Dublin Fringe Festival 2018 brochure

DUBLIN FRINGE

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FESTIVAL

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INTRO PARTIES, CLUB NIGHTS & GIGS FESTIVAL CLUB INVENTORS & MAVERICKS 13 GOOD PLAYS PUNCHLINES YOUNG RADICALS SHARPENED SENSES BODIES IN TIME NOW WE'RE TALKING SHOW IN A BAG DAY BY DAY FRINGE LAB #FRINGE25 STAFF SPONSORS & PARTNERS MAP & VENUES

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In 2018, we’re bringing you a festival of antidotes. These artist apothecaries have formulated their solutions, cures and divine art elixirs — all yours for the taking.

DREAMERS AND DOERS, WORDSMITHS AND RADICALS, CRAFTERS, GRAFTERS, PIRATES AND BAD BITCHES: WELCOME TO DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL. YOUR WILDEST DREAMS HAVE SET THE AGENDA.

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We’ve got works of complexity, substance and guts that refuse easy answers. Each is fuelled by an unquenchable urgency and made by outlaws, witches, messers, pioneers and heroes. The stage is set for an indelible edition of Dublin Fringe Festival. Make sure you can say you were there. — Ruth McGowan, Festival Director

They offer balms of beauty and wonder, speak potent truths to power, distil rage into action and brew art from the inexpressible. They prescribe parties to heal our fight-fatigued souls and soothe us with filthy laughs, the adrenaline of chance, the euphoria of limitless possibility. Joy as an act of resistance.

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CLUB CULTURE IS CULTURE

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Dublin after-dark demands your attention.

Throbbing dancefloors and hot gigs to send you home starry-eyed.

Parties, Club Nights + Gigs.

THE FIANNA FELLATIO PARTY LAUNCH glitter hole

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You are invited to the official launch of Fianna Fellatio, Ireland’s brand new queer communist party. We are a group of leather daddies, gay witches for abortion, and reformed Gardaí who now work in the hen party entertainment industry. Join us for an evening of drag performance as we present our political manifesto and bop our way towards a queertopian future.

Your disco needs you.

Glitter HOLE is a DIY drag collective, a queer performance space, and a bit of a laugh.

Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival. Contains nudity and the use of strobe lighting. This venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, please contact our box office prior to booking.

CABARET, CLUB PERFORMANCE, PARTY

Performance 8 September, Door: 21∶00. Event: 21∶30, €15

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Photo: Emma Chubb

Venue The Complex

GIG, CLUB

8 Venue The Sewing Factory, 11 Camden Street Lr.

Performances 14 September, Doors 22∶00, Event: 22∶30, €15

district magazine presents

NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH the very best of irish hip hop talent

Hip hop began in Bronx basements, mid-summer, stiflingly hot, with a sense of danger, but ultimately intrigue. Only a few people were in attendance, but if you knew, you knew. Through the

Neighbourhood Watch series, District bring you back to the halcyon days of rap, while exploring the realm of Ireland's underground hip hop culture.

Performances 15 September, Doors 22∶00, Event: 22∶30, €15

GIG, CLUB

Venue The Sewing Factory, 11 Camden Street Lr.

district magazine presents

ELUSION: ESCAPISM THROUGH A/V international house and disco luminaries

Our city has become saturated by DJs and producers fixated on pandering to the status quo. Elusion is the antithesis.

A night that will hark back to the heady days when electronic music brought people together through escapism, District

have hand picked their favourite selectors and A/V artists. Let them bring you to a place you seldom find yourself in Dublin anymore. All you need are these four walls to dance within.

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GIG, MUSIC, PARTY

Venue The Complex

Performance 15 September, Door: 20∶30. Event: 21∶00, €10

BLACK JAM: CURE fried plantains collective

Fried Plantains Collective is back with a sensational night of spoken word, hip hop and African and Irish punk and funk music.

This will be the night that everyone’s talking about: the highly anticipated sequel to BLACK JAM at Fringe 2017. On the bill are captivating poet performer Raven, MC freestyle rapper MAI, Niamh Beirne of Dublin collective PETTY CASH

Photo: Grayce Leonard

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and nine-piece creative powerhouse BlackFish Collective. More acts to be announced.

This venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, please contact our box office prior to booking. This gig is free for asylum seekers and refugees. Please email friedplantainscollective@gmail.com to get yourself on the guestlist.

CABARET

11 Venue The Complex Preview 17 September, 21∶00, €11

Performances 18 - 21 September, 21∶00, €15 / €13 conc.

Duration: 60 mins

OVERFIRED stefan fae // lady k

on your newsfeed. The revolution will be...

OVERFIRED! Developed at MAKE, an artist development programme and residency initiative of Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Project Arts Centre and Theatre Forum. Supported and developed with Live Collision. Contains the use of smoke machines. This venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, please contact our box office prior to booking.

Photo: Brian Teeling

Polemics so hot you’ll think Twink’s answering machine message sounds like Anne Doyle on the Six One. Like those guys with guitars they’ve been watching in bars, Stefan Fae and Lady K are stomping their feet to a different beat. They’ve been poked and stoked, so gird your loins for a rollicking dash and grab of steamy musical delights. Sinéad? Pulp? Eiffel 65? They’ve got them all. So batten down the hashtags there chicken; the revolution won’t happen

Venue Abbey Theatre on the Abbey Stage Duration: 90 mins

Performances 21 & 22 September 21∶00, €26 / €24 conc.

Dublin Fringe Festival and the Abbey Theatre in association with Mother present

PEACHES CHRIST SUPERSTAR peaches

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An unlikely scenario: the whole of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar performed by one woman accompanied by a single piano. Even more unlikely when that woman is Peaches, the electro-rock provocateuse who has made sexual frankness her calling card. With extraordinary emotional and dramatic power, Peaches sings each of the nine

Venue Mother Club

principal roles. Building on the work’s own brand of subtle subversiveness, Peaches’ tribute to a score she has loved since she was a teenager is a chance to see the star and the musical in an entirely new light.

Peaches with Mathias Halvorsen, piano. Supported

by Goethe-Institut Irland.

Date 22 September, Door: 23∶00, €10 tickets on the door

OFFICIAL AFTER PARTY mother club Mother is one of the best LGBT parties on the block. Conceived in 2010, it’s Dublin’s favourite old school club night for discoloving gays and their friends. Mother has played host to a plethora of guests including Optimo, LCD Soundsystem, Ana Matronic and Le Galaxie. Having

hosted and supported Peaches in the past, Mother’s throwing the official, unmissable, after show party this Fringe.

Contains the use of smoke machines. Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

Photo: Angel Ceballos

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CLUB PERFORMANCE, GIG, MUSIC

MUSIC, GIG, VISUAL ART

Venue Abbey Theatre on the Abbey Stage

Performance 18 September, 21∶00, €18 Duration: 100 mins

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meltybrains?

Scantily masked musicians exploring the capabilities of the universe with weapons of mass distortion. Also just a bunch of lads. Meltybrains? have garnered a reputation for their unabashed creativity, picking up a loyal following that has helped them sell out shows across Ireland,

the UK and the US. The chemistry between each member on stage is infectious. For one night only at Fringe, they’re joining forces with visual projection artists Algorithm for a gig that must be seen to be believed.

Remember we told you we’d be taking up space in the city? We’re starting by claiming a space for artists and audiences to gather on Dame St, right in the heart of the festival action. We’re staging a 16-day Fringe takeover of Hely’s Bar and making ourselves feel at home. Expect glitter.

Toast your successes, make new friends, turn a look and have a bop. It's exclusively for Dublin Fringe artists and audiences so you’ll need to flash your artist pass or a Fringe ticket at the door. On the weekends, we’re going out out. We’re planning a lifesaving DJ line-up 'til 3am on Friday and Saturday nights.

Come to the Festival Club to connect, to see your pals for post-show pints and maybe to dream up some new ideas.

See you on the dance floor!

Festival Club @ Hely's Bar, 27 Dame Street, Dublin 2

FESTIVAL CLUB

After-dark mavens and the best of buzzers, you are cordially invited to our Festival Club. The Festival Club is a place for the Fringe community to come together.

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INVENT MAVE

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WORKS THAT DEFY CATEGORISATION: LIVE ART, DANCE, THEATRE, MUSIC & GENRE-BENDING PERFORMANCE.

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TORS + ERICKS

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DANCE, FILM, LIVE ART

18 Venue Project Arts Centre, Space Upstairs Preview 7 September, 18∶15, €11

Performances 8, 10 - 14 September, 18∶15, €16 / €14 conc.

Other performance 15 September, 15∶30 Duration: 80 mins

AFTER

Photo: Jose Miguel Jimenez

liv o’donoghue This is it. It’s over. The end of days.

Humanity and the world as we know it are ending and we’ve stared deep into the abyss to make a documentary for you. It’s a rough cut, but it’s the best we could do under the circumstances. A forewarning for how you would cope and what you would do. To see what it really looks and feels like to know the end is nigh.

Using live-stream film, physicality and performance, we see the stages of the breakdown, the fallout, all that passed.

Investigating our very human fear of endings, AFTER will take you into the beyond, the bit after the end, when it’s already over. It’s a relief... almost.

Funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Supported by Dublin City Council, Dance Ireland, Dansearena Nord (Norway), D.ID Dance Identity (Austria) and Dublin Dance Festival, in association with Project Arts Centre.

Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival. Contains use of strobe lighting and smoke machines.

Performances 8 - 15 September, 21∶15, €15 / €13 conc.

Duration: 60 mins

THEATRE, MUSIC

Venue Project Arts Centre, Cube Preview 7 September, 21∶15, €11

EVERYTHING I DO one two one two

One Two One Two: Low concept serious pop performance by Zoe Ní Riordáin and Maud Lee. Developed with support from Pan Pan Theatre, Project Arts Centre, MAKE, an artist development programme and residency initiative of Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Project Arts Centre and Theatre Forum, and La MaMa International Residency Programme. Part funded by Dublin City Council. Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival.

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Photo: Ros Kavanagh

“I want to help, I want to help you, everything I do is for you, everything I do is for you.”

Accompanied by her guitar, a hysterical pop singer riffs on love in a lonely universe.

She’s attempting heartfelt communication with a room full of strangers. It’s a solo exploration of co-dependency. A live action album of original pop songs from Zoe Ní Riordáin, powered by a need to express the inexpressible.

WORLD PREMIERE Dublin Fringe Festival Presents

UNWOMAN PART III

the rabble & maeve stone

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Unwoman is a woman.

Unwoman is not a woman.

Unwoman performs woman.

Unwoman cannot give birth.

Unwoman has given birth many times.

Unwoman has had many abortions.

Unwoman is bleeding.

Unwoman is grieving.

Unwoman is angry.

Unwoman is a crime.

Unwoman is a real and substantial risk.

FILM, LIVE ART, THEATRE

Venue Samuel Beckett Theatre Previews 8 - 9 September, 19∶30, €11 Performances 10, 12 - 16 September, 19∶30, €16 / €14 conc.

Other performance 15 September, 14∶30 Duration: 60 mins

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Brought to you by award-winning feminist theatre company THE RABBLE (Melbourne, Australia) and trailblazing Irish artist Maeve Stone (Dublin), this production is an exploded ordinance site of what it is to be Unwoman.

Made with commissioning support from Dublin Fringe Festival and developed at FRINGE LAB. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Producing support provided by Pan Pan Theatre (Ireland).

Photo: Patricio Cassinoni

A post-menopausal woman carries her unborn child, subject to constant physical labour. But the flame of Brigid burns.

Hidden miracles erupt from the earth and crawl back into the belly of the woman.

THEATRE, LIVE ART

Venue Project Arts Centre, Cube Previews 8 & 9 September, 18∶30, €11

Performances 10 - 15 September, 18∶30, €15 / €13 conc.

Other performance 15 September, 15∶45 Duration: 75 mins

ONEDAY

dick walsh & james moran Dick Walsh and James Moran are staging news articles published on 13th March 2012. Or in other words, they’re examining a dying media using a dead artform. News articles are essentially information and typically lose their value after you’ve read them once. But theatre is a place where things must be repeated. This experiment

Photo: Aine McBride

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then, is about what bears repeating and its relationship to subjectivity and storytelling.

Created with the help of Live Collision, St. John’s Theatre Listowel, Cow House Studios, the Abbey Theatre and Wexford Arts Centre. Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival.

DANCE, LIVE ART, THEATRE

23 Venue Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box Preview 11 September, 19∶00, €11

Performances 12 - 15 September, 19∶00, €14 / €12 conc.

Other performance 15 September, 15∶00 Duration: 60 mins

KISS KISS SLAP SLAP chaos factory

and microaggressions. About looking back but never returning, arriving and trying to define the new. A surreal spectacle of beauty, bravery and brutality.

Play development has been supported by Fishamble: The New Play Company’s New Play Clinic. Contains nudity and the use of smoke machines.

