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Curse of the Starving Class
by Sam Shepard
Curse of the Starving Class is a darkly comic exploration of the American family psyche. The play examines the four members of the Tate family wh...
Open House with Robe at The Lir Academy 2025
We are excited to announce that this exclusive Open House event with technical partner ROBE lighting will be returning on January 9th, 2025! ROBE is among ...
Peribáñez
by Lope de Vega, Adapted by Tanya Ronder
Lope de Vega's Peribáñez is a gripping drama that explores love, lust, justice and honour. This Spanish Golden Age play tells the story of a young peasant...
The Government Inspector
by Roddy Doyle from Nikolai Gogol
In this hilarious and biting adaptation, Roddy Doyle brings Nikolai Gogol's classic comedy to life with a contemporary twist. Read the show ...
ETC Console Training 2024
ETC Europe, The Lir Academy and PSI Production are proud to present a series of one-day ETC EOS family training sessions at various levels....
Scripted
by MFA Playwriting Graduates
Join us for an afternoon of performed readings of excerpts from new play by recent MFA Playwriting graduates of The Lir Academy. These plays are directed and perf...
GradFest24: Bent
by Martin Sherman
"We made love. We were real. We were human. We made love." In the rising darkness of Nazi Germany, Bent tells the story of Max...
GradFest24: The Nest
by Franz Xaver Kroetz and translated by Conor McPherson
"If we don’t do anything about it, it’ll just be someone else doing it next month and someone else the month after that. And I’ll know they’re doing it! It’ll alw...
GradFest24: EURYDICE
by Sarah Ruhl
How do we grieve?What do we owe the dead?Does art betray the love it seeks to honour?Is any memory of love not informed by mourning?...
GradFest24: The Almighty Sometimes
by Kendall Feaver
“I’ve been on those pills for so long, I don’t know who I am without them, if the things I say or do are because of the medication or in spite of it - b...
Arcadia
by Tom Stoppard
The multi-award winning Arcadia, (Best New Play - Olivier Awards, Best Play - Tony Awards) premiered in 1993. Through a mix of comedy and scientific disc...
My Sister in this House - The Backstage Club at The Lir
Join us at The Lir Academy and have a great night out with cocktails, a show, cabaret and dinner with a difference on May 29th. All proceeds from this even...
Arcadia - The Backstage Club at The Lir
Join us at The Lir Academy and have a great night out with cocktails, a show, cabaret and dinner with a difference on May 29th. All proceeds from this even...
My Sister in This House
by Wendy Kesselman
Based on a true story that took place in France in the 1930s, My Sister in this House is a dark tale of power, class, religion and social systems and its...
ETC Eos Console Training - April 2024
ETC Europe, PSI Production and The Lir Academy are proud to present a series of one-day ETC EOS family training sessions across Ireland at various levels...
Dublin Showcase 2024
The annual showcase of graduating actors will take place at The Lir Academy in Dublin on Friday, April 5th and London on Monday, April 8th at 6pm. There will be t...
Punk Rock
by Simon Stephens
Set in the library of a British fee-paying school, Punk Rock explores the interaction, tension and violence amongst a group of teenage students preparing...
The Illusion
by Tony Kushner
Pridamant seeks advice from a weary sorcerer, Alcandre, about the whereabouts of his errant son. So begins a phantasmagoric journey via visions, across centuries ...
Absolute Hell
by Rodney Ackland
Smoke filled rooms. Falling Rubble. Flowing drinks. In the aftermath of WW2, devoted members of a faded Soho club drink into the darkness. La Vie En Rose o...
The Visit
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, translated by Maurice Valency
Meet the good people of Güllen, a town on its knees after years of economic hardship. Hope arrives by train with the visit of a former resident, but it ...
VOLCANO - Dublin Theatre Festival 23
by Luke Murphy
Volcano is part theatre, part mini-series and part dance all wrapped in the tapestry of an unfolding sci-fi thriller. Acclaimed director and choreographer ...
RED LINES
by Monika Palova & Sean McIlraith
When you look in the mirror, who looks back at you?Through contemporary circus and physical theatre, the performers delve into nostalgia, inner confli...
HAUS OF FASH HUN - Dublin Fringe Festival 2023
by FemmeBizarre
A glittering explosion of gut-punching aerial, heart-pounding electronic music, (some questionable decisions), and of course... FASH HUN.Magda and Bib...
