Amber has fierce bad indigestion and the Sambucas aren’t getting rid of it … Lorraine attacks a customer at work and her boss wants her to see a psychiatrist … Kay’s got an itch ‘down there’ that Gem can’t scratch … but maybe Kermit can …The Hairy Man fancies Lorraine but fails to ‘rise’ to the occasion. Little Gem, the first play by Elaine Murphy, takes us on a wild and constantly surprising journey through the lives of three generations of Dublin women. A journey through love, death, disappointment, and all the myriad pressures of modern life until they learn that the only people they can really trust, really rely on are each other. This show contains strong language and adult content.

One of the best madcap screwball black comedies ever, this classic Broadway hit introduces the sweet, elderly Brewster sisters, their nephew Teddy, who believes himself to be Teddy Roosevelt, and their drama critic nephew Mortimer (played by Cary Grant in the famous movie version), who is as surprised as anyone to learn that his maiden aunts’ well-known charity work now extends to the compassionate poisoning of sad, lonely old boarders with glasses of arsenic-spiked elderberry wine. A delightful comic concoction which combines the cosy charm and ingenious plotting of an Agatha Christie Whodunit!

Classic comedy, live music, scrumptious food - Wonderland’s hit staging of La Locandiera turns the ever-popular Betelnut Cafe into 18th Century Florence. The seductive innkeeper Mirandolina has every man at her feet – they cover her in diamonds and cower about her like puppy dogs, until ‘the declared enemy of Italian women’, the Ulster Gentleman checks in, that is. ‘La Locandiera’ is one of Italy’s most celebrated comedy plays. Wonderland’s sparkling period production includes a scrumptious 3 course dinner, accompanied by a generous helping of live Neapolitan arias and folk songs from Mirandolina and her admirers. Mirandolina will serve your dinner to you, whilst her suitors caper, court and swordfight for her attention. This interactive comedy dining experience is a must-see for our dinner theatre audiences.

P.J. Mulpeter, now 65 years of age, begins his final working day as a builder's labourer, having soldiered for fifty years under the same construction firm. In a reflective mood he casts a backward glance at the highs and lows of his career on the pick and shovel. We meet him in the school classroom, his first flush of youth, digging foundations, at the marquee dances with the girl of his dreams who stole his heart, in the pub with the characters from building sites who shape the pattern of his early life.

Through the ages, from Maine to Scotland, stories are told of seals becoming women and fishermen falling in love. A visually arresting piece of physical theatre, The Harbour is a contemporary re-imagining of a selkie tale. The lives of a mother and her son are forever overturned when he brings home a woman from the sea. Using bittersweet humour and haunting live music, The Harbour unearths an over-fished world, filled with impossible desires and explores the fragile nature of the relationships that give us shelter, and a safe haven, in a chaotic and unpredictable world.

Sit back and enjoy a selection of dramatic extracts, poetry, mime, dance, drama and recitals presented by talented young people from 6 to 18 years and introduced and stage managed by senior Voiceworks students. VoiceWorks – a drama school established by Maeve O’Donoghue in Dublin 15 in 1978 – will showcase a term’s work in aid of The LauraLynn Hospice Foundation. After six years of fundraising, work officially began early this year on the building of Ireland's first children's hospice LauraLynn House on the grounds of Children's Sunshine Home on the Leopardstown Road.

The Rough (middle aged woman’s) Guide to make up, men and parenthood … newly divorced Daisy Magill is packing a lifetime of make up, selling her home and going on a journey. Join her in a series of hysterical, crude and downright disastrous attempts at finding new love … from the fizzy ‘Nobody loves a Fairy when she’s Forty’ to the pathos of ‘Send in the Clowns’, this cabaret show frames her doomed dates and questions if there is indeed life after love after menopause? Written by and starring Billie Traynor. Directed by Alan Stanford.

Take a workaholic movie director, a deli-delivery girl who becomes a movie star, throw in a soupcon of slapstick, belly laughs, professional jealousies, Bathing Beauties and the  madcap Keystone Kops and you have all the ingredients that make a great musical and an unforgettable night’s entertainment. Based on the true story of movie director Mack Sennett and actress Mabel Normand, the musical follows their careers, their romance, their falling out and eventual reunion, and tracks the shift from the era of the silent movies to the talkies. Coolmine has its dancing shoes on, don’t miss it!

When a state senator unexpectedly dies in the middle of his re-election campaign, his family and friends gather to pay their respects ... including his secret fiancée, a former erotic dancer, who arrives to claim his seat. Before long the body is misplaced, the public is rallying to vote for the late senator, the president is coming to the funeral, and a crazy group of political advisers is scheming to get their candidate re-elected. Join the Classic Revival cast as they present the Irish premiere of this hilarious American comedy, written by David C. Hyer.

