Fringe 2003

ESB DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL

September 22 – October 11 2003

It’s on the edge. Are you?

Every year the Fringe storms Dublin

with an innovative and risky

programme to inspire and challenge

the very definition of art and perform-

ance. Spanning the globe and every

conceivable medium from installation

to in-your-face dance, film, theatre,

music and live art, the Fringe’s jaw

dropping line up might just change

you for good.

It’s live, it’s 3 weeks and it’s

relentless. Be the first to say you were

there with the best young and

emerging talents on planet Fringe.

Broaden your artistic repartee and

sample the very newest and best that’s

out there. Feed your mind with top-

shelf multi-disciplinary projects and

innovative cross-cultural hybrids that

stretch your sense of what art is.

Plug in for the Fringe wave; 13

countries, +1200 participants, 140

events, 650 performances, 20 days,

20 nights. Do the math. You’ll cry if

you miss it.

MARGINAL MADNESS, EDGY

AND UNPREDICTABLE.

How To Use This Programme!Performances are listed alphabetically by productioncompany in three, weekly sections, indexes (locatedon page 63/64).

Contents

Fringe Packages 3

The Spiegeltent 4

Visual Arts 6

Haunted 8

Week 1 – Summary Chart & Listings 1022 – 28 September

Week 2 – Summary Chart & Listings 2829 September – 5 October

Week 3 – Summary Chart & Listings 426 – 11 October

Venues, Map + Box Office Information 54

Special Events 56

Thanks + Fringe People 58

Be a Devil 60

Booking Form 61

Index Production Company 63

Index Show Title 64

THIS TORSION DANCE THEATRE WHITEWASH + 2B

Need some help leaping from the edge?With over 650 performances in this year’s Fringe we’ll

admit it can be hard to choose something to see. More

than ever there will be names which you won’t recognise,

venues you haven’t heard of and shows on at all times of

the day and night.

Rather than waiting to read the reviews and then

dealing with the inevitable depression when you can’t beg,

borrow or steal a ticket we’ve packaged the festival into

these easy choices.

3-4-30 Three Shows for €30We pick the shows. You pick the dates. 3-4-30 what could be

easier? You just have to pick the package from the list below…

• Package A — Mind the Margin

Week One William Yang (page 21)

Week Two Revolutions (page 32)

Week Three Bewleys Café Theatre (page 14)

• Package B — Easy on the Edge

Week One Punch Drunk (page 25)

Week Two Teepee Productions (page 40)

Week Three Gare St Lazare (page 49)

• Package C — Bank on the Brink

Week One Asian Dub Foundation (page 13)

Week Two Black Hole Theatre (page 30)

Week Three North Wales Stage (page 50)

• Package D — Odds and Sods Pack

Week One Edit Kaldor (page 21)

Week Two BACK UP (page 35)

Week Three Yasmeen Godder (page 47)

You can sleep a lot better knowing you already have your

place for a selection of not-to-be-missed Festival highlights.

All shows subject to availability. All sales are final. No substitutions

or exchanges.

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Open 12:30pm until late!

Daytime

1:00pm A free, lunchtime programme of debates,

discussions, talks and thinking out loud.

Programmed by Iseult Dunne and the Fringe in associationwith Critical Voices and the Dublin Theatre Festival.

2:00pm – 6:00pm Free entry afternoons – coffees, snacks,

green room and surprises.

Evenings

6:30pm A cacophony of folk, dance, laughter and music

including Oguri, Tapestry, David O’Doherty, The Kevin

Gildeas, and many many more.

8:30pm An eclectic mix of world, cabaret, Irish and

international contemporary music including Billy Jenkins,

The Conchords, Tymon Dogg, Pierre Bastian and others,

6 nights a week.

Sunday Sessions

Sunday evenings are free entry, chilled out trad sessions in

the tent from 6:00pm. All welcome, bring your instruments.

For a full programme check www.fringefest.com or call the

Fringe Box Office on 1850 FRINGE (1850 374643). See the

full pull-out programme in The Event Guide on 10 September.

The Spiegeltent is the very essence

of a festival club and ‘kabaret salon’.

Like every old theatre, her ghosts live

with her, woven into ballooning velvet

canopies, intimate booth seats, teak

dancefloor and stained, cutglass

windows.

This dazzling travelling performance

arena has lured arts lovers around the

world with its acclaim as an event unto

itself. A mainstay of the Edinburgh

Festival season and a star in her own

right, hosting concerts, clubs and a

myriad of stunning performances, she

has launched the careers of countless

artists and will forever remain the stuff

of dreams.

The ESB Dublin Fringe Festival 2003 is

proud to present The Spiegeltent for the

first time ever in Ireland, with an eclectic,

always surprising mix of music, dance,

theatre, cabaret, and performance,

culminating nightly in the greatest of all

Festival clubs for both Fringe and

Theatre Festivals – ClubSpiegel.

When the evening curtain comes down

on the theatres in Dublin at Festival

time, the night is only beginning.

ClubSpiegel is the only place to meet

Festival highlights and lowlifes after the

show, see guest spots from both

Festivals’ artists and a seductive pro-

gramme of hilarious, risqué and sensa-

tional performance, music and mayhem

(See page 60 for how to be a Fringe

Devil and jump the queue to get in!).

Since Marlene Dietrich sang Falling In Love Again onThe Spiegeltent stage in the 1930’s, its magic mirrorshave reflected images of some of the world’s greatestperforming artists and their adoring public.

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Jody Elff USA

VeilsDublin Castle, Dublin 2

“My hope is that this sound work will

simultaneously draw the viewers

attention to the sonic environment

they are participating in, and make a

statement about the inherent sonic

beauty that is always present in our

lives.” jody elff

Kristina Hoppe GERMANY

Being HereDublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane

Parnell Square North, Dublin 1

A combination of video and photo-

graphic portraits which address the

nature of the human experience in

modern society. A specific situation

generated by the artist highlights our

often undisputed presence, our being.

Janice Hough IRELAND

I Heard the Voiceof the WoodsDublin Castle, Dublin 2

Utopia, a place where trees are

spreading around the bend of the

world. In this paradise the woods

roam free, rolling across every curve,

rising and falling as far as the eye can

see. This is a synthetic nature, an

ideological system but in our imagi-

nation we can wonder – wonder can

lead to reality – wonder ‘what if ?’

Louise West IRELAND

Around Urban CamouflageExcise Walk, Dublin Docklands

These works are interested in the

notion of ‘irishness’ and certain traits

that are distinct to being Irish. They

explore the idea of a subconscious

retention of particular types of

emotion from childhood, and they

question how and to what extent the

manifestation of said emotions as an

adult shape our identity as individuals

and as a nation.

The Metropolitan Complexpresents Open House 1972

A film by Gordon Matta-Clark

Super-8 film / Color / Silent (41min)

Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)

In May 1972, Gordon Matta-Clark

installed an industrial wastecontainer

between 98 and 112 Greene Street in

New York’s SoHo district. He collected

discarded doors and pieces of timber

and divided the interior into three

openings. This piece records an

opening-day site performance by Tina

Girouard and Keith Sonnier.

Sited presents a collection of location

responsive works by emerging Irish

and international artists. For Sited, the

curator has chosen to commission

works specifically for the unconventional

surroundings of shipping containers,

which are placed at various prominent

Dublin locations. This decision has

encouraged the artists to expand their

customary practices. The artists come

from a broad range of backgrounds

and the installations encompass a

diverse range of media and intentions.

Sited also includes a video presented

by The Metropolitan Complex.

The containers will be open Tuesday – Sunday,11:00am – 5:00pm for the duration of the festival.

Alex Berry USA

Plucked Many Times OverO’Connell Street, Dublin 1

“In these works I use drawing and

comic book narratives as a means to

examine the psychological dime-

nsions of my inner world.” alex berry

Mark Cullen IRELAND

As Above So BelowO’Connell Street, Dublin 1

“My work is concerned with drawing.

It takes its influence from what can

be felt, seen, and experienced as

universals. It attempts to make

physical/visual representations of my

abstract understanding of observable

phenomena such as the falling of

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Haunted is a season of temporary

projects, performances and actions in

art and non-art spaces organised by

City Arts Centre’s Civil Arts Inquiry

in association with the ESB Dublin

Fringe Festival 2003.

Haunted marks the ending of City

Arts Centre’s use of its building with

a number of visual artists and

performers ‘haunting’ three floors

over three weeks. The number and

variety of events and projects means

that you can expect a different

experience with every visit.

The projects address the urban,

architectural, historical and ideolog-

ical context of City Arts Centre at a

moment of change. They are a

combination of work programmed by

City Arts Centre and the ESB Dublin

Fringe Festival 2003, through a

process of open submission. This

work includes both free and ticketed

installation, live art, dance and

theatre. The featured artists include:

Andre Stitt, Donal O’Kelly, Steve

Powers, Jonah Brucker Cohen, Loose

Canon, Conor McGarrigle.

Projects appearing in City Arts Centre

in this context include:

Week OneAoife Desmond

presents Memory of Water (page 18)

Oscar McLennan

presents The Quiet Bastard –

Director’s Cut (page 20)

Sascha Perfect

presents The Holy Floor (page 25)

Yara el Sherbini

performing both Narratives of

The Other & Traces (page 26)

Performance Corporation

presents The 7 Deadly Sins (page 25)

Week TwoOscar McLennan & Anne Seagrave

present BACK UP (page 35)

Locus Theatre Company

presents Action (page 34)

Week ThreePoc Productions

presents Paris Texas (page 52)

Yasmeen Godder

presents Suddenly Birds (page 47)

Please note some of the above events are ticketed.For further information please see pages as indicat-ed or contact the Fringe Box Office on 1850 374 643.

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City Arts Centre’sCivil Arts Inquiry presents

Haunted

Monday 22 September – Saturday 11 October

Running all day from 1:00pm

City Arts Centre, Moss Street, Dublin 2

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Asian Dub Foundationpresent La HaineWhen unleashed on an unsuspecting

cinema-going public in France,

La Haine was thought so poignant, a

government insider asked the entire

cabinet to attend a screening.

