance trio curate their own unique party night. From their end they bring evocative krautrock and deep soul, with wafts of early Human League synth and the throbbing groove of Tom Tom Club, all filtered for modern times. Also on board is New York duo Project Jenny, Project Jan with their pop infused rock pummeled with dance beats. Keeping the grooves on is DJ Will Dempsey playing cosmic disco, 80s new wave, krautrock, italo and boogie jams.

Get down!

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Ladies and Gentlemen, hold on to your top hats and your (faux) furs, as we present to you a glittering evening of glamour and excess. Yes, it's the Annual Fringe Awards (cue rapturous applause). A stellar evening combining our lavish award ceremony with top-class entertainment from the 'Best of the Fest', this is the hottest, most divine, ticket in town.

DATE

VENUE

17 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 9.30pm TICKETS €25 VENUE

18 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 9.30pm TICKETS €15 VENUE

19 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 9.30pm TICKETS €25 VENUE

20-21 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 1.00pm TICKETS €15 VENUE

20 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 9.30pm TICKETS €20 VENUE

21 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 9.30pm TICKETS €10 VENUE

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Ragroof Theatre

16-19 Sep Spiegeltent TIME 1.00pm TICKETS €10

Trip the light fantastic and get your dancing shoes on for tea, cakes and lessons throughout the day at the wonderful Spiegeltent. Waltz, Cha Cha, Foxtrot and Tango in zoot suits and fancy frocks. Suitable for expert dancers and those with two left feet, young and old.

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AFTERNOON TEA DANCES

Lets get visual: I like that. It sounds so enthusiastic, almost aerobic. The visual program is a small but mighty part of The Fringe, essential viewing to be true, and growing every year. This year I was lucky to get a sneak peak into the four exhibitions, leaving me all the more eager to see them in their fruition.

Where did I start? At One naturally…Gallery Number One to be exact, a modern art gallery housed in the creative design offices of Ebow. What a place, unabashedly modern, a triumph of glass and slate in wonderful juxtaposition with the antiquated edifice Christ Church. The pillows have faces, the beanbag chairs are plentiful, and the exhibitions on display are often so colorful you wish you could eat them. True to form, the show for The Fringe promises to be a visual treat. <1> New York urban graffiti artists Skewville <1> will be transforming the gallery floor into a city and bringing their literally ‘off the wall’ brand of street art to Dublin. Skewville, made up of twin brothers Ad and Droo, witnessed a change in the graffiti scene in NY, the media spaces were constantly full of posters, paper and advertising. They reacted by bringing their art off the walls and into the air, into windows, into the 3D world. Their signature piece, a pair of wooden sneakers, hand cut, laced and tossed over a power line, has been reproduced thousands of times and is working its way global. This will be their

first gallery show in Dublin but don’t expect it to stay confined in the Gallery Number One space…their canvas is limitless and they’ll be making use of our public spaces I’m sure.

Eyes on the sky friends.

Next stop, science. I’m a huge fan of genre-mashing and I find the art/science combo of the Science Gallery a real treat.

Opened in February of this year, the gallery professes to be a place where ideas meet and opinions collide. It is the perfect venue for <2> Douglas Repetto's ‘ArtBots’ <2> , an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots, who are in their 5th year. The ArtBot concept confused me at first. Isn’t art about expression, the revelation of creative energies? How could a robot articulate nonexistent feelings? The answer is to look outside the machines and instead, at their creators. Creating tools to create. This two-fold construction results in some fantastic work and the automatons themselves are as fascinating as their yield.

What is a robot? What is art? The ArtBots international competition will certainly attempt to answer these conundrums. The best part is that it’s very hands on; you get to meet the robots, meet their makers and watch them in action, all in the impressive Science Gallery. Excellent.

Let’s Get Vi — Sarah Fox

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In a gallery across town, <3> the Monster Truck Gallery, IMMATATE <3> is a show being curated that pokes fun, crosses borders and boundaries. I love this gallery; its two rooms and sexy back garden feel like a home. I love their concept for the Fringe as well. Again the question pops up, what is art? But it is modern art on the table this time. Tickling the ribs of I.M.M.A and the Tate, MT has asked creative professionals from Ireland and the UK to step out of their everyday shoes and don some fine art footwear. The brief - “Paddy designer, Paddy architect and Paddy illustrator walk into a gallery….” What will they come up with? If the gallery’s erstwhile offerings are anything to go by, this show will be full of energy and verve, without doubt a must see.

And last but certainly not least, thisisnotashop has a treat for all the senses. It’s a show titled <4> Wheels Beneath Toys <4> and is the brainchild of Jessica Foley and Elva Carri, two likeminded artists who share a love and interest in childhood games and activities, (ladies after my own heart.) Their show will be full of play, full of exploration, puzzles, questions, and altered spaces. Is the lark of children always as innocent and harmless as it appears? Why should we stop playing as childhood ends? The ethos of thisisnotashop is simple; it is strictly non-profit, supportive of emerging talent and with an emphasis on diversity and positivism. Where better to celebrate play?

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I can’t wait for the Fringe, this peek into the show has been a tease, and September can’t come quick enough!

Let’s get VISUAL!!

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Visual art is <1> one of the most dynamic areas of contemporary culture. From <◊>diamondencrusted skulls to mass <> nudie photography, from <> politicised street art to interpretations of <> album covers, this is a genre that truly has something for <> everyone. This year, we have invited <4> four seriously exciting contemporary visual art galleries to curate their < > spaces in response to the Fringe Festival, in order to include their selection in our programme. <> Result!

Let’s Get Visual <> ARTBOTS

Curated by Douglas Repetto    International

<> IMMATATE

Monster Truck Gallery & Studios  Ireland

<> SKEWVILLE Gallery Number 1  United States

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<> WHEELS

BENEATH TOYS Jessica Foley & Elva Carri  Ireland

Where do robots and art merge? ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, a three-day international exhibition of robotic art and art-making robots. Now in its fifth year (second time in Ireland), ArtBots is a hands-on show, where you get to meet the robots and talk to their makers. Check out the robot talent at www.sciencegallery.com.

DATE 19-21 Sep

Paddy Designer, Paddy Architect and Paddy Illustrator walk into a gallery... In a special Fringe exhibition, Monster Truck has invited a motley crew of leading creatives from outside the world of Fine Art to attempt to solve the puzzle artists struggle with: What is art?

DATE 12-21 Sep

VENUE Science Gallery TIME 12-8pm TICKETS Free

VENUE Monster Truck

Gallery & Studios TIME 1-7pm (7-9pm on Friday

12 Sep) TICKETS Free

Dublin, meet Skewville: twin New Yorkers whose graffiti street art mission hits these shores for the first time. The gallery and windows of this dynamic Christchurch space will be transformed into a miniature city, forming the backdrop for their wooden sneakers which hang over power cables worldwide.

Childhood. Games. Extra curricular activities. Two artists present an eclectic ensemble of paraphernalia generating a space to explore diverse aspects of childhood play. Foley’s work has expanded from an investigation into the playgrounds and play histories of North Dublin City, and Carri’s work explores the childhood activity of building huts as hiding places.

DATE 12-21 Sep VENUE Gallery Number 1 TIME 11am-8pm (Sunday

opening 1-6pm) TICKETS Free

DATE 8-20 Sep VENUE thisisnotashop TIME 2-7pm TICKETS Free

We are delighted to announce a series of very special networking, training, or simply entertaining, events for your pleasure and delight.

We have put together a line up of internationally renowned teachers for our programme of workshops

Special WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

FUNDAMENTALS OF MOTION Jess Curtis USA

Dublin Fringe Festival & Dance Ireland Ireland

in DanceHouse and we would encourage all theatre and dance practitioners to take full advantage. Oh, and don’t forget to keep your beady eyes peeled for Mr Alan Clarke’s wondrous creations as they pop up in Fringe venues all over town. And a tip — book early for Jos Houben's The Art of Laughter .

Events

DANCE IRELAND AND THE DUBLIN FRINGE PRESENT AN EXTRAORDINARY SERIES OF INTENSIVE WORKSHOPS WITH A LINEUP OF INTERNATIONALLY

RENOWNED TEACHERS. This is an ideal opportunity for theatre and dance professionals to train outside the box, aquire some special skills and widen the horizon of your own practice. These are all week-long courses. Book for more than one workshop and get a €25 discount for each additional workshop (excluding Julyen Hamilton Masterclass). Concession rate applies to members of Dance Ireland and students.

AWARD WINNING CHOREOGRAPHER JESS CURTIS TEACHES A UNIQUE

Date 8-12 Sep

TECHNIQUE CLASS THAT USES GRAVITY AND BREATH TO MOVE THROUGH

Venue DanceHouse

whilst paying attention to reaching a long term agility of the body. Velocity. Airtime. Fun. Sweat.

SPACE AT SPEED,

Time 10am Length 90mins each day Tickets €90/€60

FLYING SCHOOL Jess Curtis USA

EXTEND THE LIMITS OF YOUR BODY THOUGH THE USE OF OBJECTS, AERIAL

Date 8-12 Sep

No previous experience, but willingness to work required. This workshop will give you a greater confidence and independence from the floor.

Venue DanceHouse

EQUIPMENT AND OTHER BODIES.

Time 12pm Length 120mins each day Tickets €130/€90

Date 8-11 Sep

MOLINA FOCUSES ON AN EXTRAORDINARY PHYSICAL LANGUAGE THAT

Venue DanceHouse

This language aims to connect emotions with actions and therefore find deep meaning in each movement. The objective is to push the individuality of each participant within the context of the group.

Time 3pm

CHOREOGRAPHER AND DANCER HEIDI WEISS IS ONE OF EUROPE’S MOST

Date 15-19 Sep

As a professor at the world renowned Palucca School in Dresden, Germany, she gave training to some of the most established European dance companies. By creating volume and length in the body, she achieves an individual musicality and clarity of the movement of each participant.

Venue DanceHouse

IS DEVELOPED FROM NATURALISTIC MOVEMENT.

SOUGHT AFTER DANCE TEACHERS.

Length 180mins each day Tickets €150/€100

Time 10am Length 90mins each day Tickets €90/€60

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CONTEMPORARY MODERN DANCE TECHNIQUE Heidi Weiss USA

EX-DV8 COMPANY MEMBER AND FRINGE AWARD WINNER JORDI CORTEZ

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PHYSICAL THEATRE Jordi Cortez Molina Spain

IRISH STEP Colin Dunne Ireland

BOUFFON Eric Davies USA

JULYEN HAMILTON MASTERCLASS Julyen Hamilton with This Torsion Dance Company UK INFORMATION TOOLBOX Irish Theatre Institute Ireland

THE ART OF LAUGHTER Jos Houben France

UK NATIONAL DANCE AWARD NOMINEE AND RTE'S JIGS & REELS JUDGE,

Date 15-19 Sep

that is ideal for the experienced traditional dancer looking for a fresh creative approach. Also great for other dance and theatre practitioners looking for a holistic but fun introduction to traditional dance technique. You won't be required to hold your arms at your side!

