The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey

For more information and booking: http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/

The Lonesome West is a black comedy about two feuding brothers, Coleman and Valene, who have just buried their father. Their constant provoking of each other often develops into a cartoonish violence which further distresses the already melancholic local priest, young Father Welsh. This is a hysterically funny play from award winning and renowned Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. Running in the Theatre Royal Waterford from September 7th to 11th 2010. Tickets; preview 7th Sept €10. Performances 8th to 11th September €18.50/€12.

Phone our Box Office on 051 853626 or online at www.theatreroyal.ie.

Returning to this year's Festival with the Spirit of the Fringe 2009 award for Who is Fergus Kilpatrick?, The Company are back to delve into Joyce's seminal work and ask – where are you in this story? Join us as we rediscover what it means to be Irish. By the way, we haven't read Ulysses either… yet.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

it's 11.30am and already it's 33 degrees celsius. at the bottom of a drained swimming ppol, four ridiculous men face their inevitable deaths. and play for an unwinnable love.

Druid's previous partnerships with Enda Walsh (Fringe First winners, The Walworth Farce and The New Electric Ballroom) have led to sell out runs in six xountries worldwide wowing critics and audiences alike. Don't miss this dynamic duo third time round.

Tickets €25.00/18.00

Booking:

Box Office Opening Hours:10.00 a.m. - 7.30 p.m.

By Phone: 091 569777
Online:www.tht.ie - anytime

Who will tell the story of your life long after you are gone? Sorcha Kenny believes her dresses will. Sparked by her fascination for second-hand and vintage garments, she has embarked on an ongoing 'dress quest' to uncover the real life stories behind the dresses lingering in wardrobes all over the country. Like photographs, they are mementos of a treasured past.

Join Sorcha as she introduces you to the generations of men and women whose stories unfold between the fabric and the thread. Expect laughter, tears and nostalgia in this sartorial expedition. The walls can't talk but the dresses sure can.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

Druid Theatre Company presents

The Silver Tassie by Seán O'Casey

Directed by Garry Hynes

Druid is back with a show you simply won't want to miss. This sweeping play follows the lives of two young footballing heroes from the tenements of Dublin through the battlefields of France, and their return home.
Using all the resources of the theatre including live music and dance, this is an epic staging of one of Seán O'Casey's great plays.
 
Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes directs a cast of 19 – Druid's biggest ever company of actors – and welcomes back Druid favourites including Aaron Monaghan, Eamon Morrissey and Derbhle Crotty.


http://www.glor.ie/

Part of ABSOLUT Fringe

SIREN'S interpretation of this timeless classic presents it as a contemporary domestic drama - a shockingly modern story of a man and a woman caught in the nets of jealously and destructive love. Blurring the boundaries between theatre and live installation, public and private lives and what is seen and unseen, this classic tale resonates as much today as it did thousands of years ago.

For further information and tickets visit www.fringefest.com

will be staged at the Town Hall Theatre each weekend night (Friday / Saturday / Sunday) in September. The night will contain short scenes from his most famous plays interspered with readings of his best known poems.

Ramor Productions
Written and directed by Padraic McIntyre

Oh me, oh my, you make me sigh……….

Set in a pub in Cavan on a stormy St. Stephen's night. A knock at the door presents an unexpected guest in the shape of the legendary Joe Dolan, who is stranded in the town when his car breaks down. As the storm bears down, the music and craic flows, and we get a hilarious insight into the happenings of a rural pub on the night a legend drops by.

Fresh from a recent sell-out run, this hilarious new play by Padraic McIntyre features live music and a host of local characters, who will have you rolling in the aisles. A real treat for all who enjoy a great night of theatre and music.

http://www.roscommonartscentre.ie/

Love happy, money happy, beauty happy, friends happy, sports happy, McDonald's happy… Fuck My Life. What's it really like being a teenager today? And how on earth do you become a happy one? What drives teenagers to profound sadness or extreme violence?