Beating Berlusconi! is based on the true story of a Liverpool fan who ended up sitting next to Silvio Berlusconi at the Attaturk Stadium. Despite threats from his wife and bank manager, middle-aged Kenny Noonan travels to Istanbul to watch Liverpool play AC Milan in the Champions’ League final. He carries the scars of thirty years as a Red and of living in a city which has been demonised. When the Reds equalised, Kenny couldn't suppress his feelings, Berlusconi lost his temper and the two squared up. Hauled away by Turkish security guards, Kenny was amazed to be taken to the Liverpool VIP area - they had mistaken him for a Liverpool VIP. Fresh from ecstatic reviews and huge word-of-mouth in 2009, Paul Duckworth and his forty characters take to the road again in this hilarious, lump in your throat comedy. This show contains strong language.

This outrageous and hilarious parody of the 1990’s disco scene introduces us to four bouncers who portray over twenty different characters as we join them for a night out on the town. We meet giggly girls and lads preparing for the big night out, sleazy DJ’s, rugger buggers and drunken slobs! The evening’s events are set against the tatty glitzy glamour, flashing lights and pulsating beat of the night-club scene. But beneath the comedy we also get a glimpse of just how empty some of these characters lives really are. Back by popular demand after a successful sellout tour!

Two football fans have just seen their side relegated after a referee disallowed a perfectly good goal, allowing the opposition to go down the other end and score. The referee's decision is final ... or is it? The two lads decide to take matters into their own hands and kidnap the Ref to force him to change his mind on the all important goal … with hilarious and unexpected consequences. To some people football is a matter of life and death; to others it is far more important than that … With Mick Lally, George McMahon and Edwin Mullane.

The winds of time blow through a room in an empty old house and awaken Madam Silk with all her memories, dreams and fantasies. Three fantastic female aerial dancers, who evolve in a universe of veils and drapes, create a sensual atmosphere that gives birth to beautiful choreography while performed to eclectic music and film projections. A feast for all the senses! Fidget Feet is Ireland’s foremost aerial dance theatre company whose previous work includes contemporary circus suspended from cranes, trees, buildings, using props such as real boats!

Aerial Technique Classes for 13-15 yr olds: 6-8pm, Thurs 20 May 2010
€12 (includes ticket to the show on Fri 21 May)
Have you ever wanted to learn to fly! Join Chantal McCormick (Fidget Feet) alongside Jennifer Patterson (UK) and Fred Deb' (France). The session will include some fundamental technical moves plus you will be taught a short sequence piece. No previous experience is necessary. Basic physical fitness is an advantage as well as a willingness to learn. Early booking advised through Draíocht’s Box Office, tel: 8852622.

Setanta Murphy is a young man with a lot of time on his hands. Paddy is his grand-uncle, a cantankerous 90 year old with a razor sharp tongue. When Paddy gets sick, they are thrown into the messy world of public hospitals until Paddy finds himself in a nursing home, plotting his escape. This is a touching and funny story of their relationship as they attempt to navigate their way through the ups and downs of the Irish Health system.

A brand new musical is created from scratch at each performance of this award-winning production, which has played sell-out seasons in London’s West End and at the Edinburgh festival. Audience suggestions help to create a show on the spot, as the all-singing, all-dancing cast improvise with unpredictable and frequently hilarious results. Packed with drama, dazzling dance routines and catchy melodies, Showstopper! leaves delighted audiences singing all the way home.
www.showstopperthemusical.com

Direct from its Smash Hit West End run and nominated for TWO Olivier Awards, Bob Golding's extraordinary portrayal commemorates the 25th anniversary of Eric Morecambe's untimely final curtain. Celebrating the wonderful life of Britain's best loved comic, this is a moving portrait of an affectionate lad with funny bones, a born entertainer, a big-hearted perfectionist ... the tall one with glasses. Featuring the multi-talented Bob Golding - who could have been born to play Eric - penned by the brilliant Tim Whitnall and directed by solo-maestro Guy Masterson, Morecambe is a must-see for all fans of classic British comedy. So come laugh, come cry, and celebrate ‘the tall one with glasses’ who had that twinkle in his eye and shared it with us all.

A zany medley of circus acts, comedy, and electrifying music! It’s a high voltage circus troupe … It’s a dynamite rock band… It’s six guys … Armed with a bicycle, a table, a barrel, a board, a ladder and some balls! Six eccentric characters meet on stage and try to outdo one another in a contest of increasingly outrageous antics. An hour with ‘Les Parfaits Inconnus’ is an hour of sheer delight, with comedy, acrobatics, ‘unbalancing’ acts, juggling, and music that will rock your soul. Laughter and thrills guaranteed!

After a sell out six week tour of Ireland in 2009 ‘Faulty Towers … The Dining Experience’ is back. Basil, Sybil and Manuel return to serve you dinner and a feast of comic delights, some familiar, some off the cuff but all with a ‘Faulty’ seasoning and a guarantee to keep you laughing all the way to the desert. Basil is manic, Sybil domineering, and Manuel – of course – is hopelessly language-challenged. Everything that can go wrong, does in some beautifully controlled chaos. Just don’t mention the war! ‘Faulty Towers … The Dining Experience’ has been winning fans and accolades at Edinburgh, Melbourne and Adelaide Festivals for the last three years. Featuring all the best gags and a great meal, the show is a loosely-scripted, pitch-perfect '13th episode' of the TV series which develops the characters made famous by John Cleese, Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs.