Following a sell-out run at Galway International Arts Festival in 2018, Druid returns with Sonya Kelly’s Furniture; a humorous, insightful, touching and often philosophical look at who we are and how we’d like to be perceived.
★★★★ Mail on Sunday
A brilliant spin on the character of Joxer Daly from Seán O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock, this new one-man play stars Pheilim Drew as an ordinary man living in extraordinary times.
★★★★ The Guardian
A hilarious, absurd and poignant tale of a 100-year-old Irishman… and his father! Written by Mark Doherty and directed by award-winning actor Aaron Monaghan.
Everyone has a story to tell…but there’s a time and a place.
Follow Charlie, the queen of self-sabotage as she tries desperately - for once in her life – to keep her mouth shut long enough to make it count.
A powerful new play by Colin Murphy (Haughey|Gregory, Bailed Out!) based on the events that lead up to the 2015 Marriage Equality Referendum.
Proceeds will go to Pieta House.
★★★★ Time Out
The story of a nomadic manservant in the house of his unseen master as adapted and performed by Barry McGovern, one of the world’s greatest Beckett interpreters.
Christof Loy directs a starstudded cast of singers, including Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tezier, in Verdi’s epic opera, conducted by Antonio Pappano.
★★★★ The Arts Review
★★★★ Irish Mail on Sunday
A tender, funny and heart-warming portrait of a marriage and the decisions you face when the person you love goes out of their mind.
★★★★ The Arts Review
A new play by Colin Murphy focused on TD Tony Gregory’ 1982 battle with Taoiseach Chales Haughey over plans to bulldoze parts of Dublin’s impoverished inner city.
Experience the decadence and elegance of 1870s Paris in Davis McVicar’s spectacular production of Gounod’s best loved opera. There are many versions of the story of Faust, but Gounod’s opera remains one of the most constantly enthralling.
Broadcast live from Shakespeare’s Globe, London
The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only comedy that Shakespeare set in his native land, and with its witty mix of verbal and physical humour, the play celebrates a tradition that reaches right down to the contemporary English sitcom.
★★★★ The Times
Mikel Murfi’s wildly successful solo play, which follows Pat Farnon as he walks to town and back again, returns once more to Pavilion Theatre!
★★★★★ The Evening Standard
★★★★ The Times
I Hear You and Rejoice is the tender and joy-filled sequel to Mikel Murfi’s wildly popular play The Man in the Woman’s Shoes.
★★★★★ The Scotsman
★★★★★ The Herald
★★★★ Daily Mail
A unique collage of Kabuki dance and Irish storytelling, Fishamble’s Forgotten by Pat Kinevane has been a huge international success during the past decade. It is a captivating portrayal of four elderly characters living in retirement homes around Ireland.
★★★★★ The Herald
★★★★ The Scotsman
Olivier Award Winner
Homeless McGoldrig has lost it all - including his mind. Dare to laugh at despair and gasp at redemption in this brave, bleak, beautiful production for which Fishamble and Pat Kinevane won an Olivier Award in 2016.
★★★★★ Scotsman
★★★★ Irish Times
★★★★ Sunday Business Post
Fishamble’s Underneath by Pat Kinevane is a blackly comic, rich and vivid tale of a life lived in secret, a testament to the people who live on the fringes, under the nose of everyday life.
★★★★ 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.
★★★★★ The Irish Examiner
★★★★★ The Sunday Business Post
★★★★ The Scotsman
The story of an ordinary man who embarked upon an extraordinary adventure is brought to life in this multi-award winning, dramatic and humorous one-man show.
Following the massive success of The Tales of Hoffmann and Orfeo ed Euridice, Irish National Opera returns to Dún Laoghaire with a stunning new production of Vivaldi’s political and romantic thriller, Griselda.
