Programme 2009
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)
AND THEN THERE WAS ME
An Irish coming out play by Verity Alicia Mavenawitz about a young girl’s struggle with drugs, sex and shaggy perms! ‘I came from what you would call a respectable family! Well that’s what my Da always said. It was mostly at the ... (click to read more)
BASH'd
BASH'd! is a tightly-written, fully-integrated and ferocious production. Winner of a Stering Award, a GLAAD Media Award, BASH'd also received awards for The Patron's Pick at the Toronto Fringe and the Outstanding Musical at the NYC Fringe. This ... (click to read more)
BROKEN NAILS
Marlene Dietrich, old and unhappy, spent the final 13 years of her life in her house in Paris. Away from camera flashes and family, she died alone. The play is an intimate portrait of the star who created a new image of the woman – beautiful, ... (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)
DOG OF ALL CREATION
This is Fitzgerald & Stapleton with Lighting Designer Barry Madden's latest major choreography, written in language of extreme concision, creates a new language to convey the creation of being. It describes the will of a creative force, ... (click to read more)
GALA CELEBRATION & AWARDS 2009
Meet the 'Stars' of the Absolut Dublin Gay Theatre Festival in a night of Celebration at the Gala Concert and Awards Ceremony 2009. Dress to impress on this night of music, drama, dance and glamour as we see selected highlights of the 35 ... (click to read more)
GAY POSTER ARTWORK EXHIBITION
Visit the ‘walk though billboard’ of posters and artwork of almost forty plays that can be seen in this year’s ABSOLUT Dublin Gay Theatre Festival. This special mounted exhibition takes place in The Front Lounge, Parliament ... (click to read more)
GEAROID FARRELLY - STANDUP COMEDY EVENING
Join up-and-coming gay Irish comedian Gearóid Farrelly for exclusive previews of his new hour-long one man show. A comedian since 2007, Gearóid has appeared in Edinburgh, Montreal as well as Dublin's Vicar Street and Carlsberg Comedy ... (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)
GOODNIGHT ALICE
Tim's life as a gay single father is difficult enough without the interference of his over protective mother Rose and Alice the aunt from hell. 'Goodnight Alice' is a funny and provocative look at a highly disfunctional Dublin family. ... (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)
IRISH THEATRE SHORTS
A special evening of the best Irish short plays from comedy to gay history to lesbian dating and Liza Minelli! In the intimate surroundings of the Cobalt Café our short plays have been a hit of previous festivals and this selection ... (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)
KILLED BY CURRICULUM
“Killed By Curriculum” is a dark comedy based around the concept of influence and placed within the context of a typical sixth year classroom. One of the main themes in the play is the “weight of words that resonate”. This ... (click to read more)
LISTEN TO MY HEART
'Listen To My Heart' - The Songs of David Friedman, makes it's long awaited Irish Premiere, with the cream of Ireland's musical theatre talent. Whilst New York composer David Friedman is best known for his compositions for Disney and Diana ... (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)
LOUPE
Set in a homophobic environment where fear is the order of the day family bonds are put to the test as sexuality and political intolerance foster hatred. Kilem and Sizwe are blood brothers but when their realities are challenged a trail of ... (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)
