Programme 2009
Drama
Drama Shows
A DOG CALLED REDEMPTION
A Dog Called Redemption won the prestigious Best New Play Award at the M.E.N Theatre Awards 2008, has played to full houses and rave reviews in London and Manchester and was one of the highlights of last year’s Edinburgh Festival.It is the ... (click to read more)
CARE TAKERS
“Those who stay aren’t the ones who care.” Ms Lawson, a new teacher at St Margaret’s High, believes Jamie Harrow is being bullied because he’s gay. She wants to help but Mrs Rutter, the Deputy Head, seems to think it ... (click to read more)
CAREFUL
Careful is the story of two women. Jean Baxter, a distinguished South African actress, finds work in the new South Africa difficult to come by. Then she gets the opportunity to play the role of a lesbian in a play. Undertaking this role will mean ... (click to read more)
GLIMPSES
A trilogy of drama and film which take us on a journey to our Irish gay past with a lense on thepresent. Seventy, starring Rian Corrigan, Kenny Moynihan and Keith Willis. A play about gay life seventy years ago and its parallels with Ireland ... (click to read more)
I LOVE YOU, BRO
This FIVE STAR Award Winning Production is not to be missed! SEX, SPIES, LOVE and LIES. The true story of the boy who conspired to murder himself. Inspired by real events, Adam Cass’ bleakly funny, deeply theatrical monologue delves ... (click to read more)
JOHN AND JOSEY
FREE play reading.A gay Irish Traveller confronts family, culture, class and prejudice to live his life in modern Ireland. This world premiere by Rosaleen Mc Donagh which explores the taboo attached to homosexuality in the Irish Traveller ... (click to read more)
LORD ARTHUR'S BED
Following sell out performances in Brighton, Manchester and London, Theatre North comes to Dublin with an extraordinary new play about the lives of gay men today and in the nineteenth century. 2008 – City slickers Donald and Jim are ... (click to read more)
MINOR GODS
In a dingy motel room outside Washington D.C., HENRY, a prominent geneticist hires a rent boy, FELIX, only hours prior to testifying before a senate sub-committee on his ‘life’s work,’ but as the night unfolds a life-long ... (click to read more)
MORE LIVES THAN ONE - Oscar Wilde & the Black Douglas
This highly acclaimed show, cleverly incorporating biography, hilarious and moving extracts from the works and the infamous trials that shocked the world presents the fantastic highs and tragic lows of the short but dazzling life of the great Oscar ... (click to read more)
PHI ALPHA GAMMA
Two years after a gay-bashing scarred the fraternity's reputation, how will the group react when a brother comes out of the closet? Using the structure of a Greek tragedy, Phi Alpha Gamma weaves together the voices of four fraternity brothers as ... (click to read more)
THE BIRD SANCTUARY
The Actors’ Circle are delighted to return to the IDGTF after the success of their previous productions Personals (2004) & New Boy (2005) with The Bird Sanctuary by acclaimed Irish playwright Frank McGuinness. Set in one of the grandest ... (click to read more)
THE PICTURE (of DORIAN GRAY)
How far would you go to get everything you want?Based on Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, this highly physical, exciting new adaptation examines issues of gender, sexuality, and morality. Three actors explore Dorian’s ... (click to read more)
TWO BOYS IN A BED on a cold winter's night
2 Boys in a Bed on a Cold Winter’s Night – James Edwin Parker’s comic tale is about how not to behave during a one-night stand, but it is also a sharp-eyed exploration of emotional intimacy. It’s a special treat to see ... (click to read more)
WALNUTS REMIND ME OF MY MOTHER
“I want to hold my lover's hand, brush her hair from her face. Kiss her in the street”.Walnuts Remind Me of My Mother, is the darkly comic tale of Rua, a young lesbian from the small village of Spit where “everyone knows ... (click to read more)
