May 2019

2019 Gala Awards Winners Announced

It’s been an amazing fortnight of theatre – and the results are in! Congratulations to all our companies on a gripping, engaging, quality and emotive fortnight of theatre: Amy Dalton Award for Volunteer of the Year: WINNER: Amy Dalton Doric Wilson Award for Intercultural Dialogue: Nominees: Revolting Women for rebelling to assert Women’s contribution to […]

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Festival Review 2019: The Little Pink Book of Masculinity / The Measure of a Man

FESTIVAL REVIEW: Little Pink Book of Masculinity/Measure of A Man, Ireland Institute A picnic of masculinity stories from the UK and Australia are a perfect matching treat in this double bill of story-telling. John Best kicks off the night with a high camp insight into being oneself. It’s warm, funny, gentle and liberating.The smooth narrative

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Festival Review 2019: Bingo

FESTIVAL REVIEW: Bingo Bingo performed and written by Alan Flanagan introduces us to a character called Cormac who gets his test results one day to discover he has indeed got a ‘full house’. Its an emotional tale of sexual flashbacks, family fun and tragedy, a myriad of casual friendships that big cities produce, and an

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Festival Review 2019: Velvet

‘Velvet Reinterprets The #MeToo Movement Through A Fragmented Black Mirror-esque Lens’: Velvet At Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival Set against the backdrop of the 2017 #MeToo movement, VELVET explores the complex realities of harassment within the industry and how far a person is willing to go to achieve their dreams. Velvet is a one-man play

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