Dublin Theatre Festival

Grania

This modern retelling of the Irish legend of Gráinne, Diarmuid and Fionn will bring Lady Gregory’s 1912 play to life at the Abbey Theatre for the first time, as love, lust, power and desire challenge the relationships between our three characters.

📅 26 Sep–12 Oct
📍 Abbey Theatre, on the Abbey Stage
🎟️ €15-€49
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Additional tickets have been made available across the run for Starjazzer.

Starjazzer is a fever dream exploration of grief, s*xuality and hope. Forging a connection between two vulnerable women across a century, it explores the praxeology of the human condition, the inventiveness needed to cope with poverty and the creativity needed to hold one’s centre and humanity amid isolation.

📅 25 Sep–19 Oct
📍 Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland (RSAI)
🎟️ €20-€30
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TUNE IN tonight to Arena on to hear Amy Kidd, Ross Dungan and Dee Roycroft chat about their new plays at

Family Season

Grace
Grace tells the story of a girl who has a relationship with her father where no words are needed. In fact, Grace doesn’t use words to talk at all. When her father dies suddenly, Grace needs to find a new way to communicate.

The Bus
Have you ever been “the new kid on the block”? Scary isn’t it?

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Guest Host Stranger Ghost

The story of a mismatched trio living in someone else’s home, performed on the sets of other people’s plays. A hilariously sad and playfully daring new production.

📅 3–13 Oct
📍 Various Venues
🎟️ €25
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

Part free-wheeling comic lecture, part podcast and part play, Things Hidden is a thrilling ride down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia and murder mystery podcasts about a case you’ve never heard of.

📅 10–12 Oct
📍 Samuel Beckett Theatre
🎟️ €30
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STARJAZZER

Starjazzer is a fever dream exploration of grief, s*xuality and hope. Forging a connection between two vulnerable women across a century, it explores the praxeology of the human condition, the inventiveness needed to cope with poverty and the creativity needed to hold one’s centre and humanity amid isolation.

📅 25 Sep–19 Oct
📍 Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland (RSAI)
🎟️ €20-€30
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Rehearsals for NOBODADDY are underway in Ireland’s West Kerry Gaeltacht! Be sure not to miss out on these shows!

Choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan's Teaċ Daṁsa’s Nobodaddy is an affecting large-scale dance/theatre ritual for a company of nine dancers and six musicians including renowned folk singer and musician Sam Amidon.

📅 25 Sep–5 Oct
📍 O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College
🎟️ €15-€45
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Agreement

Agreement revisits the days leading up to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement as all parties try to reach a deal, under the eye of Senator George Mitchell.

📅 27 Sep–13 Oct
📍 Gate Theatre
🎟️ €16-€49
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Shades Through A Shade

Judy Hegarty Lovett directs Gare St Lazare's new exploration of Beckett and Dante in a show that seeks to combine literary embraces and repulsions of divine intervention and what it might mean to make art. With music by Irish composer Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, visual art by printmaker Morgan Doyle and an international ensemble of actors, musicians and singers.

📅 23–28 Sep
📍 Samuel Beckett Theatre
🎟️ €20-€30
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Trifled

TRIFLED charts their blossoming friendship, in this brutally honest, darkly comedic two-hander about s*x work, mental illness and custard.

📅 1–12 Oct
📍 The New Theatre
🎟️ €15-€25
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D̶A̶R̶K̶MATTER

What would the world be like if there had been no colonisation? In D̶A̶R̶K̶MATTER, Cherish Menzo and Camilo Mejía Cortés disentangle their bodies from fixed patterns and preconceptions and go in search of a new, futuristic environment: the D̶A̶R̶K̶MATTER universe.

📅 1–2 Oct
📍 Samuel Beckett Theatre
🎟️ €25
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Global Desires

What are your desires? Find out in this darkly funny ensemble performance from Dublin 8's renowned Outlandish Theatre, guided by local Russian artist Polina and playwright Maxim Gorky.

📅 9–13 Oct
📍 Bay 1 @ Digital Hub
🎟️ €16-€22
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Khawla Ibraheem's A Knock on the Roof has has received exceptional reviews from critics and audiences alike in Edinburgh. The production is being described as "stunning, funny and heartbreakingone of the most important pieces of work to emerge from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in years".

