Programme 2026 — One Time Events

One-Time Only Events

 
 

Trash Cinema Club:

Meg Reilly – Few Cans

 
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Dates April 26, 2026
Time 20:00 (8:00 pm)
Running time 2 hours (approx.)
Company Rock Bottom Saloon (Ireland)
 

Rock Bottom Saloon return to deliver this year’s festival halftime show, bringing you the only thing they know: 

Pure, unfiltered TRASH. 
 
Every Sunday, the Pearse Centre will transform into a shrine for the gloriously unhinged, with screenings pulled straight from the depths of trash-cinema canon. Expect chaos on screen and off, with some of Dublin’s dirtiest divas joining as very special guests.
 
Things kick off with a live comedy set from TikTok superstar Meg “Few Cans” Reilly, followed by a surprise cult film that’s just as glamorous!
 
 

Trash Cinema Club:

Sasha Shame and Goblinsx3

 
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Dates May 3, 2026
Time 20:00 (8:00 pm)
Running time 2 hours (approx.)
Company Rock Bottom Saloon (Ireland)
 

Rock Bottom Saloon return to deliver this year’s festival halftime show, bringing you the only thing they know: 

Pure, unfiltered TRASH. 
 
Every Sunday, the Pearse Centre will transform into a shrine for the gloriously unhinged, with screenings pulled straight from the depths of trash-cinema canon. Expect chaos on screen and off, with some of Dublin’s dirtiest divas joining as very special guests.
 
On Sunday 3 May, expect a drag double whammy as GoblinsGoblinsGoblins and Sasha Shame, two shameless purveyors of flith, pull you into the depths of depravity before treating your to a cult film often called “the gay version of The Room”.
 
 

Trash Cinema Club:

Dr. Sarah Cleary: Cult Horror Night

 
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Dates May 10, 2026
Time 20:00 (8:00 pm)
Running time 2 hours (approx.)
Company Rock Bottom Saloon (Ireland)
 

Rock Bottom Saloon return to deliver this year’s festival halftime show, bringing you the only thing they know: 

Pure, unfiltered TRASH. 
 
Every Sunday, the Pearse Centre will transform into a shrine for the gloriously unhinged, with screenings pulled straight from the depths of trash-cinema canon. Expect chaos on screen and off, with some of Dublin’s dirtiest divas joining as very special guests.
 
On Sunday 10 May a discussion with Dr. Sarah Cleary will bring Trash Cinema 2026 to a thrilling close as she imparts her expertise that earned her the title ‘Dublin’s Queen of Halloween‘.  
Followed by a surprise screening of a cult horror classic!
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Ticketed Free Play Reading:

A Quarter of Broken Biscuits

 
Written by Eamon Somers
Dates May 16, 2026
 Time 13:00 (1:00 pm)
Running time 2 hours (approx.)
Company (Ireland)
 

All during his teens, Seamus Higgins worked alongside Josie McGeoghan in McAllen’s grocery shop in Dublin’s Liberties.  When the owner, Brian McAllen sacks him unexpectedly, he flees to London. Years later, and Seamus is back to support a housing protest, just down the street from the shop he used to work in. 

But why is the sight of him in his shop so unsettling for Brian? And what exactly was the role played by an underwear catalogue discovered by his mother? 
 
A Quarter of Broken Biscuits is a nostalgic snapshot of life in Dublin’s Liberties in the 1960s when to be your authentic self meant you sometimes faced a difficult choice. This is a rehearsed reading of a new play which will be broadcast on local radio later in the year.
 
Director: Berni Dwan
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Free Event

Queer Theatre: Is There Any Need for It?

 
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Dates May 15, 2026
 Time 18:00 (6:00 pm)
Running time 55 minutes (approx.)
Company Wilde Stages Festival (Ireland)
 

What purpose is queer theatre serving now? Is there any need for a specifically queer theatre festival anymore? 

Come hear artists from around the world give their perspective, and feel free to add yours!
 
Panelists:
Natalie Meisner – Playwright and poet (Canada)
Ty Autry -CEO Qreative Voices and Artistic Director, Lavender Fest (USA)
Marcel Meyer- Actor/Producer (South Africa)
Sean Denyer- Wilde Stages Artistic Director
Úna Florent- Actor, writer, theatre maker 
 

Free Event

The BBC’S First Homosexual: post-show Community Forum

 
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Dates May 16, 2026
 Time 14:30 (2:30 pm)
Running time 54 minutes (approx.)
Company Inkbrew Productions (UK)
 

Immediately following the matinee performance of ‘The BBC’s First Homosexual’ there will be a panel discussion with special guests around the themes raised in the piece. This includes challenges we face as a community as society becomes more hostile, and as homophobic and transphobic crime rises, conversion therapy continues to not be banned and open attacks are voiced in the mainstream.