Photo: Jeda de Brí

A dressing room. Three women invite you in. A multifaceted performance about the Ireland we live in. About the Ireland we could live in. #MeToo has happened. The game is changing, times are shifting and the masks are finally slipping. Everyone’s a witness. So where do we go from here?

The jury is still out. A show created and performed by Fionnuala Gygax, Danielle Galligan and Venetia Bowe. About moving.

Moving forward from past oppressions

LIVE ART, MUSIC, THEATRE

24 Venue The Lir Academy, Studio 2 Preview 11 September, 18∶15, €11

Performances 12 - 16 September, 18∶15, €14 / €12 conc.

Duration: 75 mins

EVERYTHING CAN BE DISMANTLED

Photo: Joan Somers Donnelly

joan somers donnelly & donncha maccóil “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules absurd.” - Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Dublin is building again. Cranes stand on the horizon, happily constructing glittering glass nests. But what other models of building are possible? What other models

of living are possible? An interactive fantasy about the politics of housing and a conversation about alternatives, this is a show about the spaces we live in now and the spaces we desire.

Presented by Discotheque Collective. Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival.

Performances

Preview

Other performance

Project Arts Centre, Cube

13, 14, 19, 20 & 21 September, 13∶00, €12

12 September, 13∶00

22 September, 12∶00 Duration: 60 mins

THEATRE

Venue

RUNNING + WALKING IN THE PHOENIX PARK martin sharry

with live musical accompaniment from Rachel Ní Chuinn and original video projection by Francis Matthews, drawing you into the restorative ambience and rhythm of nature.

Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Developed at Scene + Heard 2017.

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Photo: Naomi Goodman

A man is running for his life. Running helps the brain to regenerate. Over time, he forgets himself. He grows more interested in the trees, the history, the life of the park.

A conversation with a Horse Chestnut reveals the nature of healthy being.

Then he stops.

Slowly, he starts again…

Tim Creed performs a poetic meditation inspired by something beyond the ego

Venue Project Arts Centre, Space Upstairs Performances 14 - 15 September, 21∶00, €16 / €14 conc.

Duration: 65 mins

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samira elagoz

An award-winning performance about violence and intimacy. Samira Elagoz takes us along on her personal research project across three continents. From online platforms to close encounters, she showcases gender relations in all their brutal and wonderful ambivalence.

Elagoz takes the audience on her journey of regaining power, reinventing an autonomous expression of sexuality and attempts to relate to men after being raped. Confrontational, unrestrainedly funny and deeply touching, the performance explores desire, the power of femininity and the male gaze in a world in which the virtual and the real are inextricably intertwined. Cock, Cock..

Who’s There? won the Prix Jardin d'Europe at Impulstanz in 2017.

Supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Blooom Award By Warsteiner and SNDO - School for New Dance Development. Presented with the support of The Finnish Institute in London. For audiences aged 16+.

NEIGHBOURS: INTERNATIONAL DISRUPTIONS FROM FRINGE AND PROJECT Dublin Fringe Festival and Project Arts Centre are joining forces once again for NEIGHBOURS. We’re here to disrupt the cultural landscape and get you closer to the international artists making waves around the world. Good neighbours presenting great art.

FILM, THEATRE Emma Chubb

COCK, COCK..

WHO’S THERE?

Conceived and directed by Seth Honnor

THE MONEY a kaleider production

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€22 (Player), €12 (Silent Witness) Duration: 100 mins

The Money is a cross between a game and a theatrical performance. Choose to be either a Silent Witness or a Player. Silent Witnesses watch as Players must come to a unanimous decision about how to spend a pot of real cash. If the group agrees before the clock ticks down, the money is theirs to spend. If not, it rolls over to the next show.

Spend the money on whatever you want.

Be as creative as you like. Just keep within the law.

THEATRE, GAME

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Production by Kaleider (Exeter). International distribution by Ligne Directe (Paris). Kaleider receives funding from Arts Council England and Exeter City Council. Supported by British Council (Ireland).

Photo: Steve Tanner

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GIG, THEATRE

Venue The Lir Academy, Studio 1 Preview 17 September, 19∶00, €11

Performances 18 - 22 September, 21∶30, €15 / €13 conc.

Duration: 70 mins

CONFIRMATION x+co.

This is not a story about the status quo.

This is a story about making a change.

A musical memoir about growing up in Roscommon. Xnthony was 12 when he made his confirmation. He was 26 when Roscommon voted no in the marriage equality referendum. This is the story of those moments and everything that happened in between, exploring the complex relationships we have with the places we call home and the stories

Photo: Brian Teeling

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they hold. A poignant pop concert from an award-winning creative team about looking for confirmation and wondering if we can ever find it.

Supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Creative Ireland, Roscommon County Council, and Roscommon Arts Centre. Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival. Contains the use of smoke machines.

Performances 19 - 22 September, 21∶15, €14 / €12 conc.

Other performance 22 September, 16∶00 Duration: 55 mins

THEATRE

Venue Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box Preview 18 September, 21∶15, €11

INFINITY

eoghan carrick & nessa matthews

Captain’s Log, Stardate (whatever). A lone astronaut hurtles through the cosmos on a one-way mission to the edge of the universe. She’s looking for a light in the dark. The source of a signal. Traversing time and space, isolation and uncertainty, her quest to find hope will bring her to the brink of the abyss. An exploration of

fact, (science) fiction and the spaces in between. A star-bound journey that looks at the stories we tell ourselves when we feel most alone.

Developed at Scene + Heard 2017. Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival.

Photo: Ste Murray

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Co-commissioned by Dublin Fringe Festival and the Abbey Theatre

SHAME

pom boyd & sean millar

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Performances 19 - 22 September, 21∶15, €16 / €14 conc.

Other performance 22 September, 14∶30 Duration: 75 mins

“The planet does not need more successful people.” - David W. Orr, eco-scientist “Phew.” - Pom Boyd, actor

Millar invites you to witness a sacred punk theatrical ritual. Give up the exhausting pretence and wear your crippling shame on your sleeve.

Developed with the support of The Arts Council / An Chomairle Ealaíon. Pom is a participant of Irish Theatre Institute’s Six in the Attic Artists Supports Programme. Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival.

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Photo: Derek Speirs

Shame. You’ve had success but it feels like failure. You failed a long time ago but it still poisons you with shame. Sometimes it stops you from even walking down the street. How is it that failure can feel worse than dying? Through theatre, performance and original songs, this highly entertaining new show from Pom Boyd and Sean

GIG, MUSIC, THEATRE

Venue Abbey Theatre on the Peacock Stage Preview 18 September, 21∶15, €11

New writing from playwrights you need to know.

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COMEDY, THEATRE

36 Venue Smock Alley Theatre, Boys School Preview 9 September, 18∶45, €11

Performances 10 - 12 September, 18∶45, €14 / €12 conc.

Other performances 14 & 15 September, 21∶00 15 & 16 September, 13∶00 Duration: 55 mins

WHITE

Photo: Kate Brady

some people theatre company Warning: this show may contain knitting and crochet. Rich White is forming a university men’s rights activism society.

However, on the morning of its inaugural meeting a student is found shot dead on campus. As Rich and his gormless band

of misfits attempt to uncover the mystery surrounding the crime, truer and darker motivations begin to unravel. Could the killer be sitting among their very ranks? Is Rich too coked up to notice? An acerbic satire by Pea Dinneen.

Performances 10 - 15 September, 21∶15, €16 / €14 conc.

Other performance 15 September, 15∶30 Duration: 90 mins

THEATRE

Venue Abbey Theatre on the Peacock Stage Preview 8 September, 21∶15, €11

Mermaid Arts Centre presents

A HOLY SHOW janet moran

There’ll even be a miracle, I swear.

Funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Created and produced by Mermaid County Wicklow Arts Centre. Play Development co-commissioned by Mermaid County Wicklow Arts Centre (Bray) and The Pavilion Theatre (Dun Laoghaire) and supported by the Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris) and Fishamble: New Play Clinic.

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Photo: Ste Murray

A new comedy about the 1981 hijacking of an Aer Lingus plane by an ex-Trappist monk with a bottle of water as his weapon, the Pope as his nemesis, and a burning desire to know the third secret of Fátima.

Step on the plane with us and experience this most Irish of hijackings. There’ll be music, nostalgia, heroism, praying, visions, romance (maybe), sex (maybe), and a special appearance by Our Lady (definitely).

Venue Abbey Theatre on the Peacock Stage Preview 7, 8, 10 September, 18∶30, €11 Performances 11 - 15 September & 18 - 22 September, 18∶30, €16 / €14 conc.

Other performance 15 September, 13∶00 Duration: 90 mins

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written by una mckevitt and pj gallagher

When Bobby was 10, his Ma moved six men with schizophrenia into the family home to look after. Like things weren’t mad enough already. Confronted with memories of his childhood after his Da dies, Bobby’s past begins to collide with the present.

It’s raining outside and he’s stuck indoors; Ma’s restocking the industrial-sized pill cabinet, Da’s in the pub, Martin’s doing laps

of the garden, Marv is missing and Mump can see a gorilla in the hall.

Madhouse is based on the true life story of comedian PJ Gallagher.

Story by Una McKevitt. Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Project Arts Centre.

Photo: Adrian Wojtas

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THEATRE

THEATRE

Venue The Lir Academy, Studio 2 Preview 10 September, 21∶00, €11

Performances 11 - 16 September, 21∶00, €14 / €12 conc.

Duration: 75 mins

DOWN THE DRAIN unamused theatre

When Chris and Sophie move in to a toilet, they think they’ve hit rock bottom. When their rent is raised to €1,400, they know they have. Faced with the prospect of dropping out of Trinity and moving home, Chris hits on the perfect solution - selling drugs! They don’t know the difference between ecstasy and acid, or where

Photo: Tim Leech-Cleary

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dealers get those little plastic baggies.

But they can learn on the job - can’t they?

Freedom, friendship and sanity are all on the line in this darkly comic new play by Annie Keegan about Dublin’s rental crisis.

Contains nudity and themes of drug use and sexual coercion.

THEATRE

41 Venue The Complex Performance 11 - 14 September, 18∶15, €15 / €13 conc.

Other performance 14 September, 13∶15 Duration: 70 mins

VIVARIUM

After a chance meeting online, teenager Euan wants to run away with Paul, but is Paul who he appears to be? Paul has done the worst thing he could do, and now they’re after him. Exploring life at 13 on a council estate in Northern Ireland, Don Mc Camphill's savagely dark and bitterly

funny new play is for anyone who has ever got into trouble and run out of places to hide, for anyone who has ever taken the wrong road to the very end.

This venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, please contact our box office prior to booking.

Photo: Don Mc Camphill

bruised sky productions

INSTALLATION, THEATRE

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Performances

Chocolate Factory Previews

10 & 11 September, 18∶00 & 20∶30, €11

12 - 15, 17 - 20, 22 - 23 September, 18∶00 & 20∶30, €15 / €13 conc.

Duration: 75 mins

STOP / OVER

Photo: Michael Quadrino

on the quays & gary duggan Desire, excess, jealousy, regret, passion.

Emotions and memories erupt when a young Irish couple reunite for 24 hours in New York City. Join them as they journey from café to club to gallery, through bedrooms, subway stations, dreams and hallucinations. Dublin’s Gary Duggan, in collaboration with director Nicola Murphy and New York City’s On The Quays, invites

you to reinvent your past, live for the present, and - at least for tonight - forget about your future.

Supported by the The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and The Lir Academy. Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival. Contains nudity and the use of strobe lighting.

Performances 14, 19, 20 & 21 September, 13∶00, €12 Other performances 15 September, 18∶30 & 22 September, 20∶30 Duration: 50 mins

COMEDY, THEATRE

Venue The New Theatre Preview 13 September, 13∶00

ARACHNOPHILIA fancy vegas productions

can Bellhop find some meaning in a life lived in captivity? This new comedy by Aidan Fitzmaurice is suitable for both arachnophobes and arachnophiles.

Developed at Scene + Heard 2017. This venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, please contact our box office prior to booking.

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Photo: Robert Molumby

A story about love. And spiders. And to a lesser extent; a grasshopper. In an attempt to secure their long-term future and prepare for a baby, Conor buys Alice a Chilean rose tarantula. Understandably upset, Alice leaves, and Conor’s obsession with Bellhop the spider begins. With only his own shed exo-skeleton for company,

THEATRE

44 Venue Smock Alley Theatre, Boys’ School Preview 13 September, 18∶45, €11

Performances 14 - 16 September, 18∶45, €14 / €12 conc.

Other performances 15 & 16 September, 15∶30 Duration: 70 mins

LEX TALIONIS (A TALE OF VENGEANCE AND FEATHERS)

Photo: Aoife Cahill

wandering star “If I told ya to jump off a buildin' would ya?”

“That’s different, we’re jumpin’ off buildins all day long!”

