Our Week 2 programme running from May 8 to 13 has it all! Love, crime, comedy, tense drama, touching true stories, critically-acclaimed drama, dance and more! For some amazing drama check out… Lines in the Sand: a riveting and suspenseful drama where a vulnerable gay student falls under the spell of an older man. […]
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: An Unexpected Party runs until Saturday 6th at the Teachers Club. My Saturday matinee was spent at festival newcomers An Unexpected Party. This new Irish play and its author Simon Murphy says something important about suicide. It unpacks the aftermath and the blame in a manner necessary to bring a national conversation forward.
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Review from theartsreview.com IDGTF: Bleach May 3, 2017 by Chris O’Rourke **** Sins of a Smalltown Boy In his excellent comedy show, “Smart Casual,” comedian David Mills tops his list of things that have gone out of fashion, but haven’t quite realised it yet, with gay. For Mills, as for many others, gay is so
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Review from TheOutmost.com here. Check out TheOutmost.com for more reviews throughout the Festival. The Paradise by Acting out ***** I suspected we were in for a great time at this show when the doormen of the Paradise, Bernard and Maggie (played hilariously by Sean Denyer and Justine Reilly) were already interacting with the queue,
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Review from TheOutmost.com here. Check out TheOutmost.com for more reviews throughout the Festival. Montparnasse by Theatre Outré **** This is the third visit to the festival by Canadian company Theatre Outré and this time they present Montparnasse, created by Erin Shields, Andrea Donald and Maev Beaty and set in Paris of the roaring 20s. The
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Review from TheOutmost.com here. Check out TheOutmost.com for more reviews throughout the Festival. Fronting/The Tearing Up of Fergal and Tim ***** This very fine double bill serves up an appetiser featuring a gay couple’s attempt to have a civilised break-up, and for the main course there’s a new play from Scotland about living with HIV. The Tearing
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Review from TheOutmost.com here. Check out TheOutmost.com for more reviews throughout the Festival. An Unexpected Party *** Dysfunctional families often make great subjects for drama, and the meeting up of the twin-sister and ex-partner of the recently deceased Niall provides the fulcrum for this new play by Irish writer Simon Murphy. There are touches of
Review from TheOutmost.com here. Check out TheOutmost.com for more reviews throughout the Festival. Both Sides Now/Wasting Paper *** In this is a double bill of new Irish writing by Nicole O’Connor and Leah Moore, the spotlight is put on growing up as a gay or bisexual woman in contemporary Ireland. In Both Sides Now, the
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Review from TheOutmost.com here. Check out TheOutmost.com for more reviews throughout the Festival. Naked Soldier **** Adapted from the novel by Der Nackte Soldat by Bellman O, this one-man show from Germany follows the journey of Alwin in 1960’s and 70’s Austria, as he discovers his sexuality and is compelled to live a double life, compartmentalising his
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: Bleach Outhouse 105 Capel Street 9pm nightly and Saturday matinee 2.30pm. Dan Ireland-Reeves is a talented young writer and actor and his current piece about a rent boy is a further step up in a promising career. Tyler Everett is the exotic name of a rent boy from a council estate so it’s
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: Three short plays by Momentum Acting studio, Players TCD 7.30pm Saturday matinee 2.30pm. Pioneering gay playwright Neil La Bute’s two shorts combine seemlessly with Neil CK’s piece in a well choreographed and blended 70 minutes evening of theatre directed by Liza Michael and Robbie Byrne. “The Possible” is an eerie piece which borderlines
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Preview: Celebrating LGBTQ Youth We celebrate the challenges and triumphs of LGBTQ youth in 2017. From sexual awakening to the Leaving Cert, making dubious decisions to standing up for their beliefs our young people are on a roller-coaster journey of discovery! Why not join them from April 30th with Bank Holiday Monday matinees from
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IDGTF is proud to provide a platform to showcase works by women and about women, with a particularly diverse and fascinating programme of works in 2017. Following on from our general theme of exploring and celebrating identity, the women in these works are discovering who they are – from passion to deep friendship, from artists
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Not sure what to see? Check out our previews of 2017 shows… love, desire, heart-break, incredible real-life stories and glimpses into hidden histories. Keep watching our programme previews to find out more.
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As we uncover hidden desires and passions things are about to get very dramatic! Our heroes and heroines are exploring their deepest desires and passions in 2017. In this heady mix of love, friendship, lust and sex prepare for some ups and downs! Passionate friends and lovers, break-ups, rent-boys, questioning ‘straight’ men, young desires, fighters
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Secure Online booking for all shows is now available for all shows, powered by Ticketsolve available 24/7 here! Here are some booking tips: Remember to present your booking reference number at the venue before the performance. No need to print it – you can simply show us the booking confirmation email on your phone!
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We celebrate our diversity through an equally diverse and exciting programme. We bring you a mix of drama, comedy, musical theatre, youth theatre, feminist theatre, true stories, dance, verbatim theatre, short plays. discussions and more! Our 2017 programme explories LGBT+ identity from young people exploring who they are to sex-and-drugs fueled journeys of discovery, religion
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release Download a copy here Contemporary stories of LGBT life in Ireland and abroad will be celebrated on Dublin City centre stages for two weeks opening on the May bank holiday. Reaching its 4000th performance this year, plays covering a range of topical issues — from being a gay Traveller boxing
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Let’s Celebrate LGBT+ Identity in All Its Forms Join us on a whirlwind tour from the streets of modern New York and Dublin to Victorian London and 1920’s Paris … from heaven to hell. Across time and place our plays celebrate our identities – as individuals and as a community. Our heroes and heroines are
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Celebrating Me and You! Our 2017 Programme is out now with secure online booking. In 2017 we celebrate our identities through extraordinary stories from across the globe. Join us on a whirlwind tour from the streets of modern New York and Dublin to Victorian London and 1920’s Paris … from heaven to hell. Find out
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