Programme 2011
CLOAKED
‘Cloaked’ is a rich gender bending drama about power, morality and fear. The Renaissance flavours and colours this passionate drama with sexuality and humour. Starring 2009 IDGTF Best Actor winner, Ricardo Melendez (Nijinsky), ... (click to read more)
MYSTERIOUS SKIN
In Kansas, Brian has missing hours in his life. He looks for them with alien abductee Avalyn, who’s lonely and looking for her next close encounter!! In New York, street hustler Neil loves sex with older men. In a deeply moving twist, their ... (click to read more)
STICKS AND STONES
On the Reel presents Sticks & Stones, a new, daring and gripping Australian play that ensembles a fresh and modern creative team. Sticks & Stones delves into the modern man; sexuality, family, stereotypes, personal inner demons - and all as ... (click to read more)
LET'S PRETEND WE'RE HAVING COFFEE 30 YEARS LATER..
Based on a true and, therefore simple, sincere and straightforward story, Jose recounts a particularly complex period in his life. Let’s Pretend… does not shy from the complications of human existence and at times overflows with ... (click to read more)
THE ADVENTURES OF BUTTBOY AND TIGGER
An outrageously raunchy rollercoaster ride through the world of online chatting, where lines between fantasy and reality become blurred and things get out of hand in more ways than one! Two boys leap from one over the top underpants-bursting ... (click to read more)
THE SCREW YOU REVUE
Outrageous! ‘The Screw You Revue’ is a bold, in-your-face, raunchy, improvised comedy!’ Wayburn Sassy is an 89 year old self-proclaimed ‘Entertainment Legend’. Mr. Sassy is a proud bigot and unapologetic rascist. ... (click to read more)
THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED
Mitchell is a Hollywood star on the rise. His full-time agent and part-time beard, Dianne, is doing all she can to keep his ‘slightly recurring case of homosexuality’ from de-railing his fame. The Tony award winning ‘Little Dog ... (click to read more)
LASHINGS OF GINGER BEER TIME
Queer feminist cabaret. Combining lush Victorian drag with thigh-high PVC boots, upbeat musical theatre optimism with 21st-century political rage, this is music hall for the internet age. Re-living the politically-charged roots of burlesque, we aim ... (click to read more)
MY DEAREST BYRON
Sex, Scandal, Incest, and Exile, loving Lord Byron was never going to be easy. In 1816 the most infamous lovers of an age parted forever; Lord Byron and his half sister Augusta ended an incestuous relationship that had scandalised society and ... (click to read more)
BETTE/CAVETT
It’s 1971. The dawn of the decade of trash. She’s the 63 year old Queen of Hollywood. He’s the host who gets the guests his rivals can’t get near. Meet Bette Davis. Meet Dick Cavett. Using verbatim text and studded ... (click to read more)
FUNNY IN THE HEAD
Funny in the Head is the rollicking story of a “seriously” bipolar comedian and her fight to stay funny. This brilliant, autobiographical show moves from the initial diagnosis, through the shocking and humourless adjustment of being ... (click to read more)
MEMOIRS OF A GAYSHOW
‘Memoirs of a Gay Show’ returns following rave reviews from its brief run in The Gay Theatre Festival in 2008. A show that delves into the abyss of deepest desires and emotions and drags out a Showtune! Eoin Cannon and Paul Monaghan ... (click to read more)
GISELLE, or I'm Too Horny To Be a Prince
In a highly personal and visual performance, multi-talented Joseph Mercier re-lives his time in the world of tights and tutus, reflecting on body image, body limits and the constant temptation of his favourite pair of sleezy black boots. Witness an ... (click to read more)
MOVING ON (Free Play Reading)
For best friends John and Ashling living together was never a problem until John’s friend Simon moved in. As tempers ignite and tragedy unfolds the three find their personal relationships with each other tested to the extreme as they struggle ... (click to read more)
CARAVAGGIO
Caravaggio, a master Baroque era painter who was thought to be bisexual. Jarman, a master filmmaker of the twentieth century and a gay man. Bring these two giants together, and what do you get? A classic & award-winning study of artistic ... (click to read more)
THE TEMPERAMENTALS
The Temperamentals tells the story of two men who faced an epic struggle to create history – and who, through their struggles, fell in love. Long before Harvey Milk, In pre-Stonewall America the communist Harry Hay and the Viennese refugee ... (click to read more)
ONE
They say love is... what you make it… two hearts, two souls, two bodies merging to become one. Passion, trust, desire, longing - a raging fire that just has to be quenched… a life’s work. It’s the reason we do anything and ... (click to read more)
AN ACTRESS PREPARES
In a beguiling setting, where Marilyn’s intimacies are shared with her loyal dresser, the definition of modern sexual womanhood reveals what it is to be Marilyn. Her words speak louder than the iconic image! Who is the persona behind the ... (click to read more)
BRAZIL NUTS
Fearing deportation from the USA, Fabiana, a Brazilian lesbian and soccer fanatic, marries cowboy Ron, a stripping wanna be porn publisher. Jackie, her girlfriend, activist and dog-walker for the rain forest, goes along with it, but before you can ... (click to read more)
IRISH THEATRE SHORTS
Join us in the Cobalt Café for our new collection of new short theatre pieces. Enjoy drama and comedy over a glass of wine at the Cobalt. TOTAL DURATION: 110 MINS (incl interval) Pieter’s Coming Out - by Brian Merriman Set in South ... (click to read more)
