Programme 2018

WOMEN’S SHORTS Unseasonable Presented by The Other Side of Silence (TOSOS). The aftermath of an “incident” leaves two women injured, trying to piece together what …

IDGTF SEMINAR 2018 – 25 YEARS SINCE DECRIMINALISATION 1993-2018 ‘Visibility Changing Lives’ – Free Event A Special Seminar Marking 25 years since Decriminalisation in Ireland In 1993, Ireland became the last …

WRITERS IN THE STARS We have lost many great writers over the years. Where are they now? Do they come to life every time you read one of their stories or plays? Are …

BELOVED SINNER Seated at a table outside a café in Paris, Wilde explains what it was that led to his downfall. Very much alone he still clings to his great sense …

BLUE ISLAND 99 Blue Island 99 is a contemporary, exciting multimedia, poetic story performed in English, with lots of music. Giving a unique insight into Asian …

BREDA’S WAY During the summer of 1985, statues of the Virgin Mary were reported to move at different locations throughout Ireland. This had a profound effect …

EASTER SUNDAY / THE CHRISTMAS DRILL Easter Sunday Easter Morning. 1960, New York. Del and Flora, a working-class butch-fem couple, are on their way home from service. Laughing and …

ETHAN & EVAN & ALL THEY KNOW NOW Ethan and Evan are still trying to work things out, but honestly, they don’t seem to be getting anywhere. A young gay couple who don’t seem to …

GINGER BEER Grindr. Fisting. Drugs. All whilst staying fabulous. Being gay in 2018 isn’t easy. For Sammy and El it’s even harder, with an obsessive lad and a …

LET ME LOOK AT YOU The latest performance piece from award-winning Starving Artists Theatre Company. Hilarious and touching.  Stand-up meets solo theatre in …

PROFESSIONAL BREAKUP ARTIST Share the highs, lows and downright hilarity of the eternal scramble to seek, find, and inevitably lose, the woman of your dreams.  Be gently guided …

SMASHES Canadian comedian, storyteller and actor Franny McCabe-Bennett shares stories of growing up in the suburbs as a femme bisexual women …

2 HIStories The Second Miracle Set in contemporary Dublin. Cardinal Newman, founder of UCD awaits his second miracle to be confirmed as Saint of the Catholic …

ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT? No life, no prospects, just a Granda to care for and longing to escape. Or at least someone to keep you company. Colin and his Granda are trying to …

GALA AWARDS NIGHT 2018 The Gala Awards Night is the highlight of the Festival where we close the curtains on two packed weeks of theatre with a range of festival …

MEN’S SHORTS A theatrical threesome of short plays about LGBT men mixing drama and comedy: A Gay Thing Acting Out, IRL Steve and John have been mates since …

HIS GREATNESS Three men – a great American playwright, his trusted and loyal assistant, and a young Canadian street hustler – find themselves together for two …

PARTY BOY The first reading of a new Irish play by Brian Merriman. Based on a true story, meet Patrick the Party Boy as he grows from shy Irish boy in the …

MEMORIES WE LOST IN THE FIRE Lies, sex and broken promises. We follow Charlie, a young person who finds himself in love with two people. His struggle to balance his feelings for …

THE DROWNING ROOM In a woodland clearing a group meet to scatter the ashes of Sean, a brother, a lover, father and friend who was brutally murdered in a “gay bashing” …

PASSING ON Brian and Tom, together for ten years, would like to have a child, to be as Tom says, “a proper family but with two dads”. When their friend, Jane, …

3 LIES ABOUT BROOKLYN An often hilarious window into the harrowing life of an ‘Irish Bastard’ farmed out across the Atlantic to Brooklyn, by the Sisters of Mercy in the …