Part social commentary, part political

indictment, this sometimes brutal yet

humane insight into urban frustration in

the Banlieus of Paris has found the

perfect partner in rhyme: London’s Asian

Dub Foundation.

Anyone who has followed their

meteoric ascent from their origins as a

local community project to global indo-

dub agit-punk agent provocateurs cannot

deny that few other bands are better

suited to musically accentuate the stark

world depicted in Mathieu Kassovitz’s La

Haine. It is a world in which time ticks like

a bomb; life is lived on the edge; the

pace is relentless; the dialogue sparsely

intense.

ADF transform the inspiration

garnered from Kassovitz’s award winning

film and mould it into an unrelenting

sonic journey.

Co-presented by the British Council.

Mon 22 September only

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1The Abbey Theatrepresents The Race of The Ark TattooTue 23 September – Sat 4 October / 6:15pm (75min)

Preview Mon 22 September

The Ha’penny Bridge Inn

Tickets €12 / Concession + Preview €10

‘Every item has a secret. It’s either seen something when

you were out of town, or it’s been touched by someone who

will eventually betray you.’ Experience the American flea

market – where junk shines brighter than neon! Barter with

Mr Foster, second-generation flea market proprietor. Learn

to distinguish between cast-offs and collectibles. Part flea

market, part séance – bargain buyer and seller beware…

This Obie Award winning production originated as part of the Americana season.Featuring David Heap.Written by David Hancock.Directed by David Horan.

Amach Anseo presents Working It OutTue 23 – Sat 27 September / 6:00pm (40min)

Previews Mon 22 September

Bewleys Café, Grafton Street


In the changing room of a Dublin gym, Máire receives a call

from Seoda the love she lost. Máire’s life is turned upside

down and in the ensuing workout she exercises the ghosts

of body and mind with energetic honesty, telling a tale

rarely told on the Irish stage. Raw, poetic, graceful and

coarse, this new Irish drama must be seen.

Angel Exit Theatre Companypresents Bolt UprightMon 22 – Sat 27 September / 8:30pm (75min)

Players at Trinity College

Tickets €11 / Concession €9

County Donegal. 1852. A contract. Two orphans. A remote

farmhouse with dry whispers on the stairs… The inter-

national Lecoq-trained ensemble, Angel Exit returns with

Bolt Upright, a ghostly tale told by a gang of mischievous

buffoons who explode onto the scene and will stop at

nothing to tear away the cobwebs and bring a story best

forgotten back to life.

“…so much vivid theatricality and inventiveness… I am

already looking forward to its next show.” the guardian


The National Theatre continues todiscover and nurture emerging play-wrights, and to develop innovativeand exciting writing for the stage.Autumn Stories provides an oppor-tunity for the public to experienceand contribute to some of the newwork being developed for the Abbeyand Peacock Theatres.

The Death of Harry Leon

(The Man Who Disappeared)

Written by Conall Quinn

1930s Dublin. Harry Leon, poet, is a man very

much at ease with himself and the world around

him; he is an Irishman first and a Jew second.

However, sinister forces are beginning to emerge

from the shadows, forces that will propel Leon to

confront the power of his own words and his own

Jewish identity.

Sonny Written by Philip Davison

Sonny is not without humanity, but he is a man

used to profiting from his daring and his

ruthlessness. However, his circumstances have

changed utterly and he faces interrogation by the

police. With an iron bar in his hand, he tries to

explain human nature to a stray dog that has

attached itself to him.

The Proposal Written by Talaya Delaney

Samantha left her husband Patrick two years ago,

and has not seen him since. Out of the blue,

Samantha calls Patrick to arrange a meeting for

him to sign their divorce papers, and pay her the

divorce settlement. Patrick agrees, on one

condition – that she meet him in the hotel room

where he proposed to her ten years earlier…

Thur 25 – Sat 27 September / 7:00pm

Peacock Theatre

Tickets €5

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Àrà m Be.presents The Gods Are Not To BlameThur 25 – Sat 27 September / 7:00pm (90min)

Matinee Sat 27 + Sun 28 September / 3:00pm

Project Upstairs


“King Odewale’s progress towards knowledge of the murder

and incest that must be expiated before his kingdom can be

restored to health is unfolded with a dramatic intensity

heightened by the richness of the play’s Nigerian setting”.

Transposing Oedipus Rex to Africa and employing elements

of African performing arts: mime, music, song and dance,

all the performers are of African descent living in Ireland.

Written by Ola Rotimi. Directed by Bisi Adigun & Jimmy Fay. Co-produced by ESBDublin Fringe Festival 2003 & Project Arts Centre.

Be Your Own Banana presents De BogmanMon 22 – Sat 27 September / 8:15pm (60min)

Andrew’s Lane Studio


From his humble origins as a village idiot in Ireland, Declan

goes to America to become world heavyweight boxing

champion. Irish champion story-teller Mairtin de Cogain

provides a memorable central performance, playing over

twenty characters while narrating the story. Performed in

BYOB’s traditional style, blending clowning, story-telling

and physical comedy, this is an outrageous parody of the

Hollywood rags-to-riches story.

Bewleys Café Theatrepresents So Long Sleeping BeautyThur 25 September – Sat 11 October Running until Sat 25 October

Doors 12:50pm (50min)

Preview Tue 23 + Wed 24 September


Tickets €12 / Concession + Preview €10 includes soup and sandwich

Glynis, a middle-aged suburban widow, meets Neville, a

rather dapper gentlemen’s outfitter one afternoon on a park

bench. What gradually emerges is that these two unlikely

people share an extraordinary secret that binds them

together for better or worse. So Long, Sleeping Beauty is a

bittersweet comedy that explores the struggle of two people

to come to terms with loss, regret and ultimately love.

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1Cello Productionspresents Grace Before MealsMon 22 – Sat 27 September / 8:00pm (45min)

T36 – Teacher’s Club


A new dynamic in poetic drama, its sparse lyrical voice

disassembles the complex mosaic of the lives of its main

characters – played by three actors – who also make

appearances in other ephemeral roles. Tensely scripted,

relentless and vaguely uncomfortable, this fragile visual

narrative accelerates the audience through time and space,

exploring themes of childhood, memory and loss on its

journey. Edgily intense, suddenly comic and with inter-

woven music, it conspires to surprise, excite and disturb.

Written by Una Woods.

Circus Productionspresent The Parking SpaceWed 24 September – Sat 4 October / 8:15pm (90min)

Preview Mon 22 + Tue 23 September / 8:15pm

Meeting at Fringe Central at 8:15pm. Please prepare for a 5 minute walk.


What makes a man kill his neighbour? Two Dublin couples

fall out over a parking space. With unstoppable logic,

argument escalates into murder. Drawing on sources from

Greek tragedy through Commedia to electronica and rap,

The Parking Space is both a simple urban tragedy and a

history of all human conflict since the dawn of time. The

most electrifying eighty minutes you’ll ever spend in a car

park. Directed by Brigie de Courcy. Written by Kevin McGee.

Crooked House Theatre Companypresents RevelationsMon 22 – Sat 27 September / 6:45pm (60min)

Project Cube


A squalid bed-sit, two elderly men locked together, a world

in ashes, stories, memories and fantasies confused and

infected, an unforgivable crime, a young man possessed by

demons, the absurdity of the human condition exposed.

‘Revelations …intelligent wit and sharp writing… Darren

Donohue directs his own work with clarity and pace…

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1BDNC Theatre presents Hyde and JekyllTue 23 – Sat 27 September / 8:30pm (60min)


The Crypt in Dublin Castle


In Stevensons’ Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde the good doctor

dabbled with the dark side and got to like it. In BDNC’s

Hyde and Jekyll the dark side is up. Watch as they surgically

slice the surface of civilisation and rummage in the blood

and guts of all we prefer to keep hidden. A dangerous

experiment and a compulsive show, composed in move-

ment by the company that brought you last year’s Fringe

hit, A Family Affair. Devised by Ciaran Taylor, Michael McCabe and BDNC.

Bootstrap presents The Pushcart PeddlarsTue 23 – Sat 27 September / 6:15pm (43min)


The New Theatre


Witty, wry and full of bananas, Murray Schisgal’s comic

fable depicts the experiences of an eager immigrant facing

exploitation from the moment of his arrival. Sharp dialogue

and a surreal humour combine in an hilarious guide to

survival in an alien world. And there are all those bananas…

Directed by Nadia Quick.

Cardboard Box Theatre Companypresents This Man’s TaleTue 23 September – Sat 11 October / 7:45pm (60min)

Preview Mon 22 September / 7:45pm

Meeting at SS Michael & John, 7:45pm. Please prepare for a 5 minute walk.

We regret that wheelchair access is unavailable for this presentation.


Does tragedy reverberate, even when whispered? Does a

spoken word have a consequence? On a bright mid-summer

evening, full of possibility, a man transgresses boundaries in

a watchful community. All that remains are half-remembered

moments. Set in a quiet town like any other, populated by

normal people, during the course of a not unusually hot

summer, This Man’s Tale tells a story rich in fantasy, etched

in guilt, finally undone by a silent simplicity.

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1Gorgô Theatricspresents Mrs Cherry-Loola’s Last ChanceTue 23 – Sat 27 September / 6:15pm (60min)


The Crypt in Dublin Castle


Mrs. Cherry-Loola is in a bit of trouble. She’d better get on

with her work if she doesn't want to get fired. It isn't

challenging work, really, but with all the commotion in her

office (and in her head!) she may never make it on time…

This strongly visual performance plays with the imaginative

outpourings of a mind that sometimes oversteps reality.

Directed by Nicole Wiley.

half/angel presents SpinstrenWed 24 – Sat 27 September / 9:00pm (75min)

THEatre SPACE @ HENRY PLACE


“She told me that if I bathed the distaff with blood, strange

alchemies would come upon me. She told me that if I span

and pricked my finger, I could exchange blood for

knowledge.” Spinstren spins together the story of Carla – a

girl who steals a spinning top – with that of the Spinstren –

a breed of magical women. Spinstren teases myths into a

single thread – the story of Sleeping Beauty with the story

of Arachne. Spinstren is a spinning spell, a haunted space

where spinning tops prick fingers and spinning wheels

weave spells.

