Dublin Fringe Festival

Date: 11th-26th September 2010
Location: Various Locations
Price: 5 - 29 Euros

To celebrate its 16th year the Dublin Absolut Fringe Festival will see sixteen days & nights of the best in performing arts, music & comedy throughout Dublin city. The festival will include 50 naked women, a dancing minotaur, a ukulele-playing gender bender and a chameleon chanteuse will join four fiddling folk sonic explorers, a punk rock, pre-war delta band, and a fabled moonologist.

Events include:

THEATRE

MEDEA | Siren Productions
A contemporary take on a classic, award-winning director Selina Cartmell returns to the festival with a stunning new translation by poet Robin Robertson of Euripides' Medea.

JERK | ABSOLUT Fringe presents Gisele Vienne, Dennis Cooper & Jonathan Capdevielle
Based on cult author Dennis Cooper's novella about the murder of more than twenty boys in Texas during the 1970's. David Brooks, accomplice to serial killer Dean Corll has just discovered the art of puppetry while serving his life sentence in prison. His reconstruction of the horrific crimes using glove puppets is a crafted performance - a gruesome visual world is created around this deceptively stark set.

As you are now so once were we | The Company
Last year's well-deserved Spirit of the Fringe winners for "Who is Fergus Kilpatrick?" return to the festival to explore the most famous Irish work of literature Ulysses.

COMEDY

Miranda Sings
Miranda Sings is a lipstick-wearing, epileptic eyebrowed, crooked-smiling beauty as she makes her much-awaited debut in Ireland. An internet sensation (her YouTube videos have been viewed over 8 million times) she is a distinctive performer whose off-key singing and sassy attitude prompts surreal and hilarious comments all over the web.

Miranda Sings does Michael Jackson


Delicious O'Grady | Colm O'Grady
Ireland's premier circus performer and comedian Colm (Delicious) O'Grady presents a tragicomedy set in the time of the Great Irish Famine. A story of love, loss and potatoes. 

Strollinstown | Diet of Worms
Dublin's freshest comedy ensemble make their Fringe debut with a small town drama of national importance. RICHIE GRACE NEEDS YOUR VOTE! If he doesn't get it, he'll lose a lot more than the Strollinstown council by-election. He'll lose his wife, his business, but worst of all he'll lose the villa in Torremolinos!

MUSIC - ABSOLUT Fringe Factory

The Finge Festival will include the Icelandic Music Weekend featuring Amiina, Olof Arnalds, and FM Belfast and the Irish Music Weekend featuring Pocket Jazz Festival, Camille Olof Sullivan and Four on the Fringe of Folk. Spectacular performance artist Taylor Mac waill also perform. Taylor Mac is famous for his ukulele playing gender-bending performances.

DANCE

Anybody Waitin'? | ponydance
Champions of comedy dance theatre and all things brilliantly average, ponydance perform anywhere and at anytime - keep a look out for this special ABSOLUT commissioned event.

The Ballet Ruse | Muirne Bloomer & Emma O'Kane
Once upon a time two budding ballerinas battled for perfection in the sugar-coated world of Ballet. Their hopes and dreams didn't survive - but they did. This is their story. Choreographed and performed by Muirne Bloomer and Emma O'Kane.

Listowel Syndrome | Emma Martin
A dark tale of small town solidarity. Majority rules and a close-knit community turns on one of its own. This is Listowel Syndrome - in a small town you can't afford to make enemies and actions do have consequences. Told through dance, text, song and live music, this is a fable told for any town at any time.

OUTDOOR & UNUSUAL

LiffeyTown | Fergal McCarthy
A public art installation of floating red and green houses, LiffeyTown will be moored on the River Liffey for the duration of the Festival.

Escape From The Dead Zoo | Ger Clancy & the Creative Collective
Re-opened and revitalised, Dublin's own Dead Zoo has once again come to life. Find a safe spot to watch as the animals break free to roam the grasslands of Merrion Square. Large and small-scale puppetry bring the creatures to life in this incredible spectacle of physical theatre. Inspired by the Natural History Museum and based on tales from within, this is for anyone who has marvelled and gasped in this fabulous place and is intrigued by its facts and taxidermied delights.

Berlin Love Tour | Playgroup
Playgroup transform Dublin into Berlin. The company have proved to be one of the bravest, tuned-in theatre companies that have emerged in Ireland in recent years. With Berlin Love Tour they bring you on a guided tour of Berlin on the streets of Dublin. Walk through this famously divided city and journey into the depths of the human heart. Visit the Berlin Wall, the Brandenburg Gate and the notorious site of Hitler's bunker. Directed by Tom Creed. Performed by Hilary O'Shaughnessy. Written by Lynda Radley.

The Hidden Garden | Garvan Gallagher Photography
This uplifting documentary maps the transformation of an urban dumping ground in the North Inner City into a vibrant community growing space. As informative as it is inspirational, this heart-warming film is screened in The Hidden Garden itself. Arrive early if you'd like to potter around the garden! Rooted in its local community and quintessentially Fringe in its attitude, the community garden in Summerhill is a treasure not to be missed.

Laneway | me&him&you
From dawn until dusk over eight days of the festival - this social experiment questions the possibilities of community in a mostly transient space. Laneway makes you think about public spaces with fresh eyes, me&him&you will transform Dame Lane into a people-watching paradise.

For more information see www.fringefest.com

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