Venue DanceHouse

MASTER TEACHER, CIRQUE DU SOLEIL'S LEAD CLOWN IN QUIDAM AND

Date 15-19 Sep

will turn your world upside down. His class in Bouffon will massively widen your acting range, your relationship with the audience, your improvisational abilities and reinform everything you know so far about theatre.

Venue DanceHouse

THE WORKSHOP EXPLORES THE PRACTICE OF IMPROVISATION THROUGH

Date 20 Sep

Each participant will have the chance to research and develop their own personal strategies within the action of making artistic decisions in real time. Julyen Hamilton is a world-wide recognised figure in instant composition and his workshops are lasting experiences for all involved.

Venue DanceHouse

MEET AND GAIN INFORMATION FROM KEY ARTS ORGANISATIONS AND

Date 12 Sep

It is hoped that potential collaborations, future touring and important connections will be made at this event which centres on teaching how to tour shows. For further information contact Irish Theatre Institute on +353 1 670 4906.

Venue Hennessy Spiegeltent

REVIEW AFTER REVIEW OF THIS FAMOUS MASTER CLASS ON THE UNIQUELY

Date 20-21 Sep

HUMAN PHENOMENON OF LAUGHTER TELLS OF AUDIENCES DOUBLED

Venue Samuel Beckett Theatre

COLIN DUNNE, TEACHES AN IRISH DANCE WORKSHOP

DIRECTOR OF THE NY CLOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL, ERIC DAVIS

BOTH TECHNICAL AND COMPOSITIONAL STUDIES.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL VENUES AND FESTIVALS.

OVER IN STITCHES. Houben‘s brilliantly witty analysis of physical comedy has

garnered him awards in Edinburgh and has delighted thousands of people worldwide. Book early, limited spaces.

Time 12pm Length 120mins each day Tickets €130/€90

Time 3pm Length 180mins each day Tickets €180/€110

Time 10am Length 180mins Tickets €40/€25

Time 10am - 2pm Tickets €20/£14stg per person €35/£24stg 2 persons (same company) This includes brunch.

Time 4pm Length 55mins

THREE SURPRISES AND A MIRACLE: a fantasy in ink and smoke Presented by the Mysterious Mr Alan Clarke Ireland

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Tickets €12/€10

DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL GIDDILY PRESENTS A FEAT OF THE ARTS NEVER

Date 6-21 Sep

Guided by voices unheard by most, and wielding his jaunty dancing pen, Mr Alan Clarke will conjure fantastical, wondrous scenes where only moments before none existed. The inhabitants of the shadows and the ethers will be summoned forth beneath the bright September sky.

Let your two eyes bear witness to the joy of fools and lovers, the melancholy of rogues and kings.

Venue Who knows?

Keep your eyes peeled

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1 Back Loft

7-11 Augustine St., D8 (First right downhill from The Cornmarket as you head onto Thomas St; the opposite turn than that to Francis Street)

13 Grand Canal Square Dublin 2

2 Bewley’s Café Theatre Grafton St., D2 (Second Floor, Upstairs inside the landmark Grafton St. Building)

15 The Hive 30-32 Rear Warehouse, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, D2

3 Bosco Theatre The Iveagh Gardens, Hatch St., D2 (Behind the National Concert Hall, South of St. Stephens Green between Harcourt St. and Earlsfort Terrace, access only from Hatch St.) 4 Civic Offices Wood Quay, D8 (west off Parliament St. south side of the River. Past the Viking Ship sculpture by the bus shelter, left uphill into amphitheatre) 5 Common Place 10 Burgh Quay, D2 (Upstairs of building) 6 Curved St. Café Curve St., Temple Bar, D2 (Upstairs in Filmbase) 7 DanceHouse Liberty Corner, Foley St., D1 (Down Talbot St., turn left onto Corporation St., take the first right and it’s on your left beside The Lab) 8 DYT Building 23 Upper Gardiner St., D1.

9 Empty Space Wood Quay, Temple bar, D2 (South side of river, from Parliament St/ Capel St bridge, head upriver towards Civic Offices, its on the left under the big church past the coffee bar.)

10 Filmbase Curved St. Building, Temple Bar, D2 (Opposite the Button Factory) 11 Gallery Number One 1 Castle St., D2 (Up Dame St and onto Lord Edward St. Opposite Christ Church Cathedral and between The Bull and Castle and The Lord Edward pubs)

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12 Goethe Institute 37 Merrion Square, D2 (On Merrion Sq., straight up from Holles St. Hospital)

14 Grand Canal Dock Dublin 2

16 International Bar 23 Wicklow St., D2 (On the crossroads of South William St., Exchequer and Andrew St.) 17 The James Joyce Centre 35 North Great George’s St., D1 (Right at the top of O’Connell St., 1st left on Parnell St., halfway up on the right across from Cobalt Café) 18 The Lab Foley St., Dublin 1.

(Down Talbot St., turn left onto Corporation St., take the first right and it’s on your left) 19 Monster Truck No 73, Francis St., Dublin 8 (From Thomas St. take the left onto Francis St. and walk to the top of the st.. Monster Truck is to your left) 20 The New Theatre 43 East Essex St, Dublin 2 (Access through Connolly Bookshop in Temple Bar, few doors up from Project Arts Centre) 21 Old Ballymun Comprehensive School Ballymun, D9 22 O'Shea's Hotel 19 Talbot St., D1 23 Pantibar 7-8 Capel St., D1 (Capel St., where Gubu used to be.)

24 Players Theatre Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, D2 (In Trinity College, behind New Square. Part of a big wooden building. Facing it, go up the stairs on the Left) 25 Project Cube & Project Upstairs Temple Bar, D2 (Blue building opposite the back of The Clarence Hotel) Info: T 01 896 2461 26 RedSpace 2 Rutland Place, D1 (Go down the alley directly across from the road from the Gate Theatre and take the first left onto Rutland Place, it’s on the left)

27 Samuel Becket Theatre Trinity College, D2 (In Trinity College, behind New Square. Part of a big wooden building facing the building, it’s on the right hand side) Info: T 01 896 2461 28 Science Gallery Trinity College, Pearse St., D2 29 Smock Alley Temple Bar, Dublin 2 (South side of river, from Parliament St/ Capel St bridge, head upriver towards Civic Offices, its on the left under the big church past the coffee bar.)

30 South King St. Dublin 2 (Opposite the entrance of the Gaiety) 31 Hennessy Spiegeltent The Iveagh Gardens, Hatch St., D2 (Behind the National Concert Hall, South of St. Stephens Green between Harcourt Street and Earlsfort Terrace, access only from Hatch Street) 32 St Patrick's Cathedral Park Patrick St., D8 (Beside St Patrick’s Cathedral) 33 T36 (Teacher’s Club) 36 Parnell St, D1 (Coming from O’Connell St, it is a little further than half way up, opposite the Rotunda Hospital) 34 Temple Bar Gallery 5-9 Temple Bar, D2 (Facing into Temple Bar Square) 35 thisisnotashop 26 Benburb St., D7 (Just off Ellis Quay, on North side of the Liffey.

The cross st. is Blackhill Place) 36 Unitarian Church 112 St. Stephen’s Green West, D2 (From the top of Grafton St. continue straight along the gates of Stephens Green, the church is on the right)

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/ ABOUT US /

Director Wolfgang Hoffmann

Distribution Officer Stewart Lambert

Production Manager Marcus Costello

General Manager Wendy Dempsey

Programming Intern Rachel Rountree

Assistant Production Manager Helen Collins

Administrator Tiina Ylönen

Programming Intern Colm McCauliffe

Artistic Liaison Officer Ciara Ryan

Programme Director Jennifer Jennings

IT & Office Administration Intern Didier Lacrampe

Volunteer Co-ordinator Liam Ryan

Marketing Manager Tom Lawlor Marketing Assistant Ene Keenan Publicity & PR Conleth Teevan Event Management Talented Minds Group Sales Jihane Peschaire Press Assistant Megan Whittington

Artistic Liaison Intern Antonella Corda

Spiegeltent and Iveagh Gardens Operations Manager John McKiernan

Technical Manager Kevin Tracey

Programme, Print & Web Design AAD Design

Technical Assistant Sarah McLaughlin

Cover Photography Richard Gilligan

Production Assistant Agnes Congoste

Festival Auditor Niall M. Hogan & Company

Visual Art Consultant Aideen Darcy

IT Supply and Support Dimension4

Box Office Manager Sarah Murphy

Fringe Lawyers: Gordon Judge & Co.

Board of Directors Una Carmody (Chair), Tom Creed, Emile Daly, Dave Harland, Julie Doyle, Tambra Dillon, Sean Páircéir, Annie Ryan

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A big thank you to additional Box office, technical and hospitality staff, distributors and all of our Fringe volunteers.

Andreas Pettersson Anita Conway Annika Johansson Antonella Scanu Aoife Wilson Babi Hedge Barbara Ebert Barny Darnell at the National Concert Hall Bea Kelleher Brendan Keenan Caroline Jennings Caroline Sleiman, Wayne Murphy and everyone at Edward Dillon Cian O’Brien Conor Creighton David Byers and everyone at OPW David Keating David Parnell Deborah Dignam Declan Forde Deirdre Jennings Deirdre Roycroft Dennis Jennings Dermot O'Brien, Gabrielle Dillon and everyone at Dermot O'Brien and Associates Donagh Morgan Eamon Sweeney Eleanor McGuinness Elisabetta Bisaro Else Kveinen Emir Jennings Eoin Cregan Eugene Downes Everyone on the Dublin Fringe Festival Board Fionnuala & Noah Hoffmann Gavin Kostick Georgina McKevitt Heather Maitland Imelda Rey, Nicola Moss and everyone at Failte Ireland Isabelle Etienne James Carroll

Robert Maguire Roger Irish Róise Goan Roisin Ingle Rolf Stehle Rory O’Neill Ross Harrington Ruta Palsauskaite Ruthie Barry Sarah Durcan Sarah Fox Sarah Smyth Seamus Cahill Sean Mongey Shane and John from Bernard Shaw Steve Ryan Stuart McLoughlin and everyone at Business to Arts Sue Wyer Tania Banotti and Irma McLoughlin at Theatreforum TASCQ Thomas Conway Tom Creed Tommy Lawlor Una McCarthy and everyone at the Arts Council Upekha Bandaranayake Vera Lawlor Will St. Leger Willie White Yuliya Romanyshyn A massive and heartfelt thank you to Festival Director Wolfgang Hoffmann who is moving on to pastures new in October. Your drive, energy and vision has been an inspiration. We wish you the very best of luck And to Programme Director Jenny Jennings - your tireless passion and enthusiasm has been inspiring.

