Festivals Dublin Fringe Festival
Dublin Fringe Festival
Date: 6-21st September Other Festivals Other Entertainment Listings
Location: Various Locations
Get kidnapped. Be paranoid. Savour unexpected, magic moments. A giant man-filled test tube, pimped-up secret Dublin gardens, contortionists, acrobats and a JCB Digger ballet are among those ripping up and rebuilding Dublin city this September as part of the 14th annual Dublin Fringe Festival.
This annually anticipated, ram-packed line-up of contemporary performing arts mixes up more music, including the world renowned Spiegeltent, a gorgeous tent of mirrors, which this year will be located at the intimate and magical Iveagh Gardens and renamed for 2008 as the Hennessy Spiegeltent, which will sit happily alongside a brand new venue and younger sister tent, The Bosco Tent in its own ‘Secret Garden’.
Attracting 12 participating countries from around the globe spanning four continents to showcase their cutting edge performance art, audiences will get to experience the likes of Ireland’s first flash mob opera, comedian Tommy Tiernan directing his cousins Niamh and Eleanor in the show Help! and a new play by Patrick McCabe [Breakfast on Pluto]. There will be 20 premieres of new Irish plays and 6 rehearsed readings, including a play written by an Irish prison inmate about a prison-break called Thicker Than Water, a show with just 3 tickets on offer called Paranoid, where the highest bidder gets the ticket and an opportunity to attend a show in the smallest auditorium in the world on South King Street.
This year’s Fringe brings the biggest and boldest music line up in Fringe Festival history, all resonating spectacularly from the new Hennessy Spiegeltent, with acts from The Fall and The Sugar Hill Gang, in addition to Camille, who is back for another wonderful night of music with friends and some cats. Among the wonderful gems at this year’s Fringe Festival, you’ll find a good game of hide-and-seek to help rediscover our city, a robot’s talent show, superheroes and supervillains facing extinction in Neil Watkins play The Darkroom, X-factor ‘Fringe style’, plus the biggest sell-out shows from around the world.
Returning to the festival are some old favourites from last year after their sell out show La Clique; world renowned contortionist, Captain Frodo and sexy water-acrobats by David O’Mer come back to Dublin to a new improved home, the Hennessy Spiegeltent. Mix this sell-out sexy show together with some pimped-up artworks from Will St Leger and an all dancing, all gay son and mother cooking up a buffet a la mode, and you’ve got the most penetrating creative period in Dublin’s event calendar.
For 16 days and nights the Fringe Festival offers, live music gigs and performances with 130 companies (110 shows) spanning theatre, dance, music, live and visual arts in 36 venues across Dublin including 4 art galleries, a crypt, a warehouse, a disused school in Ballymun, a hotel room and a gay bar. The 2008 Dublin Fringe Festival is a full-on non-discriminative, immersive arts experience that will leave you coming back for much much more.
For more information see www.fringefest.com
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