Hugh’s a rook with chicks comin’. Mooney’s a younger rook whose new friend Max is not what they seem. Dónie’s a magpie,

he’s bad news. After a vicious murder, one of them is out for blood. There will be vengeance. That’s what the weird Latin title means - the law of retaliation, an eye for an eye, like. From the seriously funny Liam Heylin comes a new play about savage craic on the streets of Cork.

Performances 19 - 22 September, 19∶00, €15 / €13 conc.

Other performances 22 September, 16∶00 Duration: 60 mins

THE FATTEST DANCER AT ST. BERNADETTE'S

CABARET, DANCE, THEATRE

Venue The Lir Academy, Studio 1 Preview 18 September, 19∶00, €11

the breadline collective

day. He could have been a star. A real bleedin' contender he was. Where did it all go wrong? How did he end up in St. Bernadette's Parish Hall, Ballybough? Point your toes, pay your fees and he just might tell you.

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Photo: Ste Murray

It's the day before Julian La Blanc's School of Dance and Drama's annual showcase and everything is falling apart. Julian has absolutely had it with these little wagons with their spiky fingers and their sickled feet. They haven't a patch on him in his

THEATRE

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SEAHORSE

christiane o mahony & for the birds

Venue Project Arts Centre, Cube Preview 18 September, 18∶30, €11 Performances 19 - 22 September, 18∶30, €15 / €13 conc.

Other performance 22 September, 16∶15 Duration: 80 mins

Photo: Engin Akyurt

“If I were a seahorse, he’d be pregnant.”

At 35, Mara is an overqualified underachiever. She works part-time in an aquarium, eats ice-cream for breakfast and likes ticking “single” on forms. She fancies the notion of a threesome... but you can’t have a threesome if you have a baby.

A surreal underwater experience about trying to be grown-up and wishing you were a seahorse. Award-winning Christiane O Mahony's sharp writing is blended with animation and videography with direction by Davey Kelleher and design by Brian Mitchell.

Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Rough Magic Theatre Company and The Everyman. Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival.

Performances 19 - 22 September, 19∶00, €14 / €12 conc.

Other performance 22 September, 13∶30 Duration: 60 mins

THEATRE

Venue Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box Preview 18 September, 19∶00, €11

THE CAT’S MOTHER erica murray

Sinéad arrives at her sister Ciara’s door in London, all set for a weekend of respite from caring for their mother, Eileen. At least, that’s what Ciara thinks this visit is about. Sinéad has other ideas. Over one long weekend, they are forced to make a choice that will affect their lives forever.

Oh, and there’s also the small matter of the family cat. This laugh-out-loud dark comedy asks: how far are you willing to go for your family?

Produced by Wildcard.

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THEATRE

Venue Project Arts Centre, Space Upstairs Performances 19 - 22 September, 18∶15, €16 / €14 conc.

Other performance 22 September, 15∶30 Duration: 60 mins

Soho Theatre and Fishamble: The New Play Company in association with Dublin Fringe Festival present

DRIP FEED

written and performed by karen cogan directed by oonagh murphy Cork. 1998. Brenda and her best pal are part of the city’s furniture. Dancing on tables and 3am breakfast rolls. But what if you wake up hungover and broken on the wrong person’s doorstep, realise you’ve got it wrong, all wrong, and it might just be too late? Shortlisted for Soho Theatre’s biennial Verity Bargate Award comes this

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blistering new play from Stewart Parker Trust Award winner Karen Cogan, a fast, infectiously dark comedy about the messiness of being youngish, female and queer in Ireland.

Contains the use of strobe lighting.

COMEDY, THEATRE

49 Venue Smock Alley Theatre, 1662 Preview 18 September, 18∶30, €11

Performances 19 - 22 September, 18∶30, €16 / €14 conc.

Other performance 22 September, 16∶00 Duration: 75 mins

SWEET SENSATIONS At Peafield Hospital for the Elderly, staff enjoy a slower pace of life than that of their bed-ridden patients, but a surprise inspection from HIQA forces them to make like Nixon and sweat profusely while conducting a massive cover-up.

Octogenarian resident Josie, slung into this dumping ground by her ungrateful niece, isn’t about to lie down and die without exposing the staff’s lies. Criminal

mastermind Toby, in for the day on community service, is happy to assist her in any way that allows him to smash shit up. With nothing left to lose, the pair are guaranteed success... or prison time.

Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival. Contains the use of smoke machines.

Photo: Carmen Reichle

teri fitzgerald

PUNCHLINES

Uproarious stand-up, improv and musical comedy that will leave you begging for more.

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DON’T KISS ME. I’M IRISH. WE’RE PROBABLY RELATED. ABIE PHILBIN BOWMAN Venue The Vintage Room, The Workman's Club Preview 10 September, 20∶45, €11 Performances 11 - 15 September, 20∶45, €13 / €11 conc.

Duration: 50 mins

SIGHT UNSEEN AUTO-CORREBT

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Venue Comedy Cellar at Festival Club Performances 8 - 13 September, 19∶30, €13 / €11 conc.

Duration: 50 mins

Auto-Correbt have set themselves the challenge of performing every other show at this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival. The only problem is that they haven’t seen any of them. Based on titles of shows, lines in the brochure or the vague recollections of audience members, they’ll attempt to recreate the best bits from the best shows.

And all on the spot. Through improvisation they’ll be making up excerpts, theme songs, interviews with the makers and slideshow seminars on the deeper themes of the works. A joy-filled juggernaut of jest and japery.

Supported by The Tightrope. Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

Photo: Michael Fleming

Comedy

Abie Philbin Bowman has one grandparent from each province in Ireland so he married a foreigner, just to be on the safe side. Now they’re parents, even though Abie absolutely hates the phrase “speaking as a parent...“ He prefers the phrase “speaking as someone who successfully uses contraception, and therefore actually has time to read the news...”

From the writer/performer of Jesus: The Guantanamo Years, Eco Friendly Jihad and Developing the Country as a Hole, a comedy show for anyone who suspects that happy parents are really prisoners in denial, posting cute photos of their jailers on Facebook.

Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

Comedy

DREAMGUN FILM READS: THE FRINGE BINGE DREAMGUN Venue Smock Alley Theatre, 1662 Performances 11 - 16 September, 20∶45, €16 / €14 conc.

Other performance 16 September, 13∶30 Duration: 80 mins

MAKING SENSE ÁINE GALLAGHER Venue International Bar Preview 10 September, 18∶45, €11 Performances 11 - 14 September, 18∶45, €13 / €11 conc.

Other performance 15 September, 13∶00 Duration: 50 mins

Social norms, sex appeal and the Irish language are all tricky concepts to understand. Luckily Áine has gained fresh insights from her most recent course in social skills. Join “the queen of the off-beat” as she describes her social interactions with people on public transport and has wonderful and hilarious misunderstandings. Feel enthused about being Irish and realise just how complicated tennis is. And find out why Áine was advised to do the social skills course again.

Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

Photo: Kevin Handy

Comedy

Getting it wrong has never felt so right!

DREAMGUN amuse and exasperate cinephiles in equal measure with their skewed, joke-stuffed and wholly unrehearsed takes on established cinematic favourites. In this special Fringe Binge edition, DREAMGUN bring their classics together for a movie marathon to remember.

Tuesday: Harry Potter Wednesday: Terminator 2: Judgment Day Thursday: Psycho Friday: The Matrix Saturday: Titanic Sunday Matinee: Spider-Man Sunday: Batman Begins Stephen Colfer is supported by the Artist's Office at FRINGE LAB initiative (2018 - 2019).

Photo: Ste Murray

Comedy

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DISPOSABLE CAMERA DAVEY REILLY

Venue The Complex Performances 17 - 22 September, 19∶00, €15 / €13 conc.

Duration: 60 mins

CRAICLING FOIL ARMS & HOG

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Venue O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College Performances 16 - 23 September, 20∶30, €22 / €20 conc.

Other performances 22 - 23 September, 14∶30 Duration: 60 mins

Cracking up Dublin Fringe audiences at sold out shows every year since 2012, festival favourites Foil, Arms and Hog are back. With over 100 million hits on YouTube, Foil Arms & Hog celebrate their seventh Fringe outing with their best show yet, Craicling.

Comedy

After finding an undeveloped camera for sale, Davey Reilly spent years deliberating over whether or not to develop the photos.

Would the contents prove to be exciting, or would an anti-climax await? With the film’s expiration date fast approaching, he had to make a decision. A new hour of comedy exploring curiosity, potential and Russian spies!

Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival. This venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, please contact our box office prior to booking.

Photo: Conor O’Toole

Comedy

DROWNING MARISE GAUGHAN Venue Comedy Cellar at Festival Club Preview 17 September, 20∶00, €11 Performances 18 - 22 September, 20∶00, €13 / €11 conc.

Duration: 55 mins

SON OF A PREACHER MAN STEPHEN MULLAN Venue The Vintage Room, The Workman's Club Performances 17 - 22 September, 20∶00, €13 / €11 conc.

Duration: 60 mins

From the church to the psych ward, Stephen's life started with Jesus and almost ended with the Tellytubbies.

Childhood Sundays were for watching Dad deliver sermons and Mam lead evangelical worship time, but how was he going to survive being so uncool in 90s small-town Ireland?

In this debut stand-up comedy hour, he shares his coming-of-age story about a boy who was brought to the edge of his own life, and who lives to tell the hilarious tale of how sexcapades, drug overdoses and a surprise baby meant that he was, in his own way, born again.

Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival. Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

Photo: Al Higgins

Comedy

In 2014, Marise’s father killed himself, setting off a chain reaction that began with her placement on an ISIS watch list in Amsterdam and ended sharing a psych ward with Kanye West in LA. Stand-up comedy at its darkest about destructive choices made in a mental abyss. It’s about fathers, inner darkness, and the funny stuff that can happen even as the world around you goes to shit.

Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival. Venue is not wheelchair accessible. Contains adult themes including suicide.

Photo: James Mac Inerney

Comedy

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TRIAL OF THE CENTURYS THE MESS AROUND & POPICAL ISLAND Venue Project Arts Centre, Cube Preview 17 September, 18∶30, €11 Performances 18 - 22 September, 21∶00, €15 / €13 conc.

Other performance 22 September, 14∶00

Duration: 75 mins

HOOKERS DO IT STANDING UP LADY GREW

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Venue The International Bar Preview 17 September, 18∶45, €11 Performances 18 - 21 September, 18∶45, €13 / €11 conc.

Other performance 22 September, 13∶00 Duration: 60 mins

Hooker by day, performer by night, Director of Sex Workers Alliance by the balls. This feminist thought she was a hippy, but really she was just poor. Check out “Ireland’s Favourite Courtesan” (Sunday Independent) with her back against a brick wall. Maybe she likes working outside to keep the overheads low. Failing prostitution she’ll seek refuge as a standup comic — at least they have a union.

Produced by Ella Goddin. Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

Photo: Daniel Boeving

Comedy, Music, Theatre

Fun-loving popstar twins Trevor and Elliot Century (AKA ‘Trelliot’) are more accustomed to talent show judges than those of the legal variety. Alas, after being served a summons by a dodgy merch salesman, the pair encounter a miserable magistrate who has no time for their larks - or their tunes. In this courtroom musical that’s more “two giddy boys” than Twelve Angry Men, Giles Brody (RTÉ’s Irish Pictorial Weekly) and Bobby Aherne (art-pop act No Monster Club) take you, the jury, on a bizarre, toe-tapping adventure about fame, family, friendship and aliens.

Illustration: Ruan van Vliet

Comedy, Music, Theatre

A LINE OF O’KANE DEIRDRE O’KANE Venue Smock Alley Theatre, 1662 Performances 19 - 22 September, 20∶45, €18 / €16 conc.

Duration: 90 mins

Footloose from a glittering turn on Dancing with the Stars and revelling in her return to stand-up, Deirdre has really hit her stride.

Don’t miss this hilarious and frank take on 12 frantic months in the life of a tangotripping, family-minding, telly-making, house-moving, comedy dynamo.

WITCHES & DOGS ERIN MCGATHY & BEN SEEDER Venue The New Theatre Preview 18 September, 18∶30, €11 Performances 19 - 22 September, 18∶30, €15 / €13 conc.

Other performance 22 September, 13∶00 Duration: 60 mins

Two actors and master improvisers present a funny, compelling and frequently poignant, never-before-seen production based on interviews with the audience.

Each show is the opening and closing night of an original play, never to be performed again. A theatrical experience, electric with discovery that dares you to remember that it’s being made up.

Presented by MOB Theatre Dublin. Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival. This venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, please contact our box office prior to booking.

Photo: Frank McKenna

Comedy, Theatre

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Photo: Frank McKenna

Comedy

DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL AND COLLAPSING HORSE PRESENT

YOUNG RADICALS

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Five cool shows for those on the right side of adulthood.