Ireland has one of the highest teen suicide rates in Europe. Why is this? FML casts a spotlight on the lives of 15 young Corkonians in this blend of spoken word and film, true confessions and lies.

Who is the funniest, most beautiful, most dangerous? Who will fall by the wayside? Who won't live to see twenty? Who needs help? For everyone who has ever been a teenager.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

Like nothing you have ever seen before, this re-imagining of a killer's crimes bristles with savage brutality and horrifying violence. It is invariably strange and sombre, poetic and captivating.

We don't say this lightly: jerk will leave you stunned and shaken at the gruesome visual world you create around this deceptively stark set. Based on cult author Dennis Cooper's novella of the same name.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

Matthew P. Morris in My Body Travels explores a new adventure. He's hitching his heels high and daring to redress his first solo piece. A 'he' who transforms to 'she' in order to walk the wild side of a lopsided reality of assumed identity, he's treading bare a silent world of desirable loneliness before finally surrendering to the natural order of serenity. A cycle of events; moments in time unravel unexpectedly to reveal where paths cross and people change our lives, often unsettling the ground beneath us. Shake it like a milkshake, moves that'll groove … all creamy and dreamy. A song might be sung. The dance will be danced. And please for a moment let there be quiet...


http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

A sweet and comical story of what happens when "a rolling roustabout with a song in his soul and an eye for the ladies" rambles into town on his motorbike. This is a highly entertaining musical comedy built around a number of hit songs made famous by Elvis. Songs include: 'Jailhouse Rock,' 'Blue Suede Shoes,' 'Teddy Bear,' 'Burning Love,' 'Can't Help Falling in Love with You'…and many more. Featuring a full orchestra, chorus and dancers.

Booking:
Box Office Hours: 10.00 a.m. - 7.30 p.m.

By Phone 091 569777
Website www.tht.ie

Amber has fierce bad indigestion and the Sambucas aren't getting rid of it. Lorraine attacks a customer at work and her boss wants her to see a psychiatrist. Kay's got an itch that Gem can't scratch (but maybe Kermit can). This perfectly pitched comedy focuses around three generations of women in modern day Artane and one extraordinary year of sex, birth, death and salsa classes. Little Gem, Elaine Murphy's first full-length play, has swept the boards since its sell out run as part of the 2008 Dublin Fringe Festival. It was the surprise hit of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the first ever Irish production to receive the prestigious Carol Tambor Award.

http://www.mermaidartscentre.ie/

Psycho Spaghetti Ger Carey's 'Psycho Spaghetti' is a brilliant comedy written specifically for teenagers. This hilarious one-man show attempts to answer the age-old question: Just what is going on inside the teenage brain? The show is 100 minutes of laugh-out-loud comedy aimed at getting teenagers to laugh at themselves and view themselves as part of a bigger picture. The show is perfect for Transition Year students, LCA, Youth Reach and even grown-ups! PRICE: €10 For more info contact us on 057 8663355 or online booking at www.dunamaise.ie

There's a hole in my heart that goes all the way back to China mines the mysterious caverns of the human heart, this is an extraordinary live art multimedia piece. Combining visuals, movement and text, it is made up of many parts about holes that ultimately leaves one feeling whole. Carl Jung said, "I would rather be whole than be good".

A work that digs down deep into the depths of loneliness and shame, but even in its darkest moments, the canary still sings.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

My Husband is a Spaceman, a multi-media solo show, this is the third part of an absorbing trilogy from an incredible live artist.

A Japanese office lady is content with her single lifestyle until she encounters Robin, an English University fellow, in Tokyo. They fall in love, get married, and move to England. But married life is not what Robin expects and the eccentric Englishman takes to locking himself in a room upstairs every night.

