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SUMMARY:A Skull In Connemara
DESCRIPTION:A Martin McDonagh play is guaranteed to provide three things\, violence\, comedy and locals mixed up in strange circumstances. A Skull In Connemara does disappoint or fail to live up to the McDonagh formula. Recipient of several awards\, McDonagh is able to write characters that despite finding themselves in moral predicaments\, do not lose their humanness. Part of his celebrated Leenane Trilogy\, comprising of The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Lonesome West\, A Skull In Connemara is a dark comedy about a local grave digger who’s community thinks killed his wife 7 years earlier. Pat Shortt delivers a convincing performance as protagonist Mick Dowd who finds himself at the mercy of nosey neighbours.
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/a-skull-in-connemara/
LOCATION:Olympia Theatre\, 72 Dame Street\, Dublin 2\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180804T220000
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SUMMARY:The Little Prince
DESCRIPTION:Previewed at the 2018 Galway Theatre Festival\, Morgan Creative presents Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince\, reimagined by Oisín Robbins. The Little Prince playfully explores the phenomena of imagination and growing up by recounting his experiences of moving from one planet to the next. Seosamh Duffy stars as Antoine\, with Alex Hughes as the Little Prince. The performance is family friendly\, aimed at 6-10 year olds.
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/the-little-prince/
LOCATION:dlr Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre Dundrum\, Dublin 16\, Dublin 16
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180718T220000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180719T003000
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SUMMARY:Come on Home
DESCRIPTION:This new work by Philip McMahon (Town is Dead\, RIOT) is billed as an exploration of “faith\, family\, place and desire”. Michael hasn’t been home in almost twenty years. Having been kicked out of the seminary and exiled from his family home\, he found himself in London\, by accident rather than design. But now\, the death of his mother sees him back in the small town where he grew up. The place that chewed him up and spat him out. \nReunited with his two brothers\, their partners and the local clergy\, there are questions that want answering and old scores that need laying to rest. Where do you find home\, when your family and faith have abandoned you? An Irish funeral brings out the best and worst in people\, and a long night of truths lies ahead. Directed by Rachel O’Riordan\, Come on Home features a stalwart cast including Ian Lloyd Anderson\, Declan Conlon and Kathy Rose O’Brien. \nUntil August 4
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/come-on-home/
LOCATION:Peacock Stage\, Abbey Theatre\, Marlborough Street\, Dublin 1\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180717T213000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180902T000000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
CREATED:20180711T093201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180711T093201Z
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SUMMARY:WICKED
DESCRIPTION:Critically acclaimed WICKED tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two witches and their adventures in Oz\, which leads to them their aliases: Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West. Based on Gregory Maguire’s best-selling novel which creatively re-imagines the stories and characters originally created by L. Frank Baum in ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’\, WICKED has become a global phenomenon. Featuring technical feats\, wonderful costumes\, and many an ear-worm such as ‘Defying Gravity’\, this imaginative show is sure to be a feast for the senses.
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/wicked/
LOCATION:Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, Grand Canal Square\, Docklands \, Dublin\, Dublin 2\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180716T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180716T230000
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SUMMARY:A Night of Great Plays
DESCRIPTION:Glass Mask Theatre launch ‘A Great Night of Plays’ in the Smock Alley Theatre. There will be a drinks reception to celebrate year-long long residency in the Boys’ School. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe evening will include scenes from Arthur Miller\, Tom Murphy\, Annie Baker\, John Arden and Jimmy Murphy with the acting talents of Peter Coonan\, Derbhle Crotty\, Don Wycherley\, Clair Dunne and many more. The night will conclude with an excerpt from Glass Mask Theatre’s debut play ‘Idlewild’ featuring Ruairí Heading and Rex Ryan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSmock Alley will also be announcing some other exciting developments in their upcoming programme. \nRSVP by Friday 13th July as there is limited space.
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/a-night-of-great-plays/
LOCATION:Smock Alley Theatre\, Exchange Street Lower\, Temple Bar\, Dublin 8\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180714T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180714T190000
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CREATED:20180711T085009Z
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SUMMARY:Meet Me in The Gardens
DESCRIPTION:‘Meet Me in The Gardens’\, written by Sharon McCoy\, and directed by Aoibhinn Marie Gilroy\, aims to plunge the audience into the gripping 200-year history of Ireland’s National Botanic Gardens. A series of 4 short plays\, ‘Meet Me in the Garden’ takes place outdoors in various locations around the gardens. This site-specific performance is based on real characters and true life events\, spanning the cholera epidemic to the onset of World War II. (Performances are not seated).
