We are currently accepting submissions for Festival 2018 which runs from May 7-20 2018. The deadline for submissions is December 1 2017. For more check out our Submissions page.
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IDGTF 2018 will take place from May 7-20 2018 The 15th annual Festival runs in venues across Dublin City Centre and will feature drama, comedy, music/cabaret and more. We are the largest Festival of LGBT-related theatre in the world and guarantee you a warm welcome to our exciting and diverse Festival: Mix with artists, organisers
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We will be at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 in mid-August looking for relevant works and catching up with Festival friends & supporters. If you have a work of theatre that you think would be interesting for us: Check out our Submissions page and a bit about us Email us at info@gaytheatre.ie Or get in
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IDGTF 2017 came to a close last night with our Gala Awards Night in front of a packed audience in the Teachers’ Club, Parnell Square. We pay tribute to all of our winners and nominees below. IDGTF is a curated Festival, with only a minority of submissions actually accepted. So we would like to thank
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The 14th International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival ended last night with our Gala and Awards Night. More news to follow on our winners and nominees! Festival 2017 was the most successful for a number of years and we were happy to report higher average turnout at shows as well as multiple sold-out performances over the
Love Trumps Everything *** How We Glow ***** (Review published in theoutmost.com. Check out more Festival reviews at theoutmost.com here) The appearance of Trump in the title Love Trumps Everything, has nothing to do with the orange man in the Whitehouse. Instead, it’s the thread that loosely binds three short plays where love overcomes life’s unavoidable obstacles.
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Don’t miss our €10 Saturday matinees which take place at 2:30pm & 4pm. With shows like Gypsy Queen selling out each evening and 5-star shows such as The Elephant Girls and Spool – this could be your last opportunity to see many of our shows. Check out our Saturday schedule here.
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Review – Spool The Teachers’ Club 9pm until Sat May 13 (matinee: Sat 13 @ 4pm) Written and Directed by Otto Farrant & Finn Cooke Spool is an introspective analysis about what it’s like to be a young man. Honest, candid and raw, it shows the inner-monologue that haunts every young man and the extreme
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Review – Lines in the Sand By Jim Dalglish Directed by Jim Dalglish & Ian Ryan The Pearse Centre 7:30pm until Sat May 13; €10 matinee @ 4pm Sat May 13 Without wanting to give anything away, Lines in the Sand achieves something unique. The audience is left to wonder where the hell we are
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Review reproduced from theoutmost.com. See here for the original review, published 9 May 2017 Gypsy Queen ***** Now, I don’t know much about boxing but I do remember former Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury got into hot water last year over his comments on gay people, causing a flurry of news headlines on whether he was
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Review reproduced from theoutmost.com. See here for the original review, published 9 May 2017 The Elephant Girls Review Here’s a show that packs a punch with a diamond-clad fist! Masterfully written and performed by Margo MacDonald, The Elephant Girls recounts the escapades of a real-life, all-women gang, who roamed the London streets in the 1920s. We enter
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: The Elephant Girls runs at Outhouse until Saturday at 9pm Saturday matinee at 2.30pm. Canadian Margo Mac Donald dons a mafia style pin strip suit to tells us the fascinating story of the East End of London’s notorious lesbian gang, which terrorised, lusted, controlled and rampaged through London for almost a century. Maggie Hale
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: Spool runs at The Teachers Club until Saturday 9pm and Saturday has a matinee at 4pm. Two handsome young men are tied together in a beautiful exploration of the pressures faced by young men in exploring modern masculinity. Engagement with social media can confuse and prioritise the physical self from the critical uniqueness
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: Lines In The Sand The Pearse Centre Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street 7.30pm Saturday matinee 4pm. Lines In The Sand by Jim Dalglish is a real thriller on so many levels. It is a dramatic thriller as this older man rescues a 15 year old boy from a violent altercation in the woods.
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Our Week 2 programme running from May 8 to 13 has it all! Love, crime, comedy, tense drama, touching true stories, critically-acclaimed drama, dance and more! For some amazing drama check out… Lines in the Sand: a riveting and suspenseful drama where a vulnerable gay student falls under the spell of an older man.
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: An Unexpected Party runs until Saturday 6th at the Teachers Club. My Saturday matinee was spent at festival newcomers An Unexpected Party. This new Irish play and its author Simon Murphy says something important about suicide. It unpacks the aftermath and the blame in a manner necessary to bring a national conversation forward.
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Review from theartsreview.com IDGTF: Bleach May 3, 2017 by Chris O’Rourke **** Sins of a Smalltown Boy In his excellent comedy show, “Smart Casual,” comedian David Mills tops his list of things that have gone out of fashion, but haven’t quite realised it yet, with gay. For Mills, as for many others, gay is so
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Review from TheOutmost.com here. Check out TheOutmost.com for more reviews throughout the Festival. The Paradise by Acting out ***** I suspected we were in for a great time at this show when the doormen of the Paradise, Bernard and Maggie (played hilariously by Sean Denyer and Justine Reilly) were already interacting with the queue,
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Review from TheOutmost.com here. Check out TheOutmost.com for more reviews throughout the Festival. Montparnasse by Theatre Outré **** This is the third visit to the festival by Canadian company Theatre Outré and this time they present Montparnasse, created by Erin Shields, Andrea Donald and Maev Beaty and set in Paris of the roaring 20s. The
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Review from TheOutmost.com here. Check out TheOutmost.com for more reviews throughout the Festival. Fronting/The Tearing Up of Fergal and Tim ***** This very fine double bill serves up an appetiser featuring a gay couple’s attempt to have a civilised break-up, and for the main course there’s a new play from Scotland about living with HIV. The Tearing
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Review from TheOutmost.com here. Check out TheOutmost.com for more reviews throughout the Festival. An Unexpected Party *** Dysfunctional families often make great subjects for drama, and the meeting up of the twin-sister and ex-partner of the recently deceased Niall provides the fulcrum for this new play by Irish writer Simon Murphy. There are touches of
Review from TheOutmost.com here. Check out TheOutmost.com for more reviews throughout the Festival. Both Sides Now/Wasting Paper *** In this is a double bill of new Irish writing by Nicole O’Connor and Leah Moore, the spotlight is put on growing up as a gay or bisexual woman in contemporary Ireland. In Both Sides Now, the
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