Mariam prepares for an evacuation notice (a small bomb on her Gazan rooftop). Heartbreaking, gripping, and surprisingly comedic, this timely solo show is presented ahead of a highly anticipated Off-Broadway run at New York Theatre Workshop in 2025.

Tickets to A Knock on the Roof at Dublin Theatre Festival are available now at dublintheatrefestival.ie

🚨 Applications are now open for Catapult 2024 🚨

Are you aged between 18 and 25 and interested in theatre, dance and live performance?

Introducing Catapult, a new opportunity for young theatre goers to attend a range of shows free of charge, followed by post-show discussions with participants. Catapult aims to promote regular engagement, community and learning in the arts amongst young adults while also creating openings for people from all backgrounds to get involved.

Performances will take place throughout the year in Axis Ballymun, Draíocht, Pavilion Theatre, The Civic and at other venues as part of Dublin Theatre Festival (23 Sept – 13 Oct). Participants will also get access to ticket discounts and invitations to special events.



📍 Dublin City and suburban venues
➡️ Deadline for applications is 12pm on 10 Sept 2024.
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Exit, Pursued By A Bear

A sad tale’s best for winter. Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale retold from the perspective of the Bear.

📅 3–13 Oct
📍 Whyte Recital Hall, Royal Irish Academy of Music (RIAM)
🎟️ €20-€35
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🚨New date added 🚨

Guest Host Stranger Ghost

An extra performance added at the Gate Theatre due to demand, taking place 8 Oct.

The story of a mismatched trio living in someone else’s home, performed on the sets of other people’s plays. A hilariously sad a playfully daring new production.

📅 3-13 Oct
📍 Various Venues
🎟️ €25
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0800 CUPID

Nightlife gatecrash, raucous cabaret and musical extravaganza; 0800 CUPID fizzes between performance and reality. An SOS response to the swelling social anxiety of a pre-apocalyptic world, it is a camp catalyst for reconnection; a musical march into and back from the existential brink.

📅 26 Sep–5 Oct
📍 Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs)
🎟️ €20-€30
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Signal To Noise

Created by Forced Entertainment to celebrate their 40th Birthday, Signal To Noise is a powerful mix of performance magic and off-hand deconstruction, a simple idea unfolded to open a unique space for the thoughts, laughter and reflections of spectators.

📅 4–5 Oct
📍 Samuel Beckett Theatre
🎟️ €30
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We’re looking for enthusiastic and friendly volunteers to help out at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival. If you’re passionate about the arts and want to get involved in a busy and exciting festival, then this could be the role for you!

📅 - Closing date for applications, 6 Sep
▶️ - Apply at dublintheatrefestival.ie/about

Molly Sweeney

Directed by Andrew Flynn, this compelling play by Brian Friel delves into the intricacies of psychological isolation for a blind woman whose sight is miraculously restored.

📅 1–6 Oct
📍 Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire
🎟️ €28-€30
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Find Your Eyes

A striking and surreal blend of photography, choreography and theatre, Benji Reid explores vulnerability, tragedy and triumph in Find Your Eyes.

📅 10 – 12 Oct
📍 O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College
🎟️ €18-€22
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Borderline Visible

Time Based Editions’ ingenious new format offers ‘audio-visual’ as two separate elements. Together we dive into a here-and-now of the page.

📅 26–29 Sep
📍 Patrick Sutton Studio, Gaiety School of Acting @ Smock Alley Theatre
🎟️ €20
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The Jesus Trilogy

An epic adaptation of Nobel Prize laureate J.M. Coetzee’s novels, The Jesus Trilogy is a moving saga exploring the legacy of memory, the nature of passion, and dance.

📅 9-19 Oct
📍 Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs)
🎟️ €20-€30
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Freefalling

Imagine you’re travelling the world, living your best life until... your body stops working, and no one knows why. This is an extraordinary true story, brought to life in an incredible way.

📅 9–12 Oct
📍 Draíocht, Blanchardstown
🎟️ €18-€22
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