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/meet-me-in-the-gardens/
LOCATION:National Botanic Gardens\, The National Botanic Gardens of Ireland\, Glasnevin\, Dublin 9
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180712T213000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180713T233000
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SUMMARY:Shakespeare's King John
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Aoife Spillane-Hinks\, the GSA’s production of William Shakespear’s ‘King John’ showcases 10 new acting talents. Within the current climate\, rife with Brexit and Trump antics\, this play is particularly relevant as it questions what it takes to be a leader.
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/shakespeares-king-john/
LOCATION:Black Box\, Gaiety School of Acting\, Essex Street West\, Temple Bar
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180705T220000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180706T003000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180710T093637Z
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SUMMARY:Copperface Jacks - The Musical
DESCRIPTION:We’d have our reservations and the fear of cringe if this musical were in the hands of anyone other than Paul Howard. However\, the creator of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly and Keano is an adept hand at wrinkling humour out of the various tribes in our city.  Billed as “Moulin Rouge…with slow sets” in the home of the hook-up\, it is a love story set on the eve of a Dublin and Kerry All-Ireland Final\, when a sweet Kerry girl\, who’s moved to the big smoke for her dream job in the VHI\, ends up falling head over her flat-shoes for a true blue Dublin team member. Tourists who thought they were going to Riverdance may be somewhat bamboozled. \nRuns until August 12
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/copperface-jacks-the-musical/
LOCATION:Olympia Theatre\, 72 Dame Street\, Dublin 2\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180704T213000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180705T000000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
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SUMMARY:Punt
DESCRIPTION:Punt is a story of gambling culture\, following one man on the slippery slope to rock bottom after a lifetime of small bets\, race meetings\, online gauntlets\, high stakes card games and the unspoken challenges that go with a life of ‘investing’ in chance.\n\n\n\nThe culture of gambling in Ireland is particularly unique\, as a nation we have some of the most slack gambling laws and restrictions in the world.\nSmall town Ireland\, which can be deemed quiet and docile by nature in parts\, has been in recent times subliminally infiltrated by Big Gambling Businesses\, Ponzi Men and Loan Sharks dangling the possibilities of wealth and fortune in front of a fragile-minded psyche that belongs to an emotionally damaged people as they try and replace the lingering losses of emigration\, poverty and lack of faith in church and State with the hope of ‘having a win’. All the while these purveyors of fortune encourage gambling as a normal every day pass time\, whilst slowly rupturing the very fabric of family\, community\, and place.\n\n\n(Runs until July 14)
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/punt/
LOCATION:The New Theatre\, 43 East Essex Street\, Temple Bar\, Dublin 2\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180723
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SUMMARY:Dermot Bolger's Ulysses
DESCRIPTION:Ulysses\, a timeless Dublin classic\, has been revamped and adapted for the stage\, courtesy of Dermot Bolger. Presented by the Abbey Theatre\, this theatrical homage incorporates live music\, puppets\, dancing\, and kazoos into Joyce’s world. This production is a unique chance to experience (and understand) the acclaimed story of Ulysses without the help of a university lecturer\, companion guides\, or a degree in English literature.
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/dermot-bolgers-ulysses/
LOCATION:The Abbey Theatre\, 26 Lower Abbey St\, Dublin 1\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180508T220000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180509T003000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
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SUMMARY:Maz & Bricks
DESCRIPTION:Olivier Award-winning Fishamble presents a play by Eva O’Connor\, winner of the Fishamble New Writing Award at Dublin Fringe Festival 2015. \nDirected by Jim Culleton (On Blueberry Hill) and starring Eva O’Connor (My Name is Saoirse) and Stephen Jones (From Eden)\, Maz & Bricks tells the story of two young people who meet over the course of a day in Dublin. \nMaz is attending a “Repeal the 8th” demonstration\, while Bricks is going to meet his young daughter. As the day unfolds\, the two become unlikely friends\, changing each other in ways they never thought possible.
