International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival

Unguarded, Theatre@36, Teachers Club, runs until Saturday, 7.30pm and matinee Saturday 2.30pm. Unguarded – Written and performed by Anthony Kinahan Review by Frank L Stephen, who is gay is “Dad” to Tadgh a young school going kid. Stephen is a single parent. Tadgh is obsessed by numbers and musicals. He is what is called neurodiverse.

FESTIVAL REVIEW; ‘In Vitro’ and ‘’Babies and Bathwater, runs until Saturday May 11th at 9pm as a Double Bill (one ticket) in Theatre at 36, Teachers Club.  ‘In Vitro’ is a new Irish play by Aoife O’Connor dealing with a young lesbian couple considering starting a family via sperm donor. The information on the status of

GC…AF Teachers Club, Main Hall, 9pm until Saturday May 11th with Saturday matinee at 4pm This latest satire by Garret Baker on transphobia is a brave and biting commentary on what ‘informs’ the toxic online transphobic campaigns and gives an insight into the people caught up in them. It makes for uncomfortable listening, but transphobia is more than

Following his success as part of last year’s smash-hit ‘The Importance of Being Ernest as Performed by Three Fucking Queens and a Duck’, Australian writer and performer Brent Thorpe (one of the aforementioned Fucking Queens) returns with his brand-new show ‘Daddy’, directed by former State Theatre Company of South Australia artistic director Adam Cook. The

DV8 Until Saturday May 11th at 9.00pm.  Matinee saturday only at 4.pm Dan Ireland Reeves storms back into Dublin with his charm and storytelling gifts that bring us behind the scenes of the West End Sauna in Manchester. Covid forced many a starving actor to seek new employment and ‘Danny boy’ rapidly rises up the managerial chain in the run-down sauna

Daddy (and his boys) DV8 runs until Saturday at 7.30pm.  Matinee saturday only 2.30pm This high energy Australian romp is full of bare cheeks and bare cheekiness! Under the stewardship of our handsome guide for the one-hour romp, is a scantily clad, muscle mad ‘Daddy’ (Brent Thorpe) whose eloquence defies the explicit subject matter. In fact,

‘Pre-Ops’ at The Ireland Institute until Saturday May 11th at 9pm, and 4pm matinee on Saturday.  The Festival brochure states that ‘Pre-Ops’ was awarded an IDGTF Bursary for new irish LGBT writing. If this is the standard produced by these bursaries, then it was money well spent. Writer/Director Ezra Maloney creates a clever and engaging mechanism to tackle a controversial subject about women

The Kinghtly Quest, Outhouse, until May 11th. Gore Vidal once wrote that “The Knightly Quest” (1966) was one of the finest stories ever written by Tennessee Williams. The Kafkaesque tale showcases Williams’s awareness of the potency of the sexual Other as the symbol of political resistance in a world verging on totalitarianism. Fred Abrahamse and

“Oh, Good Grief!” The Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street at 7.30pm. Is there any reason to want to go to see a show about suicide and death? Yes, and the main reason is Laura Lavelle.  Burlesque comedian Lavelle goes solo from her regular ‘Wild Geeze’ work in a one woman stand up theatrical piece. She

“Christian Support Group” is the latest offering from Derry playwright Rosalind Patton. There are no cast credits in the brochure. Patton takes on the thorny subject of “Christian” beliefs that condemn human love. Here Patton uses the contrast of the local LGBT centre where everyone is welcome and the Christian Support Group who will “help you find

Nomoreworkhorse Review reproduced here, ‘The Rotting Hart’ Produced by Crested Fools in collaboration with Fronteiras Theatre Lab Written and performed by Daniel Orejon Directed by Flavia D’Avila Outhouse, until Saturday May 11th Time: 9.00pm Duration: 60 minutes The Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh not only has enviable facilities but during the Fringe, it programmes diverse storytelling theatre.