Set in a rural homestead in Ireland in the 1980s, THE BRIGHTENING AIR is a haunting new play about longing, magic and the fates that tear us apart. Adult siblings, Billie and Stephen, share their family home in their own semi-functional way. Until their excommunicated uncle, Fr Pierre, and estranged brother, Dermot,...
A Play about Love, Memory, and Parenting. SYNAPSES follows Mike and Emily, a divorced couple who constantly row about money, access, and parenting style. One fateful afternoon for the sake of their young son, they try to find a better way. It all goes wrong, it all goes right, and...
The Catalpalyst is a theatrical quest that poses urgent questions for the 150th anniversary of the Catalpa humanitarian rescue of Irish prisoners from Fremantle. Donal O’Kelly’s new theatrical presentation, The Catalpalyst, is his creative re-exploration for the 150th anniversary of the 1876 Catalpa whaleship rescue of six Irish prisoners from Fremantle,...
“Oh, she’s born and she’ll leave you in smithereens” Mirandolina is inspired by Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni’s masterpiece, La Locandiera. A 300-year-old story that claims to make its protagonist, Mirandolina, an example of the “barbaric cruelty” and “insulting contempt” of women who mock men’s love, the effect of La Locandiera is in fact a sincere exaltation of female intelligence. In this...
If gender is a performance, then wrestling is the Oscars. Meet Danu, a trans woman who picked a terrible name, as she traverses the sissy, cissy world of wrestling, confronts shadows from her past, and tries to excel in the sport she absolutely loves, despite it not loving her back....
Jacky keeps her house immaculate, her routine rigid and her diet exclusively Special K Red Berries. When something sinister scuttles its way into the safe haven of her Donegal home, she is rattled to her bones. Buried desires, wild terrors and unsubduable impulses begin to gnaw away at her edges......
Mam is worried her son is spending too much time alone. So worried in fact, she hasn’t left the house in six weeks either. Coping with the death of a loved one, their quiet lives are upended when a well-meaning community volunteer barrels into their world. A tender, seriously funny...
Breda Cashe and Pat Moylan in association with the Gaiety Theatre present: Judy – End of the Rainbow. This show dramatizes the final months in the life of the Hollywood star Judy Garland as she struggles to complete a run of concerts at the Talk of the Town in London. Accompanied by...
The New Theatre presents Growing Pains by Carley Magee as part of Dublin Fringe Festival. Would you rather meet a man or a bird at a bus stop? A girl is alone at night. But not for long. An unflinching, hilarious new play about 2010s girlhood, cringe-worthy quests for love...
The New Theatre presents Muster by Belema Art House as part of Dublin Fringe Festival. How can you call someone ‘brother’ while keeping the honest parts of yourself locked away? Two friends step into a garden after a funeral, hip hop blasting. What begins as a eulogy becomes an...
A group of friends are desperate to escape the city for a weekend. Millie has an idea. Her family has a big house down the country. It’s been theirs for about 400 years. Just don’t ask how they got it. Brian wants to drink. Millie wants to relax. Georgia...
The New Theatre presents Saving for a Helicopter by An Grianán Theatre Productions & Gráinne Curistan as part of Dublin Fringe Festival. Gráinne is saving for a helicopter. She always has been. What begins as a childhood dream shared with her father becomes something more complicated as adulthood arrives and...