2019 Programme | Dublin Theatre Festival

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Beckett's Room — This play without performers from Dead Centre and Mark O'Halloran tells the story of the apartment in Paris where Samuel Beckett lived during the Second World War.

Beckett's Room

Gate Theatre | 24—28 Sept

The Playboy of the Western World — J.M. Synge’s brutally hilarious classic about life on the margins is re-imagined for a new generation by exciting young director Oonagh Murphy.

The Playboy of the Western World

Gaiety Theatre | 24 Sept—5 Oct

Hecuba — Marina Carr's passionate re-imagining of the aftermath of the Trojan War and the events surrounding its iconic characters.

Hecuba

Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) | 25 Sept—6 Oct

How to Win Against History — How to Win Against History is Seiriol Davies's hilarious, ripped-up musical about expectations, manliness, disappointment and being totally fabulous.

How to Win Against History

Civic Theatre | 25—27 Sept

Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster — Nicola Gunn dissects the excruciating realms of human behaviour and navigates the moral and ethical complexities of intervention. And of ducks.

Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster

Samuel Beckett Theatre | 26—29 Sept

The Alternative — What if Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom? What if Home Rule had passed? What if there was no War of Independence? No Civil War? No partition?

The Alternative

Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire | 24—29 Sept

The Bluffer’s Guide to Suburbia — Ray Scannell lovingly exposes a generation of adult children struggling to fit into the nuclear family ideal and trying to make music in the face of rental crises and global catastrophe.

The Bluffer’s Guide to Suburbia

Project Arts Centre (Cube) | 26 Sept—5 Oct

Last Orders at The Dockside — Dermot Bolger’s latest play, much like the local pub it’s set in, is awash with songs, sharp Dublin wit and tales of life on the Docks.

Last Orders at The Dockside

Abbey Theatre, on the Abbey Stage | 26 Sept—12 Oct

MÁM — Michael Keegan-Dolan and Teaċ Daṁsa, return to the festival with a new mythic yet timely production that acknowledges how life's polarities can on occasion come together and find resolution.

MÁM

O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College | 27 Sept—5 Oct

Pasolini's Salò Redubbed — In a live redubbing, Dylan Tighe’s Pasolini’s Salò Redubbed daringly transposes Pier Paolo Pasolini's notorious final film to Ireland.

Pasolini's Salò Redubbed

Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock Stage | 26 Sept—5 Oct

Your Words in my Mouth — At venues across the city, Your Words in my Mouth is a conversation based on profound citizenship in which love might just open up new political perspectives.

Your Words in my Mouth

1—4 Oct

A Love Like That — A bittersweet new play by Billy Roche (The Wexford Trilogy and The Cavalcaders) set in a provincial library on the cusp of its transfer to new premises.

A Love Like That

Civic Theatre | 1—5 Oct

Walking to Jerusalem — A chronicle of serendipity: happenstances hilarious, infuriating and occasionally numinous – or, as pilgrims might say, encounters with the Divine.

Walking to Jerusalem

The New Theatre | 1—6 Oct

The Sleepwalkers — Collaboratively created with Pan Pan Theatre from ideas generated by Dublin Youth Theatre members as well as found texts, the production will ask the question: what does it mean to be awake?

The Sleepwalkers

axis: Ballymun | 2—5 Oct

Pike St. — OBIE Award-winning Nilaja Sun returns to Dublin Theatre Festival with her one-woman show, Pike St. fresh from critical acclaim in the U.S.

Pike St.

Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space | 2—6 Oct

Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation — Through combined stage action and illustrated text, this new play by Tim Crouch tells the story of a man who manipulates a group of people to sit in a place together and believe in something that isn’t true.

Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

Samuel Beckett Theatre | 2—6 Oct

The Beacon — A mysterious accident. A dead husband. People are talking. Secrets are resurfacing from the depths. Druid Theatre and Nancy Harris ask - is the past ever truly dead?

The Beacon

Gate Theatre | 2—12 Oct

The Alternative — What if Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom? What if Home Rule had passed? What if there was no War of Independence? No Civil War? No partition?

The Alternative

Draíocht | 4—5 Oct

Real Magic — Real Magic takes the audience on a hallucinatory journey, creating a compelling virtuoso performance about big systems, small traps and yearning for change.

Real Magic

Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) | 8—9 Oct

Us/Them — Following sell-out runs at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and London’s National Theatre, this multi-award-winning production comes to Dublin.

Us/Them

Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire | 8—13 Oct

BURGERZ — After someone threw a burger at them and shouted a transphobic slur, performance artist Travis Alabanza became obsessed with burgers.

BURGERZ

Smock Alley Theatre, Main Space | 9—12 Oct

Removed — Removed is a funny and affecting fictional story, told by a character called ‘Adam’, that offers insight into the experiences of growing up in the Northern Irish care system.

Removed

axis: Ballymun | 9—12 Oct

Collection of Lovers — Raquel André is a collector. Across 20 cities around the world she has collected more than 200 ‘lovers’ to date. These encounters are documented in photographs, to serve as content for an ever-evolving performance.

Collection of Lovers

Project Arts Centre (Cube) | 10—12 Oct

Redemption Falls — This bleak and beautiful story, told by Moonfish Theatre through the folk music of Ireland and America, comes to Dublin after a sold out run at Galway International Arts Festival.

Redemption Falls

Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock Stage | 9—12 Oct

Physics and Phantasma — Physics and Phantasma is Iggy Lond Malmborg's study in the artist’s relationship with an audience, and the space in between.

Physics and Phantasma

Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) | 11—12 Oct

Sopro — Cristina Vidal has been a prompter at Lisbon’s Teatro Nacional D. Maria II for the past 40 years. Tonight, she reluctantly steps out of the shadows and shares stories from her decades of working in the theatre.

Sopro

O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College | 11—13 Oct

Faultline — ANU Productions examines the unrelated events and catastrophic consequences that ruptured Ireland's LGBTQ+ community in 1982.

Faultline

11 Parnell Square East | 26 Sept—13 Oct