You will both be missed by us all. We know you are destined for even more wonderful things!

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The Fringe could not have been possible without the following people, we would like to thank you:

James Kelleher Jamie from Cobalt Café Jane Daly Jen Coppinger Jessica Hillard Joanne Graham Joanne Kiely Jack Gilligan and everyone at Dublin City Council Julie Barroin Kathy Kinsella Katie Holly Kay Scorah Laurie Uprichard Layla O’Mara Marc and Conor Bereen and everyone at Southwilliam Urban Bar Marie Rooney Martine Hogan, Niall Hogan and everyone at Niall M. Hogan and Company Mary McCarthy, Dara O'Leary and everyone at DDDA Mary Weir and everyone at Dublin City Council Events Megan Riordan Melanie Wright Michael Hughes Michael McDermott Michael Murphy Michelle Darmody & all at Curved St Café Mick Connell Mike and Win Dempsey Nancy Forde Neil Moran Nelson Ramalho Nessa Keenan Niall Coughlan Nik Quaife Orla Dunne and everyone at TEAM Orla Keenan Paul Carton Paul Fusco Paul Johnson Peter Dooley Phil Kingston Phil Sterling Philip Coyle Phillip McMahon Rachel Rath

/ THANK YOUS /

THANK YOUS

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/ INDEX / BY SHOW TITLE AND COMPANY TITLE

— # — — — — — — — — 3epkano with Donal Dineen — A — — — — — — — — A Distinct Glimpse Afternoon Tea Dances All Around My Head All Dressed Up to Go Dreaming All in the Timing Alta Realitat Amy G An Evening with Fujiya & Miyagi Andcompany&Co Andy & Polly Antics Rogue Show A-Picking At A Bone Appointment in Limbo Arabian Night Arambe Productions ArtBots Arthur Sheridan Audacity Theatre Company — B — — — — — — — — Bastien and Bastienne Before Colour Billie Traynor Blackbox Bootworks company Bouffon Glass Menajoree Br*ss Off! Bridge Bygones (I det fortflutna) — C — — — — — — — — Calipo Camille O'Sullivan Carmel Winters Cat Lady/ Human Jukebox Catastrophe Theatre in collaboration with Chrysalis Dance Cathy Davey presents SONGS THAT SCARE CHILDREN (but in a very beautiful way) Channel Changers Chatroom Chronicles of A Sleepless Moon City Breaks City Theatre Dublin Clodagh Downing Colin Dunne Curated by Douglas Repetto — D — — — — — — — — Dance Double Bill 1 Dance Double Bill 2

37 24 39 16 16 20 25 36 39 12 33 28 17 16 28 20 42 17 18 32 16 17 32 32 11 38 24 24 20 38 17 11 29 29 37

29 20 36 28 21 18 44 42 24 25

Dance Triple Bill 25 Day of Dance 25 Djinn Theatre Company 21 Dragonfly Theatre 17 Drinking Dust 25 Dublin Fringe Festival 25 in association with Dance Ireland Dublin Fringe Festival in 32 association with Dublin Docklands Development Authority Dublin Youth Theatre 29 DubLindy 39 Duke Special and Friends 37 Dynamics & Trojan 39 Sound System — E — — — — — — — — Eejit of Love 11 Emma Fitzgerald and 25 Julie Lockett Equilibre 32 Eric Davis 36/44 Etiquette 28 Exposures 33 — F — — — — — — — — — G — — — — — — — — Gallery Number 1 42 Gentle Giant Theatre 18 Company GoLightly Theatre 28 Grasping The Floor With 11 The Back Of My Head Group X 28 Gúna Nua and Civic Theatre 17 — H — — — — — — — — He 25 Heidi Weiss 43 Help!

20 Henrik Kaalund 25 How to be Loved 16 Hum & Aiken Promotions 37/39 — I — — — — — — — — iDentity dFragments 25 I'm So Close It's Not 11 Even Funny IMMATATE 42 Information Toolbox 44 Ingun Bjornsgaard Prosjekt 24 Inis Theatre 20 Introduction to Dubstep: 38 Skream, Plastician & Safety Boy Irish Modern Dance Theatre 25 Irish Theatre Institute 44 It's A Domestic 28 — J — — — — — — — —

Jess Curtis Jess Curtis/ Gravity Jessica Foley & Elva Carri Jo Strømgren Kompani John Moran Jordi Cortez Molina Jos Houben Joseph Keckler Jouissance Productions Julyen Hamilton with This Torsion Dance Company junk ensemble — K — — — — — — — — Karen Egan KLoCK Productions — L — — — — — — — — La Charlatanne La Clique La Voix Humaine Life after Love Little Dark Star Little Gem Little Red Love 2.0 Love and Other Disguises Luck — M — — — — — — — — Mabinog Mad Mabe and the Lost Girls: Better than a Black Hole Magic Moments Maik Riebort Making Strange Theatre Company Maria Tecce Mimic Mirari Productions MonsterTruck Studios Moonflight MoVe Trans-Theatre Mute Comp. Physical Theatre — N — — — — — — — — Niamh Condron & Julyen Hamilton — O — — — — — — — — Opening BATUCADA! Party Opera Theatre Company — P — — — — — — — — Painted Filly Theatre Company Pantomine Paranoid?

12/32/43 12 42 12 12 24/43 44 11 29 44 25 37 24 37 37 28 17 11 17 12 17 29 29 20 36

33 25 29 36 20 16 42 12 36 11

24

37 32 18 20 29

25 17 37 18 17 17 18 29 38 12 11 44 18 38 18 17

18 38 18 37 25 12 39

21 13 37

Tobacco Factory Theatre Triptych Tundra Twelve Treatises on Memory: An Epistemological Slapstick (With Sock Puppets) — U — — — — — — — — Urban Playground II — V — — — — — — — — Vertical Rhythm Club Viva!

Volcano in association with Crooked Figure Dances and Global Mechanic — W — — — — — — — — War of The Roses III: Back in Black We're Not Real Whacker Murphy's Bad Buzz Wheels Beneath Toys Whiplash Wicked Angels Wilde On Will St Leger Workshop: Bouffon Workshop: Contemporary Modern Dance Technique Workshop: Flying School Workshop: Fundamentals of Motion Workshop: Irish Step Workshop: Julyen Hamilton Masterclass Workshop: Physical Theatre — X — — — — — — — — — Y — — — — — — — — You're Only Massive — Z — — — — — — — — Zelig Theatre

20 13 13 18

33 39 36 12

33 29 21 42 33 16 39 28 44 43 43 43 44 44 43

28 16

36 29 21 11

21 17

18 44

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Solo Adaptations: The Ridge/ The Runner Spider Spiegeltent International Squint Productions Step It Up: Rehearsed Readings Day 1 Step It Up: Rehearsed Readings Day 2 Stopping by the Woods Storytaker Sugarhill Gang Susan & Darren — T — — — — — — — — Ten Directions The Art of Laughter The Attic Studio The Cat's Miaow Part II The Common Will The Crown Jewels (Preposterous Theatre), Leap of Faith (Theatrical Theatrics Productions), Thicker than Water (Produced

by Geoff Power) The Darkroom The Electric Picture Palace The Evolution Of Lauren Begaun The Fall & RSAG The Forest The Four Horsemen Project The Golden Age of Fringe: Best of the Fest and Fringe Awards Ceremony The Magic Tree The Show about The Show The Silhouette Old Time Mystery Radio Show The Suitcase Royale The Woman Who Left Herself Theatre Makers Theatre Why Not Theatrical Theatrics Productions They Never Froze Walt Disney thisispopbaby in association with the Abbey Theatre Those Powerful Machines THREE SURPRISES AND A MIRACLE: a fantasy in ink and smoke

/ INDEX / BY SHOW TITLE AND COMPANY TITLE

12 Performance Research Experiment # 1 33 Pinocchio 12 Polaroid 16 Pope Joan Theatre Company 17 Preposterous Theatre 38 Presented by Choice Cuts 37/38 Presented by Crawdaddy 39 Presented by Dublin Fringe Festival presented by Dublin Fringe 37 Festival & Babalonia Presented by Hum Ireland 39 Presented by Steo da Cat 39 Productions Presented by the 44 Mysterious and Evasive Mr Alan Clarke Priscilla Robinson 13 Prodigal Theatre 33 Project Brand New 33 Psycho Fest featuring 37 Humanzi, The Things, The Dagger Lees and The Mighty Stef Psychotic Reaction 37 — Q — — — — — — — — Quarantine Productions 12 — R — — — — — — — — Ragroof Theatre 39 Randolf SD I The Company 28 Red Bastard 36 Red Bear 29 Reptillian 17 Rhapsody in the Park 38 Rhythmic Space 25 Rock Paper Scissors 29 Roomkeepers Productions 16 Rotozaza 28 Round She Goes 36 Royal Irish Academy of 38 Music Jazz Ensemble with piano soloist Conor Linehan RYT Performance Lab 29 — S — — — — — — — — Saori's Birthday!

12 schindel killius dutschke 12 Scottish Dance Exchange, 24 presented by Dancebase (Scotland's National Centre for Dance) & Richard Wakely Shall We Dance 39 Show & Prove 38 Silvia Mercuriali and 33 Gemma Brockis Skewville 42

This year, in addition to our traditional awards, the Festival is pleased to announce 2 new awards: the CULTURE IRELAND TOURING AWARD will be presented to the artist or company which receives the greatest interest from foreign promoters to tour to their festivals. Attached to this award is a financial contribution towards a small scale European tour, organised by the Dublin Fringe Festival for 2009. Only Irish Companies are eligible for this award. We are pleased to introduce the AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD which will be voted on solely by you

“STEP ON BOARD THE KALEIDOSCOPIC ROLLERCOASTER WITH THE CULTURE TWIST THAT IS THE ANNUAL DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL”. The Irish Independent, 31/08/07.

The Fringe Festival Stars Patron Scheme enables us to programme a multi-disciplinary Festival each year, to support the development and presentation of new work by Irish and International artists of vision, nurturing artistic ambition and excellence across a range of art forms. The scale and environment of the festival broadens arts participation, playing a vital role in the

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/ 2009 FRINGE AWARDS / PATRON SCHEME / OTHER EVENTS /

THE DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL ANNUAL AWARDS CELEBRATE THE BOLDEST, BRIGHTEST AND BEST OF THE FESTIVAL.

and awarded to the act with the most votes at the end of the festival. The Fringe Wild Card is a place on The Next Stage for one lucky person whose work during the Fringe Festival has really impressed the organisers..The Next Stage is a professional development initiative for emerging performing artists.

