Dublin Theatre Festival Just Dropped Their Programme
Dublin Theatre Festival Just Dropped Their Programme
The festival’s lineup this year is stacked, so click here to get your tickets while they’re still there!
Dublin Theatre Festival has just launched their new programme, which will run from the 24th of September to the 11th of October. This year’s programme will allow audiences to discover work that challenges assumptions, provokes conversation and celebrates the power of theatre to connect, inspire and expand everybody’s understanding of the world.
There are 26 productions in the programme this year, and the international line-up is stacked. The incredible academy award nominee Ruth Negga is teaming up with New York company The Goat Exchange for the world premiere of Radio Bette at the Gaiety, a piece built around a rare 1951 Bette Davis radio recording. Florentina Holzinger, fresh off her presentation at the Venice Biennale, is making her Dublin debut with TANZ at the O’Reilly. Rébecca Chaillon returns after selling out her 2025 Festival debut, this time with La Parabole du Seum at Project Arts Centre. And Carolina Bianchi, who picked up a Silver Lion at Venice last year, brings The Brotherhood to the O’Reilly, a piece looking at masculinity, power and the systems that let violence against women continue.
This exciting international programme has come off the back of Artistic Director and CEO Róise Goan travelling to theatres across the globe to discover work which would work. “Alongside remarkable new Irish productions, we’re bringing together some of the most exciting artists working in theatre internationally, artists who are taking creative risks, asking urgent questions and finding bold new ways to tell stories.”
“we’re bringing together some of the most exciting artists working in theatre internationally”
There are also some fantastic home-grown performances in the lineup. Xnthony, the team behind Oliver Cromwell is Really Very Sorry, is premiering Lourdes, The Musical! at The Civic. Brokentalkers bring Heroes of Tomorrow to Project Arts Centre, and Esosa Ighodaro’s Let Me In looks at the gap between being welcomed somewhere and actually belonging, showing at Smock Alley. Dead Centre is also back this year, with the Irish premiere of ZINC at the O’Reilly.
To help people navigate the size of the programme, the Festival has organised the whole thing around four themes: Troublemakers, for the work that’s bold and rattles the system; Irish Icons, covering the reimagined classics and the big names; The Matriarchy, looking at things through a matrilineal lens; and It’s Complicated, for anything trying to make sense of the world in playful or surprising ways.
The festival’s lineup this year is stacked, so click here to get your tickets while they’re still there!
