Whats on at Smock Alley Theatre Dublin
List of current and upcoming shows at Smock Alley Theatre 1662. Whats on across theatre, comedy, dance, music, literature events and more.
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THEATRE | 21 – 31 Aug

The Long Way Home

AboutFACE Theatre

Main Space

A New Irish musical featuring the songs of Tom Waits

In a scruffy old town called Dublin, a night-time city that devours booze and music, a stubborn old singer, down on his luck, and a trinity of ladies, none of them angels, all hold a very special place in their broken hearts for the songs of Mr. Tom Waits. Then California comes a-calling, and there’s light up ahead, but like a Tom Waits song, we can’t promise a happy ending …

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THEATRE | 28 + 29 Aug

Predrinks at Laylah’s

Laylah Beattie

Boys’ School

Predrinks at Laylah’s is a One Woman Show about a transgender girl in her 20s discovering her found family through partying.

Join me as I get ready for a night out and I’ll tell you all the gossip from the last few years of my life. I’ve been partying hard, I’ve been

hospitalised, I’ve had my heart broken by every man I ever liked and oh yeah, I got a vagina. Just make yourself comfortable and give me a few minutes to put my face on.

Predrinks at Laylah’s is back by popular demand, with new extended material

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COMEDY / IMPROV | 3 + 4 Sep

TJ & Dave

Soho Theatre and Barrow Street Theatricals

Main Space

TJ & DAVE walk out on stage without characters, dialogue or plot. Within the hour they miraculously improvise multi-character, fully realized plays. Described by The New York Times as “Second City-seasoned masters of long form improv,”

“One of these guys is the best improviser in the world. And the other one is better.”– Stephen Colbert

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DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL | 17 – 21 Sep

Shame Show

Colm McCready & Fergus Wachala-Kelly

Boys’ School

Have you been mis-sold big gay shame? Have you been blamed for that category five shame storm raging outside? Again? Then you could be owed compen-shame-tion!

For your safety, please follow this pair of prancing poofs to SHAME SHOW – a lip-syncing, talent- searching, Joe McElderry-ing comedy of catastrophic proportions. Quickly. Before it’s too late. And that’d be a shame right?

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DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL | 18 – 21 Sep

Cortisol

Megan Haly & Shannon Haly

Patrick Sutton Studio

A queer coming of age rollercoaster ride through growing up in Ireland. From childhood nostalgia to present day chaos, Sam has been through the highs of first love and the heartbreak of grief. She’s flown the nest, and crash landed back into it.

She doesn’t know quite where she is meant to be but maybe that’s ok…

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Dublin Theatre Festival | 26 Sep – 5 Oct

SANDPAPER ON SUNBURN

DAVID HORAN AND VERDANT PRODUCTIONS

Main Space

Freya’s always been sensitive. Difficult, some say. Funny how those words have started to mean the

same thing.

Jack is four and he’s having a meltdown because his grandad won’t let him play with the birthday candles. His Auntie Freya’s also having a meltdown. She’s twenty-four but is hers really any different?

It’s September 2018 and everyone’s living in a new, more inclusive Ireland after two referendums and one hot summer. We’re all redefining ourselves. And so is Freya. She got dumped.

But when her ex shows up at her parents’ door along with unexpected news, it feels like anything is possible again.

Can sensitive, difficult Freya learn to see herself anew?

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Dublin Theatre Festival | 4 + 11 Oct

GUEST HOST STRANGER GHOST

ONCE OFF PRODUCTIONS BY KATE HEFFERNAN

Main Space

A story about living in someone else’s home, performed on the sets of other people’s plays.

A mismatched trio rent a house owned by an elderly woman now living her last days in a nursing home. Unlikely housemates, they try to find a connection in the short time they’re here – and a space for themselves amongst the stuff of her entire life. Playful and boldly inventive, this vagabond new play will criss-cross the city to borrow the stages of other festival productions. With no two performances taking place on the same set, each iteration will offer a completely

unique encounter.

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Dublin Theatre Festival | 9 – 12 Oct

A Knock On The Roof

PIECE BY PIECE PRODUCTIONS BY KHAWLA IBRAHEEM

Main Space

Mariam prepares for war. She knows that the army often drops small warning bombs on residential buildings in Gaza, giving tenants between 5 to 15 minutes to evacuate before a rocket demolishes their home. She decides to train for the possibility of this “Knock on the Roof”, frantically (and often humorously) practicing how far she can run in five minutes, and what she can carry to safety.

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THEATRE | 14 – 15 Nov

EXHIBITION

Two Rooks Mate

Boys’ School

A successful artist who has made “art out of her pain” is about to unveil her newest and boldest work to date, but before she does, she brings together her estranged siblings for a sneak peak of the exhibit. What ensues is an utterly dysfunctional but healing get-together.

“Exhibition” puts unresolved family issues and alcoholism under a microscope and asks us “what is art?”.

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THEATRE | 20 – 23 Nov

No Citation

Teatro Nua

Boys’ School

No Citation is a wry confessional tale that shines a searingly honest light on a legendary piano man as he faces his final judgement and allows the audience to arbitrate the fate of the deeply flawed but ultimately human protagonist Jeremy d’Wolfe McCarthy.

After breaking into derelict Dimitri’s Piano Bar, McCarthy attempts to treat his audience to an evening of his latest songs, but finds he’s being interrupted by ghosts from his past. As the realisation dawns on him that this may be his last gig ever, he tries to set the record straight.

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THEATRE | 26 – 29 Nov

Gwyneth Goes Skiing

Awkward Productions

Main Space

She’s the Goop-founding, Door-Sliding, Shakespeare-In-Loving, consciously-uncoupling Hollywood superstar. He’s a retired Optometrist from Utah.

In 2016, they went skiing. On the slopes of Deer Valley, their worlds collided, and so did they – literally. Ouch.

Seven years later in 2023, they went to court.

Double ouch.

This is their story. Kind of. Not really.

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THEATRE | 29 – 30 Nov

Trawled

Eoin Ryan

Boys’ School

A jaw-dropping true story set on the Coral Sea, Australia. An Irish backpacker blags his way onto a prawn trawler. There he discovers a rarely seen world of hard labour and harder fishermen, where drinking, fighting, storms and hungry sharks are part of everyday life. His raw, exuberant story of adventure twists dramatically into one of survival culminating in an unforgettable moment of redemptive grace.

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DANCE | 30 Nov

Shimmy and Shine Festival

Oasis Belly Dance Dublin

Main Space

Prepare to be enchanted as the night unfolds with the mesmerizing art of bellydance! Step into a world where grace meets passion, where every movement tells a story and every beat of the drum resonates with the rhythm of the soul. Our performers, adorned in dazzling costumes, will transport you to distant lands with their hypnotic swirls and captivating energy.

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