Fad Camp Podcast Live
by Conor Dowling & Grace Mulvey
Ireland’s only comedy anti-diet podcast is bringing their irreverent, hilarious, and revealing stories to the stage in their first live show for Dublin Fringe Fes...
Beyond the Page: Stray Lines Irish Comics Showcase
by Stray Lines
Comic book panels come alive in an atmospheric performance that takes images, spoken word, mythical Ireland and the rollerskating scene and blasts it together int...
DublinLand
by Matthew Tallon & Cian Jordan
The Taoiseach has called an emergency press conference. Don’t worry. It’s not that bad. He promises it’s NOT THAT BAD. Dublin is dying and he has a plan to save i...
Sl(t)áinte
by Kate Dunne
Incorporating circus, theatre and installation art, this show immerses the audience into a ‘body horror’ telling of a culmination of personal experiences of Irish...
RESONANCE
by Chloe Commins
A journey into a world of the unspoken, inspired by growing up CODA (Child of Deaf Adult).This show explores shifting roles and relationships, connect...
Who Wants To Write An Email?
by Laura Allcorn & Jennifer Edmond
Our emails are writing themselves! It’s weird, right? Think you can tell human from machine? Become the next contestant in this humorous interactive quiz show to ...
The Sugar Wife
by Elizabeth Kuti
“Captured at the height of [her] rage” To produce the sugar, to taste the sweetness, the essence needs to be pressed into existence. ...
The Aliens - The Backstage Club at The Lir
Join us for a fundraiser celebrating all things production on Wednesday 12th July at 6:30pm at The Backstage Club at The Lir. The evening will start with a pre-sh...
The Sugar Wife - The Backstage Club at The Lir
Join us for a fundraiser celebrating all things production on Wednesday 12th July at 6:30pm at The Backstage Club at The Lir. The evening will start with a pre-sh...
The Aliens
by Annie Baker
“The state of just having lost something is like the most enlightened state in the world.” When Evan starts a summer job...
Mud
by Maria Irene Fornes
‘Words change the nature of things. A thing not named and the same thing named are two different things’. When Mae steps...
Hungry
by Chris Bush
Lori is a chef. Bex waits tables. One night in a walk-in fridge and the rest is history. Lori wants to teach Bex about the finer things in life, but what’s...
Postgraduate Open Evening for September 2023
Join us for an online evening session on Tuesday, June 20th at 6pm to meet with Loughlin Deegan, Director of The Lir Academy and Gavin O'Donoghue, Head of Acting ...
Untitled
by Wayne Jordan
Regina wants to make a performance that can stop time and break hearts. Join us for a spectacular anti-spectacle, a chaotic, darkly comic celebra...
Lobby Hero
by Kenneth Lonergan
Lobby Hero tells the story of Jeff, a luckless young security guard trying to get his life together after being thrown out of the navy. But the lobby pro...
London Showcase 2023
The annual showcase of graduating actors will take place at RADA Studios, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art on Thursday 13 and Friday 14 April. This event is ...
Dublin Showcase 2023
The annual showcase of graduating actors will take place at The Lir Academy on Tuesday 4 April. This event is exclusively for agents, casting directors, th...
4.48 Psychosis
by Sarah Kane
4.48 Psychosis is an in-depth and viscerally honest look at the experience of major depressive disorder. As a choreopoem, a form of performative writing,...
Bulrusher
by Eisa Davis
1955, Boonville, California. An orphaned, multi-racial girl grows up in a predominantly white town with its own invented dialect.Bulrusher's b...
Open House with Robe at The Lir Academy
We are excited to announce Open House with Robe - an exclusive showcase event presented by our technical partner Robe Lighting. Robe is among the world’s ...
The Winter’s Tale
by William Shakespeare
After a long visit to his friend Leontes, King of Sicily, the Bohemian King Polixenes decides he must return to his country. Leontes asks his pregnant w...
The Lir @ The Light House
by The Lir Academy in partnership with The Light House Cinema
We are celebrating three years of short films created at The Lir Academy with a special screening for students in partnership with The Light House cinema in Smith...
Scripted
by MFA Playwriting Graduates 2022
Presenting a showcase of new plays by The Lir Academy’s MFA Playwriting Graduates of 2022. These playwrights have been immersed in training ...
Gala Night - Lady Windermere's Fan
by Oscar Wilde
Please join us for a drinks reception, light refreshments and a wonderful night of theatre, and help us to support students in financial crisis. Your support will...