Hana Bi Theatre Companypresents In The Solitude Of Cotton FieldsWed 24 September – Sat 11 October / 8:30pm (75min)

Preview Mon 22 + Tue 23 September

Meeting in City Arts Centre. Performance in City Quay Car Park in the open air.


‘Tell me what you want and I’ll get it to you’ ‘Tell me what

you’ve got and I’ll tell you what I want’ This is a thrilling

cat and mouse game of desire and rejection, power and

humiliation, as two men negotiate a deal that will never be

struck. What starts as a negotiation for power, advantage

and territory gradually turns into a revelation of mutual

solitude and fear, leading to a climax of naked antagonism.

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1Aoife Desmond presenting Memory of WaterWed 24 – Fri 26 September / evening installation (60min)

City Arts Centre

Admission Free

Memory of Water; enclosed in a glass shrine a woman

stands in isolation and stillness clothed in a dress of clear

bottles containing seawater, she stands watching the

distance in silence. People come and go, enter this space of

meditation; of interior and exterior dissolve.

Location: a room with a window.

Focus Theatre presents ProofWed 24 September – Sat 11 October Running until Sat 1 November

7:30pm (110min + 15min interval)

Preview Mon 22 + Tues 23 September / 7:30pm

Focus Theatre


One of the most celebrated plays of recent times, Proof is

vital and emotionally charged. Mourning the death of her

brilliant yet unstable father, Catherine must deal with the

return of her sister Claire, and the attentions of Hal, her

father's former protégé. As Catherine confronts Hal’s

affections and Claire’s plans for her life, she struggles with

the most perplexing problem of all: How much of her

father’s madness – or genius – has she inherited?

Written by David Auburn, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize. Directed by Joe Devlin

Galway Arts Festival & Stephen Deepresent FREAKSHOW?Celebrate the DifferenceMon 22 September – Sat 11 October

Installation 11:00am – 5:00pm

Fringe Central

Tickets €3

Step this way, ladies and gentlemen! Through sculpture,

banners, music, photographs and film, Stephen Dee

explores the outrageous world of the 1920s American circus

sideshow, and tells the remarkable and inspiring stories of

the great star attractions of the midway – The Man With

Three Legs, The Siamese Twins, Half-Boy, Bearded Lady and

many others. The sensation of Galway Arts Festival 2002.

“Engrossing… amazingly touching…”

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1Richard Jordan Productionspresents VS Naipaul’s Miguel StreetMon 22 September – Sat 11 October / 6:15pm (80min)

Andrews Lane Studio


“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say

slum! Because he could see no more”. But the extravagant

characters who peopled this neighbourhood made it a place

of wonder for a fatherless young boy who would one day

tell the world about them. Nobel prize-winning author

VS Naipaul’s memoir is staged by award winning playwright

Stephen Landrigan and hilariously brought to life by leading

Trinidadian actor Jim Findley in this tale of misspent youth,

bad behaviour and the lunatics who encouraged it.

Fergus and Conor Linehanpresent Things That Go BumpMon 22 September – Sat 4 October / 11:00pm (60min)



An evening of songs about ghosts and ghostly happenings by

turns chilling and funny. The songs include one about a

haunted telephone, from which a frightening voice speaks,

one about a man who blows into an old flute he’s found on a

beach and summons up a disturbing visitor, and one about a

visit from Death. On a lighter note there’s an encounter with

a theatre ghost, in trouble when the management starts run-

ning late night rock gigs. Singers: Suzanna de Wrixon & Mark O’Regan

Oscar McLennanpresents The Quiet Bastard – Director’s CutMon 22 – Sat 27 September / 7:00pm (65min)

City Arts Centre (gallery space)


An extraordinary hour of visual performance, illuminated by

a shifting landscape of video and slide projections. The Quiet

Bastard is an urban visionary, a deranged poet obsessed with

ideas for his own extravagant film productions. A unique

experience in live art performance. Unpredictably funny, sad

and savagely surreal. ‘Gallop off into the grotesque hinter-

lands of the imagination’. the guardian

Commissioned by UCLA LIVE and the Dublin Fringe. Supported by The Sculptor’sSociety of Ireland. Written and performed by Oscar McLennan. Installation andoriginal sound by Anne Seagrave.

Edit Kaldorpresents Or Press Escape‘I am the character, a cursor on a

computer screen. I respond in real

time. In virtual space. My being is

organised into files. I open and close

them. I discard them. Touch the ‘Esc’

key and I no longer have me…’

Alone on stage with her back to the

audience in in front of a giant screen,

Edit Kaldor types on her keyboard.

The thread of her emotions and

reflections unreels on the screen. In

the software the fragile theatre of an

existence quivers.

Thur 25 – Sat 27 September

10:00pm (90min)

Project Upstairs


William Yangpresents Shadows‘…the only person in Australia,

using this exact combination of

photographs, slides, music and

speech.’ the australian A journey of

dispossession and reconciliation,

drawing fascinating parallels

experienced by groups who have

suffered under ignorance and fear.

Yang’s account of South Australian

Aborigines and migrant Germans is

hauntingly underscored and

accompanied by hundreds of his

own photographs and images

hidden for generations.

Commissioned by Sydney Festival, AdelaideFestival & Perth International Arts Festival.

Tue 23 – Sat 27 September / 8:30pm

Matinee Sat 27 September / 3:00pm

Upstairs at SS Michael & John


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1Noggin Theatre Co & Tall Tales Theatre Copresents Rum & RaisinMon 22 – Sat 27 September / 9:00pm (75min)

Downstairs at SS Michael & John


Meet Connie and Noreen, two middle aged shop assistants

bottled between the bon-bons and battered crisp boxes of

Conlon’s Fruit & Sweet Shop, Trim. Titillated by the

introduction of Tango to the town, Connie blossoms under

the tutelage of one Moire Monks from Mullingar. Noreen’s

latent passions are similarly stirred by this Latino rumble,

making for a menage-à-trois with a macabre midland twist!

A wild new comedy by Alice Barry and Deirdre Kinahan.

Opera Theatre Company & Almeidapresents ThwaiteTues 23 + Wed 24 September only / 8:00pm (80min)

Project Upstairs


‘surreally, viscerally direct…’ the guardian

A population fleeing a terrible catastrophe. Seven survivors

arrive in a clearing, each in search of sanctuary. Rumours

abound of a saviour named Thwaite. Is he among them?

Their alliance bloodily unravels as they attempt to find out.

Simon Doyle (Whispering Gallery) has devised a brutal

satire, shot through with pathos and grotesquerie. Jürgen

Simpson’s (The Jimmy Cake) innovative score blends

orchestral and electronic to evoke a unique sound-world.

An Opera Theatre Company Dublin/Genesis Opera Project co-production withAlmeida Aldeburgh Opera.

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1Moot Theatre presents His GeniusMon 22 – Sat 27 September / 6:30pm (60min)

Players in Trinity College


On the last day of a great war, the survivors gather to try to

figure out where it all went wrong. Their thoughts turn at

once to Sweet William, their former leader who was the

cause of all the trouble.

His Genius is a playful and bittersweet fable exploring

the ridiculous lengths man will go to in order to create a

Utopian society – no matter what the cost.

Nervous Laugh/Nervous Coughpresents Tales From The NorthsideTue 23 – Sat 27 September / 6:30pm (75 min)


International Bar


Welcome to The Northside, a public house, in the broken

heart of Dublin 9. Over the course of an evening, Kenny,

your bartender will be serving up a special brew of heady

drama and surreal humour in a little cocktail he likes to call

‘Sketch/Tragedy’. Pints of misanthropy will be on tap.

Bottles of insanity, illness and racist invective are also on

offer and all will be washed down with chasers of

disappointment, hatred and bitter disillusionment.

Written and Directed by Ronan Carr. Warning: Due to the nature of the material,some patrons may find the show hypocritical and hopelessly self-indulgent.

The New Theatre, Fairbank Productionsand Play on Wordspresent Tom Crean, Antartic ExplorerMon 22 – Sat 27 September / 8:00pm (90min)

The New Theatre


Tom Crean, the intrepid, Irish Antarctic explorer was the

only man to serve with Scott and Shackleton on three

famous expeditions: Discovery, Terra Nova, and Endurance .

Crean’s story, a testament of human fortitude against all the

elements of Antarctica, is brought to life in this dramatic

solo performance. His journey to rescue his comrades has

been described by historians as “the finest feat of individual

heroism from the entire age of exploration”.

Written & Performed by Aidan Dooley.

NOGGIN THEATRE CO &TALL TALES THEATRE CORUM & RAISIN


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1Sascha Perfect presents The Holy FloorTue 23 September / 9:00pm

City Arts Center (basement space)

Free Admission

There are many invisible ways that modern living affects

our nervous system. Simply walking on a hard surface such

as concrete causes us to unconsciously brace our bodies.

Studies have shown that the jarring from hard surfaces

increases our arousal responses. The Holy Floor is a live

action involving five performers, thirty power drills, flesh,

concrete and somatic vibrations.

Performance Corporationpresent The 7 Deadly SinsTue 23 – Sat 27 September / 8:00pm (75min)

Late Show Sat 27 September / 10:00pm


City Arts Centre

Tickets €13 / Concession + Previews €11

Satan swoops into Garadice City armed with the ultimate

weapons of mass corruption: Greed, Lust, Envy, Pride, Sloth,

Anger and Gluttony. Lock up your souls. You’re all going to

hell as Lucifer’s cock rock guitar riffs plunge you into a

cauldron of Sci-fi, Carry-on, Bollywood and Shock TV. The

Performance Corporation is back following last year’s sell-out

success of the multi-award winning Candide. “Blackadder

meets Southpark!” rattlebag, rte

Written by Tom Swift and Jo Mangan.

Punch Drunk Theatre presentsHow Jane Brown Grew Her Fingers and ToesTue 23 – Sat 27 September / 6:30pm (60min)




At first limbs and lips don’t matter. Our fingers and toes

begin to grow and we start out on an adventure. But along

the way we manage to get salami-sliced. So to hide, we

paint our outsides: with glitter and smiles and open legs

and pritt-stick. And we are beautiful. Welcome to our world.