Derived from an old Japanese folk tale of love between a peasant and a crane, this is a love story loosely based on Kazuko's experience of a cross-cultural relationship, loneliness and how to survive it. One of the most personal and affecting performers you are ever likely to see.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

From an almost empty stage, a smith offers some everyday stories of travel, oil, weather, war, sustainability and survival. This lecture style performance presents stories that think about how we are doing, and approaches some big questions in a small and human way.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

Keegan Theatre Co (USA)
"Keegan Theatre's Fool for Love is a pure celebration of playwright Sam Shepard's bumptious theatricality" WASHINGTON POST

A critical and popular success, this masterfully constructed work brings searing intensity and rare theatrical excitement to its probing, yet sharply humorous study of love, hate and the dying mythos of the American West.

More info: http://www.angrianan.com/

David Hull Promotions present A Happy Medium. Northern Ireland's very own queen of comedy May McFettridge stars as Lizzie, a woman who invites a spiritual medium into her home with unexpected and outrageously funny consequences. Olivia Nash co-stars.

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A dark tale of small-town solidarity. Majority rules and a close-knit community turns on one of its own. This is Listowel Syndrome - in a small town you can't afford to make enemies and actions do have consequences. Reflecting on a recent case that saw a large number of people express their solidarity for a convicted man through a wordless gesture, it brings to mind a Faustian pact. Told through dance, text, song and live music, this is a fable told for any town at any time.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

ekend night (Friday / Saturday / Sunday) in September. The night will contain short scenes from his most famous plays interspered with readings of his best known poems.

From an almost empty stage, a smith offers some everyday stories of travel, oil, weather, war, sustainability and survival. This lecture style performance presents stories that think about how we are doing, and approaches some big questions in a small and human way.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

A critical and popular success, this masterfully constructed work brings searing intensity and rare theatrical excitement to its probing, yet sharply humourous study of love, hate and the dying myths of the American west.

In a stark, low-rent motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert, Eddie and May love and hate their way through life. Unable to hold on or let go, they battle to keep from drowning together. This Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights masterpiece shows the heights and depths that love can take us to, and make fools of us all.

Tickets: €16.00/12.00

Booking:
Box Office Opening Hours 10.00 a.m. - 7.30 p.m.
By Phone: 091 569777
Online:     www.tht.ie

A dark tale of small-town solidarity. Majority rules and a close-knit community turns on one of its own. This is Listowel Syndrome - in a small town you can't afford to make enemies and actions do have consequences. Reflecting on a recent case that saw a large number of people express their solidarity for a convicted man through a wordless gesture, it brings to mind a Faustian pact. Told through dance, text, song and live music, this is a fable told for any town at any time.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

Gúna Nua/Civic Theatre
Written by Elaine Murphy 

Love, sex, birth, death, dildos and salsa classes: Little Gem sees three generations of Dublin women on a wild and constantly surprising journey. Kay's got an itch that Gem can't scratch … Lorraine attacks a customer at work and her boss wants her to see a psychiatrist … Amber has fierce bad indigestion and the sambucas aren't getting rid of it… Paul is just using Amber until he can get to Australia … and there's the hairy man who fancies Lorraine but fails to rise to the occasion. And of course let's not forget Gem, who doesn't like the neighbours coming in to 'mind' him. If all that wasn't bad enough, Little Gem makes his presence felt and life is never the same again.

After sell-out seasons in New York, London and Paris, and a sold-out seven week run at Ireland's National Theatre and the Olympia, Gúna Nua's multi-award winning bittersweet comedy staring Anita Reeves, Neili Conroy and Genevieve Hulme-Beaman promises to be a great night out.

http://www.roscommonartscentre.ie/

Interactive Theatre Australia in association with Ten42 Productions present

Faulty Towers at the Old Ground Hotel
Enter the snobbish world of manic Basil; his domineering wife, Sybil; and their hopeless language-challenged waiter, Manuel. Be one of the steady stream of bemused guests trying to make Manuel understand what it is you want. And, maybe, just maybe, in the middle of all this, you might get some service, Faulty style, of course.

