DANCING WITH THE MINOTAUR
Theatre – 5th May 2008 at 15:00 (60 mins)
The start of a free festival of New Irish Writing on every weekend during the Festival in The George at 3pm. Dancing With The Minotaur’ by Max Hafler (Galway) is a gripping tale of a man and a woman trapped in a confused marriage where the … (click to read more)
THE EYES OF BABYLON
Drama – 5th May (19:45), 6th May (19:45), 7th May (19:45), 8th May (19:45), 9th May (19:45), 10th May (15:00, 19:45)
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Lance Corporal Jeff Key, United States Marine, used Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ to eyewitness to the world the wrongs of US Policy in Iraq. Key came out on click to read more)
KNOTTY TOGETHER
Opera – 5th May (20:00), 6th May (20:00), 7th May (20:00), 8th May (20:00), 9th May (20:00), 10th May (20:00)
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Boy meets boy, boy loves boy, boy marries boy and then what? They sing about it! This irreverent comic opera from Canada is gloriously romantic except no one has to die while negotiating through love, sex and marriage. Can Xanford and Jimmy … (click to read more)
LIGHTNING STRIKES
Drama – 5th May (20:00), 6th May (20:00), 7th May (20:00), 8th May (20:00), 9th May (20:00), 10th May (15:00, 20:00)
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Celebrated Director Patrick Wilde brings the world premiere of Matt Ian Kelly’s play to Dublin. Good looking Tom wears the right clothes, goes to the right clubs, has friends who support … (click to read more)
TRUMAN CAPOTE
Drama – 5th May (20:00), 6th May (20:00), 7th May (20:00), 8th May (20:00), 9th May (20:00), 10th May (15:00, 20:00)
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No one looked, or sounded, like Truman Capote. Bob Kingdom’s portrayal as the brilliant, tortured, adorable and wicked writer of Breakfast At Tiffany’Seand In Cold Blood has spell … (click to read more)
YESTERDAY, WHEN I WAS YOUNG
Comedy Drama – 5th May (20:00), 6th May (20:00), 7th May (20:00), 8th May (20:00), 9th May (20:00), 10th May (15:00, 20:00)
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Josie Pickering’s outrageous journey from back street housewife to lesbian dominatrix shocked Britain. She escapes her marriage and discovers the secret world of Manchester’s gay … (click to read more)
BIG SISTER
Drama – 5th May (20:00), 6th May (20:00), 7th May (20:00), 8th May (20:00), 9th May (20:00), 10th May (15:00, 20:00)
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Women in the media imitation or art? Love it or hate it, reality TV is everywhere. How much do we really know about these so-called stars’? How real’ is this reality? A funny, … (click to read more)
BED DEATH
Drama – 5th May (20:00), 6th May (20:00), 7th May (20:00), 8th May (20:00), 9th May (20:00), 10th May (20:00)
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Four lesbians are going on a Murder Mystery weekend and you have all been invited! Jo is determined that T’s birthday celebrations go off in style, while Debra and Lee struggle with the ghosts of their past together. T is harbouring a dark … (click to read more)
NIJINSKY’S LAST DANCE
Drama – 5th May (21:30), 6th May (21:30), 7th May (21:30), 8th May (21:30), 9th May (21:30), 10th May (16:30, 21:30)
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Ricardo Melendez is a tour-de-force who takes us on a mesmerizing journey. Nijinsky, the tragic Russian ballet dancer’s sweeping rise to fame and his ultimate decent into madness. … (click to read more)
BURYING YOUR BROTHER IN THE PAVEMENT
Comedy Drama – 5th May (21:30), 6th May (21:30), 7th May (21:30), 8th May (21:30), 10th May (15:00)
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Tom’s brother Luke is dead, killed by a broken bottle to the neck. They were never friends. It’Sean odd decision to try to bury Luke in the pavement ” at the point where he was … (click to read more)
SHACKLED
Drama – 5th May (21:30), 6th May (21:30), 7th May (21:30), 8th May (21:30), 9th May (21:30), 10th May (16:30, 21:30)
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Straight strangers, Stu and Alex wake up naked in bed and handcuffed together with no memory of the night before, it all seems very funny except there is no key. They struggle to … (click to read more)