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PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

All ages

60 Venue 2 Curved Street, Temple Bar Opening 8 September, 15∶00 Dates 9 - 23 September, 12∶00-18∶00 daily Free

EPOCH

Photo: Ayesha Ahmad

ayesha ahmad This photographer is a masterful dreamer and a wizard of light. Through the portraits and snapshots she has captured since she was old enough to hold a camera, 18-yearold Ayesha Ahmad invites us into another orbit, another realm.

Moments before embarking on this photographic journey, she finished her exams and is now heading for college.

Epoch is a documentation of change, a coming-of-age; it explores the summer of 2018 where we see a generation leap into a new phase of their lives, while Ireland as a nation grows into its new skin.

A Young Radicals Commission.

THEATRE

SUSIE & THE STORY SHREDDER bombinate theatre

King Levi says that stories make your brain go fuzzy and your hands turn green.

All stories are banned in the Kingdom of Levitas. It’s Susie and Shredder’s job to enforce the King’s law, shredding stories from dusk ‘til dawn.* But today, Susie will read a story for the very first time. Perhaps stories aren’t so scary after all. An upbeat adventure from the creators of Half Light.

Developed with support from Pavilion Theatre Patron Donation Award. Developed at MAKE, an artist development programme and residency initiative of Cork Midsummer Festival, Dublin Fringe Festival, Project Arts Centre and Theatre Forum.

Mollie Molumby is supported by the Artist’s Office at FRINGE LAB initiative (2018 – 2019).

*No actual stories were harmed in the in the making of this play.

Venue Project Arts Centre, Cube Preview 8 September, 13∶15, €8 Performances 9 September, 13∶15 15 & 16 September, 11∶00 & 13∶15 Adults: €12 / Kids: €8 / Group of 4: €35 Duration: 50 mins

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Photo: Neil O'Driscoll

For children aged 7+ & story lovers of all ages.

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Ages 13+

FABLE

human collective

DANCE, THEATRE

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Venue Project Arts Centre, Space Upstairs

FABLE is a sinister dance-theatre production for young adults. An all-male cast of highly physical street dancers dissect modern life, revealing the disease that sits just under the skin. From the unanticipated consequences of new technologies to political conspiracy and manmade horrors and drawing on classic

dystopian cinema and cautionary tales, these five short stories don't shy away from the gruesome details. Choreographed

by Matt Szczerek and directed by Cathy Coughlan.

Produced in partnership with Dance Ireland.

Photo: Cathy Coughlan

Performances 9 September, 15∶30 & 18∶15 16 September, 13∶30 & 15∶30 Adults: €12 / Kids: €8 / Group of 4: €35 Duration: 50 mins

AERIAL, CIRCUS

All ages

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Venue Dubh Linn Garden at Dublin Castle Performances 14 September, 15∶00 & 18∶00 15 - 16 September, 11∶00 & 14∶00 Free Duration: 50 mins

Dublin Fringe Festival presents

THE LIGHTKEEPERS' LAST STAND Photo: Louise Mc Cague

loosysmokes

A stunning new outdoor aerial acrobatic show for all ages. Performed in and around a gigantic and otherworldly lighthouse, the story unfolds as the lightkeepers strive to maintain order in their absurd, unpredictable and surreal surroundings. Lenses to clean, clockworks to wind, trousers to patch, lamps to light, when disaster strikes, will lunacy prevail?

An energetic, impressive, humorous and entirely unexpected performance by one of Ireland’s leading modern circus companies.

Developed with support from The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Kilkenny Arts Festival.

Supported by The Office of Public Works. Contains the use of smoke machines.

MUSIC

TINY DANCER: A DJ SET FOR KIDS donal dineen

Let’s dance. It’s time for the kids to throw some shapes and bust out their best moves as DJ Donal Dineen hits the decks for a musical rollercoaster ride. Expect dance tunes from every era and corner of the globe. So if you’re ready to get into the groove, lace up your dancing shoes

and grab those glowsticks. Kids just wanna have fun!

A TRACKS Co-Commission from Dublin Fringe Festival, Cork Midsummer Festival & Baboró International Arts Festival for Children. This venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, please contact our box office prior to booking.

Venue The Complex Performances 23 September, 11∶00 Adults: €7 / Kids: €5 / Under-1s go free but if you're dancing you need a ticket!

Duration: 60 mins

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Ages 0-8

SHARP SENSE

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QUESTION PROJECT

mil m2

INSTALLATION, INTERACTIVE

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Venue The streets of Dublin: find locations at fringefest.com or #dublinfringe

Dates 8 – 23 September Free

For the past five years, Chilean artistic collective Mil M2 (One Thousand Square Metres) has continuously developed its installation series Proyecto Pregunta (Question Project).

attracts attention and intentionally fosters the empowerment of the city’s inhabitants.

By engaging in dialogues with Dubliners, they establish a catalogue of questions: these questions are printed in huge letters and mounted onto a mobile scaffolding that moves around the city each day.

Question Project brings questions and critique into public spaces. Its layout

Dublin becomes a space for action that offers transformative and collective exchanges.

Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival. Supported by Embassy of Chile in Ireland.

VISUAL ART

70 Venue The streets of Dublin Find your guide to hat locations at fringefest.com or at box office.

Dates 8 – 16 September Free

SPITFIRE BIRD

Photo: Vincent Starr

margaret o'connor

Dublin’s statues are getting a head-turning makeover. Acclaimed hat maker Margaret O’Connor is taking her haute couture creations to the streets as she designs bespoke hats for the heads of some of our city’s icons. Drawing inspiration from the lives of the statues' subjects, O’Connor’s decadent and mischievous street art millinery will make you look twice at some

familiar landmarks and help you discover new ones. #spitfirebird #dublinfringe Supported by Dublin City Council and the Little Flower Farm.

Performances 15 & 16 September, 14∶00 & 18∶00, €15 / €13 conc.

Other performances 17 September, 13∶00 & 15∶00 Duration: 55 mins

LIVE ART, INSTALLATION

Meeting Point Outside the Ashling Hotel, Arran Quay

THE SOUND OF PHOENIX shanna may breen

Have you ever listened to a place? What did it say? On a site-specific travelling soundscape of the Phoenix Park, you are invited onto a vintage bus to drive through the park. Our city is shifting and this monumental back garden is witness to it all, noticing massive moments for the park and the city, while also paying attention to

tiny stories that may have gone unnoticed.

Devised from conversations and interviews, this fizzy and heartfelt tapestry of sound will relive and reimagine what this epic site means to us today.

Supported by The Office of Public Works and Phoenix Park. Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

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FILM, INSTALLATION, MUSIC

72 Venue The streets of Dublin: find location at fringefest.com

Performances 18 - 23 September, 20∶00 - 23∶00 (show every 12 mins) Free

DRIVE-BY SHOOTING dumbworld ltd.

This street art opera is a comic story of passion and revenge played out by octogenarians on zimmer frames. He’s been sleeping around. She’s going to “shoot the fecker in the pecker.” Sure, she’ll be better taken care of in prison than on her pitiful pension! This unique artistic hybrid is projected as a stencil style animation on city walls, while its operatic

soundtrack is broadcast to the audience through headphones for an experience that is at once communal and an intimate listening experience.

Created by John McIlduff and Brian Irvine.

Commissioned by Dublin City Council. Dumbworld is supported by The Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Irish National Opera.

Performances 18 - 21 September, 20∶30, €15 / €13 conc.

Other performance 22 September, 15∶30 Duration: 60 mins

THEATRE, LECTURE PERFORMANCE

Venue The New Theatre Preview 17 September, 20∶30, €11

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VIVA VOCE

There is no map for going insane, but there are clues. People who have gone before you leave them behind. Sometimes they leave everything behind. The female insanity is aestheticised; but how does the madwoman act? Learning from the great depressives Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf and Diane Arbus, Lauren-Shannon Jones tries to solve the mystery of her own

madness. A darkly playful interactive tour through a nervous breakdown.

Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival. Contains nudity and adult themes including suicide. This venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, please contact our box office prior to booking.

Photo: Tristan McConnell

lauren-shannon jones

COMEDY, LIVE ART, THEATRE

74 Venue Smock Alley Theatre, Boys’ School Previews 17 September, 18∶45, €11

Performances 18 - 22 September, 21∶00, €14 / €12 conc.

Other performance 22 September, 14∶30 Duration: 50 mins

BILLY

Photo: Aphra Lee Hill

sarah gordon & alice malseed BILLY wants to help you make space.

BILLY is about your “stuff” drawer. All the old chargers for phones you’ve stopped using. That bag of old coats you might need some day.

BILLY is about the wooden porridge-stirrer (or “spurtle”) you spent €14 on, and your unused Nutri-Bullet.

BILLY is about corporate jargon, and IKEA,

and Tupperware parties. A disbelieving look at the weird ways we try and order our lives.

Life is messy. But BILLY has a multipurpose, reasonably-priced, space-saving solution.

Developed at Scene + Heard 2018.

Performances 19 - 22 September, 20∶45, €16 / €14 conc.

Other performance 22 September, 13∶00 Duration: 70 mins

THEATRE

Venue Project Arts Centre, Space Upstairs Preview 18 September, 18∶15, €11

MY DAD’S BLIND anna sheils-mcnamee

they try to get by in a sighted world with a blind Dad and a guide dog that’s just had a stroke.

Co-produced with Pan Pan Theatre. Funded by The Arts Council / An Chomairle Ealaíon. Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival.

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Photo: Ste Murray

Inspired by raw audio recordings, this is a true story about Anna's blind Dad. Examining misplaced pity in all its guises, this is an irreverent look at what happens when a parent loses his sight while his daughter loses her mind. A story about sight-loss, family dysfunction and all the embarrassing, awkward, ridiculous ways

LECTURE PERFORMANCE, LIVE ART

Venue The Vintage Room, The Workman's Club

Performances 20 – 22 September, 18∶00, €13 / €11 conc.

Duration: 55 mins

OWING TO THE FAILURE OF

zoë comyns - crooked ear

Photo: Emily Quinn

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An audio experiment for podcast lovers.

When a radio producer finds 100-year-old Marconi Code books in a junk shop, she starts to read the code lists obsessively and twist them into her own life story. This theatre for the ears mimics a live podcast format to chart a crumbling relationship from its origins, via a history of sound,

telegraphy and communication to a flight into madness. Mixing live reading and recorded quadrophonic sound, a blend of story, found text, biographies and voices.

Sound design by Brendan Rehill and Brendan Jenkinson.

Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

Performances 21 - 23 September, 15∶00, 15∶30, 16∶00, 16∶30, 17∶30, 18∶00 & 18∶30, €7 Duration: 15 mins

INSTALLATION, THEATRE

Venue 2 Curved Street, Temple Bar

SUMMERTIME slip&sync

monologue for two voices who are struggling to stay together.

Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival.

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Photo: Dara Ó Cairbre

Stash is an artist who works in a pub.

Steve is her boyfriend. There’s a glitch in their relationship that they want to tell you about. In unison, if they can. An intimate performance installation of a bittersweet

MUSIC, THEATRE

Venue Secret Location

Preview 21 - 23 September, 12∶30, 13∶10, 13∶50, 14∶45, 15∶25 & 16∶05, €10 Duration: 25 mins

I USED TO FEEL ailís ní ríain

An intimate, site-specific music-theatre piece set in a hotel room that questions the essence of communication and what contributes to its breakdown. Theatre, live classical music, visual language and movement focus us on the challenges of

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communication. Composed and written by Ailís Ní Riaín with performer Alvean Jones and musician Kate Romano.

Supported by Arts & Disability Ireland.

Performance 22 September, 14∶00 - 17∶00 (durational performance, drop in at any time) Free and unticketed

HEED, TO THE MOUND emma brennan

LIVE ART, VISUAL ART, INSTALLATION

Venue The Complex

Women taking up space: physically, vocally, socially, politically and economically. We are moving mounds through the political landscape of gender. We will command attention with respect, without apologies. This floor is our landscape, our journeys will mark it. We are building a road map. This is

performance, this is action, this is ongoing.

We need your presence, let us negotiate.

In association with Draíocht, Blanchardstown, and supported by No Drama Theatre. Contains nudity.

This venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, please contact our box office prior to booking.

Photo: Emma Brennan

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RADIO

DDR X FRINGE:

this is not your national broadcaster

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BUT TO GO FURTHER Theatrophone (Sean Finnan & Jane Deasy) Debut: 9 September, 19∶00 Re-broadcasts: 12 September, 18∶00 & 16 September, 19∶00 Theatre, Music

dissociation is any of a wide array of experiences from mild detachment from immediate surroundings to more severe detachment from physical and emotional experiences. The major characteristic of all dissociative phenomena involves a detachment from reality, rather than a loss of reality as in psychosis. but to go further is an audio excursion into the shaping of another’s story. Using archival footage from YouTube, LiveLeak, Radio and Public Information films, you are invited to occupy the teenage

psychospace - wear your headphones and delve into the codes of a society that puts the cult of the self at the centre of everything.

