Tiger Dublin Fringe returns this September, running from the 10th to the 25th, and promises 16 days and nights of music, theatre, arts and culture. Deirdre O'Kane, Rusangano Family, HamsandwicH, Jinkx Monsoon and Over The Top Wrestling are amongst the acts performing, so there is something for everyone. This year also sees the famous Spiegeltent move to its new home in Merrion Square.
We've picked out five shows you have to check out this September:
RIOT (THISISPOPBABY)
A disorderly cocktail of wild theatre, banging jigs, slapstick comedy and jaw-dropping circus. RIOT infuses the magic of theatre with the excitement of variety and the energy of the dance floor - it's your big night out, with a twist.
Celebrating ten years of explosive events, from Poptent at Electric Picnic and Alice in Funderland – The Musical, to the legendary club night WERK, THISISPOPBABY present their most entertaining show to date, uniting the hottest stars of Irish stage and screen in this glittering roulette of the brilliant, brazen and downright bizarre.
Featuring Emmet Kirwan (Dublin Oldschool), Queen of Ireland Panti, Up and Over It, The Lords of Strut, Ronan Brady, Alma Kelliher, Megan Riordan, Ruth Smith, Nicola Kavanagh and Adam Matthews, with frocks by James David Seaver, guest writing by Eileen Walsh and set design by Niall Sweeney. Directed by Phillip McMahon and Jennifer Jennings.
Dates: 14th - 15th (preview), 16th - 17th, 20th - 25th
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Hot Brown Honey
(Presented by Briefs Factory)
Hot Brown Honey is taking the heat up a notch and bringing the temperature to fever pitch – delivering lashings of sass and a hot pinch of empowerment.
Packing a potent punch with hip hop politics, the Honeys will make you laugh until you cry, clap until your hands bleed and shake every part of what your mama gave you.
This posse of phenomenal women smash stereotypes, remix the system and dare to celebrate our similarities and differences. With set, lighting, music and costume to rival Beyoncé at Madison Square Garden, this show is guaranteed to get you on your feet!
Serving up an audacious platter of dance, poetry, comedy, circus, striptease and song, Hot Brown Honey is unapologetically fierce - defiantly shattering clichés in an explosion of colour, culture and controversy. Become one with the hive - fighting the power never tasted so sweet!
Dates: 10th - 11th, 13th - 16th
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The Aeneid
Collapsing Horse bring The Aeneid to life with their own brand of wit, imagination and indelible theatre magic.
This ancient Latin epic tells the story of the people who fled a burning Troy to create the city of Rome. It’s not a bad story...for a piece of propaganda. Within it lies the foundation myth of the Roman people from which they derived their identity, and the Emperor Augustus established his divine authority.
In a time of pageantry and remembrance in Ireland, this legendary tale is a celebration of myths and their complex relationship to the truth.
Dates: 14th (preview), 15th - 18th, 20th - 24th
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Wrongheaded / Hope Hunt (Doublebill)
(Liz Roche Company / Oona Doherty)
Wrongheaded
Bringing together dance, film and spoken word poetry, Wrongheaded - a dancing body’s response to the 8th amendment. This new film / performance piece sees award-winning choreographer Liz Roche collaborating with an exceptional cast of dancers, spoken word poet Elaine Feeny and film director Mary Wycherley. Constantly at odds with each other while being caught in a relationship of frustrated repetition and ritual, the performers in film and live performance find ways to physicalise the undercurrent of desperation that Irish women face today around choices for their own bodies.
Hope Hunt
Oona Doherty performs a distillation of the Male. Thumping sweaty theatre. Dance as virtuosic states, heaving lungs shout in the dark. Doherty takes you through a dirty Europe, on a shared nervous system. This is a physical expression of the place between the flesh and the soul. Hope Hunt is an attempt to deconstruct the stereotype of the concrete disadvantaged male, and raise it up into a Caravaggio bright white limbo. It looks to make the smicks, the spides, the hoods, the gypsies, the knackers, into the birds of paradise. It is a hunt for hope. Produced by Katie McCann. With thanks to Neil Brown original hunter.
Dates: 11th (preview), 12th - 16th
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Goulash Disko
(Caravana Banda feat. Babu Król & DJ Gadio CZ)
The Tiger Fringe closing party!
Balkan brass, gypsy tambourines, Spanish flamenco, Polish oberek in a crazy blend of rhythms: welcome to Fringe’s closing night party!
An eclectic orchestra of artists from across the world fill the Spiegeltent with a theatrical performance like no other. Caravana Banda, Babu Król, DJs, acrobats, belly dancers and jugglers collide to create a madness that spreads like wild fire.
Bring your dancing shoes, join the circus and get lost in some real Slavic soul.
Dates: 25th
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