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/maz-bricks/
LOCATION:The Pavilion Theatre\, Marine Road  Dun Laoghaire\, Co. Dublin\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180502T213000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180503T003000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
CREATED:20180426T153050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180426T153050Z
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SUMMARY:Giselle
DESCRIPTION:The tour de force that is Akram Khan’s adaptation of the classic ballet Giselle with the English National Ballet company is not to be missed. The original\, first staged in 1841\, is a tale of unrequited love\, heartbreak and mercy that was hugely popular at the time. Khan’s Olivier-award nominated version sees the superb dancers of the English National Ballet taking on his Kathak-influenced contemporary style. Kathak is an ancient Indian dance form that finds a natural home in the mystical\, otherworldly terrain of the ballet. This show is the opening performance of this year’s Dublin Dance Festival. \nRuns until May 6. \nMatinee: Thurs 3 & Sat 5 May\, 2:30pm
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/giselle/
LOCATION:Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, Grand Canal Square\, Docklands \, Dublin\, Dublin 2\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180424T213000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180506T000000
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SUMMARY:The Plough and the Stars at the Gaiety Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Seen by over 50\,000 people in Ireland and the US\, Sean Holmes’ refreshed\, high-energy restaging of The Plough and the Stars opens at the Gaiety Theatre on Tuesday\, April 24th and runs until the 5th of May. \n\n\nWritten by Seán O’Casey and first performed on February 8\, 1926 by the Abbey Theatre\, the play is set amid the tumult of the Easter Rising in Dublin. The Plough and the Stars is the story of ordinary lives ripped apart by the idealism\, revolution\, and patriotic nationalism. \n\n 
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/the-plough-and-the-stars-at-the-gaiety-theatre/
LOCATION:The Gaiety Theatre\, South King Street\, Dublin 2\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180412T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180609T223000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180530T071519Z
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SUMMARY:Assassins at the Gate Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim\nBook by John Weidman \nThe multiple Tony Award-winning ASSASSINS lays out the lives of nine people who assassinated (or tried to assassinate) the President of the United States. Playing at the Gate Theatre from the 12th of April through the 9th of June. \nASSASSINS is based on an idea by Charles Gilbert Jr. Original orchestrations by Michael Starobin. Playwrights Horizons Inc.\, New York City produced ASSASSINS off-Broadway in 1990. First Broadway production\, 2004\, Roundabout Theatre Company\, * Todd Haimes\, Artistic Director. Performed by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe) Limited. ASSASSINS is based on an idea by Charles Gilbert Jr. Original orchestrations by Michael Starobin. Playwrights Horizons Inc.\, New York City produced ASSASSINS off-Broadway in 1990. First Broadway production\, 2004\, Roundabout Theatre Company\, * Todd Haimes\, Artistic Director. Performed by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe) Limited. \nPlease note: This production contains strobe lighting and loud noises throughout. \nArchived: Assassins
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/assassins-gate-theatre/
LOCATION:The Gate Theatre\, Cavendish Row\, Parnell Square\, Dublin 1\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180404T213000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180404T233000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T230752Z
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SUMMARY:Tryst
DESCRIPTION:Matt and Steph are hungover. Their wedding is in a week. Things are under control. Mostly. \nBut when their best friend Rachel arrives unannounced\, she reveals a secret that threatens to unravel everything. Now they must deal with the consequences of their messy nights and bad decisions. \nWho do you blame when your life is derailed? And how far will you go to get it back on track? \nA blistering new play written by Finbarr Doyle and Jeda de Brí; Tryst explores the price of curiosity\, the limits of friendship and the complications of sex. \nUntil April 14
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/tryst/
LOCATION:Project Arts Centre\, 39 East Essex Street\, Temple Bar\, Dublin 2\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180401T210000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180401T223000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T225952Z
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SUMMARY:Caged
DESCRIPTION:In an absurd and bold theatrical mash up of text\, aerial\, dance and music\, the glass case of femininity is shattered. Enter a world of the weird\, the wonderful and the uncomfortable. \nBy Femme Bizarre (part of a series of rescheduled Scene + Heard shows)
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/caged/
LOCATION:Smock Alley Theatre\, Exchange Street Lower\, Temple Bar\, Dublin 8\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180215T210000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180225T210000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
CREATED:20180215T141414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180215T141414Z
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SUMMARY:'F.A.T. D.A.D.' play at The Complex
DESCRIPTION:‘F.A.T. D.A.D.’\, an acronym for the six counties under British rule\, portrays the life of teacher\, Fiachra Martin. His classroom acts as a symbol of a divided Ireland and the impact this perpetual tension has on lives of his students. Mr. Martin goes on hunger strike with Bobby Sands\, and as his beliefs deepen\, he finds himself unemployed and homeless. \nInspired by true events\, this play tells the story of the profound impact a teacher and nationalist hunger striker had on his pupils in north inner-city Dublin during the 1980s and 1990s. The play depicts the cultural and social problems of drugs and homelessness of that era\, issues that still resonate today. \nThe man behind-the-script for this play is celebrated Irish playwright and Dubliner\, Anthony Goulding. North Dublin native\, Darragh Byrne\, plays a lead role in this production directed by Vanessa Fielding. A show about Dublin is appropriately put on by the artistic products of the city. ‘F.A.T.D.A.D’ will run from Thursday\, February 15th to Sunday\, February25th.