Lady Windermere's Fan
by Oscar Wilde
“I can resist anything except temptation.” The young and virtuous Lady Windermere occupies herself in preparation for that evening's gathe...
Sight/Unseen: Black History Month at The Lir
by The Students of Colour Collective
Black art has always been in conversation with itself on questions of viewership. How do I see myself? How does my community see me? How do strangers see me? ...
Appropriate
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
“Can we sit around being casually dysfunctional later and focus for one second?” The estranged Lafayette family descend upon their crumbling Arkansas homes...
Design Exhibition 2022
by MFA Design Students 2022
Design Exhibition 2022 An exhibition displaying the costumes, model boxes, set and lighting designs by MFA Design students during their training ...
Scenes with Girls
by Miriam Battye
"At school, were you one of the girls who talked about snogging, or assessment objectives?" Other friends have come, got boyfriends and gone. So what? Tos...
The Maids
by Jean Genet (in a translation by Martin Crimp)
"Their truth is always elsewhere…" - Jean-Paul Sartre Two maids spend their evenings playacting the ritual strangula...
RED
by John Logan
“No… I will make it a temple.” After finally breaking out of the shadow of obscurity artist Mark Rothko is given the commission of a lifetime. To create a...
Measure for Measure
by William Shakespeare
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” Welcome to Vienna, a city teeming with vice where sin and desire run ram...
The River
by Jez Butterworth
A moonless night in August, the Man brings his new girlfriend to the cabin where he has been fly fishing since he was a boy. Like the ...
The Laramie Project
by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project
In October 1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was beaten, robbed, tied to a fence post and left alone to die in Laramie, Wyoming. The reason for ...
RISING
by Brokentalkers
Over the last few months, the RISING project has brought together Docklands resid...
Distinguished Villa
by Kate O'Brien
Brixton, London 1925, Mabel Hemworth and her husband Natty, are the picture of conventional middle-class married life, attempting to re-adjust to everyday...
Three Sisters
by Anton Chekhov in a new version by Cordelia Lynn
“There can be no happiness for our generation. There can’t be, there won’t be…” In a provincial Russian town outside ...
Our Town
by Thornton Wilder
“Do any human beings ever realise life while they live it...every, every minute?” A portrait of the small town of Gro...
Bachelor in Stage Management and Technical Theatre Q&A
Join us on the 7th of December for a Q&A sesion with Barry Conway Director of Technical Training as he answers all of your questions about the Stage Managemen...
Bachelor in Acting Q&A
Join us on the 30th of November for a Q & A session with Loughlin Deegan, Director of the Lir Academy as he answers all of your questions about the Bachelor i...
Scripted
by MFA Playwriting Graduates 2020 & 2021
Presenting a showcase of new plays by The Lir Academy’s MFA Playwriting Graduates of 2020 and graduating class of 2021. This presentation is free but ticketed....
Machinal (recording)
by Sophie Treadwell
“I can’t go on like this much longer--going to work--coming home--going to work--coming home--Sometimes in the subway I think I’m going to die. I got ...
MEAT (recording)
by Gillian Greer
“We can’t guarantee your comfort, but we can assure you that this will be an experience.” An all-meat menu, a chef and his vegan...
Midwinter (recording)
by Zinnie Harris
“My horse for your boy!” During the bleakest of winters, at the end of a decade-long war. Maud is dragging a dead horse to the m...
Summerfolk
by Maxim Gorky (In a version by Nick Dear)
“Why not spend the summer here, have a drink and a laugh, settle your nerves…” A diverse group of middle-class, metropolitan-typ...
Twelfth Night Recording
by William Shakepeare
The recording of Twelfth Night will be available to book from Tuesday, June 24th - July 1st. The link will be active to view until July 8th. ...
Julius Caesar Recording
by William Shakepeare
The recording of Julius Caesar will be available to book from Tuesday, June 22nd - 29th. The link will be active to view until July 6th. Enter the...
Stage Management and Technical Theatre Q&A
Please note that bookings are closed for this event. However, a few places remain available. Contact marketing@thelir.ie to request...
Acting Q&A
Please note that bookings are closed for this event. However, a few places remain available. Contact marketing@thelir.ie to request a link ...
Eclipsed Recording
by Patricia Burke Brogan
1992. Rosa, who was adopted from Ireland by an American family, returns home to St. Paul's Home for Penitent Women with her birth-mothers name and address. In her...