Last years new additions continue with the FISHAMBLE NEW WRITING AWARD for the best play by a new or emerging Irish (or Irish-based) playwright premiered during the Dublin Fringe Festival, and it includes the prize of a scholarship place on a playwriting course, dramaturgical support and a stipend towards the playwright's

fabric of Dublin and Irish cultural life.

By becoming a patron of the Festival not only do you receive amazing benefits but you are also playing a vital role in enabling us to programme a Festival that inspires and engages our growing audience.

Shine a light on the future, and become a patron of Ireland’s most exciting festival.

SUPERSTAR - €2500 STAR - €1500 RISING STAR - €350

next play, kindly sponsored by Fishamble: The New Play Company.

The BEWLEY’S CAFÉ THEATRE AWARD is presented to the Best Fringe Show Under an Hour. The prize is the opportunity to remount the show in Bewley’s for a two-week run at lunch time in 2009.

As in previous years the highly prestigious The SPIRIT OF THE FRINGE COMMISSIONING AWARD, presented in association with Project Arts Centre will be awarded to the company who best personifies the spirit of the Dublin Fringe Festival. Other awards include BEST PRODUCTION, BEST SPIEGELTENT, BEST DESIGN (set, lighting, sound, costume and/or graphic design), BEST MALE PERFORMER and BEST FEMALE PERFORMER.

OTHER EVENTS Keep a watch out for the Fringe on the streets of Temple Bar this Culture Night – you won’t want to miss our secret stunt! And catch a post show Q&A or talk at some of our venues across town., Details on www.fringefest.com The Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival Sep 25 – Oct 12 The Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival is celebrating its 51st anniversary this year, with an exhilarating programme of Irish and International work. Highlights include some of the hottest international shows: breathtaking physicality and aerial action in an Icelandic/UK production of Kafka’s Metamorphosis; The National Theatre of Scotland’s uncompromising and explosive Black Watch; shows from Argentina, Colombia, Denmark, the Netherlands - All of this and more, alongside new productions from many of Ireland's leading theatre companies: Voracious greed and seamy passions in Corn Exchange’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; a major co-production between the Festival and CoisCéim, Dodgems, set in the exotic world of the funfair, get prepared to step right up for the ride of your lives…

Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival FEEL… www.dublintheatrefestival.com

10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM

4PM-6PM

7PM

8PM-LATE

Saturday 6th

September

10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM

4PM-7PM

8PM-LATE

10.00 / Etiquette / Curved Street Café / Every half hour / PG | 28

1.00 / Paranoid / Secret Meeting Point / 120mins / PG | 29

7.00 / La Clique / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 105mins /Preview on 5th Sep at 9pm / PG | 37

9.30 / Opening BATACUDA! Party / Secret Garden / 180mins / PG | 37

Sunday

7th

10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM

September

4PM-7PM

10.00 / Etiquette / Curved Street Café / Every half hour / PG | 28

12.00 - 2.00 / Blackbox / South King Street / 5 mins per show / PG | 32

8PM-LATE 7.00 / La Clique / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 105mins / PG | 37

2.00 / Step it up Rehearsed Readings Day 1/ Back Loft / 4.5 Hours / PG | 17

6.15 / Luck / Pantibar / 60mins / PG | 29

8.45 / Round She Goes / Bosco Theatre / 60mins / PG | 36

9.15 / Tundra / Empty Space / 45mins / PG | 13

12.00 / Day of Dance / DanceHouse / 9 hours / PG | 25

9.30 / La Charlatanne / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 180mins / PG | 37

Monday

8th

10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM

September

4PM-7PM

10.00 / Etiquette / Curved Street Café / Every half hour / PG | 28

8PM-LATE 7.30 / Those Powerful Machines / The New Theatre / 80 mins / PG | 18

5.15 / Urban Playground II / Various locations check www.fringefest.com / 30mins / PG | 33

7.00 / La Clique / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 105mins / PG | 37

8.00 / Performance Research Experiment # 1 / Players Theatre /However long the audience wants / PG | 12

12.00 - 2.00 / Blackbox / 1.00 / All Dressed Up to Go Dreaming/ South King Street / International Bar/ 5mins per show / PG | 32 20mins / PG | 16

6.00 / Stopping by the Woods / International Bar / 70mins / PG | 18

7.00 / Pantomine / T36 /100 mins / PG | 20

8.30 / City Breaks / O’Shea’s Hotel, 19 Talbot Street / 50mins /

12.00 - 2.00 / Exposures / Meeting Point: Fringe Box Office @ Filmbase / PG | 33

2.00 / All Dressed Up to Go Dreaming/ International Bar/ 20mins / PG | 16

6.15 / Luck / Pantibar / 60mins / PG | 29

8.30 / All in the Timing / Inis Theatre /Bewleys Café Theatre / 85mins / PG | 20

12.00 / Workshop: Flying School / DanceHouse / 120mins every day / PG | 43

2.00 - 7.00 / Wheels Beneath Toys / thisisnotashop / PG | 42

6.15 / Chronicles of A Sleepless Moon / Bosco Theatre / 55mins / PG | 36

8.30 / Drinking Dust / Meeting point: Outside Smock Alley / 60mins / PG | 25

3.00 / Workshop: Physical Theatre / DanceHouse / 180 mins each day / PG | 43

6.15 / Love and Other Disguises /Unitarian Church St Stephens Green / 55mins / PG | 29

8.30 / Whacker Murphy’s Bad Buzz / Filmbase / 60mins /

6.15 / They Never Froze Walt Disney/ Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 21

8.45 / Round She Goes / Bosco Theatre / 60mins / PG | 36

6.15 / How To Be Loved / Bewleys Café Theatre / 60mins /

9.00 / Saori’s Birthday / Project Cube / 50mins / PG | 12

10.00 / Workshop: Fundamentals of Motion / DanceHouse / 90mins every day / PG | 43

1.00 / The Common Will / Bewleys Café Theatre / 55mins / PG | 18

9.15 / Dance Double Bill 1 / Project Upstairs / 90mins / PG | 24

PG | 28

PG | 21

PG | 16

6.15 / The Show about The Show / Filmbase / 45mins / PG | 13

9.00 / Eejit of Love / Samuel Beckett Theatre /120mins / PG | 11

6.30 / Chatroom / Smock Alley / 60mins / PG | 20

9.00 / La Voix Humaine / James Joyce Centre / 45mins / PG | 28

9.30 / Cathy Davey Presents Songs That Scare Children / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 180mins / PG | 37

Tuesday

9th

September

10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM

4PM-7PM

10.00 / Etiquette / Curved Street Café / Every half hour / PG | 28

5.15 / Urban Playground II / Various locations check www.fringefest.com / 30mins / PG | 33

6.30 / City Breaks / O’Shea’s Hotel, 19 Talbot Street / 50mins /

6.00 / Stopping by the Woods / International Bar / 70mins / PG | 18

7.00 / La Clique / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 105mins / PG | 37

1.00 / The Common Will / Bewleys Café Theatre / 55mins / PG | 18

10.00 / Workshop: Fundamentals of Motion / DanceHouse / 90mins every day /

1.00 / Solo Adaptations: The Ridge / The Runner / Project Cube / 40 mins /

PG | 43

PG | 25

12.00 - 2.00 / Blackbox / South King Street / 5mins per show / PG | 32

8PM-LATE

PG | 28

8.00 / Performance Research Experiment # 1 / Players Theatre /However long the audience wants / PG | 12 8.30 / City Breaks / O’Shea’s Hotel, 19 Talbot Street / 50mins / PG | 28

6.15 / Luck / Pantibar / 60mins / PG | 29

7.00 / Pantomine / T36 / 100mins / PG | 20

8.30 / Whacker Murphy’s Bad Buzz / Filmbase / 60mins / PG | 21

12.00 - 2.00 / Exposures / Meeting Point: Fringe Box Office @ Filmbase / PG | 33

1.00 / All Dressed Up to Go Dreaming / International Bar / 20mins / PG | 16

12.00 / Workshop: Flying School / DanceHouse / 120mins every day / PG | 43

2.00 / All Dressed Up to Go Dreaming/ International Bar/ 20mins / PG | 16

6.15 / Chronicles of A Sleepless Moon / Bosco Theatre / 55mins / PG | 36

7.00 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60mins /

2.00 - 7.00 / Wheels Beneath Toys / thisisnotashop / PG | 42

6.15 / Love and Other Disguises /Unitarian Church St Stephens Green / 55mins / PG | 29

7.30 / Those Powerful Machines / The New Theatre / 80mins /

3.00 / Workshop: Physical Theatre / DanceHouse / 180 mins each day / PG | 43

9.15 / Dance Double Bill 1 / Project Upstairs / 90mins / PG | 24

7.00 / Appointment in Limbo / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 80mins / PG | 16

8.30 / All in the Timing / Inis Theatre Bewleys Café Theatre / 85mins / PG | 20

PG | 29

PG | 18

8.30 / (P) Drinking Dust / Meeting point: Outside Smock Alley / 60mins / PG | 25

6.15 / They Never Froze Walt Disney/ Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 21

8.30 / Polaroid / Smock Alley / 60mins / PG | 12

6.15 / How To Be Loved / Bewleys Café Theatre / 60mins /PG | 16

8.45 / Round She Goes / Bosco Theatre / 60mins / PG | 36

6.15 / The Show about The Show / Filmbase / 45mins / PG | 13

9.00 / Saori’s Birthday / Project Cube / 50mins / PG | 12

6.30 / Chatroom / Smock Alley / 60mins /

9.00 / Eejit of Love / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 120mins /

PG | 20

PG | 11

6.30 / Little Gem / Project Cube / 90mins / PG | 17

9.00 / La Voix Humaine / James Joyce Centre / 45mins / PG | 28

9.30 / The Fall & RSAG/ Hennessy Spiegeltent / 180mins / PG | 37

Wednesday 10th

September

10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM

4PM-7PM

10.00 / Etiquette / Curved Street Café / Every half hour / PG | 28

5.15 / Urban Playground II / Various locations check www.fringefest.com / 30mins / PG | 33

6.30 / City Breaks / O’Shea’s Hotel, 19 Talbot Street / 50mins /

6.00 / Stopping by the Woods / International Bar / 70mins / PG | 18

6.15 / Luck / Pantibar / 60mins / PG | 29

1.00 / The Common Will / Bewleys Café Theatre / 55mins / PG | 18

10.00 / Workshop: Fundamentals of Motion / DanceHouse / 90mins every day /

8PM-LATE 8.00 / Performance Research Experiment # 1 / Players Theatre /However long the audience wants / PG | 12