THE NIGHT FAIRIES
Drama – 5th May (21:30), 6th May (21:30), 7th May (21:30), 8th May (21:30), 9th May (21:30), 10th May (16:30, 21:30)
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250,000 forgotten gays died in Nazi concentration camps. Their persecution continued after the war. Dirk, a young Belgian student was arrested and taken to the German internment camp of Sachsenhausen. The play follows Dirk in a cramped train, … (click to read more)
BUTCH – A Queen’s Struggle To Become King
Musical Comedy – 5th May (21:30), 6th May (21:30), 7th May (21:30), 8th May (21:30), 9th May (21:30), 10th May (16:30, 21:30)
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This touching and hilarious debut one man show BUTCH A Queen’s Struggle To Become King from the writer of The Gaydar Diaries’. Menno falls head over heels for a closeted, … (click to read more)
THE GIRLY SIDE OF BUTCH
Musical Comedy – 5th May (21:45), 6th May (21:45), 7th May (21:45), 8th May (21:45), 9th May (21:45), 10th May (16:30, 21:45)
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Priscilla’ comes to Dublin live and direct from Adelaide Australia! Rochelle, Fifi and Vonni 3 Australian TV icons in their hilarious cabaret show. From the hey day of Les … (click to read more)
THE IRON EYELASHES
Music – 8th May (21:30), 9th May (21:30), 10th May (21:30)
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Travel back in time with Berlin’s hidden legend, drag queen Pieter Stiller via Paris, London and New York through countless dresses, drunken parties, smudged lipstickSeand laddered tights to the moment, Pieter makes a choice that changes his … (click to read more)
MEMOIRS OF A GAY SHOW
Musical Comedy – 9th May (21:30) and 10th May (21:30)
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West End and Irish Singing starts Paul Monaghan (Phantom of the Opera/Les Mis) joins up with Singer Eoin Cannon and Musical Director David Wray for an evening of music and theatre from these celebrated gay artists. Monaghan (Pageant) Wray … (click to read more)
CULTURAL SEMINAR
11th May 2008 at 12:00 (180 mins)
This year’s free seminar will be held in the Samuel Beckett Theatre in Trinity College. (12 noon to 3pm including light lunch) Chaired by Dr Eibhear Walshe, proceedings include the Dr Aiden Rogers Memorial Lecture, papers on Eva Gore Booth by … (click to read more)
THE CROWN JEWELS
Drama – 11th May 2008 at 15:00 (70 mins)
The second of the free festival of New Irish Writing in The George. 2007 Oscar Wilde winning playwright Shawn Sturnick and Christiaan Feehan premiere their first collaboration. It’Sean outrageously funny gay play, it’s true it is gayer … (click to read more)
THE STORY OF ZRAZY
Music – 11th May (16:30) and 18th May (16:30)
Performing in The George, Ireland’s leading lesbian duo Carol and Maria give an insight into their successful careers as jazz musicians. How did this duo achieve fame and respect in music in Ireland the story unfolds over two weekends … (click to read more)
BEST MAN
Drama – 12th May (20:00, 20:00), 13th May (20:00), 14th May (20:00), 15th May (20:00), 16th May (20:00), 17th May (15:00, 20:00)
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Childhood friends Eoin and Michael haven’t seen each other in seven years when an unexpected invitation to Michael’s engagement party drops through Eoin’s letter box. How much have … (click to read more)
CHRISTMAS IN BAKERSFIELD
Comedy Drama – 12th May (20:00), 13th May (20:00), 14th May (20:00), 15th May (20:00), 16th May (20:00), 17th May (15:00, 20:00)
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This is crazy! Les finally meets Mike the man of his dreams. Mike decides to take Les home for the Christmas holidays to Bakersfield, the arm pit of California’ the … (click to read more)
SOME ARE PEOPLE
Drama – 12th May (20:00), 13th May (20:00), 14th May (20:00), 15th May (20:00), 16th May (20:00), 17th May (15:00, 20:00)
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A beautiful stranger with a mysterious past arrives for the summer in gay resort mecca Provincetown. Soon Lydia’s path crosses with Miss Fitt (aka Tommy) hostess of drag karaoke at the … (click to read more)
CORPUS CHRISTI
Drama – 12th May (20:00), 13th May (20:00), 14th May (20:00), 15th May (20:00), 16th May (20:00), 17th May (15:00, 20:00)
