Programme 2021 (Free Online Festival)

IDGTF Festival founder and Artistic Director Brian Merriman launches our special 2021 online Festival. Don’t miss the 13 productions on view in 2021, available until the end of June. Watch Now

Category: Drama   Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th Whilst we locked ourselves down in 2020 and watched the world burn, we turned to Zoom to keep alive conversations and a sense of community. ‘Conversations’ sees seven people do exactly that. This production is no longer available.

Category: Comedy Drama   Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th ‘No Evidence’ is a love story set in 1980’s Dublin, when the definition of ‘safe sex’ meant not getting a girl pregnant! Our double dating guys always seem to land in bed together after a weekend party. Watch Now

Category: Drama   Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th Isolation has exposed humanity. Not just to a virus, but to the unavoidable, self-reflection. Just how much does our cultural identity colour our experiences with each other? What would the landscape of connection look like if we were honest enough to speak about these …

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Category: Drama   Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th The Off Switch is inspired by LGBT rights campaigner Mark Ashton and ‘Pride The Movie’. The story of his Irish contemporary – a young man who grew up with criminalisation and is now ageing in what should be a more welcoming society. Watch Now

Category: Youth Drama   Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th Inspired from real events and real conversations. Someone has written No One Cares across the side of a building in a small rural town. There is outrage mixed with concern for who the culprit might be. Watch Now

Category: Drama   Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th This rowdy, fifteen-minute monologue is a tribute to masculine women living in times when lesbian or transgendered identities were not understood. Watch Now

Category: Drama   Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th Tess is a short, high-energy, rhythmic solo piece about a young woman coming to terms with her sexuality (or lack thereof). Watch Now

Category: Drama   Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th ‘A Reminder’ is a twenty-minute monologue for an older actor. It considers the messages of the current pandemic as a reminder to the response to AIDS, largely ignored in the 1980s and the ongoing legacy of Irish criminalisation and grief. Watch Now

Category: Drama   Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th The world is in turmoil. We join Machus and Cal on a youthful odyssey of self-discovery in Derry. With student riots in Paris, the Black Civil Rights Movement in the USA, the Women’s Liberation movement kicking off and Queers revolting in New York, how …

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Category: Drama   Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th Rena Bryson’s new short drama ‘Dose’ takes place the night before Oisín and Patrick’s wedding. Tensions rise as the couple face the consequences of their families merging, leading Oisín to reveal a dark secret he’s been hiding from his fiancé. Watch Now

Category: Multi-media   Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th ‘Immaculate’ is based on a true story about Louise Mathews who struggled to piece together the life of her uncle Anthony, who tragically died in the early 90s and whose cause of death has left many unanswered questions. Watch Now

Category: Rehearsed Play Reading   Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th Above the local bookshop, in a small, weathered village in County Mayo, Philip sits surrounded by unpacked books and a SuperValu Pain Au Chocolat. Having arrived from Dublin after breaking up with his boyfriend, Philip finds himself lost and searching for meaning …

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Category: Drama   Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th Outlier is the story of James; A lonely gay university student from rural Ireland, who is grappling with the blurry events of one dark night on a Dublin sports field where he met a guy, he wishes he hadn’t. Watch Now