They've been off the listings and indulging in a little cosmetic reconstruction for the last few months! Now Draiocht Arts Centre is back and looking better than every - with a jam-packed program of shows, special events and more between now and the end of the year!

AND DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT THEIR FANTASTIC LINE-UP OF STAND-UP, MUSIC, CHILDREN'S EVENTS and VISUAL ARTS

 

Date: 9th October

Time: 20.15

Tickets: €18 / €16

Conor McPherson's tale of sex, vampires and theatre critics! Starring critically accliamed Peter Dineen, this funny, chilling and supernatural solo tale sees a  jaded theatre critic steps beyond the pale as he falls for a beautiful young actress - and into a world of seduction, entrapment and blood.

 

Dates: 10th & 11th Oct

Time: 20.15

Tickets: €12 / €10

Bursting with imagination and wit and presented by just four actors, Bouncers is an outrageous and hilarious parody of the 1990's disco scene. The four bouncers portray over twenty different characters - including sleazy DJ's, rugger buggers, pogo-ing punks and drunken slobs! The evening's events are set against the tatty glitzy glamour, flashing lights and pulsating beat of the night-club scene.

 

Jarlath Regan & Karl Spain
Date: 11th October
Time: 20.00
Tickets: €18 / €16
A double whammy of smart and relentlessly funny comedy jam-pakced with inspired one-liners, razor-sharp observations and tweven some twisted greeting cards. Jarlath Regan (Nobody Knows Jarlath Regan) and Karl Spain (Karl Spain Wants A Woman) bring their loveable charms and laugh-out-loud wit to Draoicht!

 

Date: 14th - 18th October

Time: 20.00

Tickets: €20 / €18

Truly one of the finest musicals ever written, Fiddler has enjoyed enduring international popularity. Set in Russia in 1905, the story centres on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his family and religious traditions while outside influences encroach upon their lives.

 

Date: 21st October

Time: 20.00

Tickets: €18 / €16

It is better to live in Chelsea and have a small dog … It is better to kiss somebody for the very last time … People have only one chance … One chance of making things better than the last time. Following acclaimed sell out performances in New York and Dublin Fringe Festival, IMDT presents their most exciting and hilarious show 'It is better to...' by Berlin Dance innovator Thomas Lehmen for one performance only.

 

The Bald Prima Donna
Date: 21st - 24th October
Time: 20.15
Tickets: €15 / €12
A typically English dinner party descends into surreal chaos in Eugene Ionesco's masterpiece of gentle comic absurdism is presented by one of Irelands premier amateur theatre companies. Ionesco's brilliantly conceived comedic view of the tendency of order to descend into chaos is hilarious, bewildering and just a tad bizarre!!

 

Date: 24th - 25th October

Time: 20.00

Tickets: €20 / €15

An old house on a lonely moor, a dead child - and a woman in black. A spine tingling, heart-stopping, flesh creeping, wit wrecking thriller - but don't go alone. A revival of Michael Scott's most terrifying production which originally played at the Olympia and Tivoli Theatres and left people sleeping with the lights on for weeks after.

 

Full Script Theatre Company It Runs in the Family
Date: 28th October - 1st November
Time: 20.15
Tickets: €14 / €12
Dr David Morton is rehearsing his speech for the prestigious Ponsonby Lecture, which could lead to his knighthood, when in bursts an old flame, hotly pursued by her (their?) son, who is hotly pursued by the police. Impersonations and rehearsals for the hospital pantomime all make for a delightfully frantic farce.

 

Date: 30th October

Time: 20.00

Tickets: €20 - €14

Considered by many to be one of the greatest classical ballets of all time, the beauty, romance, and music so rich in symbolic content have allowed this classic ballet to endure more than 100 years. Back by popular demand, Ballet Ireland first mounted Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake in Spring 2001 and are delighted to be re-mounting it to celebrate the company's 10th anniversary

 

Date: 10th - 15th November

Time: 20.00

Tickets: €20 / €18

This weird and wonderful melodrama is guaranteed to both thrill and appal as we plumb the depths of a murderous soul, the barber, Sweeney Todd. He has returned to London, having been deported to penal servitude in Australia 15 years earlier simply because a lecherous judge coveted his wife and young daughter. Now its time for revenge. It's a tale of obsession, of rage and tragedy which also has its lighter moments … you may laugh despite yourself, but bring a friend; you'll need someone to hold on to!

 

Date: 19th - 22nd November
Time: 20.15
Tickets: FREE! (advanced booking essential).
Meet the boutique babes, security guards, shelf-packers, trainee managers, stressed-out mums, sweet-shop attendants and charity collectors of the Blanchardstown Centre - a place that's both a temple of aspiration and a weekly necessity. Based on observations of the Centre this stylish show brings you on a phantasmagorical escalator ride through the phenomenon of the contemporary suburban shopping experience.

Me & Gildea
Date: 20th November
Time: 20.00
Tickets: €18 / €16
Stand-up siblings Kevin and Anne Gildea bring their unique comedy stylings together in one explosively funny show.

 

Date: 30th November

Time: 15.00 & 20.00

Tickets: €30 / €25

This double bill is part of an evening that includes dinner at the 30ft table where the plays are performed. The first show, Raccoon, is a poignant, lyrical tale of small town Irish life. Saoirse, a waitress in a small café, doesn't know who she is or where she comes from but by a bizarre chance encounter in her café she is offered the opportunity to reconstruct her past and her future. In The Exit Wound, the audience members become eavesdroppers on the homecoming party from hell as Hugh - an itinerant singer / storyteller who has ruled his family in absentia for over 40 years - finally arrives home and Granddaughter Julia is the only one strong enough to resist the myth and see the man.The ticket price includes admission to both shows and interval dinner.

 

Date: 6th December

Time: 20.15

Tickets: €16 / €14

Eric Lalor was walking through Ballymun shopping centre in Dec 2004 when he saw a poster looking for any wannabe stand-up comedians who fancied doing comedy workshops. He went along to an audition, got picked, did a documentary called 'Joy in the Hood' with Des Bishop and the rest is history. Since working with Des, Eric, a proud son of the 'Mun has climbed the comedy rankings faster than a monkey up a ladder on speed. He is now at a crossroads, ready to step out of the comforts of the IT corporate world, and take a risk with his own solo show. The Lalorpalooza show is his first ever solo show - one man, one show, one hour... can he come out victorious?

 

City Theatre Dublin A

Date: 9th - 13th December

Time: 19.30

Tickets: €20 - €14 / €60 (Family - 2 adults, 2 children)

Bah Humbug! Charles Dickens' timeless classic is brought to life in this sparkling new production combining actors, musicians, puppetry, magic - and, of course, a host of Christmas carols for you to join in with.