Dublin Fringe Festival – LGBT Interest

Sep 5th, 2009 | By By Optical Mouse | Category: Leave a Comment Posted in Out on the Town

Tags: At Last!, Camille O'Sullivan, Dance Club, dublin fringe festival, La Clique, LGBT, Madame Butterfly, Nico Muhly, Pregnant?!, Street Art Club, Synth Eastwood Has You Surrounded, The Crown Jewels: a workshop production, Victor and Gord, Victor and Gord Cubed, Where Did It All Go Right?, Your Letter

The Dublin Fringe Festival kicks off today with an array of weird and wonderful productions for your enjoyment. Gaelick caught with them recently to see what’s on the menu
for us queers.

We have a number of shows in our festival that we think would appeal to a general gay and lesbian audience…

These range across the spectrum of our genres, but the especially fantastic Spiegeltent nights include Camille O’Sullivan (David Bowie, Nick Cave and Jacques Brel covers, who has a huge gay following and which is selling out fast), Nico Muhly, the beautiful camp contemporary composer who scored The Reader and who’s worked with Anthony and the Johnsons, Bjork and Rufus Wainwright, and Synth Eastwood Has You Surrounded, a music and visual art extravaganza from the Synth Eastwood boys.

SHOW: Camille O’Sullivan

TEN WORD PITCH: When she sings it’s as though her breath is soaked in paraffin; one spark, and the whole room would ignite.

VENUE: Spiegeltent

TIME: Doors 9.30pm

DATE Wed 16th

TICKET PRICE: €26.50

SHOW: Nico Muhly

COMPANY: Presented by Absolut Fringe

TEN WORD PITCH: This 20-something modern classical composer’s first Irish gig.

VENUE: Spiegeltent

TIME: 8.00pm (doors open 7.30pm)

DATE: Sun 6th

TICKET PRICE: €25

SHOW: Synth Eastwood Has You Surrounded

TEN WORD PITCH: This music/visueal art night promises to take the tent into the beyond… maybe even beyonder.

VENUE: Spiegeltent

TIME: Doors 9.30pm

DATE: Thurs 10th

TICKET PRICE: €15

And then of course there’s La Clique (and La Clique Up Late, a new cheekier late night show). David O’Mer is back with his bathtub (and rubber ducky) along with the muscled and patriotically undergarmented English Gents, and this year they’re joined by Le Gateaux Chocolat, an opera singer with a penchant for lycra and laughter, the fiery and curvaceous Marawa, demon on the hula-hoop and arialist drag queen Lloyd aka Hymen. Plus lots and lots more, with the ABSOLUT FRINGE bars open ’til late!

SHOW: La Clique

VENUE: Spiegeltent

TIME: Doors 6:30pm (Mon-Sat)& Doors 9:30pm on Fri & Sat. Doors 5:30pm only on Sun 20th

DATES: 8th-20th (Excluding Sun 13th; Two shows on Fridays & Saturdays)

TICKET PRICE: €34.50/€36.50 on Fridays & Saturdays

Perhaps most excitingly, we’ve come up with an all new way for everyone to participate in the festival with our Fringe Clubs. There’s the awsome Dance Club headed by David Bolger of Cois Ceim, where he’ll choreograph a routine with you, absolutely all experience levels welcome! Will St. Leger takes the helm of our Street Art Club up at the Bernard Shaw, so get ready to get messy with spray paint and stencil art! All of our clubs have an extremely limited capacity and include a “field trip” to another ABSOLUT FRINGE show so be sure to book straight away!

SHOW: Street Art Club

COMPANY: Absolut Fringe & Will St. Leger

TEN WORD PITCH: Indulge your latent creativity in an accessible and fun way!

VENUE: Bernard Shaw

FIELD TRIP: Mind The Gap Thurs 17th

DATES: Wed 9th 7-9pm, Sun 13th, Wed 16th, Sun 20th 2-4pm

TICKET PRICE: €30

SHOW: Dance Club

COMPANY: Absolut Fringe & David Bolger

TEN WORD PITCH: Indulge your latent creativity in an accessible and fun way!

VENUE: The Lab

FIELD TRIP: Aerowaves Sun 13th

DATES: Sat 5th, 12th & 19th 4-6pm, Wed 9th & 16th 7-9pm,

TICKET PRICE: €30

Theatre-wise at the Fringe we’ve got more site-specific stuff than ever before! See new work in new venues, like a van or a bush in Merrion Square. And in a shop front on Crane Lane, sandwiched between the Boilerhouse and Stringfellows, Madam Butterfly presents her women only show. Men can watch, but only through the window. Una McKevitt revamps her Victor and Gord for ABSOLUT FRINGE with a brand new relationship addition. Happy and sad and profound yet low key all at the same time.

The Crown Jewels is a workshop production all around Dublin Castle from Belfast Company lalanoo about royal family homosexuality scandals (ooh-arr).

SHOW: Madame Butterfly

COMPANY: Aideen McDonald

TEN WORD PITCH: Ladies, welcome to an intimate audience at Madame Butterfly’s poetry boudoir.

VENUE: No. 5 Crane Lane

TIME: 9pm & 10pm, plus 8pm on 18th & 19th

DATES: Fri 11th – Sat 19th, excl. Tues 15

TICKET PRICE: €15

SHOW: Victor and Gord Cubed

COMPANY: Una McKevitt

TEN WORD PITCH: Friends and Family. You can leave them. They never leave you.

VENUE: Project Arts Centre Cube

TIME: 6.30pm

DATES: Thurs 10th – Sat 12th

MATINEE DATES: 12:00:00 AM

MATINEE TIMES: 12:00:00 AM

TICKET PRICE: €15/12 (for every show)

SHOW: The Crown Jewels: a workshop production

COMPANY: la la noo

TEN WORD PITCH: A shocking crime remains unsolved. Why? Why else? Sex and politics.

VENUE: Dublin Castle, the entrance to the State Apartments

TIME: 11.30am

DATES: Sat 12th & Sun 13th

TICKET PRICE: €6

Pantibar hosts the always fantastic and hilarious ponydance with their new show Where Did It All Go Right? It’s a comedy dance show, and every member of the cast is a stunner (and they usually wear skimpy, skimpy shorts). And speaking of hot dancer types, Your Letter, At Last! showcases Guillaume Pige’s poetic form of physical theatre (awfully easy on the eye). Finally, perhaps the most bonkers show of all features Mamoro Iriguchi, pregnant with rabbits. Plus, it’s double billed with a concert by experimental musicians Origamibiro and the bar in the Project Arts Centre will be open throughout it. Brilliant night out guaranteed!

SHOW: Where Did It All Go Right?

COMPANY: ponydance

TEN WORD PITCH: We’re here for a good time, not a long time.

VENUE: Downstairs @ Panti Bar, Capel St.

TIME: 6.00pm

DATES: 7th-20th (exclu. Mon 14th)

PREVIEW: Sun 6th

TICKET PRICE: €12/10/8