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/f-t-d-d-play-complex/
LOCATION:The Complex\, 15 Little Green St\, Smithfield\, Dublin 7\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180210T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180210T230000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
CREATED:20180131T165625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180305T093106Z
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SUMMARY:Look Back in Anger
DESCRIPTION:The 26-year-old playwright John Osborne premiered Look Back in Anger in the Royal Court in 1956. It’s arrival on Britain’s post-war theatrical scene punctured the comedy and caper sops with a harsh kitchen sink realism. It explored sex\, class\, religion\, politics and the media. It paved the way for the likes of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh. Annabelle Comyn is at the directorial helm for this new production which will hopefully herald a fresh start for an establishment with reason to look back in anger too. \nUntil March 28
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/look-back-anger/
LOCATION:Gate Theatre\, Cavendish Row\, Parnell Square\, Dublin 1\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180208T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180208T220000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
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SUMMARY:Swan Lake
DESCRIPTION:When Michael Keegan-Dolan’s adaptation of Swan Lake first aired at the Theatre Festival in 2016\, superlatives swirled around his creation like the feathers from his swans. And with justification. His uniquely Irish understanding of this fable is nimble\, fierce\, fragile and sumptuous. His prince is unemployed and on the edge. Accompanied by a fantastic score by Slow Moving Clouds; this Swan takes flight and your heart will soar as it does. \nUntil February 17
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/swan-lake/
LOCATION:Abbey Theatre\, 26 Abbey Street Lower\, Dublin\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180202T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180202T230000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
CREATED:20180131T170543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180131T170543Z
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SUMMARY:The Approach
DESCRIPTION:Mark O’Rowe is arguably one of our finest playwrights (Howie the Rookie\, Crestfall\, Terminus) and the last work we saw by him Our Few and Evil Days merely confirmed this. \nHe returns to the stage with this story of three women exploring their interior lives through conversation. Starring Cathy Belton\, Derbhle Crotty and Aisling O’Sullivan; The Approach is touted as both a “psychological puzzle and quietly devastating tragedy”. \nUntil February 24.
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/the-approach/
LOCATION:Project Arts Centre\, 39 East Essex Street\, Temple Bar\, Dublin 2\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180128T210000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180129T000000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
CREATED:20180102T144553Z
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SUMMARY:The 24 Hour Plays
DESCRIPTION:An annual fundraiser staple for Dublin Youth Theatre\, the 24 Hour Plays always bring the thrill of the egg timer which keeps flipping. Within 24 hours six short plays will be written\, rehearsed and performed by the best of Irish writing and directing talent and over two dozen of Ireland’s most recognised stars of stage and screen.
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/24-hour-plays/
LOCATION:Abbey Theatre\, 26 Abbey Street Lower\, Dublin\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180118T210000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180118T233000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
CREATED:20180102T145943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180102T145943Z
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SUMMARY:Forgotten
DESCRIPTION:The world falls into two groups – those who have seen Pat Kinevane and those who haven’t. If you fall into the later then you have no excuse not to see Forgotten. A unique collage of Kabuki dance and Irish storytelling\, Forgotten has been doing the rounds for over a decade but there is a reason why — Kinevane. His captivating portrayal of four elderly characters living in retirement homes around Ireland will live in your memory well beyond this moment.
