Win a pair of tickets to three Dublin Theatre Festival shows.

Dublin Theatre Festival returns from September 25th to October 12th across Dublin.

The 2025 programme which features both a renewed focus on international companies bringing work to Ireland, and excellent work from some of Ireland’s most exciting theatre artists, explores the big conversations happening across the world right now. The programme features electrifying theatre by some of the great artists of the world, who will light up stages and spaces across Dublin with work from Peru, Ukraine, Scotland, England, France, Poland, Belgium, India and Spain. This is a truly international festival of ambitious, contemporary work.

This year’s festival takes great pride in centring the stories and experiences of D/deaf people, neurodivergent people, and people with disabilities in productions including Hamlet, Deaf Republic, Her Father’s Voice, The Making of Pinocchio, What Are You Afraid Of?, My Right Foot and Konstantin. New ways of experiencing the world we live in are opened up with great sensitivity and imagination.

Don’t miss your chance to see the best of international and Irish theatre in the coming weeks. It’s time to take your seat!

The winner of this competition will enjoy two tickets to three standout shows: Her Father’s Voice, Be Careful and Pieces of a Woman.

Her Father’s Voice

Shane O’Reilly fuses theatre, opera and film in a bold and ambitious new work, Her Father’s Voice. A young girl is about to have cochlear implant surgery as her parents’ wrestle with the weight of their choices in this contemporary family drama. Her Father’s Voice will run at O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College from 1-5 Oct.

The winner will receive two tickets for Her Father’s Voice at O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College on Thursday 2 Oct at 7.30pm.

Be Careful

At Project Arts Centre, Be Careful, from Mallika Taneja (India) is a performance work that challenges the notion of safety. Rooted in anger about the everyday violence against women, the show questions the burden of responsibility placed on women to ensure they are not attacked in public space.

The winner will receive two tickets for Be Careful at Project Arts Centre (Cube) on Thurs 9 Oct at 7.45pm.

Pieces of a Woman

Set against the backdrop of present-day Warsaw, 30-year-old Maja comes to terms with a traumatic loss. Pieces of a Woman is from the writer (Kata Wéber) and director (Kornél Mundruczó) behind the award-winning hit Netflix film adaptation; witness the Irish stage premiere from TR Warszawa Poland. Pieces of a Woman will run at O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College from 10-11 Oct.

The winner will receive two tickets for Pieces of a Woman at O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College on Saturday 11 Oct at 7.30pm.

For your chance to win, simply fill in the forms below. Good luck!

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1. The promotion is open to residents of Ireland aged 18 years or over except employees of the Promoter, their families, agents or anyone professionally connected with the promotion.
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10. The prize is two tickets for Her Father’s Voice at O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College on Thursday 2 Oct at 7.30pm. Two tickets for Be Careful at Project Arts Centre (Cube) on Thursday 9 Oct at 7.45pm. Two tickets for Pieces of a Woman at O’Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College on Saturday 11 Oct, 7.30pm. There will be one winner.
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