ENTER THE STRANGER Rob Moloney & Cáit NíMhaoldomhnaigh 17 - 20 September, 16∶00 daily Political Documentary in four parts

Greece is an experiment for the European Union. Policy makers are implementing legislation that criminalises asylum seekers. Protest is ineffective. The Greek Islands have become a tired waiting ground for thousands of migrants. Fascism is growing. The police force is a tool of state oppression; violence is a means of control. The Solidarity Movement moves

ddr. is Dublin Fringe Festival’s first ever virtual venue. Dublin Digital Radio is a unique space, where Ireland’s left-of-centre talent finds a home for music, discussion, experimentation and radical ideas. ddr. and Fringe have been thinking about the digital and the physical:- What does it mean to create work that lives only online, that is non-downloadable? What does it mean to make work that comes from diverse spaces and voices? What can we communicate across the airwaves that we cannot express in person?

We asked for artistic responses to these questions and we got a dynamic body of sonic works that are truly singular, engaged with urgent social and political conversations, and fizzing with ideas.

These three intimate radio encounters are appointment listening. Tune in to listen.dublindigitalradio.com during Fringe to hear these new pieces debut.

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forward in its struggle. Migrants accused of human trafficking are being charged with life in prison. Lesvos has become a prison for everyone that lives there. Europe is a fortress. The dead have even less rights than the living. Who is accountable?

Advocacy is dead.

In partnership with Inside Lesvos.

THE LIVING STREAM Radiofare (Kerry Guinan, Rory Caraher & Paul O’Connor) Debut: 9 September, 20∶00 Re-broadcasts: 12 September, 17∶00 & 16 September, 18∶00 Experimental Radio Documentary

Everytime you use the internet you interact with a complex, invisible, living, breathing

ecosystem. From scorching server farms, to leaky data clouds, to the fibreoptic cables at the base of the ocean - all converge into the live stream. In this gripping radio nature documentary we take you on a journey through the natural world of these unnatural creations. Discover field recordings of information-munching creatures, web-hosts and sembiotes, and farmers raising crops of harvestable data.

We invite you to take a dip in the stream to find out what role you have to play in this fascinating cycle of artificial life.

BODIES IN TIME

Feats of dance, circus, performance and physical theatre.

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ASSISTED SOLO company philip connaughton

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Performances 8 - 10, 12 & 13 September, 21∶00 €16 / €14 conc.

Other performances 15 September, 13∶00 & 18∶15 Duration: 60 mins

Three performers dance their memories and hopes in this raw allegory of life. It’s about people using whatever they can to make their own perfect solo. It’s not always clear who’s assisting who. Philip Connaughton, long-time collaborator Lucia Kickham and French dance artist Magali Caillet are accompanied by video footage of Madeleine, Philip’s mother, who suffers from advanced dementia. Her ancient and beautiful presence makes us

look at how we, as society, deal with the ageing body.

DANCE

Venue Project Arts Centre, Space Upstairs Preview 7 September, 21∶00, €11

Funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. In partnership with Project Arts Centre and in association with The Everyman. Supported by Dance Ireland. Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival. Contains nudity and the use of smoke machines.

Photo: Luca Truffarelli

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PHYSICAL THEATRE

86 Venue Smock Alley Theatre, Boys’ School Preview 8 September, 18∶45, €11

Performances 9 - 13 September, 21∶00, €14 / €12 conc.

Duration: 60 mins

FREE EU ROAMING

Photo: Jo Kemp

rule of three collective

An Irishwoman, an Englishwoman and a Germanwoman walk into a bar. A hostel bar in Barcelona where a fight for Catalonian independence rages on the streets outside. Aside from disrupted festival-going plans, all they hold in

common is a fucker of a hangover.

Trapped, the travellers rip stereotypes into confetti. Grab your passport for a buzzing trip of laughs through the past, present and future of three nations.

Performances 11 - 14 September, 20∶45, €15 / €13 conc.

Other performances 14 September, 15∶45 Duration: 50 mins

DANCE

Venue The Complex Preview 10 September, 20∶45, €11

FRAGMENTS jessie keenan

detailed movements, architectural forms and unexpected connections begin to emerge.

Initial development of this work was supported by the The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Dance Ireland and Cavan County Council Arts Office. Developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival. This venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, please contact our box office prior to booking.

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Photo: Carrie Lewis - Design: Jane McCormick

We continuously edit our past. The present moment affects our memories, through the very process of reconstructing them.

What can we hold on to as they alter or even disappear completely? Examining the imperfect, unstable nature of our mind through movement, sound and video.

The audience, along with three dancers, are immersed in a strange, beautiful, fragmented world. Surrounded by a sound score of whispers and fractured voices,

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Venue D-Light Studios Performances 13 - 15 September, 20∶15

Free, but ticketed.

Donations welcome on the door.

Duration: 50 mins

THE PEOPLESWAY dance among other things

A devised, immersive movement-theatre piece transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. The PeopleSway shares stories of the heart, home and homeless in Ireland, revealing beautiful communal truths no longer only at the fringes.

“In mythos and fairy tales, deities and spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in robes, rags, silver sashes, or with muddy feet... as a man who cannot speak, or an animal who can. The great powers are testing to see if humans have yet learned to recognise the

greatness of soul in all its varying forms.”

Dancing, sometimes we sway in an unexpected way to a garden overgrown, encountering beautiful beasts who balance between what's expected and unexpected of beings.

Supported by D-Light Studios, Dance Ireland and Dublin Simon Community. This venue has wheelchair accessibility, however please contact our box office prior to booking.

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Performances 13 - 16 September, 18∶30, €16 / €14 conc.

Other performance 16 September, 16∶00 Duration: 55 mins

CAGED

Right, so let’s get one thing straight: Femme Bizarre are not “fierce”, they are fucking FEROCIOUS. A full-on force to be reckoned with. Marvel as they put themselves through the ringer with aerial stunts, high-octane voguing, explosive vocals and spoken word. Sound good?

Yeah, we thought so. Step inside the cage, the door is wide open...

Supported by the The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Produced by John Dennehy. Contains nudity, the use of strobe lighting and smoke machines.

Photo: Adrian Wojtas

femme bizarre

CIRCUS

90 Venue Smock Alley Theatre, Boys School Preview 18 September, 18∶45, €11

Performances 19 - 22 September, 18∶45, €16 / €14 conc.

Other performance 22 September, 12∶00 Duration: 80 mins

Photo: Spit: Ken Fanning Cikada: SevE Lightdrawing

DOUBLE BILL:

CIKADA & SPIT

ali & henrik / reckless ross CIKADA Two acrobats create a world between the harmonious and the absurd. In this world, lines are blurred between human and nature. Ali Stanger and Henrik Gard create a mutual acrobatic language of finesse and honesty. A fun, thoughtful and humorous display of rich imagery and dynamic riveting movement.

Cikada developed at FRINGE LAB with the support of Dublin Fringe Festival.

SPIT Push hard, stand up, and spit back. Stop being hijacked by the consumer culture, by spectacle, by tits and teeth and nipple tassels. This show is a celebration of the fierce and wild. Brutality balanced by beauty. Circus that challenges set ideas of gender stereotypes and female expectations in society. A political and evocative one-woman circus.

SPIT directed by Ken Fanning of Tumble Circus.

Performances 20 September, 20∶00 22 September, 14∶30 & 17∶30 23 September, 14∶30 €12 Duration: 60 mins

DANCE, THEATRE

Venue Goethe-Institut Preview 20 September, 17∶30

NÄHER... CLOSER, NEARER, SOONER liz roche company

Goethe-Institut.

Wir sind wieder zu Hause. Unser Flügel wurde gestimmt und unsere Bibliothek ist voll mit unseren Lieblingsbüchern. Komm und lass dich verzaubern.

Commissioned by Goethe-Institut Irland. Coproduction Goethe-Institut and Liz Roche Company.

In partnership with Dublin Dance Festival and Dublin City Council. Contains nudity. Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

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Photo: Luca Truffarelli

Within these new and old walls are layers of stories and memories. Visit us. Encounter all of the emotions and movements that bring you closer. Share in an intimate living room play. Live the best moment of your life. Choreographer Liz Roche and her company, along with theatre maker Shane O’Reilly, have created a site-specific dance piece to mark the opening of the newly refurbished

Spoken word, poetry, theatre and

now we're talking

SPOKEN WORD, POETRY, THEATRE AND TALKS

brewed by wizards of language.

GIG, MUSIC, THEATRE

94 Venue Smock Alley Theatre, Black Box Preview 10 September, 19∶00, €11

Performances 11 - 15 September, 21∶15, €14 / €12 conc.

Other performance 15 September, 13∶00 Duration: 70 mins

BEAT.

Photo: Ste Murray

fionntán larney & dominic o’brien If every time you leave the house you try to have the most fun you’ve ever had, how do you know when to go home? A new rap musical following two young men whose views on women, drugs, and each other collide and shatter. It’s about “old friend” not meaning “good friend”, “better person” not meaning “good person”, "less

misogynist", not meaning “not misogynist”.

Original music, light show, three performers who rap what they can’t say.

It’s gonna be a hell of a party.

Contains nudity and the use of strobe lighting and smoke machines.

Performances 12 - 14 September, 18∶30, €15 / €13 conc.

Other performances 15 September, 13∶00 & 20∶30 Duration: 55 mins

FILM, THEATRE

Venue The New Theatre Preview 11 September, 20∶30, €11

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ASTRONAUT

A spoken-word multimedia theatre piece inspired by the Apollo House takeover of 2016. We meet the astronaut on O’Connell St. He doesn’t have a home. He is looking for the last pieces of cardboard to fix his rocket ship and make his way to the stars.

Join him on his quest, as he confronts truths about modern day Ireland, as well as reliving some truths of his own.

This venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, please contact our box office prior to booking.

Photo: Kim Cunningham

joe wright

THEATRE, POETRY, SPOKEN WORD

Venue The New Theatre Preview 12 September, 20∶30, €11

Performances 13 & 14 September, 20∶30, €15 / €13 conc.

Other performance 15 September, 15∶30 Duration: 85 mins

BOY CHILD

dagogo hart & felispeaks “I walked home that night in the same spirits I left the boys, highs and lows and middle grounds of uncertainty. The Lagos sky at 7pm was the blue of a thunderstorm at sea, but I barely noticed it. Even I sometimes get bored with the beauty around me.“ Two of Dublin’s most exciting spoken word artists and poets, FeliSpeaks (aka Felicia

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Olusanya) and Dagogo Hart, deliver gritty, rare and raw performances in a tale written carefully to display the nuances of the life of the modern day man.

This venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, please contact our box office prior to booking.

THEATRE

97 Venue axis: Ballymun Preview 18 September, 20∶00, €11

Performances 19 - 22 September, 20∶00, €14 / €12 conc.

Duration: 80 mins

axis Ballymun presents

“Here’s the granite swish swish, the rise and dip dip of the walls of the liffey, the whip whip of the amber lit streetlights…”

Witty and trippy, Colm Keegan’s debut play hums with rich poetic language.

Craner, about to be a Dad, takes us on a madcap journey from Ballymun to the Rotunda and back again. Stumbling through a city falling down, a past that

won’t let go, to a future he never planned.

Walls come tumbling, past and present collide on this rollercoaster ride through a life and city on the brink of... something.

By Colm Keegan. Directed by Mark O'Brien and featuring Eric O'Brien.

Funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Dublin City Council.

Photo: Babs Daly

FOR SAOIRSE

TALKS

Venue The Complex

Times 22 - 23 September, 13∶00 - 18∶00 €18 one day ticket, €30 two day ticket

I AM DYNAMITE curated by roisin agnew

When concepts of free speech and free thinking have been coopted by conservatives, how should artists reclaim these for themselves? We think of artists as agitators and provocateurs, yet in complex times it feels like there is an imperative for art not to offend. From Michelle Wolf to the naked child nymphs in the Manchester Art Gallery, questions around what is acceptable and in good taste seem to be

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everywhere. And we have to pick a side.

Across two days of debates, comedy, and installations I Am Dynamite will explore the role of artistic dissent and causing offence to celebrate the fact that we’re all free to disagree.

This venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, please contact our box office prior to booking.

NETWORK AND SHOWCASE 13TH ANNUAL INFORMATION TOOLBOX Venue: Wood Quay Venue Date: 14 September, 09∶00 Duration: 210 mins Registration is open 12 July - 29 August CALLING ALL ARTISTS AND COMPANIES PROGRAMMED IN THIS YEAR’S FRINGE. Want to meet programmers and presenters to pitch your show to venues and festivals? Want to build your networks of connections at home and internationally? Want to move things up a notch and start planning a tour?

Irish Theatre Institute (ITI) invites theatre, dance companies and independent artists who are presenting work at Dublin Fringe Festival to its annual networking event, INFORMATION TOOLBOX. Running for the 13th consecutive year, it attracts presenters from across Ireland and brings hand-picked guests from international organisations right to you. Here’s how it works: One-to-ones ITI matches you in bespoke meetings where you meet programmers to talk about creating a future for your show.