The Unreturning Recording
by Anna Jordan
Does an ending always mean a new beginning? The Unreturning explores the profound effect that war has on young lives; the violence that lingers even after...
Eclipsed Live-stream
by Patricia Burke Brogan
1992. Rosa, who was adopted from Ireland by an American family, returns home to St. Paul's Home for Penitent Women with her birth-mothers name and address. In her...
The Unreturning Live-stream
by Anna Jordan
Does an ending always mean a new beginning? The Unreturning explores the profound effect that war has on young lives; the violence that lingers even after...
Wish List
by Katherine Soper
Tamsin packs boxes in a warehouse, on a zero-hour contract. Her brother, Dean is housebound. But when he is declared fit for work, things change as Tamsin needs t...
Salomé, or the Cult of the Clitoris: A Historical Phallusy
by Mitchell Polonsky. Adapted from Oscar Wilde's Salomé and the verbatim trial reports of Noel Pemberton Billing
By woman came evil into the world. Salomé, or The Cult of the Clitoris: A Historical Phallusy is a verbatim staging of ...
Image of an Unknown Young Woman
by Elinor Cook
“Yes, but she’s visible. She matters.” A young woman in a yellow dress has been shot by the police. It was caught on camera. As the video...
Constellations
by Nick Payne
“In the quantum multiverse, every choice, every decision you've ever and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes.” A bee...
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
As You Like It ...but not as you know it! In this modern interpretation, digital platforms and online communication meet the Shakespearea...
The Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
If everyone knows us and we know none, ‘Tis time, I think, to trudge, pack and be gone. Two men arrive in mean, small-town Ireland. They do...
London Showcase - POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
The annual showcase of graduating actors from The Lir Academy is postponed until further notice. ...
Tuesdays with Morrie in aid of Research Motor Neurone -POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
The Dundalk Theatre Workshop presents ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ in support of Research Motor Neurone.The Dundalk Theatre Workshop are back with a stage ...
Dublin Showcase - POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
The annual showcase of graduating actors will be rescheduled as a result of the measures taken nationally for the prevention of the Covid-19 virus. The event will...
Summer and Smoke
by Tennessee Williams
"Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?"Alma and Johnny have lived close to each other all their lives but couldn’t be more...
Anatomy of a Suicide
by Alice Birch
What do we inherit from our parents? Can we leave this legacy behind? Is it possible to overcome inherited trauma when those who are supposed to care for us try t...
Storytelling for Business - Open Course
Stories are a common human experience and unite us all. They serve different functions and uses: to entertain, to connect, to inform, to instruct, to engage and t...
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
Venice - the playground of the rich, famous and beautiful, the heady world of the Rat Pack and the Hitchcock blonde. But there are rules that keep some out of the...
Presenting Made Brilliant November 2019
Open Course: Presenting Made Brilliant (1 Day)Friday 29th November 2019The Lir Academy, DublinPresentations at work are a reality for almost ...
Blood Wedding
by Federico García Lorca. Translated by James Graham Lujan and Richard O'Connell
A wedding is arranged. An agreement is made between The Bride and The Bridegroom. Their union is blessed. But when The Bride breaks the rules and desire t...
Presenting Made Brilliant
Open Course: Presenting Made Brilliant (1 Day)Monday September 23rd 2019The Lir Academy, DublinPresentations at work are a reality for almost...
Fetch
by Lauren-Shannon Jones and Samantha Cade
On a slowly crashing plane, we invite you to consider what remains — the ghosts we have manifested, through data and plastic, by shedding our skin. In Irish mytho...
Losing Your Body
by Rachel Ní Bhraonáin
How far can the body be pushed before it pushes back? This dancer is primed for success — a flat in London, a flexible day job, trendy friends and the occasi...
How to Square a Circle
by Aisling Ní Cheallaigh & Ronan Brady
‘Just because something is impossible, doesn’t mean it’s not worth trying.’ A heartwarming story of friendship, ego, love and the joys of a cup of tea. Wit...
Init, the Warm Up Project
by Lucia Kickham
Three dancers and a live DJ. Hearts pumping and minds calm. Tuning in to the rhythm. Preparing for the task ahead. This is a side of performance the audience do n...
