Festival Season 1

E1: Fallen Angels

Two wives admit to premarital sex and contemplating adultery.

E2: The Duel

E3: I Want to Go Home

E4: Stephen D

Dublin in the early twentieth century. Young Stephen Dedalus considers his future.

E5: The Human Voice

During a long telephone call to her (much younger) lover, a woman tries to conceal her desperation.

E6: Krapp's Last Tape

On Krapp's 69th birthday he reviews a tape recording he made the year he was 39 and makes a new recording commenting on the last 12 months.

E7: The Bald Prima Donna

There is no prima donna in this play, and if there was one, she wouldn't be bald. Apart from that, what could be more normal?

E8: Stalingrad

E9: The Fire Raisers

In an area plagued by mysterious outbursts of arson, two strangers arrive and inveigle their way into the home of a wealthy bourgeois businessman. Are they the fire raisers? Surely they can't be - can they?

E10: Little Eyolf

A writer is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman. The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.

E11: The Comedy of Errors

Two unrelated men, strangers to each other, are identical twins - and so, even more confusingly, are their servants.

E12: The Respectful Prostitute

A prostitute in the Deep South is persuaded not to tell the truth about an injustice involving racial prejudice.

E13: Lysistrata

A version of Aristophane's play: Sparta and Athens are in a endless war, but Lisistrata, a beautiful woman has an idea to stop the fight, and convinces all the women to do it: no sex until there is peace.

E14: August for the People

Sir Augustus Thwaites isn't too keen on all this democracy he keeps hearing about - or is he?

E15: Trevor

E16: The Lady of the Camellias

An innocent young man falls in love with a notorious courtesan.

E17: Say Nothing

E18: The Master of Santiago

E19: Under Milk Wood

One night while the townsfolk wrestle with their dreams, seedy Captain Cat and a stranger walk the streets. Captain Cat is a blind, retired sea captain, recalling memories of drowned shipmates and Rosie Probert, a whore and the one great love of his youth

E20: A Florentine Tragedy

E21: The Old Lady Says No! Or Who Wounded Maud McCutcheon?

Denis Johnston's first play took Dublin by storm and laid the foundation of the worldwide reputation of the Dublin Gate Theatre. It takes place in the mind of an actor who is playing the Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet in a traditional patriotic drama. The actor is knocked unconscious by accident and in his reverie he imagines he is Emmet walking the streets of present-day Dublin, confronting the jarring contrast between the myth of Ireland and modern day reality.

E22: Murder in the Cathedral

T. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.

E23: The Inner World of Miss Vaughan

E24: Ring Round the Moon

Twin brothers with very different personalities are in conflict over the love of a less than worthy woman. One brother comes up with an ingenious solution to the problem.

E25: Justin Thyme

Super-cool, super-resourceful, absolutely unbeatable, British secret agent Justin Thyme springs into action.

E26: John Bull's Other Island

E27: The Life of Galileo

The researches of Galileo Galilei bring him into conflict with the Papacy - and the Inquisition.

E28: The Keep

The memory of a revered and long-dead mother binds together a Welsh family, and also prevents any of its members from having a full life. But is she really dead?

E29: Everyman

E30: Police

In an Eastern European dictatorship, the life of a policeman is not always easy.

E31: Six Characters in Search of an Author

An absurdist play about the relationship between authors, their characters, and theatre practitioners. In it, the actors, author, and crew interact with the "real characters" who appear on stage during the rehearsal of the play.

E32: Bloomsday

One day in the life of assorted Dubliners, in the summer of 1904.