Everything that can go wrong will…In fact, this can best be described as organised chaos whilst enjoying a fabulous three course meal.


http://www.glor.ie/

Neighbours, terrorists, friends. Can the game go too far when we're all still playing? The Paper Boy is fighting against his own extinction. He's bending the rules, looking back and making accusations.

Loud music, confessions, sex chat and satchels. He's playing games with imaginative desperation. Frantic performance and live virtual design run in tandem as Engine13 race to provoke your senses. Be incensed and a little bit moved by a group of friends, some criminal acts, a sneaky twist and a 3D world made just for you.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

This season, Ladies Night will be focused on the Guna Nua/Civic Theatre smash hit and multi-award winning show Little Gem. A remarkable first play by Elaine Murphy, the show has sold out theatres in New York, London, Dublin and Paris, and at The Edinburgh Festival, winning the hearts of audiences and the admiration of critics. Ideal for a women's night out, but the men will love it too!

http://www.dunamaise.ie/

Bedrock Productions, Civic Theatre and Project Arts Centre
Love triangles, debt, murder plots and a lot of old blarney. When Hardress Cregan's family falls on hard times, only his marriage to a wealthy heiress, Anne Chute, can save it from ruin. But there's a snag – Hardress is already secretly married to the beautiful, and not so wealthy, Eily O'Connor; and Anne is in love with someone else, Hardress' best friend Kyrle. Will love win over money? Will a murderous plot succeed? And can they all live happily ever after? This classic Irish tale of The Colleen Bawn is brought vividly to life in this lively and entertaining production from director Jimmy Fay (Playboy of the Western World, Ross O'Carroll Kelly: Last Days of the Celtic Tiger). Starring: Karen Ardiff, Liz Fitzgibbon, Michael Glen Murphy, Will Irvine, Ian Lloyd Anderson, Charlie Murphy and Ciaran Taylor.

Wed 22 - Sat 25 Sep 2010 8PM
Main Auditorium

Tickets: €20 / €16 conc / €15 on Culture Night (Fri 24)
Box Office: 01 885 2622

Online: www.draiocht.ie

Greatest Hits is Operatic Electric sound theatre played on everything from a kettle to a drum machine. For nine months now the band has been busy rehearsing in a living room, teaching themselves to play instruments and write songs. This is dark DIY sound played by four astounding professional dancers, recently turned musicians. They have carefully crafted these original greatest hits for three special performances only. You Can Call me Frances are: Jessica Kennedy, Áine Stapleton, Emma Martin and Justine Cooper.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

Thursday 23rd September                    8pm

€20/€18 Conc.

PJ Gallagher

PJ Gallagher has become one of Ireland's best-loved comedians.   He is a Vicar Street regular, where he has just kicked off his new 2010 tour, Raging.  He has played sold out shows throughout Ireland and at the biggest and best comedy festivals that the country has to offer. PJ has been an almost permanent fixture on Irish television since Naked Camera arrived to RTÉ in 2005 and since then he has gone on to make his own series, Makin' Jake, in the USA. 


http://www.glor.ie/

Culture Night is an initiative co-ordinated by Temple Bar Cultural Trust and supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture & Sport in partnership with Wicklow County Council and in association with Mermaid Arts Centre Words and Pictures. A workshop in Creative Writing and Illustraton for young people aged 9-12 years at Tinahely Public Library 7pm-8.30pm. Free but places are limited and booking is essential: 0402-38529. Led by Sylvia Cullen (writer) and Sinead Ryan (artist) The Show. A specially-commissioned creative documentary by filmmaker Terence White. Free public screening outdoors in Tinahely's Market Square, after dark on Culture Night. For details call 0402-38529 What's the Deal? Conversations about public funding of the arts - at various locations around Tinahely on Culture Night from 5pm onwards. Be careful who you talk to...Presented by the Courthouse Arts Centre in association with Curious Tail Theatre CompanyFree and interactive.Tinahely Artists Together. A group exhibition by local visual artists and craftspeople, at Riverside Business Centre, launching on Culture Night. Details to be announced or contact tinahelyartists@gmail.com for more information please phone 0404-38529 or email bookings@tinahely-courthouse.ie