Play Like a Riot Grrrl featuring SOAK
by Girls Rock Dublin, Other Voices and Kato
Dublin Fringe Festival & Collapsing Horse presentYOUNG RADICALS: Fringe for Young Audiences. A knockout line-up of music worksho...
MFA Playwriting Presentation
A presentation for the Master in Fine Arts Playwriting will be held on 7th September a...
Scripted 2019
Presenting a showcase of new plays by this year's graduating playwrights Hillary Dziminski, Marc Conroy and Aoife Leonard. The three playwrights have been immerse...
My Romantic History
by D.C. Jackson
“Do you know how they get animals to breed in captivity? They put them in the same cage.” Placed in the same office, work colleagues Tom and Amy find thems...
X
by Alistair McDowall
“First the trees stopped singing. Then they stopped breathing. The colour left. Then the light. Then nothing. I’m the last gene...
Homos, or Everyone in America
by Jordan Seavey
“um yes we’ve been a community since since stonewall certainly harvey milk probably ancient greece maybe” There’s construction going u...
The Clean House
by Sarah Ruhl
The perfect joke makes you forget about your life. The perfect joke makes you remember about your life. There are two truths in this world a...
Short Film Screening 2019
Each year final year undergraduate students are extremely fortunate to work with leading film directors, producers and film crews to produce short films. Final ye...
The Wild Duck
by Henrik Ibsen in a version by Frank McGuinness
“Rob the average man of his life of illusion and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.” A successful businessman holds a party ...
Brontë
by Polly Teale
Polly Teale’s Brontë explores the life of the Brontë sisters. Their deepest thoughts and most shameful desires and their silent rebellio...
Stage Management and Technical Theatre Open Day
The Stage Management and Technical Theatre Open Day will be held on Saturday, 18th May, from 12.00pm to 2.00pm. This is a chance for potential appli...
London Showcase 2019
The annual showcase of graduating actors from The Lir Academy will take place at RADA, London on Tuesday 9th April 2019. This showcase is exclusively for ...
Dublin Showcase 2019
The annual showcase of graduating actors will take place at The Lir Academy on Friday 29th March. This event is exclusively for agents, casting directors, ...
"Lighting In Theatres" with Wayne Howell of Artistic Licence
Artistic Licence was founded in 1988 by its CEO Wayne Howell. In the early days, the company was predominantly involved with rock ‘n’ roll and theatre lighting te...
Pericles
by William Shakespeare
This new contemporary adaptation at The Lir Academy turns William Shakespeare’s classical tale into a modern-day take on the refugee crisis, in a story of resilie...
The Drowned World
by Gary Owen
“We can’t have them making us feel contempt for our lovers / And shame for our children / And hate for our parents and… hate for our selves.” What happens ...
Lighting Design for Dance 2019
With the support of Dance Ireland and Liz Roche Company, MFA Stage Design students Blue Hanley, Colin Doran and Matt Burke have been working with top coreographer...
DUBLINERS
by James Joyce. Adapted by Michael West and Annie Ryan
"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age." The Dead...
Serious Money
by Caryl Churchill. Songs by Ian Dury, Micky Gallacher and Chas Jankel
A dynamic satire written in rhyming couplets, Serious Money was first staged in 1987, at a time where the fraud and corruption of Wall Street made the headlines. ...
No One Sees The Video
by Martin Crimp
Martin Crimp’s No One Sees The Video is a timely, seductive, dark comedy. It is set in South West London and North East England during the changing political and ...
Demons by Lars Norén
On the eve before a funeral, Demons follows two couples who meet up for drinks in an upper-middle class apartment. As the night progresses, and under the i...
The Last Five Years written and composed by Jason Robert Brown
Happiness is a fragile structure, built on a precarious foundation of perspective and memories and subject to the unforgiving wear of time. In this intimate, emot...
Incognito by Nick Payne
Princeton, New Jersey, 1955. Thomas Stoltz Harvey performs the autopsy on Albert Einstein - and then steals his brain. Bath, England. 1953. Henry undergoes pionee...
Merrily We Roll Along by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
Based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S Kaufman and Moss Hart, Merrily We Roll Along was a famous flop when it premiered on Broadway in 1981. Hot on t...
The Ash Fire by Gavin Kostick
A Jewish immigrant cabinet-maker and his wife set up his business in Dublin in the 1930s. When his two brothers come to join him he thinks they will be settled fo...
