If you’re watching the countless Instagram stories from Edinburgh Fringe with a twinge of jealousy, you should start preparing for Dublin Fringe! We’ve compiled a list of shows that you might not have heard as much about which are coming … Continue reading What You Should See At Dublin Fringe 2023 All of our top recommendations for this coming Fringe
●○○○○ Cal Folger Day’s autobiographical pop-opera Moondog and Irene was under the direction of opera and theatre director Tom Creed. In a medley of songs, movement and monologues about urinary tract infections, she brings to the stage the story of … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Moondog and Irene // Review
●●●●○ Natalie Palamide’s Nate is about a ‘hard man’ called Nate. Palamides plays Nate and through the course of the show takes us through the motions and operations of her character’s life and worldview. This begins with Nate’s entry upon … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Nate // Review How to be a hard man
●●●●● Set in an unnamed South Dublin town, Sauce was a show about two of the town’s residents: Mella (Ciara Elizabeth Smith), a pathological liar and Maura (Camille Lucy Ross), a well-heeled kleptomaniac married to a personal finance lawyer … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Sauce // Review
●●●○○ Wishful Thinking by Shaunna Lee Lynch of Strive Theatre, was a show about contemporary obsession for ‘positive thinking’, played out through the delicate medium of a grieving family. Siobhán, aged 28 returns home to Cork from London, having failed … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Wishful Thinking // Review
●●●●○ What is the difference between the moment before and during performance? The Warm Up Project reveals that ultimately, there isn’t one; the intensity of pre-performance proves itself to be as much of a spectacle as the show itself. In … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: INIT: The Warm Up Project // Review
●●●○○ On Ice, a monologue by Suzanne Grotenhuis, was performed at the Abbey Theatre’s Peacock Stage as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival 2019. Initially intimate and open, the play felt friendly and straightforward: Grotenhuis’ narrator was going to tell … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: On Ice// Review
●●●●○ The Lost Lane hosted Lux Alma’s (Alma Kelliher) stunning performance as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2019. The venue’s jazz clubesque vibe, with club tables and seating as well as standing area, along with boldly lit corners in bright … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Lux Alma // Review
●●●●○ Dan Colley’s reinterpretation of the short story by Gabriel García Márquez, sparks wonder and imagination into the Dublin Fringe Festival, infusing an international element … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings// Review
●●●○○ “I am Al Dawes. I am disgusting.” Erin McGathy’s Al Dawes F***ing Loves You was initially framed as a stand-up comedy special by comedian– Al Dawes, also played by McGathy. McGathy depicts the self-hating comedian to great effect, … Continue reading Al Dawes F***ing Loves You// Review
●●●●○ Admin was written and performed by Oisín McKenna and directed by Darren Sinnott. Firstly, it was part of Live Collision International Festival which was brought to Project Arts Centre around April, 2019. This performance was put once more after … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival Admin// Review Admin admits the emptiness of an existent capitalist reality.
●●●●○ The press release for choreographer Emily Aoibheann’s Sorry Gold posed a question: “If aerial dance is the dance of industrial technology, what will the dance … Continue reading Dublin Fringe Festival: Sorry Gold // Review