Jane Brown will help you find beauty in the shit and to peel

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1Out of the Boxpresents Two Sisters And A PianoMon 22 – Fri 26 September / 8:30pm (120min + interval)

Matinee Thur 25 September / 3:00pm

The Space at The Helix

Tickets € 15 / Concession €12

Set in Havana, Cuba in 1991, it tells the story of two sisters

Maria Celia and her sister Sofia who kill time during house

arrest in their crumbling family home by dancing, writing

and playing the piano. When censorship denies Maria Celia

her husband’s love letters, their obsessive jailer Lieutenant

Portuondo offers to read them to her, but at a price – the

sisters must then decide whether to take a dangerous

chance on freedom.

Written by Nilo Cruz – Winner of the 2003 Pulitizer Prize.Directed by Paola Dionisotti.

PIPEWORKSpresents La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1928)Tue 23 + Wed 24 September only / 8:30pm (120min)

Saint Patrick’s Cathedral


Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterpiece is a portrait of France’s

warrior-maiden, based on transcripts from her fifteenth-

century trial. The film’s own story mirrors its heroine’s:

denounced by French and English nationalists, mutilated by

cuts and revisions, destroyed by fire (the original negative).

In Saint. Patrick’s Cathedral’s gothic interior, Guy Bovet will

improvise a live accompaniment using the cathedral’s

organ to enhance “the emotion of the drama, saying things

that the picture cannot express directly.”

Presented by PIPEWORKS (formerly Dublin International Organ & Choral Festival).

PUNCH DRUNK THEATREHOW JANE BROWN GREWHER FINGERS AND TOES


Teatro Punto presents Don’t SleepTue 23 – Sat 27 September / 6:00pm (60min)



There was a war. Señora Maria Buena went to look for

justice. Her sons, Lolo and Perot, follow her to an unknown

destination. The rest remains to be seen! Taking the Spanish

Civil War as a starting point, Galway-based Teatro Punto

have created their own epic tale in the Commedia dell’Arte

tradition, mixing music and singing, action, different

languages and direct engagement with the audience.

This Torsion Dance Theatrepresents WhiteWASH & 2bTue 23 – Sat 27 September / 6:30pm (20min + 15min)



WhiteWASH is a charged paradox in a big black box; the

dancers unknowingly reveal themselves to each other by

deliberately attempting to conceal themselves and their

actions.

2b questions how two individual people act and react

in a given space and time without any intrusion from

society’s systems and arranged parts.

The Tiny Ninja Theatre Companypresents MacBethMon 22 September – Sat 11 October / 1:10pm (45min)

No performances Sat 27 September + Mon 6 October

Extra Performances Fri 3 + 10, Sat 4 + 11 October / 3:10pm

International Bar

Tickets €8 / Concessions €6

Shakespeare’s classic tale of murder and intrigue performed

by inch-high plastic ninjas and assorted dime store figures

on a briefcase-sized stage. Grand spectacle on a tiny scale.

Very limited seating. “Bloody, bold, resolute, and utterly

fringey in the most splendid sense of the word. A plas-

tiscene pleasure.” the village voice

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1Randolf Scott Dancespresents Eeeugh!topiaMon 22 – Sat 27 September 9:15pm (50min)

Project Cube


Eeugh!topia: A performance of the Song of Songs which is

Solomon’s and the internet testimony of a taliban sex slave.

Eeugh!topia: a voodoo space; a realm where the ghosts of

the actual return to haunt the virtual in which we hide; a

fragmented dance across the surfaces of a modern city and

modern lives. And we are seen as responsible at every level.

RunDance Initiativespresents Beauty & The Other Side of “O”Tue 23 September – Sat 11 October No Monday performances

1:00pm – 4:00pm Except Thursdays 4:00pm – 7:00pm (3hr installation)

Temple Bar Gallery & Studios (First Floor)

Free Admission at any point during installation.

Ella Clarke and Julie Lockett will perform the choreography

of eminent American dance artist Deborah Hay, founding

member of the Judson Dance Theater. Witness the body’s

potential for endless transmutations and forms, incalculable

different states and dimensions during their daily three hour

performance practice.

Beauty Choreographed by Deborah Hay, Adaptation by Ella Clarke.The Other Side of “O” Choreographed by Deborah Hay, Adaptation by JulieLockett. Co-produced with the ESB Dublin Fringe Festival 2003.

Yara el Sherbinipresents Narratives of The Other & TracesThur 25 + Fri 26 September / Evening installation

City Arts Centre

Free Admission

Narratives of The Other – This durational piece explores

issues of isolation and confinement, of tension and

constraint, of struggle, loss and desperation… and the

futility of it all.

Traces – Dormant social oppression, eradication,

negotiation, destruction, absolution, responsibility,

surveillance, resistance, defiance. Exploring issues of

territory, of my place or yours, I am ignored.

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2Continuing from Week OneThe Abbey Theatre at the Peacock Theatrepresents The Race of the Ark Tattoo (page 12)

Bewley’s Café Theatrepresents So Long Sleeping Beauty (page 14)

Cardboard Box Theatre Companypresents This Man’s Tale (page 16)

Circus Productions present The Parking Space (page 17)

Civil Arts Inquiry presents Haunted (page 8)

Fergus & Conor Linehanpresent Things That Go Bump (page 20)

Focus Theatre presents Proof (page 18)

Galway Arts Festival & Stephen Deepresent FREAKSHOW? Celebrate the Difference (page 18)

Hana Bi presents In The Solitude Of Cotton Fields (page 19)

Richard Jordan Productionspresent VS Naipaul’s Miguel Street (page 20)

RunDance Initiativespresents Beauty & The Other Side of “O” (page 26)

The Tiny Ninja Theatre Company present MacBeth (page 27)

Black Hole Theatre presents CaravanMon 29 September – Sat 4 October / 8:30pm (60min)

Late Show Thur 2 + Fri 3 / 10:30pm

The Space at The Helix / Tickets €15 / Concession €12

A 1950’s summer’s night, a carnival rolls into town. Watch

your wallet! Clown, his stripper girlfriend Cherry, snake oil

merchant Father Bob, assorted “freaks”, animals and Leo, the

newly arrived acrobat. On a stormy night, a trail of blood

leads to the Caravan. Puppetry as you’ve never seen before,

surreal and dark, violent, overtly sexual, moving and funny,

definitely not for children. Puppets meet pulp fiction.

Directed by Nancy Black. Adults Only.

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Doubletap presents Saving HenryMon 29 September – Sat 4 October / 10:30pm (60min)

Project Cube


What happens when you become worse than what you set

out to destroy? Confronted by demons Henry dreams a

dream of out of here. He faces mighty forces, predatory and

rank. Calling on the spirits of those he loves to protect him,

he returns to waking armed to defeat the terror he faces.

An allegorical tale told through a big poetic text and high

energy physical theatre. Brutal ballet.

Written & performed by Angus Cerini. Directed by Susie Dee.

This is the award winning Welsh

company Earthfall’s latest piece of

work. It's a fast, furious and fervent

performance of extreme dance, film,

live music, DJ and stand-up as six

characters go in search of a new life

and end up a family of outcasts in the

remains of a house.

A dancer, romancer, refugee, soldier,

singer, stand-up, stuntman, builder

and bomber collide in an urban

vision where blood meets sweat,

tears and humour. Vital theatre.

Thursday 2 – Saturday 4 October

6:30pm (70min)

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Music by Fran Hegarty

Two ideas: (1) open the door and (2)

backwards. This is an exploration of

discovery/questioning: opening the

door to a place you are afraid of and

stepping through backwards without

looking. It’s the voice in your head

telling you that you can do it, echoed

by others who believe in you.

Julie Lockett presentsSomething Old,Somewhere New,Somewhere Borrowed,Something Blue.Choreography by Julie Lockett

Following the success of her work

Tank for RunDance Initiatives in the

ESB Dublin Fringe Festival 2002, Julie

returns to present a duet danced by

herself and her good friend Jennifer

Fleenor. This is a tale about two

women and their dresses.

Lisa McLaughlin presentsTender Hooks of HonestyChoreography by Lisa McLaughlin

Two performers create a duet in two

solo parts with each performer on

their own separate path never

meeting, but connected. This piece

investigates movement that is

‘honest’ to each performer by

embodying a movement score

designed to short circuit their usual

performance methods and trying to

recapture the moments of time when

we think no one is watching.

Original Music Score by Dave McLaughlin.

Nanamations Dance Theatrepresent In the RoundChoreographed by Nanette Kincaid

A superb, tongue in cheek duet.

Intentionally absurd, but hopelessly

romantic – technically immaculate yet

awkward, fumbling and dreadfully

wrong. Witty and compassionate, this

piece plays with opera with beguiling

ease. Madam Butterfly and Habanera’s

clichés are presented front and centre

for public scrutiny. …a resounding

winner of a duet …earning

thunderous approbation with its

originality, execution and wit…

lab review of resolution 2000

Night Star Dance Companypresents Peace & Demons –A Victorian ExperienceChoreography by Ingrid Nachstern

A mixture of ballet and contemporary,

this piece is loosely based on the true

story of Caroline Norton. Married to a

violent and abusive man, she conduct-

ed her own divorce case, lost and was

put in an asylum for 33 years. Her

three sons were also taken from her.

Shakram Dance Companypresents All About The TruthChoreography by Mairead Vaughan

Exploring emotion in motion,

reflecting the soul of the dancer rather

than the physical vessel we see. This

piece investigates the dancer’s true

feelings on stage, looking beyond the

calm exterior, observing the dancer as

a real life person moving, communi-

cating, expressing and feeling in a

deeply personal way.

Each night Corp Feasa will share the

bill with Nanamations Dance Theatre

and/or a selection of work chosen

from the ADPI’s Irish Choreographers

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Corp Feasapresents TearmannChoreography by Fearghus Ó Conchúir

Where do you belong? An bhfuil

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for? This group of international

performers tell stories of outsiders,

immigrants, Irish speakers, gay boys,

mourners, shifting the boundaries

between inside and out, belonging and

dancing apart, to discover that we all

seek asylum, sanctuary, a home.

