Dublin Fringe Festival

Julius Caesar Variety Show: An anxious comedy about a theatre industry refusing to evolve

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: In aiming to unsettle, Joy Nesbitt’s satire relies on less plausible devices

Paddy Daddy: Gloriously camp cabaret chronicling Mark T Cox’s intimate affairs in rural Ireland

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Cox jests about being a superstar, but, in his quick-witted humour and candid authenticity, he already is

It Was Paradise, Unfortunately: A stunningly clever investigation of theatre as a trans art form

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Raphaël Amahl Khouri’s delivery makes traumatic revelations come across as funnily offbeat

I used to swallow my tongue at meetings. Now I’ll stand up in front of any crowd. Want to know what made the difference?

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Ireland’s growing improv scene will teach you how to let go and play around

Malignant Humour review: This one-woman wonder is far funnier than a cancer-inspired circus act has any right to be

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Hannah Gumbrielle’s storytelling is acrobatic as she is in this show about her lymphoma diagnosis and treatment

Afterwards review: Impeccable performances and crackling dialogue in a play with an unmistakable purpose

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Janet Moran cannily sets post-Eighth Amendment comedy in English abortion clinic

An Attempt to Talk With the Beginning of the World: Organic, sensitive, magical

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Anna Newell’s immersive dance performance for babies creates a beautiful, deeply rewarding experience

Illness as Metaphor: A clever, moving and genuinely new piece of theatre

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Dead Centre’s new production features remarkable performances from six people living with long-term illness

Dancehall Blues: Dark odyssey oscillates between 20th-century Europe and the post-Covid era

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The ‘great reset’ provides the backdrop for an enigmatic show brought to life by Stephanie Dufresne and Alex O’Neill

Terra: A dancer – and a planet – trying to get back to certain kind of feeling

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: In Alessandra Azeviche’s slow-burning show, the choreographer sets out to break free from her torments

The Man Who Talks to Statues: A bit like a skit your mam might send around her book-club group chat

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: A one-man show is no easy feat, but the Young Offenders star Shane Casey struggles to fill the stage

Television: A high-wattage cabaret with enough power to imagine something new

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: SexyTadhg’s ingenious show meditates on concerns about authentic selves while the outside world beams into people’s minds

A Good Room: A terrace house becomes the last decent comedy club in town

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Cian Jordan and Allie O’Rourke share their journeys into stand-up in this zippy but fraught comedy show

Louis Lovett on The Maestro & the Mosquita: ‘I create the physical space on stage for the audience’s imagination’

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: At the heart of Carmel Winters’s new play, with music by Oscar-winner Stephen Warbeck, is the non-vernal performance by Lovett

The Guide: Dublin Fringe Festival, Gilbert O’Sullivan and more acts to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end

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Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: 19 shows to catch as the festival turns 30

Seventy-five productions, 520 performances, 29 venues: we offer a taster of what’s on offer

Gatman! review: Tadhg Hickey’s monologue is an exposition of inebriation as something joyous

Theatre: Telling has the comedy of self-awareness but falters as it gathers its darkness

Cabaret artist SexyTadhg: ‘Irish speakers are very rebellious. So a queer Irish speaker is welcomed’

What’s Next For?: The musician, singer and performer is bringing their show Television to this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival

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