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The Revenger’s Tragedy, at Dublin Fringe, puts a drill music spin on a 17th-century thriller
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Debauched, violently graphic play can feel surprisingly breezy in Kevin Keogh’s adaptation
Itch, at Dublin Fringe, is an honest, eye-opening account of the stress that accompanies a lifelong condition
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Christopher McAuley has not allowed eczema to define him. Now he’s celebrating his body
Train Man, at Dublin Fringe, is a funny, endearing show – even if its star is still being upstaged
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Charming comedy explores disability and family through a sibling rivalry
Diary of a Dublin Drag Diva, at Dublin Fringe: Is Davina Devine unguarded at last?
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Unlike her peers, Davina has revealed little about who she is out of drag
Aliens, at Dublin Fringe, is a poignant, dysfunctional road trip via an Irish ice cream dynasty
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Ambitious, memorable piece treats familiar themes in new, even alien ways
Testo, at Dublin Fringe, is a kinetic, noisy, thrilling adventure into genderpunk and transmasc
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Discombobulated by the idea of a breaststroke through a butter orgy? Buckle up for Wet Mess’s show
Constriction, at Dublin Fringe, is a haunting, lyrical meditation on motherhood
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Mai Ishikawa’s challenging performance keeps audience in a state of uncertainty
Offspring (A Modern Frankenstein) at Dublin Fringe: A subtle, personal exploration of creation and parenthood
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025 review: Emily Terndrup unleashes chaos, then controls it with comic timing
Pea Dinneen: Raising Her Voice, at Dublin Fringe, is a fantastically stirring cabaret about a trans life forced on hold
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Dinneen’s play – much like her performance – conceals revelations where you don’t expect
Can becoming a ‘Karen’ be liberating, I Want to Speak to Your Manager asks, at Dublin Fringe
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Sparky and engaging, Holly Hughes attempts to tie a complex knot
Good With Faces, Oisín Kearney’s new two hander at Dublin Fringe, is filled with punchy twists
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Vicky Allen and Patrick McBrearty play a mother and social-care worker locked in an oscillating interrogation
Clash at the Quays! II: Lokomania, at Dublin Fringe, is sweaty, sexy and mischievous
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Ahmed, With Love marshals the kind of collective energy you hope to find in underground shows but rarely do
FeliSpeaks tells their coming of age story in unexpected ways in Octopus Children, at Dublin Fringe
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Felicia Olusanya’s new work for Thisispopbaby is an incandescent verse play
Wet Mess at the Fringe: Determinedly surreal, defiantly unconventional drag
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: The London-based gender punk is finding new ways to tell stories
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Playwright Oisín Kearney on his middle name, inspiration and falling in love
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Alison Spittle, FeliSpeaks and 21 other attention-grabbing shows to keep an eye out for
This year’s festival is a great opportunity to sample the huge range of theatre, comedy, spoken word, dance, music and more being made in Ireland – plus some international treats too
The Revenger’s Tragedy: ‘I love the idea that there’s a Jacobean revenge tragedy inside each bedroom rapper’s head’
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: +353 Presents: The Revenger’s Tragedy gives a drill update to a restored classic of Jacobean theatre
Pea Dinneen: ‘Raising Her Voice was born out of frustration at seeing myself reflected nowhere in the Irish theatrical canon’
The trans artist Pea Dinneen’s Dublin Fringe Festival debut, an autobiographical show about gender, is also a reclamation of cultural space
Alison Spittle: ‘I’m treated more like a human being now I’ve lost weight’
After an illness last year, the comedian was advised to lose weight. Her new show BIG explores her relationship with her body before and after, and why no one should feel any shame for being ‘on the jabs’
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