We are delighted to announce that our 2021 Online Festival is now available to stream online. See the full programme and watch on-demand here. But hurry, as the plays will only be available during this Pride month 2021. We are delighted to support a wide range of Irish and international artists to make this possible. […]
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Category: Drama Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th Whilst we locked ourselves down in 2020 and watched the world burn, we turned to Zoom to keep alive conversations and a sense of community. ‘Conversations’ sees seven people do exactly that. This production is no longer available.
The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival comes of age in 2021. Welcome to our 18th Festival! Two years have passed since we last gathered in person to celebrate queer artists and moving expressions of wonderful LGBTQ+ stories. This year, join us for our online festival, sponsored by Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride and the Arts Council. Tune
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The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival comes of age in 2021. Over the past eighteen years, the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival has worked to highlight LGBTQ+ stories through groundbreaking drama. Following the outbreak of COVID-19 last year, our first ever bursary scheme was launched in 2020 resulting in the publication of The Plays Inside.
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The 18th International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival goes online! We are proud to announce that after a year of absence, we are back! This year, we are partnering up with Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride, and all of our 13 plays will be available to watch online for FREE. No matter where you are in the world,
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Category: Comedy Drama Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th ‘No Evidence’ is a love story set in 1980’s Dublin, when the definition of ‘safe sex’ meant not getting a girl pregnant! Our double dating guys always seem to land in bed together after a weekend party. Watch Now
Category: Drama Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th Isolation has exposed humanity. Not just to a virus, but to the unavoidable, self-reflection. Just how much does our cultural identity colour our experiences with each other? What would the landscape of connection look like if we were honest enough to speak about these
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Category: Drama Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th The Off Switch is inspired by LGBT rights campaigner Mark Ashton and ‘Pride The Movie’. The story of his Irish contemporary – a young man who grew up with criminalisation and is now ageing in what should be a more welcoming society. Watch Now
Category: Youth Drama Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th Inspired from real events and real conversations. Someone has written No One Cares across the side of a building in a small rural town. There is outrage mixed with concern for who the culprit might be. Watch Now
Category: Drama Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th This rowdy, fifteen-minute monologue is a tribute to masculine women living in times when lesbian or transgendered identities were not understood. Watch Now
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Category: Drama Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th Tess is a short, high-energy, rhythmic solo piece about a young woman coming to terms with her sexuality (or lack thereof). Watch Now
Category: Drama Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th ‘A Reminder’ is a twenty-minute monologue for an older actor. It considers the messages of the current pandemic as a reminder to the response to AIDS, largely ignored in the 1980s and the ongoing legacy of Irish criminalisation and grief. Watch Now
Category: Drama Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th The world is in turmoil. We join Machus and Cal on a youthful odyssey of self-discovery in Derry. With student riots in Paris, the Black Civil Rights Movement in the USA, the Women’s Liberation movement kicking off and Queers revolting in New York, how
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Category: Drama Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th Rena Bryson’s new short drama ‘Dose’ takes place the night before Oisín and Patrick’s wedding. Tensions rise as the couple face the consequences of their families merging, leading Oisín to reveal a dark secret he’s been hiding from his fiancé. Watch Now
Category: Multi-media Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th ‘Immaculate’ is based on a true story about Louise Mathews who struggled to piece together the life of her uncle Anthony, who tragically died in the early 90s and whose cause of death has left many unanswered questions. Watch Now
Category: Rehearsed Play Reading Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th Above the local bookshop, in a small, weathered village in County Mayo, Philip sits surrounded by unpacked books and a SuperValu Pain Au Chocolat. Having arrived from Dublin after breaking up with his boyfriend, Philip finds himself lost and searching for meaning
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This play will be on available from 2pm on June 7th to watch via the Pride Hub! All productions of the 18th International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival are available to stream on demand, for free via the Pride Player in association with Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride from the afternoon of June 7th 2021. No tickets
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Category: Drama Dates: Free to stream online from June 7th Outlier is the story of James; A lonely gay university student from rural Ireland, who is grappling with the blurry events of one dark night on a Dublin sports field where he met a guy, he wishes he hadn’t. Watch Now
The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival is happy to announce the recipients of the New Irish Writing Bursary 2021 programme. All of the eleven recipients’ plays will be published in our upcoming book Coming of Age: The Director’s Cut, which will be published in June. Click here for more information on the bursary recipients.
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Five New Bursaries for LGBT Theatre to the value of €2,500 announced The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival comes of age in 2021. We want to celebrate our 18th birthday, but as we have no stages available to us during the pandemic, our much-anticipated festival cannot go on. However, we are determined to continue to
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We are delighted to announce that IDGTF has been selected as a finalist in the 2021 National Lottery Good Causes Awards out of hundreds of applicants, in the Arts & Culture category. The Awards honour the inspiring work and achievements of thousands of projects, clubs and individuals from all over Ireland who, with the help
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The Plays Inside – Irish LGBTQ+ plays from a time of isolation is on-sale now via our secure online booking system. This new anthology features 22 new Irish plays written during a time of Covid-19 when theatres were dark but diverse voices continued to produce exciting new works of theatre. It features recipients of our
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