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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
At venues across the city, Your Words in my Mouth – Brussels Take is a conversation based on profound citizenship in which love might just open up new political perspectives. Your Words in my Mouth – Brussels Take 1—4 Oct Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
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 Details
