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...
New voices. Important stories. A roar. A howl. A cry. TenderWRITE invites you to see the world through the eyes of our youngest artists, playwrights aged 16 – 24, illuminating the here and the bang up to now! Stories to shine light on what it's like to try to...
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...
A fence separates Jimmy and Aoife. It’s not the only thing standing between them. Jimmy is a Traveller man, Aoife is a young settled girl. Through small conversations, silences and quiet moments, their relationship begins to challenge the divisions between them. As their worlds overlap, questions of prejudice, identity and...
The New Theatre presents Failure Confetti by Maeve Press as part of Dublin Fringe Festival. Maeve, former child actor faces adulthood; unemployed and haunted by the question: who am I? She would like to reinvent herself as a “Broadway diva.” Tragically, she can neither sing nor dance. She joins...
A broken dancer’s body won’t move the way it used to. A boy’s limp threatens to end his dream of playing football for Ireland. A banjaxed clown has more bulging discs than a weightlifter. This trio find themselves trapped in a warped trauma dream, where the only way out is...
RADIO BETTE from The Goat Exchange is created in collaboration with Oscar and Tony-nominated actor Ruth Negga. Inspired by a rare rehearsal recording of a 1951 Bette Davis radio broadcast from the Lux Radio Theater, the piece unfolds live, as performers listen to the original recording and recreate it in real time. As...
“The law, Noel. Without it, all of us are animals in the jungle. Killing and eating and riding whatever we think we can get away with.” Prepare to suspend your disbelief. Then let it dissolve completely. Unstable realities resemble our wildest imagination in this absurdist spectacle – writ large and set loose...