Review: An Insignificant Man
The sweetly ghoulish Smilin’ Kanker is an expert in love. If only he could find one
Review: The Tale of the Ancient Lights
An intriguing synthesis of technology and a skilled and imaginative performer
Review: You Told Me to Wash and Clean My Ears
A quiet, beautiful spectacle and an intriguing collaboration
Review: National Therapy Project
Eleanor Tiernan gives familiar material some fresh legs: lie back and think of Ireland
Review: The Belle Bottoms
This pair might have sass to burn, but the lame jokes mean this comedy never quite gets off the ground
Review: Reckoners
There’s nothing personal (or political) about the revenge cycle in Ross Dungan’s new play. Does that give its characters a better chance of escape?
Review: We Didn’t Care When (Our Mothers Had Cancer)
This play never fulfils the promise of its laudable motives
What have the Greeks ever done for us?
Tragic protagonists ought to know they can’t escape their origins or elude their destinies. Is that why companies at the Tiger Dublin Fringe are returning to an ancient source?
Review: Samuel Beckett’s Fizzles
Company SJ create a splitting performance from Beckett’s prose fragments in a crumbling building. Strangely, it becomes a wholly united experience
Review: Pilgrim
A real tragedy and an epic myth inform a violent young Irish man’s quest for home. It takes a while to get there
Review: A Sacrilegious Lesbian and Homosexual Parade
A personal look at the battle between NYC Catholic conservatism and a free-for-all Queens approach
Review: The Well Rested Terrorist
A “live concept album” from alt-pop act Maud in Cahoots uses theatricality to expose a world of surfaces
Review: Chaos
This show will change your life: or at the very least make you laugh. What more could you want?
Review: Down and Out in Paris and London
Don’t forget to take a breath before plunging into Phelim Drew’s Orwell adaptation
Review: Tardigrade
Interesting fact: Taridgrades can suspend their metabolism for up to 10 years. Expect this show to similarly ensnare your attention
Review: Between Trees and Water
This tale, based on a 1939 court case, has chilling parallels with ‘modern’ Ireland
Review: To Space
More illuminating facts and insights than you could shake a Hubble Space Telescope at
10 days of the Tiger Dublin Fringe
From comedy and therapy to dance and aerobics, from quick fixes to four-hour marathons, we have a Fringe show for you
Review: Bastard, A Family History
Descended from a long line of planted oppressors, an Irish actor wonders about his genetic inheritance
Review: Advocacy
This documentary-style piece sets itself the formidable task of exploring disability service provision in Ireland
Tardigrade: Keeping the audience on their toes with a riot of colour and movement
Video screens, singers in stilettos, a team of dancers and a lot of body paint: mind your steps at ‘Tardigrade’, Philip Connaughton’s latest work
Fringe review: The Rest is Action
The Oresteia is reduced to an hour in The Company’s arch and enigmatic new work.
Fringe review: Begorrah
This trio’s comedy is drawn along international lines, with boundless energy to power it along
Fringe review: How to Keep an Alien
When Sonya Kelly fell for an Aussie stage manager, the immigration bureau required documentary evidence. Wry, tender and imaginative, here is a stirring dossier of an accelerated romance
Review: Harp, A River Cantata
The spectacular opening show of the Tiger Dublin Fringe reimagined Dublin’s newest bridge as an ancient instrument
Eoin Colfer ‘was disco when everyone else was mod or metal’
‘It’s trying to dip into the zeitgeist of the 1970s,’ he tells Roisin Ingle in her podcast
Reared by the Abbey, empowered by its stage
The theatre’s outreach programme made Shaun Dunne an actor at 11. Now he’s back with his own play
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