Festival file

Opening Tonight:

Main festival

The Weeping Of Angels at the Gate;

Measure For Measure at the Gaiety;

The Beauty Queen Of Leenane at the Olympia;

It's A Slippery Slope at the Tivoli;

Phaedra at the SFX.

Fringe festival:

The Master Builder at St Anthony's Theatre;

Marriage Of Convenience at Andrews Lane Studio;

Anna Livia Plurabelle at The Joyce Centre.

Festival Must See:

Galloping Cat's production of A Kaddish at Space 28 in the North Lotts (behind Bachelor's Walk), uses innovative theatrical techniques to bring the horror of the Holocaust movingly and searingly home.