A triumphant return to The Source of this award winning company from Washington DC. This time performing a classic American play from Pulitzer Prize winner, Sam Shepard. Winner of the Obie Award, a critical and popular success, this masterful work brings searing intensity and theathrical excitment to its sharply humourous study of love, hate and the dying myths of the Old West. In a stark, low rent motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert, Eddie and May love and hate their way through life. Unable to hold on or let go, they battle to keep from drowning together. 
Join us for Shepherd's masterpiece that shows the heights and depths that love can take us to, and make fools of us all.

Tickets: €20/ €18. For further details visit http://www.thesourceartscentre.ie/

We're delighted to be taking part in National Culture Night once again.Our events this year will include play readings by An Grianan's Theatre club featuring excerpts from Friel and McGuinness. Then we have a Crash Cabaret Culture Night special - the perfect end destination for your Letterkenny culture trail!

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Agus Amocht Theatre Productions present "Dwyer's" Stories about the pivotal role of pub culture in rural Ireland, and the effects of alcohol abuse on decision making. An ensemble cast brings to life the words of a new talent in playwriting, marking the stage debut of this new local theatre group. Tickets €10/8 Friends and concessions bookins@tinahely-courthouse.ie

at the Town Hall Theatre each weekend night (Friday / Saturday / Sunday) in September. The night will contain short scenes from his most famous plays interspered with readings of his best known poems.

Continuing his critically acclaimed theatre tour of Ireland, Adrian Knight, one of the world's leading hypnotists, makes a first visit to The Source Arts Centre for a night of mind boobling entretainment, presented by Joe Corey Productions. 
The show is funny and upbeat and incorporates the use of music with special effects to encourage audience interaction with the participants. It opens with a mixture of mind reading and levitation to relax the audience before some of them become participants in this unique experience! With his magnetic personality and sharp wit, a veritable feast of fun is guaranteed and it will indeed be A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER!!  

Tickets: €17/ €15 concession. For further details visit: http://www.thesourceartscentre.ie/

By far the best thing on The Blame Game and The Panel and of course he was the star of the sadly departed The Blizzard of Odd.

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This amateur production takes the audience on a nostalgic, yet thought provoking journey through World War 1 and World War 2 in the form of sketches, poetry, famous speeches, music and song. Follow in the footsteps of a young boy 'Jimmy', played by Andrew Burnside, as he enlists into the 9th Battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, through his training at Finner Camp and then to the Battle of the Somme.  When the Americans entered the war, they brought with them their unique style of music which will be performed by 'Nicola Moody & The Moodettes'. Other performers include Claire & Jackie McElhinney, David Moore, David Gibson, Derek, Ross & Shirley Hussey, Nigel Scott, Neil Moody, The Home Guard & The 9th Battalion Corps of Drums Band.

Tickets are free, but all show dates so far have sold out, so early booking is recommended to avoid disappointment. 
Call our booking line on  042 9753400/1 for tickets.

Neighbours, terrorists, friends. Can the game go too far when we're all still playing? The Paper Boy is fighting against his own extinction. He's bending the rules, looking back and making accusations.

Loud music, confessions, sex chat and satchels. He's playing games with imaginative desperation. Frantic performance and live virtual design run in tandem as Engine13 race to provoke your senses. Be incensed and a little bit moved by a group of friends, some criminal acts, a sneaky twist and a 3D world made just for you.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

SUPPER AT SOLSTICE 

Join Peter Sheridan as he conjures up the voices and accents of his 1960's childhood. This is a coming of age story, peopled with deliciously eccentric characters and surreally bizarre incidents. Brilliantly funny and seriously moving, it pulls at all the emotions.