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/forgotten/
LOCATION:The Pavilion Theatre\, Marine Road  Dun Laoghaire\, Co. Dublin\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180106T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180120T233000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
CREATED:20171120T165307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180131T145621Z
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SUMMARY:Let the Right One In
DESCRIPTION:After their summer smash hit with Jimmy’s Hall\, the Abbey continue their newfound love of of staging adaptations which were celebrated in celluloid first. Let the Right One In is the Swedish romantic horror story which saw director Tomas Alfredson bring John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel to a wider audience. It’s a tender\, funny and brutal love story following the burgeoning relationship of Oskar and Eli. Oskar is a lonely\, bullied teenager who lives with his mother on the edge of town. Eli just moved in next door. She doesn’t go to school and stays indoors all day. These two young misfits soon forge a deep connection but\, when a series of mysterious killings plagues the neighbourhood\, their friendship is tested beyond all imaginable limits. Let the Right One In is an exciting and unconventional choice of Christmas show for the national theatre. Tickets for teens are only €13 too. \n \nAbbey Theatre\, until January 20
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/let-the-right-one-in/
LOCATION:Abbey Theatre\, 26 Abbey Street Lower\, Dublin\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20171118T203000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20180106T230000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
CREATED:20171128T120118Z
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SUMMARY:Let the Right One In
DESCRIPTION:This marks a fascinating unconventional departure by the Abbey in their choice of ‘Christmas’ show. Let the Right One In is the Swedish romantic horror story between Oskar (Craig Connolly) and Eli (Katie Holan) which saw director Tomas Alfredson bring John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel to a wider audience. It’s a tale of teen misfits\, bullying and sinister happening with some slasher gore. The set is a spartan stunningly spartan woodland\, the score by Ólafur Arnalds is sublime and the mostly young cast work well. It’s certainly a welcome contrast to the panto fare elsewhere even if it does lurch a little into the land of outlandish on occasion.
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/let-right-one-2/
LOCATION:Abbey Theatre\, 26 Abbey Street Lower\, Dublin\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20171023T213000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20171028T213000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
CREATED:20171023T131943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171023T131943Z
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SUMMARY:Ulysses at the The Abbey
DESCRIPTION:James Joyce’s Ulysses has been adapted for the Abbey Theatre by poet and novelist Dermot Bolger. John Vaughan caught the show last week\, and his review can be read below.  \n\nAround this time last year\, Marina Carr adapted Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina for the stage\, giving it a slick\, colloquial slang with which to disarm and immerse a contemporary audience. Carr was not overshadowed by the Russian giant\, and neither is Dermot Bolger’s vision flattened by Joyce’s in his adaptation of Ulysses. The infamous\, sprawling novel covers just about everything\, big and small\, no stone unturned and scrutinized; and so it makes sense that everyone should be able to enjoy it. The novel’s reputation for being too difficult\, however\, has isolated readers\, and this is something Bolger has sought to fix. Bolger states that his ideal audience are those who have always wanted to read the book but have felt too daunted to approach it. That fear of exclusion dies the second you see the set: audience members are encouraged to sit at the tables onstage as if they were at the local pub knocking back pints with Stephen Dedalus\, and the stage is flanked by an audience on either side: a panorama to match Joyce’s hungry\, sweeping scope. Throughout the play\, interactions between audience and actor reaffirm the universal nature of Bloom’s story\, deleting any sense of inferiority. \n Molly Bloom is centre-stage\, lying in bed and rising into bursts of voracious monologue throughout the play. Rather than leave her glorious celebration of life till the end\, Bolger decides to hand her the reins: she kicks off the play by lying down to sleep beside her husband\, and what ensues is a dreamlike romp through Dublin\, punctured by her rockets of solipsism. While dealing with heavy subjects such as grief\, politics\, and sex\, Bolger’s play giddily skips into near-slapstick humour\, highlighting the comedy of Joyce’s novel in characters such as “Blazes Boylan\,” who reduces barmaids to quivering swoons and who strides to trombone toots like a cartoon villain. While the first half towers above the second in terms of outrageous comedy and pithy remarks (Stephen Dedalus bellows in lamenting tones\, “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake”)\, Molly Bloom’s ecstatic end to her monologue is like a jolt of electricity\, with all the force and drama of an aria sung from her comfort in bed. If nothing else\, Bolger manages to remind us that we are our own worlds\, capable of supreme joy if only we seize it.
