From Shakespeare to Beckett, and much, much more - there's loads of fantastic plays at the Helix this Spring.
1st - 3rd April
Venue: The Helix
Time: 20.30 (3rd only) / 20.00 (1st & 2nd only) / 18.00 (3rd only)
Tickets: €17 / €12 (conc)
A stunning production of the 80's movie classic, with big voices, big dreams and leg-warmers all round (bad hair's optional).
9th - 12th April
The Helix presents
John Breen's FALLING OUT OF LOVE
Time: 20.00
Tickets: €24.50, €22, €19.50 (conc.)
Barry loves Audrey and is going to bungee off the roof of her building to win her back. David has just broken Ciara's heart and now she is going to break his furniture. Edward has been carrying out a secret sexual experiment on Fiona for three weeks and she hasn't even noticed! Three relationships, two proposals , one doomed sofa . What do they all have in common? Falling out of love: because there is nothing as funny as other people's misery.
23rd - 26th April
The Helix & City Theatre Dublin present
THE LOVE-HUNGRY FARMER (Adapted from John B. Keane's "Letters of a Love-Hungry Farmer")
Time: 20.15
Tickets: €24.50, €22, €19.50 (conc.)
John Bosco McLane is still a bachelor at 56, "past his best" (according himself) and evidently still a virgin. McClane's amorous adventures range from the cartoonish to the pitiful. He has tales of being led on and humiliated, outraged and offended, duped and shamed. Even the strenuous efforts of matchmaker Dicky Mick Dicky O'Connor fail him!
1st - 3rd May
The Helix and the Gare St Lazare Players present
Samuel Beckett's FIRST LOVE
Time: 19.30
Tickets: €21 / €17 (conc.)
Internationally renowned for their fresh and accessible versions of Beckett's prose works, Gare St Lazare present acclaimed actor, Conor Lovett with this novella in which the narrator, expelled from the family home upon the death of his father, takes refuge on a bench by a canal. There he meets a woman who takes him home and the events that follow are hilariously terrible. A masterpiece of Beckettian perversity!
2nd May
The Red Fighting Peacock. in association with the Burma Campaign UK, presents
Richard Shannon's THE LADY OF BURMA
Time: 20.15
Tickets: €24.50, €22, €19.50 (conc.)
The inspirational true story of Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi is told in this compelling solo performance about the life of the only Nobel Peace Prize winner who is also a political prisoner. Despite being the democratically elected leader of the country, Burma's military junta have kept Suu Kyi under house arrest for over a decade. This powerful performance has already been made sell-out appearances at the Edinburgh festival and the Old Vic in London. Regardless of what you know or think about Burmese politics, this show is an unmissable hymn to the power of the human spirit in the quest for freedom.
20th - 24th May
The Helix and Fishamble: The New Play Company present
Sebastian Barry's THE PRIDE OF PARNELL STREET
Time: 20.00
Tickets: €25, €22
After it's stunning success in London and at The Dublin Theatre Festival Fishamble returns with its highly-acclaimed production of The Pride of Parnell Street by Sebastian Barry for a limited run prior to its transfer to Europe and the USA in June. The Pride of Parnell Street is a moving account of a marriage and a time that have both past. Through interconnecting monologues an estranged couple, Janet and Joe, chart the intimacies of their love and the rupturing of their relationship, as well as their enduring love affair with Dublin city itself. This is an intimate, heroic tale of ordinary and extraordinary life on the streets of Dublin.
DCU
Collins Avenue
Glasnevin
Dublin 9
Box Office: 01 700 7000
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