9.00 / La Voix Humaine / James Joyce Centre / 45mins /

6.45 / Little Red / Project Upstairs / 75mins / PG | 12

8.00 / Arabian Night / Goethe Institute / 80mins / PG | 28

9.15 / Dance Double Bill 1 / Project Upstairs / 90mins / PG | 24

7.00 / La Clique / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 105mins / PG | 37

8.30 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60mins /

8.30 / City Breaks / O’Shea’s Hotel, 19 Talbot Street / 50mins /

PG | 28

PG | 28

PG | 43

12.00 - 2.00 / Blackbox / 1.00 / Solo Adaptations: The South King Street / Ridge / The Runner / 5mins per show / PG | 32 Project Cube / 40mins /

PG | 29

PG | 25

12.00 - 2.00 / Exposures / Meeting Point: Fringe Box Office @ Filmbase / PG | 33

1.00 / All Dressed Up to Go Dreaming / International Bar / 20mins / PG | 16

6.15 / Chronicles of A Sleepless Moon / Bosco Theatre / 55mins / PG | 36

7.00 / Pantomine / T36 / 100mins / PG | 20

12.00 / Workshop: Flying School / DanceHouse / 120mins every day / PG | 43

2.00 / All Dressed Up to Go Dreaming/ International Bar/ 20mins / PG | 16

6.15 / Love and Other Disguises /Unitarian Church St Stephens Green / 55mins / PG | 29

7.00 / Appointment in Limbo / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 80mins / PG | 16

8.30 / Whacker Murphy’s Bad Buzz / Filmbase / 60mins /

6.15 / They Never Froze Walt Disney/ Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 21

7.00 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60mins / PG | 29

8.30 / All in the Timing / Inis Theatre Bewleys Café Theatre / 85mins / PG | 20

6.15 / How To Be Loved / Bewleys Café Theatre / 60mins /

7.30 / Rock Paper Scissors / Old Ballymun Comprehensive / 90mins / PG | 29

8.30 / Drinking Dust / Meeting Point: Outside Smock Alley / 60mins / PG | 25

7.30 / Those Powerful Machines / The New Theatre / 80mins /

8.30 / Polaroid / Smock Alley / 60mins / PG | 12

2.00 - 7.00 / Wheels Beneath Toys / thisisnotashop / PG | 42

PG | 16

3.00 / Workshop: Physical Theatre / DanceHouse / 180 mins each day / PG | 43

PG | 28

PG | 21

PG | 18

6.15 / The Show about The Show / Filmbase / 45mins / PG | 13

8.45 / Round She Goes / Bosco Theatre / 60mins / PG | 36

6.30 / Chatroom / Smock Alley / 60mins /

9.00 / Saori’s Birthday / Project Cube / 50mins / PG | 12

PG | 20

6.30 / Little Gem / Project Cube / 90mins / PG | 17

9.00 / Eejit of Love / Samuel Beckett Theatre /120mins PG | 11

9.30 / The Silhouette Old Time Mystery Radio Show / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 180mins / PG | 37

Thursday 11th

September

10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM

4PM-7PM

10.00 / Etiquette / Curved Street Café / Every half hour / PG | 28

5.15 / Urban Playground II / Various locations check www.fringefest.com / 30mins / PG | 33

6.45 / Little Red / Project Upstairs / 75mins / PG | 12

6.00 / Stopping by the Woods / International Bar / 70mins / PG | 18

7.00 / La Clique / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 105mins / PG | 37

1.00 / The Common Will / Bewleys Café Theatre / 55mins / PG | 18

10.00 / Workshop: Fundamentals of Motion / DanceHouse / 90mins every day /

8PM-LATE

6.15 / Luck / Pantibar / 60mins / PG | 29

9.00 / Eejit of Love / Samuel Beckett Theatre /120mins PG | 11

PG | 43

12.00 - 2.00 / Blackbox / 1.00 / Dance Double Bill 2 / Project Cube / South King Street / 45mins / PG | 25 5mins per show / PG | 32

8.00 / Arabian Night / Goethe Institute / 80mins / PG | 28

7.00 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60mins / PG | 29

8.00 / Performance Research Experiment # 1 / Players Theatre /However long the audience wants / PG | 12

9.00 / La Voix Humaine / James Joyce Centre / 45mins /

8.30 / Whacker Murphy’s Bad Buzz / Filmbase / 60 mins /

9.15 / Dance Triple Bill / Project Upstairs / 75mins / PG | 25

PG | 28

PG | 21

12.00 - 2.00 / Exposures / Meeting Point: Fringe Box Office @ Filmbase / PG | 33

1.00 / All Dressed Up to Go Dreaming / International Bar / 20mins / PG | 16

6.15 / Chronicles of A Sleepless Moon / Bosco Theatre / 55mins / PG | 36

12.00 / Workshop: Flying School / DanceHouse / 120mins every day / PG | 43

2.00 / All Dressed Up to Go Dreaming/ International Bar/ 20mins / PG | 16

6.15 / Love and Other Disguises /Unitarian Church St Stephens Green / 55mins / PG | 29

2.00 - 7.00 / Wheels Beneath Toys / thisisnotashop / PG | 42

6.15 / They Never Froze Walt Disney/ Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 21

7.00 / Appointment in Limbo / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 80mins / PG | 16

8.30 / Polaroid / Smock Alley / 60mins / PG | 12

6.15 / How To Be Loved / Bewleys Café Theatre / 60mins /PG | 16

7.30 / Rock Paper Scissors / Old Ballymun Comprehensive / 90mins / PG | 29

8.30 / City Breaks / O’Shea’s Hotel, 19 Talbot Street / 50 mins /

7.30 / Those Powerful Machines / The New Theatre / 80mins /

8.30 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60 mins /

2.30 /Chatroom / Smock Alley / 60mins / PG | 20

6.15 / The Show about The Show / Filmbase / 45mins / PG | 13

7.00 / Pantomine / T36 / 100mins / PG | 20

8.30 / All in the Timing / Inis Theatre Bewleys Café Theatre / 85mins / PG | 20 8.30 / Drinking Dust / Meeting Point: Outside Smock Alley / 60mins / PG | 25

PG | 28

PG | 29

PG | 18

3.00 / Workshop: Physical Theatre / DanceHouse / 180 mins each day / PG | 43

6.30 / Chatroom / Smock Alley / 60mins / PG | 20

8.45 / Round She Goes / Bosco Theatre / 60mins / PG | 36

6.30 / Little Gem / Project Cube / 90mins / PG | 17

6.30 / City Breaks / O’Shea’s Hotel, 19 Talbot Street / 50mins / PG | 28

9.00 /Saori’s Birthday / Project Cube / 50mins / PG | 12

9.30 /Psycho Fest / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 180 mins / PG | 37

Friday

12th

10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM 10.00 / Etiquette / Curved Street Café / Every half hour / PG | 28

September

4PM-7PM

8PM-LATE 6.30 / Little Gem / Project Cube / 90mins /

1.00 / The Common Will / Bewleys Café Theatre / 55mins /

PG | 17

8.00 / Arabian Night / Goethe Institute / 80mins / PG | 28

6.30 / Antics Rogue Show / The Red Space / 90mins / PG | 28

8.30 / Whacker Murphy’s Bad Buzz / Filmbase / 60mins /

PG | 18

10.00 / Workshop: Fundamentals of Motion / DanceHouse / 90mins every day /

1.00 / All Dressed Up to Go Dreaming / International Bar / 20mins / PG | 16

5.15 /Bastien and Bastienne / St Patrick’s Cathedral Park / 45mins / PG | 32

9.15 / Dance Triple Bill / Project Upstairs / 75mins / PG | 25

PG | 21

PG | 43

10.00 / Information Toolbox / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 240mins / PG | 44

1.00 / Dance Double Bill 2 / Project Cube / 45mins / PG | 25

11.00 - 8.00 / Skewville /Gallery Number 1/

1.00 / Equilibre / Grand Canal Square / 120 mins / PG | 32

8.30 / All in the Timing / Inis Theatre Bewleys Café Theatre / 85 mins / PG | 20

9.30 / Introduction to Dubstep: Skream, Plastician & Safety Boy / Hennessy Spiegeltent /180mins / PG | 38

6.00 /Equilibre / Grand Canal Square / 120 mins / PG | 32

6.45 /Little Red / Project Upstairs / 75mins / PG | 12

8.30 / Drinking Dust / Meeting Point: Outside Smock Alley / 60mins /PG | 25

12.00 - 2.00 / Blackbox / 2.00 / All Dressed Up South King Street / to Go Dreaming/ 5mins per show / PG | 32 International Bar/ 20mins / PG | 16

6.00 / Stopping by the Woods / International Bar / 70mins / PG | 18

7.00 / La Clique / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 105mins / PG | 37

8.30 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60mins /

12.00 - 2.00 / Exposures / Meeting Point: Fringe Box Office @ Filmbase / PG | 33

2.00 / Pantomine / T36 / 100mins / PG | 20

6.15 / Luck / Pantibar / 60mins / PG | 29

7.00 / Pantomine / t36 / 100mins / PG | 20

8.30 / Polaroid / Smock Alley / 60mins /

12.00 / Workshop: Flying School / DanceHouse / 120mins every day / PG | 43

2.30 / Chatroom / Smock Alley / 60mins /

PG | 42

PG | 29

PG | 12

6.15 /Chronicles of A Sleepless Moon / Bosco Theatre / 55mins / PG | 36

7.00 / Appointment in Limbo / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 80mins / PG | 16

8.45 / Viva! / Bosco Theatre / 65mins /

6.15 / Love and Other Disguises /Unitarian Church St Stephens Green / 55mins / PG | 29

7.00 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60mins / PG | 29

9.00 / Saori’s Birthday / Project Cube / 50mins / PG | 12

2.30 / They Never Froze Walt Disney/ Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 21

6.15 / They Never Froze Walt Disney/ Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 21

7.00 - 9.00 / IMMATATE /Monster Truck Studios / PG | 42

9.00 / Eejit of Love / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 120mins /

