The 2007 Dublin festival has already enjoyed record box office sales. The festival will be celebrating its 50th year too; from 27th September to 14th October it's your chance to see some of the freshest young talents on stage side by side with the wit and wisdom of some old hands.
Here are our Dublin festival highlights:
Our hot one to watch:
Long Day's Journey into Night, Gaiety Theatre, Dublin - October 2 to 13
Eugene O Neill is regarded as America's greatest dramatist and Long Day's Journey into Night his finest play. Add to that with the stage presence of one of America's greatest actors, James Cromwell, and you're on to a winner.
The Playboy of the Western World, Abbey Theatre, Dublin
In
this contemporary re-imagining of Synge’s great classic, the Playboy is Christopher Malomo, a
well-educated refugee from Nigeria, on the run after he ‘killed’ his father with
a pestle for pounding yams.
Fragments, Tivoli Theatre, Dublin - October 9 to 14
A new production featuring five of Peter Brook's shorter plays, Come and go, Rough for Theatre I, Rockaby, Act Without Words II and Neither. The revered director’s sinuous, stripped-back productions reveal all the angry warmth of the dark, despairing, and often comical, life-celebrating humanist, Samuel Beckett.
James son of James, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin
James returns home for his father’s funeral having been away for 11 years. He is late and misses the burial by a day and a half. Not long afterwards he becomes embroiled in a powerful story of heroes, love, powers and revenge.
The History Boys, Olympia Theatre, Dublin - October 9 to 13
In Alan Bennett’s remarkable play, staff-room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose. The History Boys comes to Dublin after sell-out tours of the West End and Broadway.
Homeland, Olympia Theatre, Dublin - September 28 & 29
Twenty-first century America has changed, and is rapidly becoming a radically different place. Homeland looks at American obsessions with security, distance, information, the relationship of fear and freedom, the increasing acceptance of violence, and the persistent new language of war.
The Grand Inquisitor, Tivoli Theatre, Dublin - October 10 to 14
Head back 500 years to Seville during the worst excesses of the Spanish Inquisition. In this chilling parable on religious faith and freedom of choice, hundreds of heretics are being burned at the stake, when hope suddenly returns with the arrival of a Christ-like figure that cures the sick and raises the dead...
Private Peaceful, The Ark Theatre, Dublin - October 8 to 9 - only €10
Based on the award-winning book by the third Children’s Laureate and best-selling author Michael Morpurgo, Private Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First World War soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn.
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