Dublin Fringe Festival

Dublin Fringe Festival

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

Irish Food review: Nostalgia is served

Dublin Fringe Festival: A palatable tasting menu but the scattered folk memories of Irish cuisine leave you hungry for substance

Looking for Paradise review: The fringiest thing on the Fringe

Dublin Fringe Festival: This treasure hunt through the heart of the city dares to alter your perception of reality

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