Space is limited and must be pre-booked.

Registration is open to artists presenting theatre and dance in this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival. Registration deadline is 29 August at irishtheatreinstitute.ie.

Venue: Bewleys Café Theatre Time: 15 September, 10∶30 - 12∶15 Things We Haven’t Made Yet A pitching session* where Irish artists introduce

upcoming projects with an eye to securing development and touring partners. *Selection to participate in the pitching session is by open call during July. See cultureireland.ie, fringefest.com or irishtheatreinstitute.ie for further details.

For top tips in advance of INFORMATION TOOLBOX, follow Irish Theatre Institute on Facebook and Twitter.

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

SCRIPTED Venue: The Lir Academy, Studio 1 Date: 8 September, 13∶00 Duration: 60 mins Free but ticketed, contact box office The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin presents a showcase of new plays by this year’s graduating MFA playwrights Clare McMahon and Breman Rajkumar, who were awarded The Patricia Leggett Scholarship, generously sponsored by Jim and Janet Curley. The three playwrights have been immersed in training led

by Graham Whybrow, former Literary Manager of the Royal Court, and taught by playwrights, dramaturges and literary managers. Scripted has a professional cast including graduate actors from The Lir Academy. It offers script-in-hand readings of extracts and is a chance to hear new plays by emerging playwrights.

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APPROPRIATE SARAH-JANE SCOTT Venue Bewley's Café Theatre Preview 11 September, 13∶00, €11 Performances 12, 16 & 20 September, 18∶00 13, 17, 21 & 22 September, 20∶00 15 & 19 September, 13∶00 €13, Duration: 60 mins

BRENDAN GALILEO FOR EUROPE FIONN FOLEY Venue Bewley's Café Theatre Preview 10 September, 13∶00, €11 Performances 11, 15 & 19 September, 18∶00 14, 18 & 22 September, 13∶00 12, 16 & 20 September, 20∶00 €13, Duration: 60 mins

Sorcha LOVES weddings. Just like the other girls in the parish, she’s been dying for her own day since forever and ever.

The thing is, she has just run away from her own reception. Has she gone mad?

Or is this the first moment of clarity she’s had in years? Perched on the edge of her “perfectly planned” life, Sorcha is pure ragin’ at the dawning reality that she’s never really listened to herself. Can she ever go back? This is a darkly funny tale of young love in rural Ireland and a lifelong quest to settle down.

Photo: Cáit Fahey

To challenge the bureaucracy of Irish political life and to save the local school of music from being converted into apartments for racehorses, Brendan Galileo is determined to join the ranks of the European Parliament. Alas, in the City of Tribes he is a man without a spear, his previous electoral efforts little more than a novelty act. In a last-ditch attempt to dramatically improve his public profile, he must represent his country in the most vicious diplomatic catfight in the continent, the Eurovision Song Contest.

Photo: Cáit Fahey

Comedy, Theatre, Musical

Theatre

Venue Bewley's Café Theatre Preview 10 September, 20∶00, €11 Performances 12, 16 & 20 September, 13∶00 13, 17, 21 & 22 September, 18∶00 14 & 18 September, 20∶00 €13, Duration: 60 mins

SPLIT ENDS LAUREN LARKIN Venue Bewley's Café Theatre Preview 10 September, 18∶00, €11 Performances 11, 15 & 19 September, 20∶00 13, 17 & 21 September, 13∶00 14 & 18 September, 18∶00 22 September, 15∶00 €13, Duration: 60 mins

There’s nothing a new hair-do won’t fix!

Right? Amy has worked at the salon since she was 16. She loves it. She loves her fella Darren too: they bought their house last year and have it almost how they want it.

Her clients are the business; every day she has the chats with generations of Dublin women about their struggles, and their strength. Amy's worked hard for what she has, and whatever she sets her sights on, she gets. Until now… Drop in to Split Ends to hear the things we can only tell our hairdresser and to get the best damn curly blow dry in town! FACT.

Photo: Cáit Fahey

Theatre

Follow the lives and family histories of three young men as they grow up in Coolock on Dublin's northside. What shapes them and entices them to a life of crime? Examining issues of class, religion and identity, this new play is an unflinching exploration of the Irish psyche, bringing our collective guilts, secrets and flaws to the surface.

Photo: Cáit Fahey

Theatre

Show in a Bag is an artist support initiative made with the combined powers of Irish Theatre Institute, Fishamble: The New Play Company and Dublin Fringe Festival. The SIAB programme was conceived to empower actors to create the show they have always wanted to make; inspired by their own unique talents and with a great story that only they can tell.

Often first time writers and producers, the artists are supported by dramaturgy from Fishamble, producing know-how from ITI and the creative platform of Dublin Fringe Festival. Since 2010, the Show in a Bag productions that began in Bewley’s Café Theatre, have gone to on travel the world delighting audiences from West Cork to Western Australia.

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IRELAND’S CALL JOHN CONNORS

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21:00 COCK, COCK.. WHO'S THERE? Project Arts Centre

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ALL DAY SPITFIRE BIRD The streets of Dublin

P. 70

15:45 ONEDAY Project Arts Centre

P. 22

21:00 WHITE Smock Alley Theatre

P. 36

10:00 P. 99 THINGS WE HAVEN'T MADE YET Bewley's Café Theatre

18:00 STOP / OVER The Chocolate Factory

P. 42

21:00 DOWN THE DRAIN The Lir Academy

P. 40

11:00 P. 61 SUSIE & THE STORY SHREDDER Project Arts Centre

18:00 THE SOUND OF PHOENIX Phoenix Park

P. 71

21:15 EVERYTHING I DO Project Arts Centre

P. 19

11:00 P. 64 THE LIGHTKEEPERS' LAST STAND Dubh Linn Garden at Dublin Castle

18:00 P. 100 BRENDAN GALILEO FOR EUROPE Bewley's Café Theatre

21:15 A HOLY SHOW Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage)

P. 37

12:00 - 18:00 EPOCH 2 Curved Street

P. 60

18:15 P. 24 EVERYTHING CAN BE DISMANTLED The Lir Academy

21:15 BEAT. Smock Alley Theatre

P. 94

13:00 WHITE Smock Alley Theatre

P. 36

18:15 ASSISTED SOLO Project Arts Centre

P. 84

13:00 MADHOUSE Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage)

P. 38

18:30 ONEDAY Project Arts Centre

P. 22

13:00 MAKING SENSE The International Bar

P. 53

18:30 MADHOUSE Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage)

P. 38

ALL DAY QUESTION PROJECT The streets of Dublin

P. 68

13:00 ASSISTED SOLO Project Arts Centre

P. 84

18:30 ARACHNOPHILIA The New Theatre

P. 43

ALL DAY SPITFIRE BIRD The streets of Dublin

P. 70

13:00 BEAT. Smock Alley Theatre

P. 94

18:30 CAGED Smock Alley Theatre

P. 89

11:00 P. 61 SUSIE & THE STORY SHREDDER Project Arts Centre

13:00 ASTRONAUT The New Theatre

P. 95

18:45 LEX TALIONIS Smock Alley Theatre

P. 44

11:00 P. 64 THE LIGHTKEEPERS' LAST STAND Dubh Linn Garden at Dublin Castle

19:00 KISS KISS SLAP SLAP Smock Alley Theatre

P. 23

12:00 - 18:00 EPOCH 2 Curved Street

P. 60

19:30 UNWOMAN PART III Samuel Beckett Theatre

P. 20

13:00 WHITE Smock Alley Theatre

P. 36

13:00 APPROPRIATE Bewley's Café Theatre

P. 100

13:15 P. 61 SUSIE & THE STORY SHREDDER Project Arts Centre

22:30 P. 8 ELUSION: ESCAPISM THROUGH A/V The Sewing Factory

16 SEPTEMBER

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21:00 WHITE Smock Alley Theatre

105

13:00 IRELAND'S CALL Bewley's Café Theatre

P. 100

13:15 P. 61 SUSIE & THE STORY SHREDDER Project Arts Centre

P. 68

ALL DAY QUESTION PROJECT The streets of Dublin

P. 68

P. 60

12:00 - 18:00 EPOCH 2 Curved Street

P. 60

P. 53

12:00 - 18:00 EPOCH 2 Curved Street

13:30 FABLE Project Arts Centre

P. 62

13:00 THE SOUND OF PHOENIX Phoenix Park 13:00 SPLIT ENDS Bewley's Café Theatre

P. 71 P. 100

13:00 P. 100 BRENDAN GALILEO FOR EUROPE Bewley's Café Theatre 16:00 ENTER THE STRANGER listen.dublindigitalradio.com

P. 80 P. 42

P. 71

15:00 THE SOUND OF PHOENIX Phoenix Park

P. 71

18:00 STOP / OVER The Chocolate Factory

15:30 LEX TALIONIS Smock Alley Theatre

P. 44

16:00 ENTER THE STRANGER listen.dublindigitalradio.com

P. 80

18:00 SPLIT ENDS Bewley's Café Theatre

15:30 FABLE Project Arts Centre

P. 62

18:00 STOP / OVER The Chocolate Factory

P. 42

18:15 MY DAD’S BLIND Project Arts Centre

P. 75

16:00 CAGED Smock Alley Theatre

P. 89

18:00 IRELAND'S CALL Bewley's Café Theatre

18:30 MADHOUSE Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage)

P. 38

18:30 SEAHORSE Project Arts Centre

P. 46

18:30 SWEET SENSATIONS Smock Alley Theatre

P. 49 P. 57

14:00 THE SOUND OF PHOENIX Phoenix Park

P. 100

18:00 THE SOUND OF PHOENIX Phoenix Park

P. 71

18:30 TRIAL OF THE CENTURYS Project Arts Centre

18:00 THE LIVING STREAM listen.dublindigitalradio.com

P. 81

18:45 P. 56 HOOKERS DO IT STANDING UP The International Bar

18:00 APPROPRIATE Bewley's Café Theatre

P. 100

18:15 P. 24 EVERYTHING CAN BE DISMANTLED The Lir Academy

www.fringefest.com

18 SEPTEMBER

ALL DAY QUESTION PROJECT The streets of Dublin

13:30 DREAMGUN FILM READS Smock Alley Theatre

14:00 P. 64 THE LIGHTKEEPERS' LAST STAND Dubh Linn Garden at Dublin Castle

106

17 SEPTEMBER

P. 56

P. 100

18:45 BILLY Smock Alley Theatre

P. 74

18:30 WITCHES & DOGS The New Theatre

19:00 CONFIRMATION The Lir Academy

P. 30

18:45 P. 56 HOOKERS DO IT STANDING UP The International Bar

18:30 CAGED Smock Alley Theatre

P. 89

19:00 DISPOSABLE CAMERA The Complex

P. 54

18:45 DOUBLE BILL: CIKADA & SPIT Smock Alley Theatre

P. 90

18:45 LEX TALIONIS Smock Alley Theatre

P. 44

20:00 DROWNING Festival Club

P. 55

19:00 THE FATTEST DANCER...

The Lir Academy

P. 45

19:00 BUT TO GO FURTHER listen.dublindigitalradio.com

P. 80

20:00 SON OF A PREACHER MAN The Workman's Club

P. 55

19:00 THE CAT'S MOTHER Smock Alley Theatre

P. 47

19:30 UNWOMAN PART III Samuel Beckett Theatre

P. 20

20:00 APPROPRIATE Bewley's Café Theatre

19:00 DISPOSABLE CAMERA The Complex

P. 54

20:00 - 23:00 DRIVE-BY SHOOTING Streets of Dublin

P. 72

20:00 DROWNING Festival Club

P. 55

20:00 SON OF A PREACHER MAN The Workman's Club

P. 55

20:00 FOR SAOIRSE axis Ballymun

P. 97

P. 100

20:00 P. 100 BRENDAN GALILEO FOR EUROPE Bewley's Café Theatre

20:30 STOP / OVER The Chocolate Factory

20:30 P. 54 FOIL, ARMS & HOG: CRAICLING O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere Col.

20:30 P. 54 FOIL, ARMS & HOG: CRAICLING O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere Col.

20:45 DREAMGUN FILM READS Smock Alley Theatre

P. 53

20:30 VIVA VOCE The New Theatre

21:00 DOWN THE DRAIN The Lir Academy

P. 40

21:00 OVERFIRED The Complex

P. 42

P. 73 P. 11

P. 100

18:30 MADHOUSE Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage)

P. 38

21:00 TRIAL OF THE CENTURYS Project Arts Centre

P. 56

P. 42

18:30 MADHOUSE Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage)

P. 38

21:00 BILLY Smock Alley Theatre

P. 74

18:30 SEAHORSE Project Arts Centre

P. 46

21:15 INFINITY Smock Alley Theatre

P. 31

18:30 SWEET SENSATIONS Smock Alley Theatre

P. 49

21:15 SHAME Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage)

P. 32

P. 57

21:30 CONFIRMATION The Lir Academy

P. 30

20:30 STOP / OVER The Chocolate Factory

20:30 P. 54 FOIL, ARMS & HOG: CRAICLING O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere Col.