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2Oscar McLennan & Anne Seagravepresent BACK UPWed 1 – Sat 4 October / 9:00pm (65min)

City Arts Centre


Following the sell out success of GET UP (shortlisted Best

Production Fringe Awards 2002) BACK UP is a powerful fresh

brew of performance, installation, sound, film and video

from Ireland and beyond. Challenging and experimental,

from the moving to the amusing to the mind alteringly

surreal, BACK UP is a heady concoction of originality and

imagination. Reel from the building in a state of creativity-

induced intoxication. Drink up, it’s BACK UP.

Co-produced by the ESB Dublin Fringe Festival 2003.Supported by The Sculptor’s Society of Ireland.

Mind the Gap Films & Focus Theatrepresent The Songs of Mama CassTue 30 September – Sat 4 October / 11:00pm (50min)


Focus Theatre


Californian Dreamin’, Monday Monday, Dedicated To The

One I Love, It’s Getting Better and Make Your Own Kind Of

Music are just some of the classics in this late night cabaret

with Kristin Kapelli, celebrating the life and times of Mama

Cass Elliott, the legendary pop Diva of the 60’s and 70’s. Sit

back, relax, have a drink and enjoy a wonderful late perform-

ance in the intimate atmosphere of the Focus Theatre. An

evening not to be missed.

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2Female Parts presents The TenantsMon 29 September – Sat 4 October

8:00pm (115min including interval)

Project Cube


The house is owned by a mysterious Mr. Kerrigan who

doesn’t choose his tenants by the normal criteria. Therese,

on the brink of being homeless, is offered a room for low

rent by Mr Kerrigan. Thus begins her journey into a world

of petty criminality, born again Christianity and the fragile

possibility of a better life. She becomes entangled with the

other residents of this house in a sometimes comic conflict

of good and evil. Written and Directed by Paul Kennedy

John Paul Husseypresents Chocolate MonkeyMon 29 September – Sat 4 October / 8:00pm (70min)

The New Theatre


The critically acclaimed Chocolate Monkey – straight from

Melbourne after two hit seasons – has finally arrived in

Dublin. This hilarious, in your face and visually stunning

one man show is a total trip. Jam-packed with a multitude

of bizarre characters, it’s performed with high physicality

and verbal dexterity through a series of provocative and

cleverly interconnected urban stories.

“John-Paul Hussey is a human dynamo!” herald sun

“Best Show of the year…Extraordinary!” abc radio

Locus Theatre Company presents ActionMon 29 September – Sat 4 October / 8:00pm (70min)

City Arts Centre


This highly charged, physical, often hilarious production

presents four characters trapped together in an unspecified

place and time. Their relationships to one another are

unknown. The fate of the world outside is unknown. They

seem displaced even from their own bodies. Often the only

sounds we hear are slurping, pouring, licking, eating and

drinking. We watch them attempt to make sense of their

situation and each other through a series of absurd actions.

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2Oguri presents Today – a leaning axisTue 30 September – Wed 1 October / 6:30pm (40min)



Today – a leaning axis

Oguri’s new Butoh work.

Oguri is Los Angeles based Japanese Butoh dancer.

This is Oguri’s third time working in Dublin.

Playgroup presents Soap!Tue 30 September – Fri 10 October / 6:00pm (35min)

Repeats Wed 1 – Sat 11 October / 1:10pm

The Globe

Tickets €5

live soap! a new episode every day! teatime shows!

lunchtime repeats! Tears, laughter, doctors, nurses, taxis,

mothers, affairs, murders, Aussies, lessies, ex-nuns’ screams,

vampy vixens, foster kids, election bids, down the pub, up

the pole… Four actors play over 40 characters in a shockingly

addictive, hysterically moving, ridiculously ambitious live

soap opera, with live musical accompaniment. “Funny and

fast and playful – and deliciously ironic” sunday times

Bring your ticket stubs from four different shows and see your next one free!

Purple Heart Theatre Companypresents Coyote On A FenceTue 30 September – Sat 4 October / 8:00pm (90min)




Illiterate, likeable Bobby Reyburn is a funny guy who does

animal impressions. He’s also a racist predator convicted of

an horrific crime. John Brennan is educated and arrogant, a

serious writer who may only be guilty of doing society a

favour. Each awaits his fate on death row – one evokes

sympathy, the other derision.

“Excellent theatre in every way…” philadelphia city paper

Irish Premiere Written by Bruce Graham. Directed by Alan King.

The Fringe is proud to present for

the first time, one of Singapore’s

foremost theatre companies.

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Two women, who are absolutely still

throughout the play, talk about their

relationships, their past and future.

They bring us through a roller

coaster of emotions – from shouting

and in pain, to sudden serenity, to

crying. Yet, throughout, they do not

move at all.

untitled cow number one

This is the journey of a widowed cow.

Divided into 12 sections covering the

12 days of mourning, this is strongly

influenced by Hindu and Buddhist

texts, images and myths.

Supported by the National Arts CouncilSingapore and The Department of Arts, Sports &Tourism through the Singapore – Ireland CulturalCo-operation Programme.

Mon 29 September – Sat 4 October

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2Spellbound presents Audience with the King:not a monologue in two actsMon 29 September – Sat 4 October / 6:15pm (50min)

The New Theatre


In this witty comedy, appearance and reality square off in a

fight to the death as Ó Guilín examines human relationships

from the interpersonal to the socio-political with a

characteristically absurd sensibility. This production

explores the construct of meaning between the performers

and their audience, the space between reality and fantasy

bridged by faith and imagination. Come and pay homage to

your king, or lop his head off on a revolutionary whim.

Written by Peadar Ó Guilín.

Squint Productions presents GloriaMon 29 September – Sat 4 October 6:30pm (55min)

International Bar


Richard’s had a bad week: his girlfriend got the promotion

he wanted; another woman’s complained that he verbally

harassed her at work; his boss has suggested counselling.

Instead, he goes on a bender, ending up in an unfamiliar

part of Dublin with a woman called Gloria. Salvation or a

one-way ticket to hell? This is a tragicomic roller coaster

ride through the heart of darkness that is Dublin city after

the lights go down. Written by Paul Kennedy.

The Stomach Boxpresents Amnon & Tamar (2 Samuel 13:1)Tue 30 September – Sat 4 October / 6:30pm (90min)




Everyone needs someone to hate. What if that enemy is

your brother, your sister, your country? What turns love into

horror? Is life really the best pornography? Can we really

foretell the past? Who or what controls our identity?

Spanning 20 years, Amnon & Tamar proposes this biblical

myth of incestuous love between two siblings as a metaphor

for the modern age, fusing installation, performance art and

live sound manipulation.

Contains scenes of a pornographic nature.

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2Quiconque presents HideawayMon 29 September – Sat 4 October / 9:00pm (70min)

Matinee Sat 4 October / 3:00pm


Tickets €12 / Concession + Matinee €10

Quiconque weave together vivid scenes from the

extraordinary lives of young hideaways in wartime attics,

Russian sewers and renaissance convents. This playful,

emotional and fast moving show reveals a world bubbling

with concealed life. “A sophisticated mix of dynamic

physical theatre and luminous storytelling” the scotsman

“Quiconque are imaginative, dextrous and visually inventive

…a company of real tangible ability.” sunday herald

The Road Show Theaterpresents The Mysterious World of BirdsMon 29 September – Sat 4 October / 8:00pm (85min)

Special performance Sat 4 October (sneak preview of upcoming production‘Keep’ by Meghan Kennedy, plus surprise special guests).



Lead by talented actress and vocalist Lisa Hannigan, with

live music by Lucas, this show blends music with theatre

creating a portrait of a woman who is breaking as her

romantic relationship crumbles around her. The intensity of

the final fight inspires interruptions of memory, dreams and

music. Will she overcome the secrets, distance and darkness

that have come between her and her lover, or will she fall

apart along with everything else?

Written by Jessamyn Fiore. Featuring Lisa Hannigan & Duncan Lacroix.

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2Whalley Range All Stars presents PigFriday 3 October10:00am – 12:00pm / 12:30pm – 2:30pm / 8:30pm – 10:30pm (10min)

Saturday 4 October10:00am – 12:00pm / 1:00pm – 3:00pm / 8:30pm – 10:30pm (10min)

Sunday 5 October12:00pm – 1:00pm / 3:00pm – 4:00pm (10min)


Tickets €5 Booking Essential

A short show full of surprises that takes place inside a

surprisingly long pig. ‘Pig’ features a 30 foot long sleeping

sow in a pen. You can see her snuffles, you can hear her

snores. A farm-hand offers the public the opportunity to act

like pigs and take a peek at a 10 minute long show that

takes place inside her belly.

Pig is funded by the Arts Council of England’s National Touring Programme.

X-Bel-Air presents Time FliesMon 29 September – Sat 4 October / 8:15pm (80min)

Andrews Lane Studio


Two unsuspecting mayflies returning from their very first

date cuddle up by the pond, switch on the TV, and discover

they are on it – the subject of Swamp Life with Sir David

Attenborough. Thus begins a madcap, theatrical journey

from the master of one-act comedy David Ives. X-Bel-Air

return to the Fringe, with four short plays that will amuse

and surprise.

“…these postcards from the weirdo edge are a rare treat

that only makes one wish for more.” new york observer

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2Stoney Road Filmspresents The Tender MerciesMon 29 September – Sat 4 October / 8:00pm (75min)

The Crypt at Dublin Castle


An incredibly powerful story delving into the depths of

human pain and cruelty. From the heart of Europe’s shame,

we see the effects of war, genocide and man’s inhumanity

to man. Mind games, fear, hope and insanely twisted truth.

Set in the prison of an unknown place, the play follows

three characters representing the different sides of life

when hatred rules and insanity takes control. Darkly

satirical and with more than a little black comedy.

Teepee Productions presentsThe Battle of the Boyne and by way ofinterlude The Siege of (London) DerryWed 1 – Sat 11 October / 8:00pm

Preview Mon 29 + Tue 30 September


Tickets €12 / Concession €10 / Preview €10 & €8

McKeague is a Protestant and O’Brien is a Catholic. They

have a vaudeville type double act, presenting a play based on

the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Tempers flare as their

ideologies clash and the show threatens to descend into

chaos. But at the end of the day, the story must get told, so

McKeague and O’Brien have to march arm in arm, side by

side until the curtain comes down.

Written & Directed by Joe O’Byrne.