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/ulysses-at-the-the-abbey/
LOCATION:Abbey Theatre\, 26 Abbey Street Lower\, Dublin\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20171012T220000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20171014T190000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
CREATED:20170920T102325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171011T085429Z
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SUMMARY:Wind Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Every autumn\, two and a half thousand pink-footed geese fly from Greenland to winter at Fala Flow\, a protected peatbog southeast of Edinburgh. From this windy plateau\, Karine Polwart surveys the surrounding landscape through history\, song\, bird-lore and personal memoir. Ideas of sanctuary\, maternity\, goose skeins\, Scottish football legend and medieval medicine all take flight\, in this compelling combination of story and song. \nWinner of the Best Music and Sound award at the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland\, and a 2016 sell-out hit at Edinburgh International Festival\, Karine Polwart’s enchanting and poetic one-woman show explores the hidden stories of motherhood through story-telling\, song and personal memoir. It is a life-affirming piece combining themes of nature\, maternity\, ancestry\, myth and history. With magical visuals and an exquisite live score\, Polwart creates an immersive sound with the purity of her singing voice..
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/wind-resistance/
LOCATION:The Pavilion Theatre\, Marine Road  Dun Laoghaire\, Co. Dublin\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20171005T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20171007T220000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
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SUMMARY:Hamnet
DESCRIPTION:“There’s a problem when you try to understand big things by looking at small things. You get lost.” So says Shakespeare to the ghost of his son Hamnet (not a typo) in Irish theatre company Dead Centre’s latest play\, now showing as part of Dublin Theatre Festival. The line comes about halfway through the work\, but it’s a key in to the bones of the play. The real-life Hamnet died age eleven\, while Shakespeare was away working. In Dead Centre’s Hamnet\, we meet a young boy in a limbo space\, waiting eternally for his father\, who he believes is ‘a great man\,’ to tell him all the things he doesn’t yet know – to teach him how to be (Hamlet). While he waits\, he consults Google as a sort of surrogate parent. Dead Centre’s Shakespeare’s fear of getting lost in the small things while trying to understand the big things speaks to the archetype of an artist who forgets about the world in their efforts to make art about it. The character is so caught up in the grand themes of life that he misses the point a bit. \nInevitably\, literary theorists and historians have tried to draw connections between Hamnet’s death and the bard’s most famous play Hamlet. Did this sudden tragedy impact Shakespeare’s writing\, adding depth and pathos and prompting the existential angst found in the famous speech “To be\, or not to be…”? Hamnet oscillates around the question of how to be in the world – whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to aspire to be a great man at the expense of personal relationships\, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and\, ya know\, be a Dad. \nThis production is a departure from the company’s earlier work\, the continuously successful Lippy and Chekhov’s First Play. Those were plays about the storytelling/theatrical endeavour itself: How best to tell stories? Why tell stories at all? Why keep telling stories in a theatre when there are so many other media out there? They’re art about the art. They were loud and bombastic with multiple actors and impressive special effects. Hamnet is quieter\, barer\, more focused. There are still the Dead Centre hallmarks of determinedly harnessing technology and using audience interaction\, but the frame and the focus are starker\, more personal-feeling\, with less room to hide for the performers (co-writer/director Bush Moukarzel himself and thirteen-year- old Ollie West). \nOllie holds the stage single-handedly for much of the performance\, remarkably natural and seemingly at ease. It’s quite a feat for a young and untrained actor\, and a risk for the company to use a child performer. The use of split-second- timed video projection and sound (masterfully executed by video designer José Miguel Jiménez and sound designer Kevin Gleeson)\, piles risk on risk. There are many elements to attend to – both Ollie and Bush have to be in the exact right place at the exact right time on stage or the entire conceit of their communicating across the boundary of parallel worlds will fall apart. The script is immovable in this context and its rigidity tells against the performance at times. Some of the interactions between Shakespeare and Hamnet (like when he slaps the child in the face and calls him a little shit) read like stock scenes from a family drama. When Shakespeare strips down to his birthday suit\, while reciting the lines: “Because you are gone\, I no longer exist. Your father is not your father. I was only acting like your father. It’s a role I am not suited for. The part does not exist. You are alone\,” the gesture of disrobing blows the sentiment out of the water a bit. \nBut there is sincerity and a kind of unabashed innocence here that is redeeming\, helped not least by what Ollie brings to the role as a child simply engaging with a father-figure\, oblivious to the existentially-angsty themes of Hamlet. Dead Centre’s strength as a company is tackling intellectually complex yet universal topics with colloquial aplomb\, framed by technological innovation. In this\, Hamnet succeeds as a work that is multilayered in its structure and heartfelt in its intent. \nRachel Donnelly 
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/hamnet/
LOCATION:Abbey Theatre\, 26 Abbey Street Lower\, Dublin\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20170923T233000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20170924T013000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
CREATED:20170922T072415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T072415Z
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SUMMARY:End Of.