P. 73

20:30 VIVA VOCE The New Theatre 21:00 OVERFIRED The Complex

P. 11

18:30 WITCHES & DOGS The New Theatre

21:00 ? BY MELTYBRAINS? Abbey Theatre (Abbey Stage)

P. 14

18:45 P. 56 HOOKERS DO IT STANDING UP The International Bar

21:00 TRIAL OF THE CENTURYS Project Arts Centre

P. 56

18:45 DOUBLE BILL: CIKADA & SPIT Smock Alley Theatre

P. 90

ALL DAY QUESTION PROJECT The streets of Dublin

P. 68

21:00 BILLY Smock Alley Theatre

P. 74

19:00 THE FATTEST DANCER...

The Lir Academy

P. 45

12:00 - 18:00 EPOCH 2 Curved Street

P. 60

21:15 INFINITY Smock Alley Theatre

P. 31

19:00 THE CAT'S MOTHER Smock Alley Theatre

P. 47

13:00 RUNNING + WALKING...

Project Arts Centre

P. 25

21:15 SHAME Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage)

P. 32

19:00 DISPOSABLE CAMERA The Complex

P. 54

13:00 ARACHNOPHILIA The New Theatre

P. 43

21:30 CONFIRMATION The Lir Academy

P. 30

20:00 - 23:00 DRIVE-BY SHOOTING Streets of Dublin

P. 72

13:00 IRELAND'S CALL Bewley's Café Theatre

20:00 DROWNING Festival Club

P. 55

16:00 ENTER THE STRANGER listen.dublindigitalradio.com

19 SEPTEMBER

20 SEPTEMBER

P. 100 P. 80

ALL DAY QUESTION PROJECT The streets of Dublin

P. 68

20:00 SON OF A PREACHER MAN The Workman's Club

P. 55

17:30 P. 91 NÄHER... CLOSER, NEARER, SOONER Goethe-Institut

12:00 - 18:00 EPOCH 2 Curved Street

P. 60

20:00 FOR SAOIRSE axis Ballymun

P. 97

18:00 STOP / OVER The Chocolate Factory

P. 42

13:00 RUNNING + WALKING...

Project Arts Centre

P. 25

20:00 SPLIT ENDS Bewley's Café Theatre

18:00 OWING TO THE FAILURE OF The Workman's Club

P. 76

13:00 ARACHNOPHILIA The New Theatre

P. 43

20:30 STOP / OVER The Chocolate Factory

13:00 APPROPRIATE Bewley's Café Theatre

P. 100

P. 100 P. 42

20:30 P. 54 FOIL, ARMS & HOG: CRAICLING O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere Col.

18:00 APPROPRIATE Bewley's Café Theatre

P. 100

18:15 DRIP FEED Project Arts Centre

P. 48

16:00 ENTER THE STRANGER listen.dublindigitalradio.com

P. 80

20:30 VIVA VOCE The New Theatre

P. 73

18:30 MADHOUSE Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage)

P. 38

18:00 STOP / OVER The Chocolate Factory

P. 42

20:45 A LINE OF O'KANE Smock Alley Theatre

P. 57

18:30 SEAHORSE Project Arts Centre

P. 46

20:45 MY DAD’S BLIND Project Arts Centre

P. 75

18:30 SWEET SENSATIONS Smock Alley Theatre

P. 49

18:30 WITCHES & DOGS The New Theatre

P. 57

18:00 P. 100 BRENDAN GALILEO FOR EUROPE Bewley's Café Theatre 18:15 DRIP FEED Project Arts Centre

P. 48

21:00 OVERFIRED The Complex

P. 11

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20:00 IRELAND'S CALL Bewley's Café Theatre

107

18:45 P. 56 HOOKERS DO IT STANDING UP The International Bar

18:15 DRIP FEED Project Arts Centre

P. 48

18:30 SEAHORSE Project Arts Centre

P. 46

P. 90

19:00 THE FATTEST DANCER...

The Lir Academy

P. 45

ALL DAY QUESTION PROJECT The streets of Dublin

P. 68

18:30 SWEET SENSATIONS Smock Alley Theatre

P. 49

19:00 THE CAT'S MOTHER Smock Alley Theatre

P. 47

12:00 - 18:00 EPOCH 2 Curved Street

P. 60

18:30 WITCHES & DOGS The New Theatre

P. 57

19:00 DISPOSABLE CAMERA The Complex

P. 54

12:30 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

18:30 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

20:00 - 23:00 DRIVE-BY SHOOTING Streets of Dublin

P. 72

13:00 RUNNING + WALKING...

Project Arts Centre

P. 25

18:45 P. 56 HOOKERS DO IT STANDING UP The International Bar

20:00 DROWNING Festival Club

P. 55

13:00 ARACHNOPHILIA The New Theatre

P. 43

18:45 DOUBLE BILL: CIKADA & SPIT Smock Alley Theatre

P. 90

20:00 SON OF A PREACHER MAN The Workman's Club

P. 55

13:00 SPLIT ENDS Bewley's Café Theatre

19:00 THE FATTEST DANCER...

The Lir Academy

P. 45

21 SEPTEMBER

P. 100

20:00 P. 91 NÄHER... CLOSER, NEARER, SOONER Goethe-Institut

13:10 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

19:00 THE CAT'S MOTHER Smock Alley Theatre

P. 47

P. 97

13:50 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

19:00 DISPOSABLE CAMERA The Complex

P. 54

20:00 P. 100 BRENDAN GALILEO FOR EUROPE Bewley's Café Theatre

14:45 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

20:00 - 23:00 DRIVE-BY SHOOTING Streets of Dublin

P. 72

15:00 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

20:00 DROWNING Festival Club

P. 55

15:25 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

20:00 SON OF A PREACHER MAN The Workman's Club

P. 55 P. 97

20:30 STOP / OVER The Chocolate Factory

P. 42

20:30 P. 54 FOIL, ARMS & HOG: CRAICLING O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere Col. 20:30 VIVA VOCE The New Theatre

P. 73

15:30 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

20:00 FOR SAOIRSE axis Ballymun

20:45 A LINE OF O'KANE Smock Alley Theatre

P. 57

16:00 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

20:00 APPROPRIATE Bewley's Café Theatre

20:45 MY DAD’S BLIND Project Arts Centre

P. 75

16:05 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

20:30 P. 54 FOIL, ARMS & HOG: CRAICLING O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere Col.

P. 11

16:30 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

20:30 VIVA VOCE The New Theatre

P. 73

21:00 TRIAL OF THE CENTURYS Project Arts Centre

P. 56

17:30 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

20:45 A LINE OF O'KANE Smock Alley Theatre

P. 57

21:00 BILLY Smock Alley Theatre

P. 74

18:00 OWING TO THE FAILURE OF The Workman's Club

P. 76

20:45 MY DAD’S BLIND Project Arts Centre

P. 75

21:15 INFINITY Smock Alley Theatre

P. 31

18:00 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

21:00 OVERFIRED The Complex

P. 11

21:15 SHAME Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage)

P. 32

18:00 IRELAND'S CALL Bewley's Café Theatre

21:00 PEACHES CHRIST SUPERSTAR Abbey Theatre (Abbey Stage)

P. 12

21:00 OVERFIRED The Complex

www.fringefest.com

P. 30

18:45 DOUBLE BILL: CIKADA & SPIT Smock Alley Theatre

20:00 FOR SAOIRSE axis Ballymun

108

21:30 CONFIRMATION The Lir Academy

P. 100

P. 100

P. 56

14:30 SHAME Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage)

21:00 BILLY Smock Alley Theatre

P. 74

14:30 P. 54 FOIL, ARMS & HOG: CRAICLING O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere Col.

21:15 INFINITY Smock Alley Theatre

P. 31

14:30 BILLY Smock Alley Theatre

21:15 SHAME Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage)

P. 32

14:30 P. 91 NÄHER... CLOSER, NEARER, SOONER Goethe-Institut

21:30 CONFIRMATION The Lir Academy

P. 30

14:45 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location 15:00 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

22 SEPTEMBER

P. 32

P. 74

18:00 OWING TO THE FAILURE OF The Workman's Club

P. 76

18:00 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

18:00 IRELAND'S CALL Bewley's Café Theatre

P. 100

18:15 DRIP FEED Project Arts Centre

P. 48

P. 78

18:30 MADHOUSE Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage)

P. 38

P. 77

18:30 SEAHORSE Project Arts Centre

P. 46

18:30 SWEET SENSATIONS Smock Alley Theatre

P. 49

ALL DAY QUESTION PROJECT The streets of Dublin

P. 68

15:00 SPLIT ENDS Bewley's Café Theatre

12:00 - 18:00 EPOCH 2 Curved Street

P. 60

15:25 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

18:30 WITCHES & DOGS The New Theatre

P. 57

12:00 RUNNING + WALKING...

Project Arts Centre

P. 25

15:30 DRIP FEED Project Arts Centre

P. 48

18:30 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

12:00 DOUBLE BILL: CIKADA & SPIT Smock Alley Theatre

P. 90

15:30 VIVA VOCE The New Theatre

P. 73

18:45 DOUBLE BILL: CIKADA & SPIT Smock Alley Theatre

P. 90

12:30 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

15:30 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

19:00 THE FATTEST DANCER...

The Lir Academy

P. 45

16:00 INFINITY Smock Alley Theatre

P. 31

19:00 THE CAT'S MOTHER Smock Alley Theatre

P. 47

13:00 P. 56 HOOKERS DO IT STANDING UP The International Bar

P. 100

13:00 WITCHES & DOGS The New Theatre

P. 57

16:00 THE FATTEST DANCER...

The Lir Academy

P. 45

19:00 DISPOSABLE CAMERA The Complex

P. 54

13:00 MY DAD’S BLIND Project Arts Centre

P. 75

16:00 SWEET SENSATIONS Smock Alley Theatre

P. 49

20:00 - 23:00 DRIVE-BY SHOOTING Streets of Dublin

P. 72

13:00 I AM DYNAMITE The Complex

P. 98

16:00 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

20:00 DROWNING Festival Club

P. 55

16:05 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

20:00 SON OF A PREACHER MAN The Workman's Club

P. 55 P. 97

13:00 P. 100 BRENDAN GALILEO FOR EUROPE Bewley's Café Theatre 13:10 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

16:15 SEAHORSE Project Arts Centre

P. 46

20:00 FOR SAOIRSE axis Ballymun

13:30 THE CAT'S MOTHER Smock Alley Theatre

P. 47

16:30 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

20:00 APPROPRIATE Bewley's Café Theatre

13:50 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

17:30 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

20:30 STOP / OVER The Chocolate Factory

P. 42

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P. 79

17:30 P. 91 NÄHER... CLOSER, NEARER, SOONER Goethe-Institut

20:30 ARACHNOPHILIA The New Theatre

P. 43

14:00 TRIAL OF THE CENTURYS Project Arts Centre

P. 56

18:00 STOP / OVER The Chocolate Factory

P. 42

P. 100

20:30 P. 54 FOIL, ARMS & HOG: CRAICLING O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere Col.

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21:00 TRIAL OF THE CENTURYS Project Arts Centre

109

20:45 A LINE OF O'KANE Smock Alley Theatre

P. 57

15:25 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

20:45 MY DAD’S BLIND Project Arts Centre

P. 75

15:30 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

21:00 PEACHES CHRIST SUPERSTAR Abbey Theatre (Abbey Stage)

P. 12

16:00 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

21:00 TRIAL OF THE CENTURYS Project Arts Centre

P. 56

16:05 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

21:00 BILLY Smock Alley Theatre

P. 74

16:30 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

21:15 INFINITY Smock Alley Theatre

P. 31

17:30 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

21:15 SHAME Abbey Theatre (Peacock Stage)

P. 32

18:00 STOP / OVER The Chocolate Factory

P. 42

21:30 CONFIRMATION The Lir Academy

P. 30

18:00 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

23:30 P. 13 OFFICIAL PEACHES AFTERPARTY Mother Club

18:30 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

20:00 - 23:00 DRIVE-BY SHOOTING Streets of Dublin

P. 72 P. 42

23 SEPTEMBER

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ALL DAY QUESTION PROJECT The streets of Dublin

P. 68

20:30 STOP / OVER The Chocolate Factory

12:00 - 18:00 EPOCH 2 Curved Street

P. 60

20:30 P. 54 FOIL, ARMS & HOG: CRAICLING O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere Col.

