Returning from a tour to Bulgaria, Sugarglass Theatre with partners Trinity College Drama Department present four Beckett plays in one evening of theatre. The four plays (Play, Come and Go,Catastrophe and What Where) explore timeless questions of fidelity, justice and resistance in both the domestic and political spheres. Grouped here, under the collective title Ethica, one can see an exploration of ethics in Beckett's work, beginning with the domestic and emerging into the political sphere.
Ethica: four shorts by Samuel Beckett, elicits the theatricality and vibrancy inherent in the texts and offers an updated interpretation of each: allowing the pieces to speak allegorically about systemic ethical problems at play in the world today.
The production is co-directed by Marc Atkinson and Nicholas Johnson and features Peter Corboy, Siobhan Cullen, Ellen Flynn, Matthew Malone, Maeve O’Mahony and Ellen Patterson.

15 Euro/12 Euro conc. Group rates available - for details contact info@sugarglasstheatre.com

4 JUNE at 4pm

Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, Greg Baxter & Selma Dabbagh

5 JUNE at 6pm

Chad Harbach & Patrick de Witt

6 JUNE at 6pm

Karl Ove Knausgaard & Rachel Cusk

7 JUNE at 6pm

Keith Ridgway, Rachel Seiffert & Lucy Caldwell

8 JUNE at 6pm

Best European Fiction

8 JUNE at 8pm

Mark Haddon

9 JUNE at 2pm

Mary & Bryan Talbot

9 JUNE at 4pm

Tim Parks

9 JUNE at 6pm

Ed Vulliamy & Dubravka Ugrešić

9 JUNE at 8pm

Tony Harrison

For full details of all events, see www.dublinwritersfestival.com

From 10 Euro (full) and 8 Euro (concession)

For over 400 years, the dramatic music and raw emotional power of this baroque masterpiece has remained undiminished. With Orfeo, Monteverdi created the first great opera that not only survived the centuries, but still enthralls a modern audience.

Melancholy has been banished now that Orfeo has at last found true love. In the company of his joyful acolytes the wedding day celebrations have already begun and Orfeo is poised to marry his beloved Euridice. Then mortal disaster.  Can our desperate hero dare to rescue his lover or will he throw his life away in an impossible contest with Death itself?

Opera Theatre Company - Ireland's National Touring Opera Company - continues its 26th year of leadership in touring opera with this powerful and memorable masterpiece. OTC is delighted to welcome back founding Artistic Director Ben Barnes, who directed the company's first production in 1986, with a new and richly re-imagined staging of Orfeo for a 21st century audience.

Sung in English, this captivating score is performed by players drawn from the ranks of the Irish Baroque Orchestra with Music Direction, from the keyboard, by Andrew Synnott. Design is by award-winning designer Joe Vanek, with lighting by John Comiskey. The authoritative cast includes Oliver Mercer in the title role, Irish sopranos Sadhbh Dennedy and Daire Halpin, Karolina Blixt from Sweden, returning US bass Matthew Trevino, Peter O'Donohoe, and OTC Young Associate Artists Fearghal Curtis and Padraic Rowan.

Orfeo will delight the first time opera-goer and seasoned fan alike.

30 Euro/25 Euro conc. Group rates available - for details contact the Box Office