Duration: 90 minutes

Ticket Price:€16 / 046 909 2300 / www.solsticeartscentre.ie

Calipo Theatre Company

One of Switzerland's most exciting dance companies presents three very different choreographies highlighting the exceptional dancers of the company:
American choreographer Nicolo Fonte's 'Sometime Salvation Excerpts' is a study in precise and beautiful motion; 'T  4  2' takes a humorous look at cultural habits and misunderstandings between Swiss choreographer/dancer Félix Duméril and his Japanese collaborator Misato Inoue; ' Van Gogh Variations' is Cathy Sharp's very poetic interpretation of facets of Vincent van Gogh's life based on his letters to his brother.

Tickets: €16.00/13.00
Booking:
Box Office Opening Hours 10.00 a.m. - 7.30 p.m.
By Phone: 091 569777
Online:     www.tht.ie

Chicane by Anthony Brophy and directed by Paul Meade From the award-winning partnership that took Little Gem around the world comes an explosive thriller written by one of Ireland's finest actors. Robert, a successful Dublin lawyer, is working late in his office while Ray, the cleaner, is tidying up. They chat about golf, football and the weather but both have dark secrets and when Julia, Robert's girlfriend, arrives on the scene those secrets are revealed in the most surprising and shocking way. Tickets €18/€12. http://www.belltable.ie/

565+ is about survival. There comes a time in all our lives when we look for help, when we reach crisis, when we will try anything that helps. For some it is therapy, for others it is medication. For Marie O'Rourke it is the theatre.

Marie O'Rourke is a school teacher who began attending the theatre seven years ago on the advice of her doctor. Since then she has seen over 565 plays. Marie credits the theatre with saving her life.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

565+ is about survival. There comes a time in all our lives when we look for help, when we reach crisis, when we will try anything that helps. For some it is therapy, for others it is medication. For Marie O'Rourke it is the theatre.

Marie O'Rourke is a school teacher who began attending the theatre seven years ago on the advice of her doctor. Since then she has seen over 565 plays. Marie credits the theatre with saving her life.

Following the success of her sell-out show Victor and Gord, Úna McKevitt continues her practice of making theatre from everyday life, and illustrates how the celebration of theatre can enable us, the audience, to express our longings and needs with dignity and humour, redemption and forgiveness. For more information and tickets please go to http://www.dublintheatrefestival.com/

Mrs C wants a baby not a Christmas tree.  B wants a real hairdressers' scissors and a wife. D wants a snow globe and "a big head of dirty auld curls".  All of them want their own place in the world.  And if they can't find it, they'll create one of their own… 

Join B and D in the care home where they are residents, and where Mrs C is a carer, on their special – "very fecking special" - journey towards happiness.  

A world première, presented by the Abbey Theatre, B for Baby is a sharp-witted new play that tenderly touches the taboo and invites you to rediscover the joy of make believe.

http://www.dublintheatrefestival.com/

Ger Careys Psycho Spagetti is a brilliant comdey written specifically for teenagers. This hilarious one man show attempts to answer the age old question: Just what is going on inside the teenage brain ???? The show is 100 minutes of laugh-out-loud comedy aimed at getting teenagers to laugh at themselves and view themselves as part of a bigger picture. The show is perfect for Transition Year Students, LCA, Youth Reach and even grown ups !!!. 

Tickets on sale now at €10.00.  Book online at http://www.iontascastleblayney.ie/ticket-sales or on 042 9753400/1.

Writer Rona Munro and actor Fiona Knowles team up for this comedy drama about a care-worker and her (potentially murderous) clients. 

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Boston Marriage, David Mamet's classic comedy of manners, takes us into the world of two friends living on society's fringe. As they articulate their skewed perceptions of life, the language ignites into deliciously vicious banter as we witness their jealousy, fear, and desperation for love.

http://www.dublintheatrefestival.com/

Winner of the Best of Edinburgh Award 2009 this remarkable first play has sold out theatres in New York, London, Dublin and Paris, and at The Edinburgh Festival, winning the hearts of the audiences and the admiration of critics. 
Kay's got an itch that Gem can't scratch (but maybe Kermit can)... Lorraine attacks a customer at work and her boss wants her to see a psychiatrist... Amber has fierce bad indigetion and the sambuca's aren't helping. Then there's Paul, who's just using Amber until he can get to Australia.... and there's the hairy man who fancies Lorraine but fails to rise to the occassion... and of course Gem, who doesn't like the neighbours coming in to 'mind' him. And if all that wasn't bad enough, Little Gem makes his presence felt and well... life is never the same again. 
Little Gem by Elaine Murphy and directed by Paul Meade is a must see.

