When the Moon Spun Round: Fidget Feet turn Yeats’s poems for children into a stage show
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The poems are the jumping-off point for a fast-moving aerial dance show in collaboration with Ceol Connected
Dublin Fringe Festival
Dublin Fringe Festival
‘We live our lives to the fullest. It got us into trouble as teenagers’
The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle
Òwe review: In this dance solo, Mufutau Yusuf shows that identity is in the bone and marrow
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: The Nigerian Irish dancer recconnects with his Yoruba roots
Revealed: Dublin Fringe Festival 2022 award winners
This year’s festival, the 28th, staged 586 performances of 64 productions in 27 venues across the city
Gull review: On a meander through Dublin, the subtle power of this piece becomes clear
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Shanna May Breen’s thoughtful, meditative environmental intervention directs our attention to our relationship with the city
Kitchensinkdrama review: A talking, assertive, nosy fox intervenes during dead-of-night distress
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: For a play that deals with insomnia, depression and trauma, Brian Bennett’s piece has a great quirkiness and moments of levity
Dance Double Bill review: Saoirse na mBan and Test 1 form a fortuitous diptych
Dublin Fringe Festival: Two strong pieces explore women’s experience through history and the tyranny of social media
Opening Night review: A puzzling experimental piece that works best when it does least
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Electronic composer Jane Deasy monitors the space around her as she probes the anxiety of performance
Fluff review: Sex workers’ hidden lives laid bare
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Lianne O’Hara’s debut play amplifies the voices of those who choose to make a living with their body
Anatomy of a Night review: Joyous, sexy, infectious, seductive
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Nick Nikolaou creates his characters through an energising, skillful, perfectly observed range of club dance styles
Blister review: A vulnerable, witty conversation with anxiety
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Síofra O’Meara gives an enthralling performance in her sharp, humorous play
Oliver Cromwell Is Really Very Sorry review: This barnstorming musical deserves to run and run
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Xnthony’s hilarious, deceptively angry marvel smuggles polemic into its comic show-stoppers
Conviction review: Battling inner demons in a graveyard
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Eva O’Connor’s strength is her sardonic tone, which infuses much of this audio drama about self-belief, self-doubt and sisterly love
He’s Perfect review: A highly personal interrogation of sexuality
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Conor Cupples’s monologue contains much to admire — sometimes a bit too much, in fact
We Are an Archipelago review: Island lives collide in an entrancing performance piece
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Blending poetry with music, Erin Fornoff weaves a beguiling tale of an unlikely friendship
The Spin review: Tense two-hander balances social comedy with emotional heft
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: This Corcadorca production finds a singular mechanism for telling its unsettling story
Frigid review: The innocence, discovery, bullying and mortification of an Irish teen disco
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Rosa Bowden’s 50-minute nugget is bang-on about the world of Irish puberty
The Mothership review: A comic journey through parenthood, with two hilarious hosts
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Bright Club’s production is momcom with a little bit of science thrown in
24/7 Bliss review: A quirky take on lost and found connections
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Iseult Deane’s demi-opera holds up a mirror to contemporary life
The Perfect Immigrant review: Vibes and banter from an imperfect son
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: ‘Poem plays’ provide tonal interludes to one-man confessional structure
Out of the Ordinary review: Is this the future of opera?
Irish National Opera’s virtual-reality production works best when it most closely matches and resonates with the action
Hotel Happiness: Big ideas get lost in an anticlimactic production
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Despite its intriguing premise, Chaos Factory’s two-handed drama is disappointingly prosaic
Hive City Legacy review: Full of raucous joy
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Women of colour ask ‘How Irish are you?’