3.00 / Whacker Murphy’s Bad Buzz / Filmbase / 60mins /

6.15 / How To Be Loved / Bewleys Café Theatre / 60mins /PG | 16

7.30 / Rock Paper Scissors / Old Ballymun Comprehensive / 90mins / PG | 29

PG | 20

PG | 21

3.00 / Polaroid / Smock Alley / 60mins /

6.30 / Chatroom / Smock Alley / 60mins /

PG | 12

PG | 20

PG | 36

PG | 11

7.30 / Those Powerful Machines / The New Theatre / 80mins / PG | 18

9.00 / La Voix Humaine / James Joyce Centre / 45mins / PG | 28

Saturday 13th

September

10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM

4PM-7PM

10.00 / Etiquette / Curved Street Café / Every half hour / PG | 28

4.30 / Dance Double Bill 2 / Project Cube / 45mins / PG | 25

1.00 / Paranoid? / Secret meeting point / 120mins / PG | 29

8PM-LATE 6.30 / Storytaker / The Lab / 45mins / PG | 29

8.00 / Arabian Night / Goethe Institute / 80mins / PG | 28

9.00 / La Voix Humaine / James Joyce Centre / 45mins / PG | 28

11.00 - 8.00 / Skewville /Gallery Number 1/ PG | 42

1.00 / The Common Will / Bewleys Café Theatre / 55mins /

6.00 / Stopping by the Woods / International Bar / 70mins / PG | 18

6.45 / Little Red / Project Upstairs / 75mins / PG | 12

PG | 18

8.30 / Whacker Murphy’s Bad Buzz / Filmbase / 60mins / PG | 21

12.00 - 2.00 / Blackbox / 1.00 / All Dressed Up to Go Dreaming / South King Street / International Bar / 5mins per show / PG | 32 20mins / PG | 16

6.15 / Luck / Pantibar / 60 mins / PG | 29

7.00 / La Clique / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 105mins / PG | 37

8.30 / All in the Timing / Inis Theatre Bewleys Café Theatre / 85mins / PG | 20

12.00 - 2.00 / Exposures / Meeting Point: Fringe Box Office @ Filmbase / PG | 33

1.00 - 7.00 / IMMATATE /Monster Truck Studios / PG | 42

6.15 / Chronicles of A Sleepless Moon / Bosco Theatre / 55mins / PG | 36

7.00 / Pantomine / T36 / 100mins / PG | 20

8.30 / Drinking Dust / Meeting Point: Outside Smock Alley / 60mins /PG | 25

2.00 / All Dressed Up to Go Dreaming / International Bar / 20mins / PG | 16

6.15 / Love and Other Disguises /Unitarian Church St Stephens Green / 55mins / PG | 29

7.00 / Appointment in Limbo / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 80mins / PG | 16

8.30 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60mins /

2.00 - 7.00 / Wheels Beneath Toys / thisisnotashop / PG | 42

6.15 / They Never Froze Walt Disney/ Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 21

7.00 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60mins /

2.00 / Chronicles of A Sleepless Moon / Bosco Theatre / 55mins / PG | 36

6.15 / How To Be Loved / Bewleys Café Theatre / 60mins /

7.30 / Those Powerful Machines / The New Theatre / 80mins /

PG | 16

PG | 18

6.15 / The Show about The Show / Filmbase / 45mins / PG | 13

7.30 / Rock Paper Scissors / Old Ballymun Comprehensive / 90mins / PG | 29

PG | 29

PG | 29

8.30 / Polaroid / Smock Alley / 60mins / PG | 12

8.30 / Storytaker / The Lab / 45mins / PG | 29

6.30 / Chatroom / Smock Alley / 60mins /

8.45 / Viva! / Bosco Theatre / 65mins /

PG | 20

PG | 36

2.00 / Show & Prove / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 180mins / PG | 38

6.30 / Little Gem / Project Cube / 90mins / PG | 17

9.00 / Saori’s Birthday / Project Cube / 50mins / PG | 12

3.00 / Equilibre / Grand Canal Square / 120mins / PG | 32

6.30 / Antics Rogue Show / The Red Space / 90mins / PG | 28

9.00 / Eejit of Love / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 120mins /

2.00 /Pantomine / T36 / 100mins / PG | 20

9.15 / Dance Triple Bill / Project Upstairs / 75mins / PG | 25

PG | 11

9.30 / Br*ss Off! / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 180mins / PG | 38

Sunday

14th

September

10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM

4PM-7PM

8PM-LATE

10.00 / Etiquette / Curved Street CafĂŠ / Every half hour / PG | 28

6.00 / The Electric Picture Palace / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 150mins / PG | 38

8.30 / Storytaker / The Lab / 45mins /

6.15 / Luck / Pantibar / 60mins / PG | 29

9.00 / Eejit of Love / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 120mins /

1.00 - 6.00 / Skewville / Gallery Number 1/ PG | 42

12.00 - 2.00 / Blackbox / 1.00 - 7.00 / IMMATATE /Monster Truck Studios South King Street / 5mins per show / PG | 32 / PG | 42

PG | 29

PG | 11

12.00 - 2.00 / Exposures / Meeting Point: Fringe Box Office @ Filmbase / PG | 33

1.00 / Step It Up: Rehearsed Readings Day 2 / Back Loft / 5.5hours / PG | 17

6.30 / Antics Rogue Show / The Red Space / 90mins / PG | 28

2.00 - 7.00 / Wheels Beneath Toys / thisisnotashop / PG | 42

6.30 / Storytaker / The Lab / 45mins / PG | 29

9.00 /War of The Roses: Back in Black / Civic Offices / 50mins / PG | 33

7.00 / Appointment in Limbo / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 80mins / PG | 16 3.00 /Eejit of Love / Samuel Beckett Theatre /120mins /

7.30 / Those Powerful Machines / The New Theatre / 80mins /

PG | 11

PG | 18

7.30 / Rock Paper Scissors / Old Ballymun Comprehensive / 90 mins / PG | 29

9.30 /Sugarhill Gang / Hennessy Spiegeltent/ 180 mins / PG |38

Monday

15th

10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM

September

4PM-7PM

10.00 / Etiquette / Curved Street Café / Every half hour / PG | 28

8PM-LATE 7.30 / Those Powerful Machines / The New Theatre / 80mins /

8.00 /Arabian Night / Goethe Institute / 80mins / PG | 28

PG | 18

10.00 / Workshop: Contemporary Modern Dance Technique / DanceHouse / 90mins every day / PG | 43

1.00 /All Around My Head / Bewley’s Café Theatre / 50mins /

11.00 - 8.00 / Skewville /Gallery Number 1/

1.00 / The Evolution of Lauren Begaun / International Bar / 50mins / PG | 18

PG | 42

PG | 16

12.00 - 2.00 / Blackbox / 1.00 - 7.00 / IMMATATE South King Street / /Monster Truck Studios 5mins per show / PG | 32 / PG | 42

6.00 /Cat Lady / Human Jukebox / International Bar / 60mins / PG | 11

7.30 / Rock Paper Scissors / Old Ballymun Comprehensive / 90mins / PG | 29

9.15 /Grasping The Floor With The Back Of My Head / Project Upstairs / 90mins / PG | 11

6.15 / Before Colour / Bewley’s Café Theatre / 70mins / PG | 16

8.00 / Susan & Darren / Smock Alley / 90mins / PG | 12

6.15 / Reptilian / Filmbase / 75mins /

8.30 / City Breaks / O’Shea’s Hotel, 19 Talbot Street / 50mins /

PG | 17

9.30 / Rhapsody in the Park / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 180mins / PG | 38

PG | 28

12.00 / Workshop: Irish Step / DanceHouse / 120mins every day /

2.00 - 7.00 / Wheels Beneath Toys / thisisnotashop / PG | 42

6.15 / Love 2.0 / Project Cube / 60mins /

3.00 / Workshop: Bouffon / DanceHouse / 180mins every day /

6.15 / Mad Mabe and the Lost Girls: Better than a Black Hole/ Bosco Theatre / 60mins / PG | 36

8.30 / Drinking Dust / Meeting Point: Outside Smock Alley / 60mins /PG | 25

6.15 / Twelve Treatises on Memory / T36 / 80mins / PG | 18

8.30 / Storytaker / The Lab / 45mins / PG |

6.30 / City Breaks / O’Shea’s Hotel, 19 Talbot Street / 50mins / PG | 28

8.30 / Rhythmic Space / Temple Bar Gallery and Studios / 40mins / PG | 25

6.30 / Storytaker / The Lab / 45mins / PG |

8.30 / Help! / T36 / 60mins / PG | 20

PG | 17

PG | 44

PG | 44

8.30 / All in the Timing / Inis Theatre Bewleys Café Theatre / 85mins / PG | 20

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29

6.30 / Rhythmic Space / Temple Bar Gallery and Studios / 40mins / PG | 25

9.00 / La Voix Humaine / James Joyce Centre / 45 mins /

7.00 / La Clique / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 105mins / PG | 37

9.00 / The Darkroom / Players Theatre / 60mins /

PG | 28

PG | 18

Tuesday

16th

September

10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM

4PM-7PM

10.00 / Etiquette / Curved Street Café / Every half hour / PG | 28

1.00 - 7.00 / IMMATATE /Monster Truck Studios / PG | 42

6.00 / Cat Lady / Human Jukebox / International Bar / 60mins / PG | 11

7.00 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60 mins /

10.00 / Workshop: Contemporary Modern Dance Technique / DanceHouse / 90mins every day / PG | 43

1.00 / All Around My Head / Bewley’s Café Theatre / 50mins /

6.15 / Before Colour / Bewley’s Café Theatre / 70mins / PG | 16

7.00 / The Four Horsemen Project / Project Upstairs / 65mins /

PG | 16

PG | 12

11.00 - 8.00 / Skewville /Gallery Number 1/

1.00 / The Evolution of Lauren Begaun / International Bar / 50 mins / PG | 18

PG | 42

12.00 - 2.00 / Blackbox / South King Street / 5mins per show / PG | 32

6.15 / Reptillian / Filmbase / 75mins / PG | 17

8PM-LATE 8.00 / Arabian Night / Goethe Institute / 80 mins / PG | 28

8.30 / Help! / T36 / 60mins / PG | 20

8.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33

8.30 / Red Bastard / Bosco Theatre / 55mins / PG | 36

7.00 / I’m So Close It’s Not Even Funny / Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 11

8.00 / Susan & Darren / Smock Alley / 90mins / PG | 12

8.30 / Bouffon Glass Menajoree / Filmbase / 70mins / PG | 11

7.30 / Those Powerful Machines / The New Theatre / 80mins /

8.15 / Moonflight / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 60mins / PG | 12

9.00 / La Voix Humaine / James Joyce Centre / 45mins /

PG | 29

PG | 28

PG | 18

12.00 - 2.00 / Exposures / Meeting Point: Fringe Box Office @ Filmbase / PG | 33

1.00 /Afternoon Tea Dances / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 150mins / PG | 39

6.15 / Love 2.0 / Project Cube / 60mins /

12.00 / Workshop: Irish Step / DanceHouse / 120mins every day /

1.00 / A Distinct Glimpse / Project Cube / 45mins / PG | 24

6.15 / Mad Mabe and the Lost Girls: Better than a Black Hole/ Bosco Theatre / 60mins / PG | 36