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Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi retells the Jesus story, with Jesus as a gay man living in 1950′s Corpus Christi, Texas. Opening in 1998 to bomb threatSeand protests, this revival … (click to read more)
SHORT SHORTSeanD VERY SHORTS
Comedy – 12th May (20:00), 13th May (20:00), 14th May (20:00), 15th May (20:00), 16th May (20:00), 17th May (20:00)
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A NEW INNOVATION OF SHORT PIECES FROM IRELAND AND ABROAD IN ONE DIVERSE PROGRAMME INCLUDING:
BLIND DATE (IRELAND) by Vickey Curtis (World Premiere … (click to read more)
THE COUNTESS & THE LESBIANS
Drama – 12th May (21:30), 13th May (21:30), 14th May (21:30), 15th May (21:30, 21:30), 16th May (21:30), 17th May (15:00, 21:30)
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Three women are rehearsing a play for the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival today about Countess Markiewicz the titled revolutionary of the Easter Week Rising. Her pacifist … (click to read more)
CONFESSIONS OF A MORMON BOY
Drama – 12th May (21:30), 13th May (21:30), 14th May (21:30), 15th May (21:30), 16th May (21:30), 17th May (16:30, 21:30)
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This autobiographical play is true. After excommunication, divorce, prostitution and drugs, Steven Fales a sixth-generation Utah Mormon reclaims more than his kidSeand Donny Osmond’ … (click to read more)
LOVE SCENES
Drama – 12th May (21:30), 13th May (21:30), 14th May (21:30), 15th May (21:30), 16th May (21:30), 17th May (16:30, 21:30)
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A sexy, touching, laugh-out-loud funny look at gay New Yorkers falling in and out of love. Moe Bertram play six characters including a 21 year old hustler falling for his kinky mentor, a … (click to read more)
DALLIANCES
Drama – 12th May (21:30), 13th May (21:30), 14th May (21:30), 15th May (21:30), 16th May (21:30), 17th May (16:30, 21:30)
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Janet is looking for love. Leo and Janet are friends. Ken is involved with Andy. When Ken meets Leo in a supermarket and they make out in a lift, the lives of the four characters … (click to read more)
DOWN DANGEROUS ROAD PASSES
Drama – 12th May (21:30), 13th May (21:30), 14th May (21:30), 15th May (21:30), 16th May (21:30), 17th May (16:30, 21:30)
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Carl, the youngest of 3 brothers is to be married today. Ambrose is losing his lover to AIDS while Victor, the eldest, has just left his second failed marriage. Fifteen years to the day they get together and drive out … (click to read more)
SLIPPING
Drama – 12th May (21:45), 13th May (21:45), 14th May (21:45), 15th May (21:45), 16th May (21:45), 17th May (15:00, 21:45)
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Eli a gay high school senior Eli gets a fresh start in Iowa, after his father dieSeand his abusive lover abandons him but will he seize it or continue his emotionally destructive ways? … (click to read more)
SINGING OUT FIVE
Music – 16th May (23:00) and 17th May (23:00)
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What is it about gaySeand musical theatre? The divas, the chorus boys, glamour, fun and pathos that makes up the magic of the musical. What is the secret gay code that drew so many a gay generations into the safety and self expression of musical … (click to read more)
A STINT IN YOUR SPOTLIGHT
Drama – 18th May 2008 at 15:00 (60 mins)
Produced in association with the Gaiety School of Acting students. This final afternoon of the free New Irish Writing festival in The George features Jack Harrison, ex boybander who is washed up at twenty eight. His marriage to Cristal went … (click to read more)
GALA CELEBRATION & AWARDS
Theatre – 18th May 2008 at 19:30 (180 mins)
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Celebrating five years of gay theatre at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival! Join Tony Award winner Terrence Mc Nally, double IFTA award winner Mark O’Halloran, The Dopplegang, Gearoid Farrelly, and lots of … (click to read more
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