Extra date added due to demand: Fri 7 Jun
★★★★ The Irish Times
★★★★ The Guardian
Unhook your mindbras. David O’Doherty is back with a brand-new show made up of talking and songs played on a crappy keyboard from 1986.
Irish violinist Claire Duff is joined for the very first time by the dazzling young French harpsichordist Benjamin Alard, diving deep into Bach’s powerful musical meditations on suffering, loss – and redemption.
Extra date added due to demand: Sat 14 Sep
★★★★ The Irish Times
★★★★ The Sunday Times
Before is a new play by Pat Kinevane (Forgotten, Silent, Underneath) with much music, set in Clery’s of Dublin, on the very day this iconic department store shuts - for good.
O’Rourke does not stand still and continues to forge his unique brand of original songs, drawing on influences rich and diverse. This artist delivers stories and music with epic performances that keep his audiences coming back year after year for more.
Direct from the USA, the No. 1 Johnny Cash Tribute returns to Ireland!
Featuring Terry Lee Goffee and his brilliant band playing Cash’s best-known songs.
★★★★★ Le Parisien
★★★★ The Sydney Morning Herald
A tender, humane French drama about a no-nonsense everyman who goes through a series of family crises which turn his world upside down.
Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival on Tour
★★★★ FILMINK
A lighthearted Australian comedy about a small-town football team that must recruit local refugees in order to stay viable, taking the community on a journey of change.
★★★★ The Irish Times
★★★★ Irish Examiner
★★★★ The Arts Review
This major new production of Gluck’s revolutionary work Orfeo ed Euridice is based on one of the most famous stories in history and features a powerful mix of music, song, dance and imagery.
Rock ‘n’ Roll Years and Dance Hall Days is a brilliant night of music featuring George Jones, Clubsound and four wonderful singers.
The show will transport you back to the nostalgic days and incredible artists of ‘50s and ‘60s.
Thomas is a 55 year old Irish farmer who lives and works the farm of his ancestors. Threadbare clothes, self-cut hair and tough, weathered hands reveal a life of land and toil. What begins as a story of one man’s struggle to hold on to his way of life and land, transforms into a universal exploration of a battle between principle and power.
★★★★★ Financial Times
★★★★★ The Times
★★★★★ Observer
★★★★★ WhatsOnStage
Broadcast from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power.
Ultimate School of Music is back at Pavilion Theatre for another amazing Student Performance. This year we are excited to have the soulful vocals of Esosa Ighodaro joining our students as special guest.
Exhibition on Screen looks at the early years of Picasso; the upbringing and the learning that led to his extraordinary achievements. Many films have dealt with Picasso’s later years but where did this all begin?
★★★★★ The Observer
★★★★ Time Out London
In the final weeks of WWII a German deserter finds a Nazi captain’s uniform and becomes dangerously absorbed in impersonating its former owner.
Noel Hill (Concertina) is joined by his talented friends,Tríona Ní Dhómhnaill (Songs & Piano) Liam O’Connor (Fiddle), Jack Talty ( Piano & Concertina) for this concert in aid of Daughters of Charity Mission Fund.
Secondary School Event:
Senior Cycle French
Study Guide available for Teachers
In this year’s French film, a gently realistic debut feature, two teens grow up fast in the wake of an unexpected pregnancy.
Fasten your seatbelts as Grammy Award-winning songstress and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens and Italian jazz maestro Francesco Turrisi take you on a musical voyage of discovery from Africa and the Middle East across to Europe and the Americas.
The Irish rock band behind hits like Don’t Go and I Can See Clearly Now return to Pavilion Theatre for a very special concert.
Secondary School Event:
Senior Cycle German
Study Guide available for Teachers
Post-screening Q&A with German Ambassador to Ireland H.E. Deike Potzel.
Based on true events, Silent Revolution is a captivating Cold War-era drama told from the perspective of two East-German high school students.
Two giants of the Irish trad scene, Andy Irvine and Dónal Lunny are uniting for an evening of great music, a mixture of traditional songs, and originals composed by Andy.
