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...
The Horse of Jenin tells a universal story of resilience and imagination. This show combines storytelling, mask and stand-up comedy to explore the everyday life of a boy growing up in Jenin in Occupied Palestine, who, like every child in the world, just wants to play and have fun. Following...
Set against the backdrop of a single Sunday afternoon in County Meath, Meredith is a darkly comedic drama that peels back the layers of a family held together by secrets, shared history, and a stubborn refusal to age gracefully. Meredith is written by Erica Murray and directed by Annabelle Comyn as part of Dublin Theatre Festival. Meredith’s daughter, Noelle, attempts to manage her mother’s...
“You are neither your former nor your future self, she thinks, you’re that little sliver of overlap.” A historic ballroom in the city centre. A sparkling relic of the past threatens the launch of a modern start-up. Relationships fray, values are tested, and secrets spill out. With the world outside...
An intimate and powerful meditation on memory, grief and truth, this chamber opera composed by Tarik O’Regan with a libretto by Colm Tóibín, adapted from his novella The Testament of Mary, unfolds in the final years of Mary, mother of Jesus. Past and present coexist uneasily as Mary moves between...
14+. Under 16’s must be accompanied by a parent/guardian aged 18+ No under 3’s permitted in the auditorium The producers of Torben Betts’ smash-hit plays Murder at Midnight and Murder in the Dark, present a wickedly entertaining new thriller The Other Side of Murder with a star cast including Rufus Hound (One Man, Two Guvnors, Wind in the...