Wideyed Ensemble presents Inside OutMon 29 September – Sat 4 October / 1:15pm

Project Cube

Tickets €5 Concession €3

Inside Out is an exploration of the emotional effect of

prison on the prisoner. Written by Francis Condra in the

form of a poetic monologue, the piece draws on the writer’s

experience of his two-year spell in Dublin’s Mountjoy

Prison, the difficulties he encountered there and the

methods he used in dealing with them.

Written & Directed by Francis Condra.

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Continuing from Week One & TwoBewley’s Café Theatrepresents So Long Sleeping Beauty (page 14)

Civil Arts Enquiry presents Haunted (page 8)

Focus Theatre presents Proof (page 18)

Galway Arts Festival & Stephen Deepresent FREAKSHOW? Celebrate the Difference (page 18)

Hana Bi presents In The Solitude Of Cotton Fields (page 19)

Richard Jordan Productionspresent VS Naipaul’s Miguel Street (page 20)

Playgroup presents Soap! (page 36)

RunDance Initiativespresents Beauty and The Other Side of “O” (page 26)

Teepee Productions presents The Battle of the Boyneand by way of interlude The Siege of (London)Derry (page 40)

The Tiny Ninja Theatre Company present MacBeth (page 27)

Articulate Anatomy presents Ubu RoiMon 6 – Sat 11 October / 9:00pm (90min)



In a joyous exploration of scatology, violence and bearbaiting,

Articulate Anatomy have taken Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi and

regurgitated it for an over-sanitised world. Under the

influences of Artaud, Surrealism, the Chapman brothers and

Itchy and Scratchy, Articulate Anatomy use the skills of

Commedia, Circus, Bouffon and Clown to lay bare the baser

impulses that drive our actions, not merely exposing the

dark underbelly of society but eviscerating it. Set in the arena

of a playground, great battles are fought with swords and

words and chinese burns. A place where sticks and stones

may break your bones but words will always kill you. Faeces

have never been so funny.

An exquisite boutique performance

event for an audience of 12. You eat and

drink a small exotic treat, enter in pitch

black, as light grows you see a figure

moving in the distance, her every

movement exquisitely visible. Inspired

by Morpheus, son of Hypnos and the

god of dreams, Morphia Series is a

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Bodies in intriguing configura-tions

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criticisms into a sculpture of collective

imagination. Stage boundaries dissolve

as dancers appear and disappear in

solos, duets and ensembles, naked and

clothed, speaking and silent. ‘Prudes

keep away… no holds barred… we are

overwhelmed, simultaneously battered

and exhilarated.’ the independent

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3Banana, Bag and Bodicepresents GULAG HA HAMon 6 – Sat 11 October / 8:30pm (60min)



GULAG HA HA, by Jason Craig, comes straight from the New

York International Fringe Festival, employing this New York

group’s clown/absurdist/get-away-from-my-children motif of

ensemble performance, which fuses unqualified cognisance,

life-size geometric constraints and kinetic cacophony. This is

an absurdist exploration of the relationship/power struggle

between prisoner and guard. Watch the tedium of torture,

the intimacy of boredom, the sanctity of stark shadows, all

underscored by haunting, melodious live sound. “Comedy at

it’s darkest, a cabaret of pain and anguish.” conte costa times

GULAG HA HA, Awarded Best of San Francisco Fringe 2002.

Compagnies Lunatik presents Va-et-Vientet Autres Soliloques (de Samuel Beckett)Mon 6 – Sat 11 October / 8:15pm (60min)

Andrews Lane Studio


Beckett was the first Irish playwright to participate in the

Western modernist theatre movement. He became the

European initiator and master in writing plays extracted

from the concrete, relying mainly on musicality and

visuality. His writing, beyond nationalities and cultural

habits, appeal to individuals in their universality, their

human essence. Performed in French.

Supported by Alliance Francaise.

Corcadorca presents SNAPTue 7 – Sat 11 October / 8:15pm (90min)

Project Upstairs


Set on the outskirts of a rural Irish town, Snap covers 50

years in the lives of Sonny and Nonnie, their children and

the local community. Two actors play multi-roles, skillfully

revealing the truth behind Sonny and Nonnie’s isolated

existence. This distinct and individual play, often poignant

and at times hilarious, is a portrayal of ‘life as it is’ for many

trapped in a cycle of violence.

Written by Ger Bourke. Directed by Pat Kiernan.


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3Edge 21 presents SeveranceMon 6 – Sat 11 October / 6:30pm (45min)



An intimate play about hurt and destruction in the

aftermath of love. Severance takes us on an epic theatrical

tour of his life during which we meet his father Marjorie,

the memories of his mother, his wife Marion and his former

boss Big Lez. Fastidious with detail, unexpectedly funny but

vulnerable throughout, satire and comedy are used to

articulate feelings of terror and delusion, underpinning this

story with a fascinating catalogue of things left unsaid.

Gare St Lazare presents SwallowTue 7 – Sat 11 October / 1:15pm

Extra Performance Sat 11 October / 4:00pm

Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane


A broken wing. A sinking ship. A soleless shoe. So much is lost, so

much is lost, how did this happen?

Michael Harding (nominated Best Actor ESB Dublin Fringe

Festival 2002) and Judy Hegarty Lovett (Director of Beckett

Trilogy & Lessness) together bring you a dark tale of loss.

“Hegarty Lovett, a conductor of rare sensitivity.” irish times

“Harding …unique, daring, entertaining and unmissable.”

irish examiner

World premiere by Michael Harding. Supported by Alliance Francaise.

Insomnia presents Greatest HitsMon 6 – Sat 11 October / 8:00pm (60min)



A tense, psychological thriller involving a deadly game of

words and deception between two hit men during a

seemingly casual meeting. Thomas Mc Laughlin’s Greatest

Hits is a taut and explosive exploration of the mentality of

men caught up in the underground world of terrorism.

Written by Thomas McLaughlin.

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Dark Horse Theatre Companypresents Don’t Take Your Coat OffMon 6 – Sat 11 October / 6:15pm (90min)



Nan has cared for her grandson Paul ever since he was just

6 months old. She has dedicated herself to protecting and

caring for him no matter what the cost, emotionally and

financially. Now Paul must care for and protect her. They

must rely on the strength of their love as they learn to cope

with their changing relationship in this touching and funny

story. Written by Robin Keogh. Directed by Donnacha O’Briain.

Aoife Desmond presenting Sacred SpacesMonday 6 – Friday 10 OctoberExhibition 10:30am – 5:30pm / Live Performance 1:15pm

Saturday 11 OctoberExhibition 10:30am – 2:00pm / Live Performance 12:15pm

60 Mount Street Lower, Dublin 2

Tickets €5

This project explores spaces we deem sacred; be it our living

space, place of worship, nature or our bodies. Within the

everyday, spaces are marked by ritual; be it formalised,

religious, unconscious, mundane or personal. Aoife

Desmond, Karl Burke, Slavek Kwi, Tracy Staunton, Irene

Murphy, Una Quigley, present an exhibition of visual art,

performance, sound and theoretical work based on three

months site specific work in the derelict part of the National

Maternity Hospital.

Djinn Productions + Project present BlueMon 6 – Sat 11 October / 8:30pm (60min)

Project Cube


Three childhood friends have a week to go to the end of

school, to the end of innocence. To break the monotony of

their lives, they seek adventure by jumping from the

nearby cliffs into the deep blue ocean. For a moment of

joyful abandonment everything seems possible. But they

resurface to face a series of humiliations, and are propelled

on a trip to the city and a disastrous attempt at a drug deal.

Directed by Ursula Rani Sarma. Supported by ESB Dublin Fringe Festival 2003.


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3NTV Productions presents BroadcastMon 6 – Sat 11 October / 6:30pm (60min)

Project Cube


Zap through your TV channels, turn the radio dial …behind

the wall of sound …hear the cogs of a well-greased media

machine. From local radio to global television networks

…it’s exhausting, compulsive – always feeding an insatiable

appetite for new. Those dedicated doctors of spin present

you with the latest opinion poll or exclusive copy, creating

the desire to consume more and more of …whatever is

…Broadcast. Devised by Donal Toolan & Viki Wreford Sinnott.

Office Supplies Theatre Companypresents The King SweeneyMon 6 – Sat 11 October / 9:00pm (75min)



The Sweeney brothers are writing their family history, but

the stories won’t stay on the page. As a single summer’s day

rolls on into night, reality’s grip slowly weakens. OSTC bring

their unique ensemble acting style and visual flair to the

Fringe for the first time with a play that is both blackly comic

and strangely moving, in which the mundane can become

suddenly unsettling and the surreal provide the only comfort.

Written by Cathal Maguire.

Penny Dreadful Theatre Companypresents Bag of MonkeysMon 6 – Sat 11 October / 6:30pm (50min)

International Bar


Inside a dead end city bar a couple of barflies search for a

moment of epiphany amidst the beer glasses and the

dogends. Penny Dreadful return to the Fringe with a tale

about the games men believe women play, about how

people’s best intentions are misinterpreted, about

sabotaging the ironing and about strange encounters with

young women on buses in Brixton.

Written by Darren Murphy. Directed by Caitriona McLaughlin.

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3Kevin McAleer presents Chalk & CheeseMon 6 – Sat 11 October / 10:30pm (60min)

Project Upstairs


Kevin McAleer hears voices in his head, and decides to go in

with a hammer and a torch to investigate. Inside he uncovers

an elaborate plot to take over his mind – a conspiracy going

right to the top, involving the government, the police,

postmen, librarians, surgeons, his aunt, and a flock of crows.

Words are exchanged, the English language is cornered in

the back of his head and takes a pounding from which it may

never recover.

Mountebank Theatre Companypresents The CobblerMon 6 – Sat 11 October / 8:30pm (90min + interval)

The New Theatre


On an island rife with murder and corruption live a

withering poet, a lecherous hotelier, a foppish mortician, a

pregnant whore and a gay mountain man who likes to

drown cats. Then one day, there appears a strange mute

cobbler… By turns surreal, macabre, poetic, grotesque,

comic and violent, with a sly wink to Flann O’Brien and

Gogol, this rich exploration of love, greed and the sins of the

sons won the 16th International Playwriting Competition.