2.00 - 7.00 / Wheels Beneath Toys / thisisnotashop / PG | 42

PG | 44

9.00 / The Darkroom / Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 18

7.30 / Rock Paper Scissors / Old Ballymun Comprehensive / 90mins / PG | 29

8.30 / City Breaks / O’Shea’s Hotel, 19 Talbot Street / 50mins /

7.30 / It’s a Domestic / The Red Space / 90mins / PG | 28

8.30 / All in the Timing / Inis Theatre Bewleys Café Theatre / 85mins / PG | 20

9.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33

6.15 / Twelve Treatises on Memory / T36 / 80mins / PG | 18

8.30 / Drinking Dust / Meeting Point: Outside Smock Alley / 60mins / PG | 25

9.00 / The Magic Tree / Project Cube / 70mins /

3.00 / Those Powerful Machines / The New Theatre / 80mins /

6.30 / City Breaks / O’Shea’s Hotel, 19 Talbot Street / 50mins /

8.30 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60mins /

PG | 18

PG | 28

9.15 / Grasping The Floor With The Back Of My Head / Project Upstairs / 90mins /

PG | 17

PG | 28

PG | 29

PG | 21

PG | 11

3.00 / Workshop: Bouffon / DanceHouse / 180mins every day /

6.30 / Storytaker / The Lab / 45mins / PG | 29

PG | 44

6.30 / Rhythmic Space / Temple Bar Gallery and Studios / 40mins / PG | 25

8.30 /Storytaker / The Lab / 45mins /

7.00 / La Clique / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 105mins / PG | 37

8.30 / Rhythmic Space / Temple Bar Gallery and Studios / 40mins / PG | 25

PG | 29

9.30 /The Cat’s Miaow Part II / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 180mins / PG | 38 10.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33

Wednesday 17th

September

10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM

4PM-7PM

10.00 / Etiquette / Curved Street Café / Every half hour / PG | 28

1.00 - 7.00 / IMMATATE /Monster Truck Studios / PG | 42

6.00 / Cat Lady / Human Jukebox / International Bar / 60mins / PG | 11

7.00 / La Clique / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 105mins / PG | 37

8.00 / Arabian Night / Goethe Institute / 80mins / PG | 28

8.30 /Red Bastard / Bosco Theatre / 55mins / PG | 36

10.00 / Workshop: Contemporary Modern Dance Technique / DanceHouse / 90mins every day / PG | 43

1.00 / All Around My Head / Bewley’s Café Theatre / 50mins /

6.10 / Mimic / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 80mins / PG | 20

7.00 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60 mins /

8.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33

8.30 / Bouffon Glass Menajoree / Filmbase / 70mins / PG | 11

11.00 - 8.00 / Skewville /Gallery Number 1/

1.00 / The Evolution of Lauren Begaun / International Bar / 50 mins / PG | 18

6.15 / Before Colour / Bewley’s Café Theatre / 70mins / PG | 16

7.00 / The Four Horsemen Project / Project Upstairs / 65mins / PG | 12

8.00 / Susan & Darren / Smock Alley / 90mins / PG | 12

9.00 / La Voix Humaine / James Joyce Centre / 45mins /

7.00 / I’m So Close It’s Not Even Funny / Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 11

8.15 / Moonflight / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 60mins / PG | 12

9.00 / The Darkroom / Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 18

7.30 / Those Powerful Machines / The New Theatre / 80mins /

8.30 / City Breaks / O’Shea’s Hotel, 19 Talbot Street / 50mins /

PG | 18

PG | 28

9.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33

7.30 / Rock Paper Scissors / Old Ballymun Comprehensive / 90 mins / PG | 29

8.30 / All in the timing / Inis Theatre Bewleys Café Theatre / 85 mins / PG | 20

9.00 / The Magic Tree / Project Cube / 70mins /

7.30 / It’s a Domestic / The Red Space / 90mins / PG | 28

8.30 / Drinking Dust / Meeting Point: Outside Smock Alley / 60mins / PG | 25

9.00 / The Woman Who Left Herself / Common Place, 10 Burgh Quay / 30mins / PG | 29

PG | 42

PG | 29

PG | 16

12.00 - 2.00 / Blackbox / 1.00 / Afternoon Tea South King Street / Dances / Hennessy 5mins per show / PG | 32 Spiegeltent / 150mins / PG | 39

6.15 / Reptillian / Filmbase / 75mins / PG | 17

12.00 - 2.00 / Exposures / Meeting Point: Fringe Box Office @ Filmbase / PG | 33 12.00 / Workshop: Irish Step / DanceHouse / 120mins every day /

8PM-LATE

PG | 28

1.00 /A Distinct Glimpse / Project Cube / 45mins / PG | 24

6.15 /Love 2.0 / Project Cube / 60mins /

2.00 - 7.00 / Wheels Beneath Toys / thisisnotashop / PG | 42

6.15 / Mad Mabe and the Lost Girls: Better than a Black Hole/ Bosco Theatre / 60mins / PG | 36

2.30 / It’s a Domestic / The Red Space / 90mins / PG | 28

6.15 / Twelve Treatises on Memory / T36 / 80mins / PG | 18

8.30 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60mins /

3.00 / Workshop: Bouffon / DanceHouse / 180mins every day /

6.30 / City Breaks / O’Shea’s Hotel, 19 Talbot Street / 50mins /

8.30 / Storytaker / The Lab / 45mins /

PG | 44

PG | 28

PG | 17

PG | 44

6.30 / Storytaker / The Lab / 45mins / PG | 29

6.30 / Rhythmic Space / Temple Bar Gallery and Studios / 40mins / PG | 25

PG | 21

PG | 29

PG | 29

9.30 /Wilde On / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 180mins / PG | 39

8.30 / Rhythmic Space / Temple Bar Gallery and Studios / 40mins / PG | 25

10.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33

8.30 / Help! / T36 / 60mins / PG | 20

10.30 / The Woman Who Left Herself / Common Place, 10 Burgh Quay / 30mins / PG | 29

Thursday 18th 10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM

4PM-7PM

8PM-LATE 6.30 / Rhythmic Space / Temple Bar Gallery and Studios / 40mins / PG | 25

8.00 / Arabian Night / Goethe Institute / 80mins / PG | 28

8.30 / Red Bastard / Bosco Theatre / 55mins / PG | 36

7.00 / La Clique / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 105mins / PG | 37

8.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33

8.30 / Bouffon Glass Menajoree / Filmbase / 70mins / PG | 11

PG | 16

4.00 / The Four Horsemen Project / Project Upstairs / 65mins / PG | 12

1.00 / The Evolution of Lauren Begaun / International Bar / 50 mins / PG | 18

6.00 / Cat Lady / Human Jukebox / International Bar / 60mins / PG | 11

7.00 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60 mins /

8.00 / Susan & Darren / Smock Alley / 90mins / PG | 12

6.10 / Mimic / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 80mins / PG | 20

7.00 / The Four Horsemen Project / Project Upstairs / 65mins / PG | 12

8.15 / Moonflight / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 60mins / PG | 12

9.00 / The Darkroom / Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 18

7.00 / I’m So Close It’s Not Even Funny / Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 11

8.30 / City Breaks / O’Shea’s Hotel, 19 Talbot Street / 50mins /

9.00 / Bridge / Back Loft / 50mins /

7.30 / Those Powerful Machines / The New Theatre / 80mins /

8.30 / All in the Timing / Inis Theatre Bewleys Café Theatre / 85 mins / PG | 20

9.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33

7.30 / Rock Paper Scissors / Old Ballymun Comprehensive / 90 mins / PG | 29

8.30 / Drinking Dust / Meeting Point: Outside Smock Alley / 60mins / PG | 25

9.00 / The Magic Tree / Project Cube / 70mins /

7.30 / It’s a Domestic / The Red Space / 90mins / PG | 28

8.30 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60mins /

9.00 / The Woman Who Left Herself / Common Place, 10 Burgh Quay / 30mins / PG | 29

10.00 / Etiquette / Curved Street Café / Every half hour / PG | 28

1.00 - 7.00 / IMMATATE /Monster Truck Studios / PG | 42

10.00 / Workshop: Contemporary Modern Dance Technique / DanceHouse / 90mins every day / PG | 43

1.00 / All Around My Head / Bewley’s Café Theatre / 50mins /

11.00 - 8.00 / Skewville /Gallery Number 1/ PG | 42

September

12.00 - 2.00 / Blackbox / South King Street / 5mins per show / PG | 32

PG | 29

12.00 - 2.00 / Exposures / Meeting Point: Fringe Box Office @ Filmbase / PG | 33

1.00 /Rhythmic Space / Temple Bar Gallery and Studios / 40mins / PG | 25

6.15 / Before Colour / Bewley’s Café Theatre / 70mins / PG | 16

12.00 / Workshop: Irish Step / DanceHouse / 120mins every day /

1.00 / Afternoon Tea Dances / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 150mins / PG | 39

6.15 / Reptillian / Filmbase / 75mins /

1.00 / A Distinct Glimpse / Project Cube / 45mins / PG | 24

6.15 / Love 2.0 / Project Cube / 60mins /

1.00 / Susan and Darren / Smock Alley / 90mins / PG | 12

6.15 /Mad Mabe and the Lost Girls: Better than a Black Hole/ Bosco Theatre / 60mins / PG | 36

2.00 - 7.00 / Wheels Beneath Toys / thisisnotashop / PG | 42

6.15 / Twelve Treatises on Memory / T36 / 80mins / PG | 18

8.30 / Storytaker / The Lab / 45mins / PG |

3.00 / Workshop: Bouffon / DanceHouse / 180mins every day /

6.30 / City Breaks / O’Shea’s Hotel, 19 Talbot Street / 50mins /

PG | 44

PG | 28

8.30 / Rhythmic Space / Temple Bar Gallery and Studios / 40mins / PG | 25

10.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33

6.30 / Storytaker / The Lab / 45mins /

8.30 / Help! / T36 / 60mins / PG | 20

10.30 / The Woman Who Left Herself / Common Place, 10 Burgh Quay / 30mins / PG | 29

PG | 44

PG | 17

PG | 18

PG | 17

PG | 29

PG | 24

PG | 28

PG | 29

29

PG | 21

9.30 / Vertical Rhythm Club / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 180mins / PG | 39

Friday

19th

10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM

September

4PM-7PM

8PM-LATE 6.30 / Rhythmic Space / Temple Bar Gallery and Studios / 40mins / PG | 25

8.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33

8.30 / Red Bastard / Bosco Theatre / 55mins / PG | 36

4.15 /Moonflight / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 60mins / PG | 12

7.00 / La Clique / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 105mins / PG | 37

8.00 / Susan & Darren / Smock Alley / 90mins / PG | 12

9.00 / Bridge / Back Loft / 50mins /

1.00 / The Evolution of Lauren Begaun / International Bar / 50 mins / PG | 18

6.00 / Cat Lady / Human Jukebox / International Bar / 60mins / PG | 11

7.00 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60 mins / PG | 29

8.15 / Moonflight / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 60mins / PG | 12

