Dublin Theatre Festival – Programme Announced

The Dublin Theatre Festival is back, and takes place between the 25th of September and the 12th of October.

It’s the first festival with new Artistic Director, Róise Goan, at the helm. You may remember Róise from her time with the Fringe Festival (2008 to 2013), and if you do, you’ll know we’re in good hands! You can find full details of the programme here, but here are some of our choices –

I FALL DOWN: A RESTORATION COMEDY – Gina Moxley, The Abbey Theatre, The Everyman, Once Off Productions and the Department of Drama, Trinity College.

“In this riotous ‘restoration comedy’, ex art student Moxley, enflamed by women’s erasure in the prescribed history of art and the omission of female genitalia in classical statuary, enlists the audience in her brazen attempt to right these wrongs and correct the received history.”

THREE SISTERS – Sugarglass and Once Off Productions production – BY ANTON CHEKHOV, ADAPTED BY CIARA ELIZABETH SMYTH

“Maybe when more time has gone by, in two or three hundred years, people will know how to catch the fire before it ignites.”

In a big house, in a small town; three sisters wait. They wait for the right time to leave. They wait for the love they deserve. They wait for their lives to begin. And while they wait the world turns.

DEAF REPUBLIC – DEAD CENTRE & ROYAL COURT THEATRE – By DEAD CENTRE & ZOË MCWHINNEY, ADAPTED FROM THE BOOK BY ILYA KAMINSKY

“A gunshot in occupied territory. A deaf boy is killed for disobeying orders he couldn’t hear. The next day, the whole town wakes up deaf.”

MACBETH – DRUID – BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

“This is the Scottish Play like you’ve never seen it before. Druid brings its visceral and uniquely Irish perspective to one of Shakespeare’s fiercest and bloodiest tragedies.

Tony Award winner Garry Hynes directs a cast led by Marty Rea as Macbeth and fellow Tony Award winner Marie Mullen as Lady Macbeth.”

THE MAKER – RIVERBANK ARTS CENTRE AND MERMAID ARTS CENTRE – BY DAN COLLEY

“Drexel, an idealist inventor and his quietly brilliant servant, Pipe, are trying to invent something extraordinary — from absolutely nothing.

The Maker invites audiences into a world full of visual surprises, physical comedy, and strange magical experiments that teeter between brilliance and disaster.”