 Tickets €20/ €18 concession. For further details visit http://www.thesourceartscentre.ie/

Following a triumphant international tour including a sell-out run in Edinburgh, CIRCA comes to the Festival amidst a blaze of rave reviews and international public acclaim.

A brand new creation that remixes three previous works which have wowed audiences at Galway Arts Festival in recent years, CIRCA is movement at its most adventurous and dangerous. Combining acrobatics, dance, light, sound and video, seven performers move from highly complex tumbling sequences, to fast-paced flashes of great intricacy. Using a powerful soundtrack ranging from Leonard Cohen to Aphex Twin, this marks a new kind of circus, at once poetic, sensual and immense.

Breathless and breathtaking – prepare to be astounded!

http://www.dublintheatrefestival.com/

The timeless story of Phaedra's dark obsession with her stepson is placed in a contemporary Ireland that has become a fertile playing field for the capricious gods.  Racine's masterpiece of the French theatre - itself drawn from Euripides - and themes from the baroque score of Rameau's operatic response to this mythic tale, have provided the springboard for a dynamic collaboration between writer Hilary Fannin and composer/musician Ellen Cranitch.

Through Fannin's scathing humour, Rough Magic's powerful production explores the extremities of passion, and the psychology of a doomed family in its attempts to outwit fate. The music is performed live by an ensemble of Ireland's leading musicians, under the inspired direction of Ellen Cranitch.

http://www.projectartscentre.ie/

Rough Magic returns to the Festival with this hugely anticipated new show, which probes the forbidden desires lurking within an exceptionally volatile family.

The timeless story of Phaedra's dark obsession with her stepson is placed in a contemporary Ireland that has become a fertile playing field for the capricious gods.  Racine's masterpiece of the French theatre - itself drawn from Euripides - and themes from the baroque score of Rameau's operatic response to this mythic tale, have provided the springboard for a dynamic collaboration between writer Hilary Fannin and composer/musician Ellen Cranitch.

Through Fannin's scathing humour, Rough Magic's powerful production
explores the extremities of passion, and the psychology of a doomed
family in its attempts to outwit fate. The music is performed live by an
ensemble of Ireland's leading musicians, under the inspired direction
of Ellen Cranitch.

http://www.dublintheatrefestival.com/

Enter a titillating world of scents and sounds, sharpen your instincts and allow yourself to lose control. Sit in a wheelchair, put on a blindfold and indulge your imagination, as all your pleasures, fears, desires and memories are confronted. This intense and intimate experience bridges the point where performance art meets theatre. Everyone will have a unique response – but leaves feeling ultimately exhilarated.

Winning the Scotsman Fringe First and the 2008 Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Production, this exceptional production comes to Dublin after taking the world's Festivals by storm.

For more information and tickets please go to http://www.dublintheatrefestival.com/

Performances every half hour from 1pm - 3.30pm.

Enter a titillating world of scents and sounds, sharpen your instincts and allow yourself to lose control. Sit in a wheelchair, put on a blindfold and indulge your imagination, as all your pleasures, fears, desires and memories are confronted. This intense and intimate experience bridges the point where performance art meets theatre. Everyone will have a unique response – but leaves feeling ultimately exhilarated.

Winning the Scotsman Fringe First and the 2008 Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Production, this exceptional production comes to Dublin after taking the world's Festivals by storm.

For more information and tickets please go to http://www.dublintheatrefestival.com/

Performances start every half an hour from 6pm - 8.30pm