9.00 / The Darkroom / Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 18

12.00 - 2.00 / Exposures / Meeting Point: Fringe Box Office @ Filmbase / PG | 33

1.00 / Afternoon Tea Dances / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 150mins / PG | 39

6.10 / Mimic / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 80mins / PG | 20

7.00 / The Four Horsemen Project / Project Upstairs / 65mins / PG | 12

8.30 / All in the Timing / Inis Theatre Bewleys Café Theatre / 85mins / PG | 20

9.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33

12.00 / Workshop: Irish Step / DanceHouse / 120mins every day /

1.00 / A Distinct Glimpse / Project Cube / 45mins / PG | 24

7.00 / I’m So Close It’s Not Even Funny / Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 11

8.30 / Drinking Dust / Meeting Point: Outside Smock Alley / 60mins / PG | 25

9.00 / The Magic Tree / Project Cube / 70mins /

7.30 / Those Powerful Machines / The New Theatre / 80mins /

8.30 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60mins /

9.00 / The Woman Who Left Herself / Common Place, 10 Burgh Quay / 30mins / PG | 29

10.00 / Etiquette / Curved Street Café / Every half hour / PG | 28

1.00 - 7.00 / IMMATATE /Monster Truck Studios / PG | 42

10.00 / Workshop: Contemporary Modern Dance Technique / DanceHouse / 90mins every day / PG | 43

1.00 / All Around My Head / Bewley’s Café Theatre / 50mins /

11.00 - 8.00 / Skewville /Gallery Number 1/ PG | 42

PG | 44

12.00 - 8.00 / Artbots / Science Gallery / PG | 42

PG | 24

PG | 16

2.00 - 7.00 / Wheels Beneath Toys / thisisnotashop / PG | 42

6.15 /Before Colour / Bewley’s Café Theatre / 70mins / PG | 16

PG | 29

PG | 18

3.00 / Workshop: Bouffon / DanceHouse / 180mins every day /

6.15 / Reptillian / Filmbase / 75mins / PG | 17

PG | 44

3.00 / The Magic Tree / Project Cube / 70mins /

6.15 / Love 2.0 / Project Cube / 60mins /

PG | 21

PG | 17

7.30 / Rock Paper Scissors / Old Ballymun Comprehensive / 90mins / PG | 29

8.30 / Storytaker / The Lab / 45mins / PG |

7.30 / It’s a Domestic / The Red Space / 90mins / PG | 28

8.30 / Rhythmic Space / Temple Bar Gallery and Studios / 40mins / PG | 25

9.15 /Bygones (I det fortflutna) / Project Upstairs / 55mins /

8.30 / Help! / T36 / 60mins / PG | 20

9.30 / Dynamics & Trojan Sound System/ Hennessy Spiegeltent/ 180 mins / PG | 39

6.15 / Mad Mabe and the Lost Girls: Better than a Black Hole/ Bosco Theatre / 60mins / PG | 36

29

6.15 / Twelve Treatises on Memory / T36 / 80mins / PG | 18

6.30 / Storytaker / The Lab / 45mins / PG | 29

PG | 21

PG | 24

10.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33 8.30 /Bouffon Glass Menajoree / Filmbase / 70mins / PG | 11

10.30 / The Woman Who Left Herself / Common Place, 10 Burgh Quay / 30mins / PG | 29

Saturday 20th 10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM

September

4PM-7PM

10.00 / Etiquette / Curved Street Café / Every half hour / PG | 28

1.00 / Paranoid? / Secret meeting point / 120mins / PG | 29

11.00 - 8.00 / Skewville /Gallery Number 1/

1.00 - 7.00 / IMMATATE /Monster Truck Studios / PG | 42

12.00 - 2.00 / Exposures / Meeting Point: Fringe Box Office @ Filmbase / PG | 33

1.00 / All Around My Head / Bewley’s Café Theatre / 50mins /

12.00 - 8.00 / Artbots / Science Gallery / PG | 42

1.00 / The Evolution of Lauren Begaun / International Bar / 50 mins / PG | 18

6.10 / Mimic / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 80mins / PG | 20

1.00 / A Distinct Glimpse / Project Cube / 45mins / PG | 24

6.15 / Before Colour / Bewley’s Café Theatre / 70mins / PG | 16

PG | 42

PG | 16

1.00 / Shall We Dance / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 3h / PG | 39

8PM-LATE 7.00 / La Clique / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 105mins / PG | 37

8.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33

9.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33

4.00 /The Art of Laughter / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 55mins / PG | 44

7.00 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60 mins /

9.00 / The Magic Tree / Project Cube / 70mins /

PG | 29

8.15 / Moonflight / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 60mins / PG | 12

6.00 / Cat Lady / Human Jukebox / International Bar / 60mins / PG | 11

7.00 / The Four Horsemen Project / Project Upstairs / 65mins / PG | 12

8.30 / All in the Timing / Inis Theatre Bewleys Café Theatre / 85 mins / PG | 20

9.00 / The Woman Who Left Herself / Common Place, 10 Burgh Quay / 30mins / PG | 29

8.30 / Drinking Dust / Meeting Point: Outside Smock Alley / 60mins / PG | 25

9.00 / Bridge / Back Loft / 50mins /

7.00 / I’m So Close It’s Not Even Funny / Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 11

8.30 / We’re Not Real / DYT Building / 60mins /

9.15 / Bygones (I det fortflutna) / Project Upstairs / 55mins /

7.30 / Those Powerful Machines / The New Theatre / 80mins /

8.30 / Storytaker / The Lab / 45mins /

6.15 / Reptillian / Filmbase / 75mins / PG | 17

PG | 29

PG | 21

PG | 24

PG | 24

PG | 29

PG | 18

2.00 - 7.00 / Wheels Beneath Toys / thisisnotashop / PG | 42

6.15 / Love 2.0 / Project Cube / 60mins /

2.00 / Help! / T36 / 60mins / PG | 20

6.15 / Mad Mabe and the Lost Girls: Better than a Black Hole/ Bosco Theatre / 60mins / PG | 36

2.30 / Reptillian / Filmbase / 75mins /

PG | 17

7.30 / Rock Paper Scissors / Old Ballymun Comprehensive / 90mins / PG | 29

8.30 / Rhythmic Space / Temple Bar Gallery and Studios / 40mins / PG | 25

9.30 /An Evening with Fugiya and Miyagi / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 180 mins / PG | 39

7.30 / It’s a Domestic / The Red Space / 90mins / PG | 28

8.30 / Help! / T36 / 60mins / PG | 20

10.30 / The Woman Who Left Herself / Common Place, 10 Burgh Quay / 30mins / PG | 29

PG | 17

6.15 / Twelve Treatises on Memory / T36 / 80mins / PG | 18

8.30 / Red Bastard / Bosco Theatre / 55mins / PG | 36

3.00 / Love 2.0 / Project Cube / 60mins /

6.30 / Storytaker / The Lab / 45mins /

PG | 17

PG | 29

8.30 / Bouffon Glass Menajoree / Filmbase / 70mins / PG | 11

3.00 / The Darkroom / Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 18

6.30 / Rhythmic Space / Temple Bar Gallery and Studios / 40mins / PG | 25

9.00 / The Darkroom / Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 18

Sunday

21st

September

10AM-12PM 1PM-3PM

4PM-7PM

8PM-LATE

10.00 / Etiquette / Curved Street Café / Every half hour / PG | 28

4.00 / The Art of Laughter / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 55mins / PG | 44

8.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33

4.00 / Exposures Exhibition and Party / The Back Loft / 210 mins / PG | 33

8.15 / Moonflight / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 60mins / PG | 12

6.10 / Mimic / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 80mins / PG | 20

8.30 / Red Bastard / Bosco Theatre / 55mins / PG | 36

1.00 / Shall We Dance / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 3h / PG | 39

6.15 / Reptillian / Filmbase / 75mins /

8.30 / Bouffon Glass Menajoree / Filmbase / 70 mins / PG | 11

2.00 / Mimic / Samuel Beckett Theatre / 80mins / PG | 20

6.15 / Mad Mabe and the Lost Girls: Better than a Black Hole/ Bosco Theatre / 60mins / PG | 36

9.00 / The Darkroom / Players Theatre / 60 mins / PG | 18

3.00 / I’m So Close It’s Not Even Funny / Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 11

7.00 / La Clique / Hennessy Spiegeltent / 105mins / PG | 37

9.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33

7.00 / I’m So Close It’s Not Even Funny / Players Theatre / 60mins / PG | 11

9.00 / The Woman Who Left Herself / Common Place, 10 Burgh Quay / 30mins / PG | 29

7.30 /Those Powerful Machines / The New Theatre / 80mins /

9.30 /The Golden Age of Fringe / Hennessy Spiegeltent /180 mins / PG | 39

12.00 - 8.00 / Artbots / Science Gallery / PG | 42

1.00 - 6.00 / Skewville / Gallery Number 1/ PG | 42

PG | 17

PG | 18

7.30 / Rock Paper Scissors / Old Ballymun Comprehensive / 90mins / PG | 29

10.00 / Pinocchio / Meeting Point: Outside Project Arts Centre / 40mins / PG | 33

7.30 / It’s a Domestic / The Red Space / 90mins / PG | 28

10.30 / The Woman Who Left Herself / Common Place, 10 Burgh Quay / 30mins / PG | 29

Box Office Information

Tickets to all events available online at WWW.FRINGEFEST.COM Or Telephone 1850 FRINGE (1850 374643) International number +353 1 672 8861 Drop in to Fringe box office for information on all Fringe events, located at Filmbase, Curved Street, Dublin 2.

Opening hours: 10 - 6pm Monday to Saturday 12 – 6pm Sunday.

The Secret Garden Box Office located at Hatch Street, Dublin 2 Opening Hours: Mon 1st – Fri 5th Sep 1-2pm/5-6.30pm Sat 6th – Sun 21st Sep Mon – Fri 1-2pm Daily 5pm-1am

Spiegeltent will also open 45 minutes before Spiegeltent daytime events Due to the Fringe’s popularity, our phone lines may occasionally be engaged. Please persist.

Booking numbers for individual venues (where applicable) are listed on page 46 If available, tickets are sold on the door of most Fringe venues, and are subject to individual venue box office policies. Credit cards may not be accepted at some venues. Cash and exact change are always appreciated.

Please call to confirm details pertaining to accessibility and available services at each venue.

Subject to availability. All sales are final. No substitutions or exchanges. Telephone and online bookings are subject to a €1 postage fee.

Cover Photography Richard Gilligan

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Box Offices Filmbase, Curved St. Box Offices Filmbase, Curved St. Located At: Hatch St. Entrance, Located At: Iveagh HatchGardens St. Entrance, Iveagh Gardens