ABOUT

Dublin Fringe Festival is a curated, multidisciplinary arts festival and a year-round artist support organisation. A framework for artistic risk, offering opportunities for artists to challenge and invigorate their practice, and extend the possibilities of what art can be.

Contemporary, playful and provocative new work made by Irish and international artists of vision in an annual celebration all over the city.

 

FRINGE @ BEWLEY'S​

FERMENTED DREAMS by Jess Kavanagh

Sept 9th - 14th

Noelle, a 40-year-old musician, is late for her headline show with three influential attendees awaiting her arrival. Armed with excuses, spicy piano ballads, spoken word, and chaotic monologues, Noelle traces her path from day dreaming child to spotlight-seeking teen to her current terrified self.

This darkly comedic and vulnerable play dives into hope, creativity, vocation, and confronting your dreams. Are they dead and rotten, or just smelling funny and salvageable? Will Noelle find the validation she's looking for, or will it be another stinker she'll wash down with booze?

 

SECRETS, SECRETS, SHH by Síomha McQuinn

Sept 10th - 15th

Cloakroom Girl can tell a lot about her customers from the contents of their pockets...

Join her on an evening shift that spirals out of control. Once she receives an alarming phone call, she is forced to protect her beloved cloakroom, dance with death and confront her own secrets.

An absurd, one-woman show about loose change, loneliness and the pain of letting go.

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BiTCH by Marty Breen

Sept 11th - 15th

Drunk, down, and disgustustingly horny, they're scared of the men they want and hate the women they want to be.

Overwhelmed by self-loathing and loathing everyone else, they down a bottle of wine, and take to the stage.

But there's someone else here too. And he has a lot to say.

An explosive drag cabaret about whether bad things happen cuz you're a bad person, or it it's the other way round.

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BAD GIRL: A ONE MAN SHOW by Felix O'Connor

Sept 17th - 21st

We've all been there. You're fourteen, struggling to fit in with the other girls in your all-girls school, the stories you write have male protagonists and you kind of wish that one day you might be able to grow a beard.

Everyone feels that way... right?

Join Felix as he recounts the horrors of single-sex schooling, the MANY signs that he wasn't what everyone assumed him to be, and opens up a dialogue with the awkward teenage girl he left behind, proving you don't have to be a good girl to grow into a better man.

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AN EVENING WITH WEE DANIEL by Aoife Sweeney O'Connor

Sept 18th - 21st

Experience the magic of Daniel O'Donnell live in concert... almost!

Join Aoife for an absurdist autobiographical cabaret as they celebrate quare identity, growing up in Donegal, and their unironic obsession with wee Daniel. From their first meeting with Daniel as a baby, to a surprise appearance at their mother's funeral.

This is not a piss take, it's a rapturous love letter to the rural queer non-binary experience, to mammies and to our Daniel.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, and g'wan, you'll have a cup of tea.

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Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible via the main Grafton Street entrance with a lift to the second floor.