Dublin Fringe Festival 2008
6th - 21st September
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Better, brighter and bolder Fringe Festival takes Dublin city
to new heights
Opera-ating flash mobs, a giant test tube filled with water and a man, a world class Bouffon clown and a giant ‘f’ are among the weird and wonderful events set to explode onto Dublin’s streets this September16-days & nights of envelope-pushing performing arts & music
Get kidnapped. Be paranoid. Savour unexpected, magic moments. A giant man-filled test tube, pimped-up secret Dublin gardens, contortionists, acrobats and a JCB Digger ballet are among those ripping up and rebuilding Dublin city this September as part of the 14th annual Dublin Fringe Festival.
Attracting 12 participating countries from around the globe to showcase their cutting edge performance art, audiences will get to experience the likes of Ireland’s first flash mob opera, comedian Tommy Tiernan directing his cousins Niamh and Eleanor in the show Help! and a new play by Patrick McCabe [Breakfast on Pluto]. There will be 20 premieres of new Irish plays and 6 rehearsed readings, including a play written by an Irish prison inmate about a prison-break called Thicker Than Water, a show with just 3 tickets on offer called Paranoid, where the highest bidder gets the ticket and an opportunity to attend a show in the smallest auditorium in the world on South King Street.
This year’s Fringe brings the biggest and boldest music line up in Fringe Festival history, all resonating spectacularly from the new Hennessy Spiegeltent, which will sit happily alongside brand new venue The Bosco Tent in its own ‘Secret Garden’. Acts include The Fall and The Sugar Hill Gang, in addition to Camille, who is back for another wonderful night of music with friends and some cats. Also returning to the Spiegeltent is last year’s sell-out smash La Clique.
For 16 days and nights the Fringe Festival offers, live music gigs and performances with 130 companies (110 shows) spanning theatre, dance, music, live and visual arts in 36 venues across Dublin including 4 art galleries, a crypt, a warehouse, a disused school in Ballymun, a hotel room and a gay bar. The 2008 Dublin Fringe Festival is a full-on non-discriminative, immersive arts experience that will leave you coming back for much much more.
Dublin Fringe Festival
Sackville House
Sackville Place
Dublin 1
Tel: +353 1 817 1677
Fax: +353 1 817 1678
Email:press@fringefest.com
Website:www.fringefest.com