This week we highlight plays that look at the diverse lives and loves of queer women from around the globe. At IDGTF we are proud to give a platform to amazing female artists and to present their stories. They are heart-wrenching, provocative, hilarious and louder than ever!
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And don't forget ... we have €10 matinees of many of these shows at 2:30 pm / 4:00 pm next Bank Holiday Monday, 6 May 2019.
BORDERLINE
A**HOLE
6 - 11 May 2019
The Ireland Institute
A funny & personal account of one woman's dating disasters...
After years of chasing unavailable women, Julie found her ideal girlfriend. She’s really into Julie.
Miracle: This doesn’t make Julie want to run. The only trouble is they can’t agree on one thing – that Julie is the problem.
Is Julie an asshole or a borderline? Julie can’t tell.
Performed by: Julie Gieseke
Directed by: Nina Wise
Written in collaboration with: Nina Wise
Developed with: Martha Rynberg and Tanya Taylor Rubinstein
Directed by: Nina Wise
Written in collaboration with: Nina Wise
Developed with: Martha Rynberg and Tanya Taylor Rubinstein
A DRUNK
LESBIAN LOVE
AFFAIR
6 - 11 May 2019
The Ireland Institute
They’re young. They’re drunk. They’re in love…until they sober up. A Drunk Lesbian Love Affair chronicles the escapades of Sally and her “drunk lesbian lover” through a haze of whiskey and wine. A one-person show, performed and penned by Gonzalez Kane explores the vulnerability of love and sexuality, queerness and coming into one’s own. This tender-hearted comedy combines millennial discourse with poeticism in the search for a sober love.
Written and performed by: Thalia Gonzalez Kane
*Double-bill with Cello
REVOLTING
WOMEN
6 - 11 May 2019
Teachers' Club
Revolting Women: A Rebel Cabaret is a show about women in Irish history who have fought for their country, for their honour, for love and for respect. Told through a variety of performances we remember women lost to Irish history, bringing them to life and telling their stories through song, dance, film, poetry and drama. It is a show of honesty, disgust, delight, heartbreak and strength. It is a celebration of the power of women.
Written and Directed by: Sonya Mulligan
Cast: Michelle Costello, Fionnuala Halpin, Davina Brady, Catherine Anne Cullen, Yvonne Kavanagh, Bern, Mary Lally and Abby Oliveira
Cast: Michelle Costello, Fionnuala Halpin, Davina Brady, Catherine Anne Cullen, Yvonne Kavanagh, Bern, Mary Lally and Abby Oliveira
13 - 18 May 2019
Teachers' Club
This award winning lyrical and completely absorbing piece delves into the extraordinary relationship between the writer Gertrude Stein and her long time companion Alice B. Toklas. Writer Stein moved to Paris in 1903 and remained there until her death after World War II. What it was like for two strange and eccentric Jewish ladies who were committed to living their lives to the fullest in an era where women were supposed to conform?
Written by: Win Wells, by special arrangement with Samuel French, LTD
Directed by: Christopher Weare
Cast: Shirley Johnston and Lynita Crofford
Directed by: Christopher Weare
Cast: Shirley Johnston and Lynita Crofford
13 - 18 May 2019
Teachers' Club
Rape culture has contaminated women’s sexuality and intimate rituals. Is it too late to change; can it be done romantically? Grad students Vivey and Dru are living together in a committed relationship. Vivey’s assignment triggers an argument over sexual colonization and … the lack of sex in their relationship. Deeply in love and self-assertion, they struggle between the “Obligatory Scene” of a break-up or a sexual stalemate. The couple searches for radical transformation and promise of healing.
Written by: Carolyn Gage
Directed by: Amelia Cain
Cast: Alice Sia Kabia and Carli Rhoades
*Double-bill with Miss Furr and Miss Skeene
Teachers' Club
Gertrude Stein’s word portrait “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene” (about artists Ethel Mars and Maud Hunt Squire, two habituees of Stein’s salon) portrays their life together and apart from Paris to Provincetown. When published in 1922 in Vanity Fair, it is the first published use of the word “gay” to mean same-sex relationships.
Written by Gertrude Stein and adapted by Lynn C. Miller
Directed by: Margaret Van Sant
Cast: Lynda Sturner and Jane Macdonald
Directed by: Margaret Van Sant
Cast: Lynda Sturner and Jane Macdonald
*Double-bill with Obilgatory Scene
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