The second week of the 16th International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival has started with 10 great new plays to see!
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In this week's newsletter, we highlight plays concerned with love, lust, and the (sometimes indistinguishable) border between. Love and lust can be magical, forbidden, exciting, disastrous, unknown, multi-faceted, and whatever you want it to be.
Come explore our different stories!
ALL I SEE IS YOU
Bobby works on Woolies’ record counter. Ralph dreams of being a teacher. One kiss and they’re hooked. But it’s 1967 and their love is illegal. A National Octagon prizewinner inspired by real accounts of queer life from 50 years ago.
“Full of gasps & chuckles” (Go See This) “Heart-warming, heart-wrenching & heart-breaking” (Frankly My Dear) “Simply Perfect” (Canal St Online) “Truly remarkable” (Bolton Live) “Totally spellbinding” (Northern Soul)
Written by Kathrine Smith; With Ciarán Griffiths (from The Bill and Shameless) as Bobby & Christian Edwards as Ralph; Directed by Ben Occhipinti
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What do you get the man who has everything? This is the question Cormac finds himself asking as he stumbles out of an STI clinic in North London, reeling from the knowledge that he has contracted – as the saying goes – “The Full House”.
First stop: off licence, Buckfast, oblivion. Next stop: figuring out what to with your zero-hours fuck-up of a life when you’re basically a walking petri dish.
First stop: off licence, Buckfast, oblivion. Next stop: figuring out what to with your zero-hours fuck-up of a life when you’re basically a walking petri dish.
From Alan Flanagan, writer of festival favourites ‘Billy Redden’, ‘I Run, Sing, I Swim, I Dive’ and ‘Dupont & Davenport’, comes a story of dealing with extremely bad news and learning to be a grown-up when all the dicks have finally come home to roost.
‘You’re really talented… I got hard as I watched you’
Tom has always dreamt of being a successful actor, and now after years of disappointment he is finally presented with his golden opportunity… and an impossible decision to make.
Set against the backdrop of the 2017 #MeToo movement, VELVET explores the complex realities of harassment within the industry and how far a person is willing to go to achieve their dreams. However, when most creatives are riding the wave of change, will Tom’s opportunity slip through his fingers?
Tom has always dreamt of being a successful actor, and now after years of disappointment he is finally presented with his golden opportunity… and an impossible decision to make.
Set against the backdrop of the 2017 #MeToo movement, VELVET explores the complex realities of harassment within the industry and how far a person is willing to go to achieve their dreams. However, when most creatives are riding the wave of change, will Tom’s opportunity slip through his fingers?
After his sell-out run at The Manchester Fringe Festival, John is back on the prowl for gym buds and bro jobs… but no camp lads thanks, real men only. The Little Pink Book of Masculinity is a hilariously camp frolic, filled with a plethora of witticisms and astute observations on the pressure to conform to masculine stereotypes. Journey with John as he uncovers the pitfalls of the gay community, the desire for that much idealised insta-body, the treacherous path of dating apps and just how toxic masculinity can really be.
Written and directed by John Best
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How do you measure a man? Is it the way he walks, the way he talks? The critically-acclaimed queer artist Gavin Roach makes his Dublin debut with his one man show, The Measure of a Man. Told in Roach’s trademark humorous, raw and deeply candid style, The Measure of a Man will stare into the heart of one man’s sexual anxieties and pull out the kinds of stories much LGBTI theatre shies away from — stories often shrouded in embarrassment or shame.
Written by Gavin Roach; Directed by Lauren Hopley
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On Sunday 19 May, we end our festival with our Gala Awards Night.
The Gala Awards Night is the highlight of the Festival where we close the curtains on two packed weeks of theatre with a range of festival highlights, musical acts and our prestigious ‘Oscar’ Festival Awards.
A celebration of theatre, the creativity and talents of our participants and the hard work of our volunteers; it is not to be missed.
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