11:00 P. 65 TINY DANCER: A DJ SET FOR KIDS The Complex 12:30 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

13:00 I AM DYNAMITE The Complex

P. 98

13:10 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

13:50 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

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14:30 P. 54 FOIL, ARMS & HOG: CRAICLING O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere Col. 14:30 P. 91 NÄHER... CLOSER, NEARER, SOONER Goethe-Institut 14:45 I USED TO FEEL Secret Location

P. 78

15:00 SUMMERTIME 2 Curved Street

P. 77

INDEX ? by Meltybrains?

A Holy Show A Line of O'Kane AFTER Appropriate Arachnophilia Assisted Solo Astronaut Beat.

BILLY BLACK JAM: CURE Boy Child Brendan Galileo... but to go further CAGED Cock Cock.. Who’s There?

Confirmation Disposable Camera District Weekender Don't Kiss Me...

Double Bill: Cikada & SPIT

14 37 57 18 100 43 84 95 94 74 10 96 100 80 89 26 30 54 8 52 90

Down the Drain Dreamgun Drip Feed Drive-By Shooting Drowning Enter the Stranger Epoch Everything Can Be Dismantled Everything I Do FABLE Festival Club Foil Arms & Hog: Craicling For Saoirse Fragments FREE EU ROAMING Heed, to the Mound Hookers Do It Standing Up I Am Dynamite infinity I Used to Feel Information Toolbox Ireland's Call Kiss Kiss Slap Slap Lex Talionis Madhouse Making Sense Mother: Peaches Afterparty My Dad’s Blind Näher... closer, nearer, sooner Oneday OVERFIRED Owing to the Failure Of Peaches Christ Superstar Question Project Running + Walking...

Scripted Seahorse Shame Sight Unseen Son of a Preacher Man Spitfire Bird Split Ends Stop / Over Summertime Susie and the Story Shredder Sweet Sensations The Cat's Mother The Fattest Dancer...

The Fianna Fellatio Party The Lightkeepers' Last Stand The Living Stream The Money The PeopleSway The Sound of Phoenix Tiny Dancer: A DJ Set for Kids Trial of the Centurys Unwoman Part III Viva Voce Vivarium White Witches & Dogs

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THE CELL – OFFICE SPACE A quieter office space dedicated to writers and producers who need silence to work or write. This small office space is available from Monday to Friday, 10am – 6pm and is booked in advance.

FRINGE LAB FOYER A drop-in facility with free Wi-Fi, a computer and access to printing facilities.

Available on a first come, first served basis Monday to Friday, 10am – 6pm.

STUDIO 2 – SPACE FOR HIRE Need a space to rehearse? Or to hold auditions, meetings, workshops or classes?

Studio 2 at FRINGE LAB is available to hire! For very competitive rates, use this bright and spacious room overlooking Meeting House Square in Temple Bar all year round. Just drop us a line at hello@fringefest.com or call 01 6706106 to make your booking.

ARTISTS Lots of remarkable artists joined the Fringe team this year. At FRINGE LAB, we want to mould our resources to suit the needs of the artist. That’s why in 2018 we are shaking things up. Our new initiatives aren’t just about physical space: we’re thinking about a sense of belonging and a community.

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FRINGE LAB

FRINGE LAB Artist Office A free, shared, lockable office space at Fringe HQ that artists can make their own.

Writer Dylan Coburn Gray; actor, writer and producer Stephen Colfer; and theatre director Mollie Molumby join us from April 2018 – April 2019.

FRINGE LAB Associate Artists A pilot scheme for artists who need space to grow without feeling the pressure to fit into a specific support model. We’re providing space for making, meetings and workshops. But we’re taking our lead from this year’s associate artists: Change of Address Collective and Trans Live Art Salon.

FRINGE LAB Hot Deskers Feeling isolated as a freelancer has been a recurring issue in our conversations with artists. We’ve opened up more hot desk space at FRINGE LAB. Artists for this pilot programme are writer and actor Noelle Brown; Jeda de Brí and Finbarr Doyle of Sickle Moon Productions; and comedian Davey Reilly.

FRINGE LAB Summer Programme Check out fringefest.com/fringelab to catch up on our Summer Programme.

If you would like to find out more about FRINGE LAB on an ongoing basis, mail hello@fringefest.com to be included in our FRINGE LAB mailing list.

FRINGE LAB is funded by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council’s Arts Office.

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SUNDAY 23 SEPTEMBER FESTIVAL CLUB CLOSING NIGHT PARTY + FRINGE AWARDS

Hundreds of artists spend thousands of hours making work for Dublin Fringe Festival each year. Their ambition and hard work is inspiring. The Awards celebrate just a handful of the most breath-taking, rule-breaking, legendmaking moments from each festival.

Our panel of judges recognise the extraordinary skill and talent on display and acknowledge some of the stand-outs in this year’s festival.

Fishamble New Writing Award Awarded to an emerging Irish (or Irelandbased) writer for a new play. The award includes dramaturgical support by Fishamble: The New Play Company.

Best Production For the show that has it all!

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

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

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

Best Ensemble The standout ensemble – the heartbeat of a show.

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

First Fortnight Award The winner will perform at the First Fortnight Festival; whose mission is mental health awareness, challenging prejudice and ending stigma.

Bewley’s Café Theatre Little Gem Award The most exciting show that’s under 60 minutes with a handsome prize: a twoweek run at Bewley’s Café Theatre and €2,000 for the remount.

Spirit of Wit: Moira Brady Averill Award A monetary prize and unique award for an artist willing to take risks and whose work defies categorisation with bold and unconventional material. In memory of Moira Brady Averill, who had the power to transform space and thought through alchemical wit.

AWARDS 2018

At the time, the team said that “at last, young theatre companies and performers from Ireland and Europe have the chance to put on exciting and innovative shows…while entertainment-hungry audiences need no longer roam the streets in a vain search for a less conventional kind of night out.”

Support Fringe Give a little and get a lot more.

Go to www.fringefest.com or say hello at development@fringefest.com.

We’ll be celebrating our 25th birthday in style next year with a bumper programme of events across the capital. And we need your help! If Fringe has brought you joy, adventure or just some great nights out since the nineties, please get involved.

Help us to commission the work you need to see in 2019 by donating €25 for our 25th birthday. For all of the details, go to www.fringefest.com #FRINGE25

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Next year is a big one for Dublin Fringe Festival: we celebrate our 25th birthday in 2019! The very first Fringe took place in Dublin in September 1995.

FringeKin Family Patrick Kearns Eamonn Moriarty Quinn Family Foundation FringeKin Friends Miles Harrigan Luisa Kabala Andrew Lowe Dearbhail O’Sullivan

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THANK YOU!

ABOUT US

We wanted Fringe 2018 to be filled with new voices, new moves and new ways of telling.

That wouldn’t have been possible without the outlaws, messers, pioneers and heroes who came on this adventure with us.

Festival Director Ruth McGowan

A huge thank you to the artists, technicians, volunteers, staff, partners, board members, interns, stakeholders, venues, funders, sponsors, friends, family and judges who brought mischief, rigour, complexity, substance, guts, wonder and JOY to Dublin Fringe Festival 2018!

To every intrepid Fringe audience member — for your curiosity, passion and support — thank you!

Take a look at the list of those who fuel Fringe at fringefest.com

General Manager Shannon Lacek Marketing and Development Manager Kate O’Leary Programme Manager Ewa Senger Production Manager Marcus Costello FRINGE LAB Coordinator Aisling O’Brien Publicity and PR Conleth Teevan Marketing Officer Jenny Mulligan Volunteer Coordinator Paul Donnelly Ticket Supervisor Kamil Chechlacz Box Office Manager Andrew Hanley Bookkeeper Kay Fitzsimons Programming Assistant Rachel Terry Young Radicals Curator Kate Ferris Programme, Print and Web Design bigO

Festival Auditor Niall M. Hogan & Company IT Supply and Support GDK Solicitors Philip Lee Solicitors Board of Directors Mary Moloney (chair), Eleanor Collier, Dave Harland (Emeritus), Lara Hickey, Brian Melarkey, Niamh O’Donnell, Patrick Walshe A big thank you to additional staff and Board members who joined after the publication of this brochure including box office, front of house, interns, venue technicians, technical and hospitality staff, distributors and all of our incredible volunteers. We couldn't do it without you.

Dublin Fringe Festival Sycamore Building Sycamore Street Temple Bar, Dublin 2 www.fringefest.com #dublinfringe Dublin Fringe Festival is registered as Dublin Fringe Festival CLG. Company number: 253495. Dublin Fringe Festival CLG is registered as a charity in Ireland: CHY 12698.

Sponsors & Partners Grant Aided By

Festival Club Partner

Media Partners

Hospitality Partners

Wine Partner

Cultural Partners

Young Radicals Partner

Festival Partners

Artist Resources Support

Programming Partners

HOW TO BOOK 1. ONLINE fringefest.com from 12 July 2018 2. CALL 1850 FRINGE (374 643) from 29 August 2018 3. IN PERSON from 29 August 2018 Dublin Fringe Festival Box Office 2 Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Open 29 August – 23 September Times: Mon-Sat 10∶00 – 18∶00, Sun 12∶00 – 18∶00 (Sep 9 / 16 / 23 only) Age Suitability Due to mature themes, strong language and nudity, the content of many Dublin Fringe Festival shows may not be viewed as suitable for all audiences.

Find our programme for young audiences on page 58. The shows on pages 68 and 70 are also suitable for under 18s.

Free at Fringe Experience some of the best moments of Fringe 2018 without handing over a single cent. You’ll find our

free shows on pages 60, 64, 68, 70, 72, 79, 81, 88 and 99.

International Patrons International patrons should ring +353 1 687 7976 or book online.

Phones Due to Dublin Fringe Festival’s popularity, our phone lines may occasionally be engaged. Please persist.

Special Assistance Dublin Fringe Festival takes place in spaces all over the city.

Accessibility varies from venue to venue.

See our venues list on page 128 for accessibility information. When booking your ticket, please inform the box office of any access requirements. For queries or feedback, drop us a line at hello@fringefest.com Group Discounts Discounts are available for most shows to groups of 10+. Otherwise ticket concessions are available in most cases for students, senior citizens or the unwaged.

Gift Vouchers are available on fringefest.com, go on – treat someone!

Venue Box Offices If available, tickets are sold on the door of most Dublin Fringe Festival venues, and are subject to individual venue box office policies.

Credit cards are not accepted at most venues. Cash and exact change are always appreciated. Call us to find out more about accessibility and available services at our venues.

Please arrive at the venue at least 20 minutes before show time.

All sales are final. No refund or exchanges.

Transaction fee of €2 per tickets applies to all tickets and is included in the price.

Please Note All information in this brochure is correct at time of publication. Dublin Fringe Festival CLG reserves the right to make alterations to the programme and cannot be held accountable for cancellations, substitutions or changes. Site specific venues may have restricted sightlines; we recommend you get to the venue early in order to choose a suitable seat.

Festival Club is wheelchair accessible, Comedy Cellar at Festival Club is not wheelchair accessible.

8. DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL CLUB Hely’s Bar, 27 Dame St, D2

7. DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE 2 Curved Street, Temple Bar, D2

6. DUBH LINN GARDEN Dublin Castle Garden, Dublin Castle, Dame Street, D2

Venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, contact box office prior to booking.

5. D-LIGHT STUDIOS 45 North Great Clarence Street, D1

4. CHOCOLATE FACTORY 26 King's Inn Street, D1

3. BEWLEY'S CAFÉ THEATRE 78/79 Grafton Street, D2

2. AXIS: BALLYMUN Main Street, Ballymun, D9

1. ABBEY THEATRE 26/27 Lower Abbey Street, D1

18. THE LIR ACADEMY Corner of Pearse Street & Grand Canal Quay, D2

10. MOTHER CLUB The Hub, 23 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, D2

Venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, contact box office prior to booking.

16. THE COMPLEX 15 Little Green Street, D7

15. SMOCK ALLEY THEATRE 7 Lower Exchange Street, Temple Bar, D8

14. SAMUEL BECKETT THEATRE Trinity College, D2

13. PROJECT ARTS CENTRE 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, D2

Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

12. PHOENIX PARK Meeting point: outside the Ashling Hotel. Arran Quay, D8

11. O'REILLY THEATRE, BELVEDERE COLLEGE 6 Great Denmark Street, D1

Map design by Richard Dalton www.richardedalton.com

DUBLIN DIGITAL RADIO listen.dublindigitalradio.com

22. WOOD QUAY VENUE Dublin City Council Office entrance via Fishamble Street, D8

Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

21. THE WORKMAN'S CLUB 10 Wellington Quay, D2

20. THE SEWING FACTORY 11 Camden Street Lower, D2

Venue has limited wheelchair accessibility, contact box office prior to booking.

19. THE NEW THEATRE 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, D2

Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

Venue is not wheelchair accessible.

17. THE INTERNATIONAL BAR 23 Wicklow Street, D2

9. GOETHE-INSTITUT 37 Merrion Square, D2

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Artists Dagogo Hart + Felispeaks Show Boy Child, p. 96 Location Poolbeg, Dublin Photography Myles Shelly