Theatre in Dublin this Week – 25-07-17

No major new productions this week, but a few interesting looking smaller ones. There’s Padraig Potts’ Guide To Walking at the Viking (July 24th – Aug 19th). The Confirmation Suit at the New Theatre and Talk to me like the Rain at Bewleys Cafe Theatre (until Sep 9th, 2017)

Our Top Five this week are:

1. The Gate – The Great Gatsby
2. Project Arts Centre –  The Water Orchard
3. Olympia – Once
4. New Theatre – The Confirmation Suit
5. Bewleys Cafe Theatre – Talk to me like the Rain

The Dublin Theatre Festival has just announced its line up which includes…

• The acclaimed The Suppliant Women a story about the plight of refugees, moral and human rights, civil war, democracy and ultimately the triumph of love will include a local volunteer chorus, where people in Dublin will have their chance to be on stage at the festival.
• Eugene McCabe’s King of the Castle which premiered at Dublin Theatre Festival in 1964 to acclaim and scandal is revived in a new version from Druid.
• From Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival, Woyzeck in Winter an electrifying fusion of two masterpieces – Büchner’s Woyzeck and Schubert’s Winterreise.
• Stacey Gregg’s newest play, Josephine K and the Algorithms on the Abbey Theatre’s Peacock stage.
• The Irish premiere of Nina Raine’s award-winning play Tribes at the Gate Theatre.
• Fishamble: The New Play Company, and Sebastian Barry, reunite for the world premiere production of On Blueberry Hill at the Pavilion Theatre.
• Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh collaborate once again on an explosive new production from Landmark Productions and Wide Open Opera, The Second Violinist at the O’Reilly Theatre.
• A solo work for an eleven-year-old boy, Hamnet, on the Peacock stage staring Ollie West, directed by Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd, following its spring premiere at the Schaubühne Berlin.
• The Festival Gala Night will honour Rosaleen Linehan and her late husband Fergus Linehan’s illustrious careers.
• Multi-award winning company ANU returns to the festival with a searingly intimate investigation into the corrupting force of the Irish family in The Sin Eaters
• From Corn Exchange, Nora, a new play after Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Award-winning writer Belinda McKeon reimagines this exploration of honesty and power for a post-truth world.
• Pan Pan Theatre are back with The Good House of Happiness, where audiences are invited you to meet an actor, a pop singer and a scholar, from China, and two Mongolian accountants who have come together to make a modern version of Brecht’s parable play, The Good Person of Setzuan. 
• Playboyz a re-imagining of JM Synge’s Playboy of the Western World directed by Martin Sharry.
• A world premiere production from Rough Magic, Melt, a funny, sophisticated fairytale that explores the human condition, and acknowledges its fragility.
• A unique version of Shakespeare’s kaleidoscopic poem using narration, music and puppetry  – Venus and Adonis from the Royal Shakespeare Company in association with Little Angel Theatre

Theatre Round Up – 25-07-17

Abbey – Jimmy’s Hall – July 29th – 19th August
Two Pints – 6th July – 5th August

Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Angela’s Ashes – 18 Jul 2017 – 30 Jul

Gaiety Theatre – Riverdance – until 3 September 2017

Smock Alley – Sneak Peak @ New Material – Foil, Arms + Hog – 24 + 25 July
I Wrote a Joke in 1987 – Michael Redmond – 26 – 27 July

Project Arts Centre –  The Water Orchard – 18-29 July
The Collapsing Horse Science Fiction Radio Hour – July 28th
A Day of Testimonies – 26th July

Theatre Upstairs – Red Pill – July 14th – 29th 2017

New Theatre – The Confirmation Suit – Jul 24th – Aug 5th

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – Talk to me like the Rain – Jul 24th – Sep 9th, 2017

Viking Theatre – Padraig Potts’ Guide To Walking – July 24th – Aug 19th

The Gate – The Great Gatsby – until 16th September

Olympia – Once – until August 26th.

Players Theatre – Bash – Until July 29th

Theatre – Next Week – From 1-08-17

Abbey – Two Pints – 6th July – 5th August
Crestfall – 1st – 12th August
Jimmy’s Hall – July 29th – 19th August

Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Grease – 1st Aug – 12th Aug

Gaiety Theatre – Riverdance – until 3 September 2017

Smock Alley – The Rivals -31 Jul – 2 Sep

Project Arts Centre –  The Water Orchard – 18-29 July

Theatre Upstairs – Sleeps

New Theatre – The Confirmation Suit – Jul 24th – Aug 5th

Bewleys Cafe Theatre – Talk to Me Like the Rain – Jul 24 – Sep 09, 2017

Viking Theatre – Padraig Potts’ Guide To Walking – July 24 – Aug 19

The Gate – The Great Gatsby – until 16th September

Olympia – Once – until August 26th.