Beyond Survival School Bus review: Take a trip to the margins
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: All aboard for a live experiment for the endtimes
Oops, This Is Toxic review: Candid revelations and cultural observations make for a riotous comic show
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Comedian Julie Jay uses a conventional stand-up format to deliver uncomfortable truths and irresistible laughs
Lie Low review: A tense investigation of the effects of trauma
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s dark play illuminates the grey areas in the darkness
‘Where Ye From?’ review: A divine comedy that gives voice to the voiceless
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Growler’s multifaceted and, at times, mesmerising performance aims to heal past traumas
Accents review: From boy to man to father
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Conviction in tightly controlled chaos
Pig Brain review: Dystopian farce takes aim at online paranoia and digital mores
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Ambitious drama promises more than it delivers but is powered by Emma Finegan’s kinetic performance
Wake review: Thisispopbaby’s brilliant new show is like Riverdance for club queens
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Jennifer Jennings, Phillip McMahon and Niall Sweeney find new life in old traditions
Hugh Linehan: Live cultural events are back. Now we just need audiences
Covid closed much of the arts world, and attendance still has not returned to pre-pandemic levels
‘I’d be doing any regular task and then I would just have a backwards leg like a Barbie doll’
Comedian Emily Ashmore has been suffering from moderate to severe knee displacements since her teens
Hot Brown Honey: Celebrating women of colour in Ireland with humour and ‘joyous rage’
The `Dublin chapter’ of the Australian music and dance troupe are performing in the Fringe Festival show Hive City Legacy
Dublin Fringe Festival: The shows to catch in 2022
Dublin Fringe director Ruth McGowan on shows in the bath, pet passports and finding drag attire in a hurry
Willie White: ‘We need the arts if Dublin is to thrive’
Dublin Theatre Festival’s director reflects on the festival’s role in the capital’s culture during line-up reveal
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022 unveiled: What to expect at the largest Fringe in years
Back with its biggest event since 2019, the fringe will ‘shine a spotlight on the weird, the hyperlocal and those who forge their own path’
‘It had to be live, because liveness is the thing we have been starved of’
Dublin Fringe Festival asked them to create a new work and Malaprop Theatre jumped at the chance
Dublin Fringe Festival 2020: Making lemonade in a year of lemons
Even amid the pandemic, the festival is about ‘new pathways, inspiration and discovery’
Dublin Fringe Festival 2020 to rekindle live theatre on stages around city
‘Pilot Light Edition’ features performances at the Abbey Theatre, outdoors and online
Dublin Fringe Festival puts live indoor performances into the mix for September
Reimagined line-up sees experimental work outdoors, plus landmarks as performance spaces
Dublin Fringe Festival 2019: This year’s award winners
After 77 productions in 16 days, outstanding work is recognised in 15 categories
Mould Into Shape review: Journey through plastic soundscapes
Dublin Fringe Festival: A mystery tour on the Dart brings the audience to confront relationship with plastic
Things We’ve Always Wanted to Tell You review: Thought-provoking look at the Irish class system
Dublin Fringe Festival: Scottee directs a carefully choreographed and amusing discussion that upturns class assumptions
We Are Lightning review: Raucous collaboration that celebrates creative spaces
Dublin Fringe Festival: The merged talents of community bands make a defiant and galvanising last stand
Sorry Gold review: Eerie, joyful, beautiful and sad
Dublin Fringe Festival: Aerialist Emily Aoibheann creates a graceful and glitchy performance from on high
Collapsible review: Monologue on a precarious existence
Dublin Fringe Festival: A young woman pursues some sense of self in a troublingly unstable world. Can she hold it together?
It’s Not About Love review: Shakespeare meets pop in a mixtape of memories
Dublin Fringe Festival: Inspired by the greatest tragic love story, Megan Riordan creates a considered cabaret show
On Ice review: A poignant show that lightly skates over millennia
Dublin Fringe Festival: This one-woman show is performed with aplomb on ice-skates
Some Names Were Changed review: Noble purpose obscured by theatrical indulgence
Dublin Fringe Festival: The parodic format is entertaining but tests an audience’s patience
Afloat review: Bickering and biscuits as Dublin drowns
Dublin Fringe Festival: The capital is underwater in this enlightening and confronting look at climate change
Starlet review: Painfully accurate look at the Irish mating ritual
Dublin Fringe Festival: Prepare for belly laughs at Alison Spittle’s theatre production debut
Vespertilio review: Finding love in the batcave
Dublin Fringe Festival: Mismatched outsiders form romance in wistfully charming two-hander
Nate review: An achingly funny gender-parody
Dublin Fringe Festival: This roaring figure of bruised machismo isn’t the obvious choice to lead a workshop on sexual consent
Minefield review: Dark media satire for the Instagram age
Dublin Fringe Festival: Clare Monnelly’s stealthy new play is a story of online shaming and incel revenge attacks
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