A Showcase Production. Written by Bryan Delaney

North Wales Stage presents Ta Ra TeresaTue 7 – Sat 11 October / 6:15pm (70min)

Project Upstairs


When a Scouser of Irish descent moves with his daughter to

live in Blaenau Ffestiniog, he believes that he has discovered

his Shangri-La. However, whilst his daughter learns Welsh

and is assimilated into the community, despite his best

efforts he fails to learn the language. As a consequence he

becomes distanced both from his daughter and his adopted

homeland. This alienation has explosive consequences.

Written by Aled Jones Williams.

KEVIN McALEER CHALK & CHEESE

Skipalong Theatre Companypresents One for SorrowMon 6 – Sat 11 October / 6:00pm (55min)



Doreen – a young woman playing catch-up on life, finally

freed from the clutches of her small town family moves to

Dublin – expectations rampant and grievances raw.

Vacillating between an unresolved grief and a desired

identity, she encounters a myriad of characters and ghosts

from the past, ranging from the wildly humorous to the

absurdly familiar. Past or Present? Reality or Fantasy?

Which is safer when you are paralysed in transit?

The Tangent Theatre Companypresents PanamaMon 6 – Sat 11 October / 6:15pm (90min)

The New Theatre


Panama is a surreal comedy about the quest for eternal life.

Middle-aged Man is told by his doctor that he is going to

die. Not that he has a terminal disease, but rather he has

just learned that all humans, and he in particular, are

mortal. From there ensues a chaotic road trip involving a

Jesus Christ look-alike, a moronic young pair of natural-

born killer wannabe’s, and an odd old couple who may or

may not be Man’s parents. Braided into the story are

Samuel Beckett, Walt Disney, Monty Python, sex and guns.

A European Premiere.

Vagabond presents ThreeplayMon 6 – Sat 11 October / 8:00pm (90min)



When war is all around you, from where will come the

peace? When four walls do not protect but imprison, from

where the release? When the enemy shares your bed,

where can two sides safely meet? Three plays, linked by

nations surrounded by war. On the brink, over the edge.

Each examines how we react to upheaval, fear and

frustration, in the constant skirmishing of home life, fear

and frustration, laying bare many uncomfortable truths

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3Poc Productions presents Paris TexasMonday 6 – Saturday 11 October5:30pm / 7:00pm / 8:30pm (35min). Please note 5:30pm show is as Gaeilge.

City Arts Centre Extremely Limited Audience


A Live Film! Scannán Beo! In this hugely acclaimed theatrical

short of the Wim Wenders film classic, an audience of ten

sit in individual peepshow booths around a revolving stage.

Paris, Texas combines the intimate cinematic close-up with

the living immediacy of theatre. Caitheann an insealbhú

speisialta seo isteach i lár an scannáin muid nó is muide atá

‘close-up’, muide atá ar thóir faoistine. “Brennan’s superb

production… seems to shimmer, like an alluring mirage”

irish times

Prime Cut presents Gagarin WayMon 6 – Sat 11 October / 8:30pm (100min)



Gargarin Way is a blacker than black blisteringly cruel

comedy about a human heist gone wrong. “It can’t be stated

how brilliant this play is” the herald “A ton of theatrical

dynamite” the guardian “A tightly spun thriller, a scathing

comedy” the observer Winner of Scotsman First of The First

Award 2001. Lawrence Olivier Award Nominee 2002.

Winner of Critics Circle Award 2002.

Contains language which some people may find offensive.

Siren Productions presents La MusicaMon 6 – Sat 11 October / 6:30pm (90min)



An empty hotel lobby. A man waits silently. She enters.

Together they confront the past. Memories converge;

passion, betrayal, and obsessive love. The life and work of

celebrated French writer Marguerite Duras is interwoven

into the lives of Anne-Marie (Olwen Fouéré) and Michel

(Ronan Leahy) two drifting lovers who evoke a picture of a

world that is comical as well as tragic – beautiful, full of

wisdom and poetry. The action takes place on a film set and

as the story unfolds, Duras drives the medium of theatre

and film to its impossible limits in order to interrogate its

ultimate purpose. Directed by Selina Cartmell.

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1 The Abbey at the PeacockLower Abbey Street, D1.Info + Booking T 01 878 7222

2 Andrews Lane StudioSaint Andrews Lane, D2.Info + Booking T 01 679 5720

3 ArthouseCurved Street, Temple Bar, D2.Info + Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

4 Bewley’s Café TheatreSecond Floor, Bewleys Café,Grafton Street, D2.Info + Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

5 City Arts CentreMoss Street/City Quay, D2.Info Only T 01 677 0643Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

6 Crypt Arts CentreDublin Castle, Dame Street, D2.Info + Booking T 01 671 3387

7 Focus Theatre6 Pembroke Place (offPembroke St.), D2.Info + Booking T 01 676 3071

8 Fringe Central(formerly Design Yard)12 East Essex Street, D2.Info + Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

9 The GlobeSouth Great Georges Street, D2.Info + Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

10 The Ha’penny Bridge Inn(opposite The Ha’penny Bridge)Wellington Quay, D2.Info + Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

11 Dublin City GalleryThe Hugh LaneCharlemont House,Parnell Square, D1.Info + Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

12 International BarWicklow Street, D2.Info + Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

13 The New Theatre43 East Essex Street,Temple Bar, D2.Info + Booking T 01 679 3361

14 Players TheatreTrinity College, D2.Info + Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

15 Project39 East Essex Street,Temple Bar, D2.Info + Booking T 01 881 9613/14

16 60 Lower Mount Street60 Lower Mount Street, D2.Info + Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

17 SpiegeltentWolfe Tone Square,Jervis Street, D1.Info + Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

18 SS Michael & John(formerly Viking Centre)Essex Street West,Temple Bar, D2.Info + Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

19 Saint Patrick’s Cathedral Patrick’s Street, D8.Info + Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

20 T36 – Teacher’s ClubTeachers’ Club,36 Parnell Square, D1.Info + Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

21 Temple Bar Gallery & StudiosTemple Bar, D2.Info + Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

22 The Space at The Helix TheatreDublin City University,Glasnevin, D11.Info + Booking T 01 700 7000

23 Temple TheatreTemple Street, D1Info + Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

24 THEatre SPACE@ HENRY PLACEoff Henry Street, D1.Info Only T 01 872 9977Booking T 1850 FRINGE(1850 374 643)

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The Dublin Theatre Festival is proud to present an extensive

and varied programme for 2003. Celebrating the strength,

reach and diversity of contemporary Irish theatre, while

gaining a glimpse of the many possibilities still open to us.

For further details please go to www.dublintheatrefestival.com

Theatre Shop 2003 – 10th Anniversary Conference

Open to all professional Irish theatre organisations and

international practitioners, this year’s tenth annual Theatre

Shop conference takes place on Friday 3rd October 2003 at

Liberty Hall, Eden Quay. The day comprises of a keynote

address, a mix of seminars and one to one meetings between

international producers and presenters and the Irish theatre

sector, followed on Saturday 4th with an ESB Dublin Fringe

Festival 2003 showcase. Further details from + 353 1 670 4906

or [email protected] www.theatreshop.ie

Playing Politics

This year the European Stage’s programme examines the

effect that shifts of power on the political stage have had on

contemporary drama. Playing Politics comprises of six

staged readings accompanied by a series of discussions with

the writers and invited guests.

Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 October, Liberty Hall.

Further information from 01 677 8439.

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Two special events celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the

Stanislavski Studio at the Focus will take place during this

year’s festival:

• Exhibition of Focus Memorabilia. 22 September – 11 October.

The Front Hall, National Library, Kildare Street.

• Launch of Children Of The Far-Flung by Geraldine

O'Connell-Cusack. A new book tracing the history of the

late Deirdre O’Connell and her family.

Monday 18 September / 6:00pm / Focus Theatre.

Illustrators at the Fringe

Attempting to capture the passion, nuance and interpretive

skills of a live performer can never have predictable

results. It’s part of the attraction. This year, as part of the

Fringe, the members of the Illustrators Guild of Ireland will be

sketching, drawing and painting the artists in rehearsal

and performance. With styles ranging from the comic to

the painterly, it should make for an interesting mix of cre-

ative interpretation.

The work will be exhibited in the final week of the festival in

the SS Michael & John. Further information from 01 679 2320.

CoisCéim Dance Theatre – Sunday Services

A series of occasional work sessions intended to allow pro-

fessional performers an opportunity to interact with the

work and practices of international choreographers and

theatre makers. The first Sunday Service will kick off dur-

ing the Dublin Fringe Festival. All professional dancers and

theatre artists are very welcome to participate. Places will

be allocated on a first come first served basis and a small

charge will apply. Further details available from CoisCéim at

T (01) 878 0558 or via email [email protected]

Wolfe Tone Park Market

Wolfe Tone Park is a new outdoor venue for Craftspeople and

Artists to exhibit and sell their own original works. All the

work is handcrafted by the individual stallholder. Crafts

include, unique ceramic pieces, jewellery, pottery, candles,

stained glass, basketry, photography, etchings, portrait and

cartoon artists, wood-turners and a variety of textile artists.

During the Fringe the market will operate Saturday and Sunday

10:00am – 5:00pm, and the rest of the year 10:00am – 6:00pm.DAVID O’DOHERTY AT THE SPIEGELTENT


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Director Vallejo GantnerExecutive Producer Bea KelleherGeneral Manager Kerry WestMarketing & Information Officer Maedhbh Mc CullaghVisual Arts Curator Mark GarryPublicist Nik QuaifePress Officer Kathy ScottPress Assistant Patrick StewartTechnical Directors Barry Conway, Lee Davis, Pam McQueenBox Office Manager Camilla HealyAssistant Box Office Manager Sarah SmythVolunteer Co-ordinator Eithne McGuinnessProgramme & Print Design Atelier David SmithWebsite Partners XwerxFestival Accountant Carolyn CompelliIT Supply & Support Unity, DublinFringe Lawyers Kennedy McGonagle Ballagh

Huge rounds of riotous applause and thanks to our additional Box Office staff,festival technicians, hospitality staff, distributors and all of our Fringe volunteers.