DESCRIPTION:A site-specific comedy at the Gutter Bookshop Temple Bar\, End Of. is a trippy take on the apocalypse featuring illusions by award winning magician Davey McAuley and direction by acclaimed director Conor Hanratty. \nBest friends Siobhán and Drew know what to expect from a day’s work in the bookshop: difficult customers\, poor pay and bad prospects. But when a box arrives containing a bewildering object—causing books to levitate and shelves to disappear—they are plunged into a mystery that makes them\nquestion not just their friendship\, but the very fate of the World. A treat for anyone who loves to wonder “how did they do that?” End Of. is a thought provoking comedy about the very beginning of the very end of the world. \nThe first draft of End Of. was completed on the 9th of November\, 2016\, the day Donald Trump became President Elect of the United States. Some thought Trump’s election signalled the apocalypse\, some celebrated it in\nthe streets and some simply wondered “how did this happen?” End Of. is a play that offers a theory on “how”: a study of how disagreement becomes disdain\, End Of. is the story of how the end of a relationship\, a society and the world might be one and the same. \n 
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/end-of/
LOCATION:The Gutter Bookshop\, Cow's Lane\, Temple Bar\, Dublin 2\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20170921T223000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20170922T040000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
CREATED:20170913T124630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170913T124630Z
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SUMMARY:DFF: Back Jam
DESCRIPTION:The Dublin Fringe is in full swing and the city is bustling with unique events and performances of all stripes. With so much going on – it can be hard to single out any one particular show. That said\, it always pays to take note of anything bearing the Fried Plantains Collective name. \n  \nBlack Jam is Fried Plantain’s  night celebrating the experiences of and art produced by disparate members of the Afro diaspora. Big Joanie is jetting over from London and bringing some black feminist sistah punk with her. Then it’s time for some grunge meets soul by way of punk and psychedelia as Sabatta take to the stage. Completing the line-up\, we’ve got Dublin’s best Afro-trad band Rhythm Africana and a performance from Côte d’Ivoire’s premier freestyle rapper\, MAI. \n  \nEclecticism in the extreme and all in service of providing a platform for voices all too often overlooked – this isn’t a show to be missed.
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/dff-back-jam/
LOCATION:Fibber Magees\, 80-81 Parnell Street\, Dublin 1\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20170920T230000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20170921T003000
DTSTAMP:20260620T044328
CREATED:20170920T111404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170920T142735Z
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SUMMARY:Fringe Review: Normal
DESCRIPTION:A young woman\, Helen\, sits and roughly massages her forehead\, surrounded by toppled tables and vivid\, mute balloons. She has thrown a birthday party for her boyfriend\, Gary (who never appears) and it has gone horribly awry. Enter Phil\, Gary’s mother\, and her scowl is enough to inform us that she is not Helen’s biggest fan. They move around the room\, circling each other like predators\, both equally convinced that the other is the threat to Gary’s wellbeing. Another important fact: Gary has autism. \n Produced by the We Get High On This collective\, Normal is a play not about autism\, but about the way we as a society treat those who are somewhere on the autism spectrum. Through the tense dialogue between the two women\, their behaviour is dissected and scrutinised: motherly instincts become smothering; intimacy becomes a point of anxiety. Hearing them speak about Gary is difficult\, sometimes infuriating\, but our own complicity is never left unchecked: viewers are encouraged to sit at tables onstage. \n While Gary is a hot topic with the characters\, so much more is explored in this short play. It draws us in with its unassuming set and reticent characters\, slowly revealing its depth and reach.
URL:https://www.totallydublin.ie/event/fringe-review-normal/
LOCATION:The Lir\, Grand Canal Dock\, Dublin\, Dublin 2\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Theatre Listings
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