Pilgrim

Location: Smock Alley Theatre 1662

Dates: 10th – 16th September

An Irishman’s odyssey for identity through the nightmare landscape of a world set ablaze by 9/11. Set across North America, Christopher embarks on a wild pilgrimage home for the birth of his son, but is relentlessly thwarted by outside forces. This renegade, adventure story weaves together a text rich with verbal pyro-technics, a haunting soundscape, and psychedelic visuals. 

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How to Build Your First Robot

Location: Smock Alley Theatre 1662

Dates: 14th – 20th September

What happens the day you realise you’ll never be an astronaut? You stop dreaming. It’s life, not rocket science. This is the story of an unemployed scientist. And his robot. A highly physical show about love, loyalty, failure, and the future, at its core is a poignant yet life-affirming exploration of man’s relationship with technology. This is a sci-fi buddy romantic tragi-comedy which proves the only thing that can take you further than a spaceship, is a friendship.

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The Belle Bottoms

Location: Smock Alley Theatre 1662

Dates: 15th – 20th September

Mags and Belle; two sassy ladies who have been fabulous together since junior infants. They have shared crayons, clothes, boyfriends and a lifelong love of disco music leading to the formation of The Belle Bottoms. Join them as they sing songs of nuns, restraining orders, spermy young fellas and growing up in the 1970’s. There will be flares, there will be glitter, maybe some swearing and a disco ball; if the girls can get insured. With songs by Bressie, Eleanor McEvoy, Heathers and Squeeze’s Glen Tilbrook among others. Words by Eoin Colfer, usually writing about leprechauns, it’s a step up for him.

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Hitting the Mark

Location: Smock Alley Theatre – 1662

Dates: 5th -13th September

Post-boom gloom bites and a brash American producer arrives in Ireland to revive Glenroe hoping that nostalgia will help him win the race to the bottom line. Follow the hilarious story of Eamon, a struggling actor and Ray, his body-builder best mate, as they are thrown into a bizarre world of eccentric soap-stars and cynical TV executives in this scathing satire on the delusions and pretensions of a cultural scene that is itself in need of a ‘reboot’. Praise for 2013’s co-production Pondling.

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Down and Out in Paris and London

Location: Bewleys Cafe Theatre

Dates: 9th – 20th September

A man drifting through life, in early 1930s Paris, teaching English and generally soaking up the rich underbelly of Parisian life, finds himself falling helplessly short and discovering a very different view of life, looking up from below.

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Dublin Old School

Location: Bewleys Cafe Theatre

Dates: 8th – 14th September.

Two brothers. Jason, an unemployed DJ/slacker and Daniel, an educated, homeless heroin addict. They haven’t seen or spoken to each other in 3 years. Jason stumbles from one misguided misadventure to another in Dublin. One night he finds his estranged brother on the street. Over the summer they reconnect. Two lost, fractured souls, giving each other advice, but rarely taking it. Debating different views of their past, their present, their city, and a dance music scene that led to Daniel’s addiction and gives Jason his only creative outlet.

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Charolais

Location: Bewleys Cafe Theatre

Dates: 11th – 19th September.

Perfectly marbled and bashed about ‘til tender, Show In A Bag Productions present the world premiere of Charolais, written and performed by Noni Stapleton (Class of 2002), a surreal comedy of love, longing and one woman’s intense rivalry with a Charolais heifer. This is a muddy place of simmering desire minced with a loneliness that cuts to the bone.

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Bastard: A Family History

Location: Project Arts Centre

Dates: 6th – 12th September

Oddie Braddell is an actor. You’ve probably seen him. He has appeared completely naked as a dead body in Ripper St. He has paraded an enormous pair of mustaches around the background of a crucial scene in Game of Thrones. He has been the voice of the McDonald’s Euro Saver Menu. What you probably didn’t know is that he comes from a long line of complete bastards. Bloody Braddell of Drogheda was an officer in the Cromwellian army with a particular penchant for genocide, John Waller Braddell was land agent who held the record for the highest number of evictions during the famine. What does this make Oddie? Come and find out.

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B(r)itches

Location: Project Arts Centre

Dates: 16th – 20th September.

How does theatre work? When is nudity tasteful? Would you be in an adfor laxatives if they paid you five grand? If the director told you to, Would you hit someone in the face as hard as you could? (No, harder than that.) Join our two performers as they grapple with these questions and many more They’ll take you on a tour of the theatre and its history; writers and styles get picked up, crash tested, discarded. It’ll be funny, irreverent, and thought-provoking (not to mention colossally silly). Do come along.

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Advocacy

Location: Project Arts Centre

Dates: 6th – 13th September

Advocacy is a word like any other. Some people use it, some people don’t. From the company that brought you the award-winning Death of the Tradesmen, comes a new play about other people’s shoes, policy making, policy taking, participating and walking miles. Inspired by the Social Model of Disability and conceptually exploring Disability Service Provision in Ireland, it’s an act of empathy and an effort to understand. It’s about respectfully sticking your oar in, speaking up for yourself, sticking up for each other- and the importance of knowing what goes on behind closed doors.

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The Carved Soul

Location: Smock Alley Theatre – 1662

Dates: 13th – 17th September

Ollie is a wooden puppet. But forget everything you know about puppets. Ollie is old. Ollie is tired. Ollie is grumpy. Ollie is irritable. Ollie is frustrated. Ollie does not give a shit. This is a story about stories that takes place in the void between memory and reality. This is puppetry like you have never seen it before. Ollie is brought to life by third generation puppeteer, Jason Lambert and movement specialist, Claire Walsh. The pair’s collaboration was forged in the Lambert Puppet Theatre and is taking shape for the first time at Tiger Dublin Fringe.

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