Scott Watson and Shelley Bourke farewell’d the Fringe and Ireland in 2003. Wehope we see them back in the neighbourhood soon. We also bid adieu to SarahPyle and Des Kenny. Thank you to them all for the monumental efforts they gaveto the Fringe.

Without the folk below none of this could have happened. We want to thank them(if you see them in ClubSpiegel, you should too): Matthew Adams, David Bates,Eduardo Bonito, Tan Boon-Hui, Catherine Boothman, Jane Bouchelle, MadelineBoughton, Jay Bourke, Stephen Bourke, Mary Brady, Joanne Byrne, DominicCambell, François Chambraud, Goh Ching-Lee, Belinda Clements, Richard, Niamhand Todd from Comit, Andrea Corbett, Alexa Coyne, Ali Curran, Jane Daly, Oran Day,Loughin Deegan, Eamon Doran, Oliver Dowling, Linda Doyle, everyone at Eden,Diego Fasciati, Sally-Anne Fisher, Martin Frandsen, Karen Fricker, Rob Furey, JackGilligan, Gerry Godley, Nicky Gogan, Ken Hartnett, Laura Hartney, Jonathan Jacobs,Kay Jamieson, Flip Janssen, Maria Johnson, Gordon Judge, Enrique Juncosa, Ruth &Deborah Kelleher, Noel Kelly, Natasha Keogh, Peter Kettle, Jason King, HankKingsley, Fergus Linehan, Hagar Lipkin, Ciara Macken, Bobby Marshall, CiaranMcCullagh, Declan McGonagle, Frank McGuinness, Donal McKenna, DermotMcLaughlin, Tony McLeane-Fay, Andrew McLellan, Kieran McLoughlin, Roisin NíMhordha, Grainne Millar, Christine Monk, Martine Moreau, Pat Moylan, MatthiasMüller-Wieferig, Orlagh Murphy, Amie Norman, Annette Nugent, Felicity O’Brien, JohnO’Brien, Mary-Louise O’Donnell, Niamh O’Donnell, John O’Kane, Padraic O’Kane,Roger O’Reilly, Tommy O’Shaughnessy, Sarah Pierce, David Quinn, Enid Reid-Whyte,Tony Reilly, Emma Richardson, Ali Robertson, Karen Rodgers, Boaz Rodkin, SineadRyan, Melanie Scaife, Michael Scott, Sharon Sheehan, Paula Shields, David Smith,Corine Snijders, Anthony Strahan, Ngiam Su-Lin, Paul Summers, Patrick Sutton,Nicola Swanton, Gaye Tanham, Lucy Taylor, Conleth Teevan, Patrick Thoms, SophieTravers, Brid Tunney, Miles Tuthill, Eric Vaard, Richard Wakely, Bridget Webster, RachelWest, Willie White, Ronan Wilmot, Inbal Zaltzman.

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• Asian Dub Foundation (page 13)• The Abbey Theatre (page 12)• The Abbey at the Peacock (page 15)• Amach Anseo (page 12)• Angel Exit (page 12)• Àrà m Be. (page 14)• Articulate Anatomy (page 44)• Banana, Bag and Bodice (page 46)• Alex Barry (page 6)• Be Your Own Banana (page 14)• Bewleys Café Theatre (page 14)• BDNC Theatre (page 16)• Black Hole Theatre (page 30)• Bootstrap (page 16)• Cardboard Box (page 16)• Cello Productions (page 17)• Circus Productions (page 17)• City Arts Centre’s

Civil Arts Inquiry (page 8)• Compagnies Lunatik (page 46)• Corcadorca (page 46)• Corp Feasa (page 33)• Crooked House (page 17)• Mark Cullen (page 6)• Dark Horse (page 48)• Aoife Desmond (page 18 + 48)• Djinn Productions +

Project (page 48)• Doubletap (page 30)• Earthfall (page 31)• Edge 21 (page 49)• Jody Elff (page 7)• Female Parts (page 34)• Focus Theatre (page 18)• Focus Theatre +

Mind the Gap Films (page 35)• Galway Arts Festival +

Stephen Dee (page 18)• Gare St Lazare (page 49)• Yasmeen Godder (page 47)• Gorgô Theatrics (page 19)• Olwen Grindley (page 33)• half/angel (page 19)• Hana Bi (page 19)• Helen Herbertson &

Ben Cobham (page 45)• Kristina Hoppe (page 7)• Janice Hough (page 7)• John Paul Hussey (page 34)• Insomnia (page 49)• Edit Kaldor (page 21)• Fergus & Conor Linehan (page 20)• Julie Lockett (page 33)• Locus (page 34)• Kevin McAleer (page 50)• Lisa McLaughlin (page 33)• Oscar McLennan (page 20)• Oscar McLennan &

Anne Seagrave (page 35)• The Metropolitan Complex (page 7)• Mind the Gap Films +

Focus Theatre (page 35)• Moot Theatre (page 22)• Mountebank (page 50)

• Nanamations DanceTheatre (page 33)

• The Necessary Stage (page 37)• Nervous Laugh /

Nervous Cough (page 22)• The New Theatre,

Fairbank Productions +Play on Words (page 22)

• Night Star Dance Co (page 33)• Noggin Theatre Co +

Tall Tales Theatre Co (page 23)• North Wales Stage (page 50)• NTV Productions (page 51)• Office Supplies (page 51)• Oguri (page 36)• Opera Theatre Company +

Almeida (page 23)• Out of the Box (page 24)• Penny Dreadful (page 51)• Richard Jordan

Productions (page 20)• Sascha Perfect (page 25)• Performance

Corporation (page 25)• PIPEWORKS (page 24)• Playgroup (page 36)• Poc Productions (page 52)• Prime Cut (page 52)• Punch Drunk Theatre (page 25)• Purple Heart (page 36)• Quiconque (page 38)• Randolf Scott Dances (page 26)• The Road Show Theater (page 38)• Lia Rodriguez (page 47)• RunDance Initiatives (page 26)• Shakram Dance Co (page 33)• Yara el Sherbini (page 26)• Siren Productions (page 52)• Skipalong (page 53)• Spellbound (page 39)• Squint Productions (page 39)• The Stomach Box (page 39)• Tall Tales Theatre Co +

Noggin Theatre Co (page 23)• Stoney Road Films (page 40)• The Tangent Theatre

Company (page 53)• Teatro Punto (page 27)• Teepee (page 40)• This Torsion Dance

Theatre (page 27)• The Tiny Ninja

Theatre Company (page 27)• Louise West (page 7)• Whalley Range All Stars (page 41)• Wideyed Productions (page 40)• William Yang (page 21)• Vagabond (page 53)• X-Bel-Air (page 41)

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(2 Samuel 13:1) (page 39)• Audience with the King: not a

monologue in two acts (page 39)• Autumn Stories (page 15)• BACK UP (page 35)• Bag of Monkeys (page 51)• Beauty & The Other

Side of “O” (page 26)• Blue (page 48)• Bolt Upright (page 12)• Broadcast (page 51)• Caravan (page 30)• Chalk & Cheese (page 50)• Chocolate Monkey (page 34)• Coyote On A Fence (page 36)• De Bogman (page 14)• Don’t Sleep (page 27)• Don’t Take Your Coat Off (page 48)• Eeeugh!topia (page 26)• FREAKSHOW?

Celebrate the Difference (page 18)• Gagarin Way (page 52)• Gloria (page 39)• Grace Before Meals (page 17)• Greatest Hits (page 49)• GULAG HA HA (page 46)• Haunted (page 8)• Hideaway (page 38)• How Jane Brown Grew Her

Fingers and Toes (page 25)• Hyde and Jekyll (page 16)• I Can’t Stand Up For

Falling Down (page 31)• In the Round (page 33)• In The Solitude Of

Cotton Fields (page 19)• Inside Out (page 40)• La Haine (page 13)• La Musica (page 52)• La Passion de Jeanne

d’Arc (1928) (page 24)• MacBeth (page 27)• Memory of Water (page 18)• Morphia Series (page 45)• Mrs Cherry-Loola’s

Last Chance (page 19)• Narratives of The Other +

Traces (page 26)• Nepo Eht Rood (page 33)• One for Sorrow (page 53)• Or Press Escape (page 21)• Panama (page 53)• Paris Texas (page 52)• Peace and Demons –

A Victorian Experience (page 33)• Pig (page 41)• Proof (page 18)• Revelations (page 17)• Revolutions (page 32)• Rum & Raisin (page 23)• Sacred Spaces (page 48)• Saving Henry (page 30)

• Severance (page 49)• Shadows (page 21)• Sited (page 6)• SNAP (page 46)• So Long Sleeping Beauty (page 14)• Soap! (page 36)• Something Old, Somewhere New,

Somewhere Borrowed,Something Blue. (page 33)

• Spinstren (page 19)• Still Life (page 22)• Such Stuff As We

Are Made Of (page 47)• Suddenly Birds (page 47)• Swallow (page 49)• Ta Ra Teresa (page 50)• Tales From The Northside (page 22)• Tearmann (page 32)• Tender Hooks of Honesty (page 33)• The Battle of the Boyne And by

way of interlude The Siege of(London) Derry (page 40)

• The Cobbler (page 50)• The Gods Are Not

To Blame (page 14)• The Holy Floor (page 25)• The King Sweeney (page 51)• The Mysterious World

of Birds (page 38)• The Parking Space (page 17)• The Pushcart Peddlars (page 16)• The Quiet Bastard –

Director’s Cut (page 20)• The Race of The

Ark Tattoo (page 12)• The 7 Deadly Sins (page 25)• The Songs of Mama Cass (page 35)• The Tenants (page 34)• The Tender Mercies (page 40)• The Untitled Series (page 37)• Things That Go Bump (page 20)• This Man’s Tale (page 16)• Threeplay (page 53)• Thwaite (page 23)• Time Flies (page 41)• Today – a leaning axis (page 36)• Tom Crean,

Antartic Explorer (page 22)• Two Sisters And A Piano (page 24)• Ubu Roi (page 44)• Va-et-Vient et Autres Soliloques

(de Samuel Beckett) (page 46)• VS Naipaul’s

Miguel Street (page 20)• WhiteWASH + 2b (page 27)• Working It Out (page 12)

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