Competition: Theatre - Smitten and Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down @ The Teachers’ Club

We got wind of the upcoming La Touche Players productions at The Teachers’ Club on d’Twitter. They’re two one-act plays kicking off next Tuesday (22nd) at 8pm and running nightly until Saturday 26th and we very much like the look of them. The first, Smitten, directed by Karen Maher, is based in humdrum suburbia and commences with the innocent meeting of two people on a stormy night. The rub? Each of them is hiding a deep secret. Meanwhile, Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down under the direction of Emily Maher is the story of three women from the same village - Lynette, Ruby and Jodie - telling us about their lives up to now and how one man has had a profound effect on each of them in an interweaving tale. If you haven’t caught theatre in The Teachers’ Club before, it’s worth noting that it’s frequently the site of … There’s more

International Gay Theatre Festival

Yes I know, I know, I already posted about the Absolut Gay Theatre Festival - but guess what? There are two Dublin gay theatre festivals on at the same time every year. No doubt there is a complicated and interesting back story to that one so if anyone would like to enlighten me, please do The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival (IDGTF) is in it’s seventh year having first debuted in summer 2004 to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Oscar Wilde. The festival celebrates the contributions of gay people to theatre, past and present with performances and shows with broadly gay themes, relevance or by gay writers. Slightly less expensive than the other festival, tickets for IDGTF performances range in price from €8-€15 in venues such as The Teachers Club on Parnell Square, The Complex on Smithfield Square, James Joyce Centre and The Cobalt Café, both on … There’s more