“I Remain A Rebel, Unconverted And Unconvertible”: Revolting Women At International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival Running every night at 9pm until Saturday, 11 May as part of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, Revolting Women is an honest look at Ireland’s rebel heroines. In the wake of what have been massive strides taken for Irish women, …
‘True Integrity In The Exploration Of Love And Loss’: Borderline A**hole At International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival Julie Gieseke has brought her solo show Borderline A**hole to the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival from the “lesbian capital of the world”. After years of chasing unavailable women, Julie found her ideal girlfriend. She’s really into Julie. Miracle: …
FESTIVAL REVIEW: Play reading Party Boy Teachers Club Sunday May 13th I dashed up O’Connell St. and stopped for an ever-present donut (crème-filled toffee with crumbles!) and coffee. I love going to Teachers (I’ve had a few shows there over the years). It’s a Georgian building with a black box theater in the basement, meeting …
Festival 2018 is a year of celebration, marking 15 years of IDGTF and 25 years since decriminalisation of homosexuality in Ireland. In our programme we explore the diverse lives of LGBT people today – through comedy, drama, short-plays and powerful stories from around the world. Cruising, getting married, LGBT families, staying together through ups …
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Love Trumps Everything *** How We Glow ***** (Review published in theoutmost.com. Check out more Festival reviews at theoutmost.com here) The appearance of Trump in the title Love Trumps Everything, has nothing to do with the orange man in the Whitehouse. Instead, it’s the thread that loosely binds three short plays where love overcomes life’s unavoidable obstacles. …
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Review – Spool The Teachers’ Club 9pm until Sat May 13 (matinee: Sat 13 @ 4pm) Written and Directed by Otto Farrant & Finn Cooke Spool is an introspective analysis about what it’s like to be a young man. Honest, candid and raw, it shows the inner-monologue that haunts every young man and the extreme …
Review – Lines in the Sand By Jim Dalglish Directed by Jim Dalglish & Ian Ryan The Pearse Centre 7:30pm until Sat May 13; €10 matinee @ 4pm Sat May 13 Without wanting to give anything away, Lines in the Sand achieves something unique. The audience is left to wonder where the hell we are …
Review reproduced from theoutmost.com. See here for the original review, published 9 May 2017 Gypsy Queen ***** Now, I don’t know much about boxing but I do remember former Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury got into hot water last year over his comments on gay people, causing a flurry of news headlines on whether he was …
Review reproduced from theoutmost.com. See here for the original review, published 9 May 2017 The Elephant Girls Review Here’s a show that packs a punch with a diamond-clad fist! Masterfully written and performed by Margo MacDonald, The Elephant Girls recounts the escapades of a real-life, all-women gang, who roamed the London streets in the 1920s. We enter …
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: The Elephant Girls runs at Outhouse until Saturday at 9pm Saturday matinee at 2.30pm. Canadian Margo Mac Donald dons a mafia style pin strip suit to tells us the fascinating story of the East End of London’s notorious lesbian gang, which terrorised, lusted, controlled and rampaged through London for almost a century. Maggie Hale …
FESTIVAL REVIEW: Spool runs at The Teachers Club until Saturday 9pm and Saturday has a matinee at 4pm. Two handsome young men are tied together in a beautiful exploration of the pressures faced by young men in exploring modern masculinity. Engagement with social media can confuse and prioritise the physical self from the critical uniqueness …
FESTIVAL REVIEW: Lines In The Sand The Pearse Centre Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street 7.30pm Saturday matinee 4pm. Lines In The Sand by Jim Dalglish is a real thriller on so many levels. It is a dramatic thriller as this older man rescues a 15 year old boy from a violent altercation in the woods. …
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. …
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. …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