Summer Productions at The Lir Academy
The Ash Fire by Gavin Kostick Directed by Maisie Lee 23rd May - 29th May Matinee: Thursday 24th May, 1.00 pm and ...
The Lir’s Fundraising Dinner at Trocadero 2018
This is the one night in the year when The Lir Academy takes over the Troc. We serve theatre performances alongside each course as our final-year acting students ...
The Lir Academy Showcase 2018
Dublin Showcase This event is exclusively for agents, casting directors, theatre directors, producers, technical directors, production managers stage manage...
Dublin Showcase 2018
This event is exclusively for agents, casting directors, theatre directors, producers, technical directors, production managers stage managers and people who work...
Open Day in Boston and New York
Trinity College Dublin is running a series of open days in the USA later this month and The Lir Academy is taking part in the Boston and New York events. D...
La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler
Directed by Lynne Parker, this production of Schnitzler’s La Ronde offers an original approach stretching the life line of the story over a considerable timeframe...
Dalliance by Tom Stoppard based on the play by Arthur Schnitzler
Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s play Liebelei, meaning flirtation, Dalliance was first performed at the Lyttelton Theatre, London, in 1986. A bitter sweet drama abou...
Lighting Design for Dance Project
This series of scenes will showcase the work by choreographers Dagmara Jerzak, Justine Cooper and Lucia Kickham in collaboration with The Lir Academy MFA student ...
The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
The dark dramas of violent jealousy, sexual slander and death at the court of Sicilia, lead to a small baby girl being abandoned in the wild reaches of rural Bohe...
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht in a new translation by Alistair Beaton
Written in 1944 by Bertolt Brecht and set in the Soviet Union around the end of the Second World War, The Caucasian Chalk Circle’s core themes are as relevant tod...
Normal
Helen is mopping the floor, Phil is popping balloons, Gary has gone home early. The party is over, but they are still there. There’s no leaving until the popping ...
Toilers
Three young women determine to remake the world. They start by reconstructing a lost play. In 1913, Susanne R. Day staged a ‘little propaganda play’ in a fundrais...
SCRIPTED at The Lir Academy
Emma Adler, Orla Horgan and Rory O’Sullivan have been immersed in training at The Lir Academy led by Graham Whybrow (former Literary Manager of the Royal Court) a...
The Events by David Greig Music by John Browne
When Claire, a priest, and leader of a local community choir survives an atrocity she sets out to answer the most difficult question of all: ‘Why?’ It’s a journey...
Each Day Dies With Sleep by José Rivera
You cannot choose your family and you certainly cannot escape their influence. In Each Day Dies with Sleep, a young woman cursed with prophetic dreams learns this...
Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl
Life around Jean is stark and paper-thin but, when she answers the incessantly ringing phone of the not-so-obviously-dead Gordon, her world fills to vivid and col...
Yen by Anna Jordan
Anna Jordan’s 2013 Bruntwood Prize winning play examines a childhood without boundaries or supervision. A brotherhood governed by hardcore pornography and Call of...
Short Film Screening 2017
Every year final year undergraduate students at The Lir Academy get the opportunity to take part in a short film and work with professional directors and film cre...
Much Ado About Nothing
On the terrace of a Mediterranean holiday home, a group of friends assemble for a week-long party full of playful debauchery, pop music, and questionable gender p...
All’s Well that ends Well
All’s Well That Ends Well, perhaps Shakespeare’s least-known play, has for much of its history been considered “problematic”. Sitting somewhere between comedy and...
London Showcase 2017
The annual showcase will take place in the Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, RADA, Malet Street, London on Tuesday 4th April 2017 at 1pm and 6pm. This is a showca...
Dublin Showcase 2017
This event is exclusively for agents, casting directors, theatre directors, producers, technical directors, production managers stage managers and people who work...
The Skriker by Caryl Churchill
The world in Caryl Churchill’s play The Skriker is influenced by malevolent forces, evil fairies adopting various guises determined to destroy lives, to soak up e...
Mojo by Jez Butterworth
Violence, drugs and rock n’ roll are the backdrop for Jez Butterworth’s critically acclaimed play Mojo, set in Soho, London in 1958. This fast paced black comedy ...
Children of the Sun by Maxim Gorky
Children of the Sun, written in 1905 when the playwright was briefly imprisoned in St. Petersburg during the Russian Revolution, conveys Gorky’s disappointment wi...
Three Winters by Tena Štivičić
In the year when Ireland celebrates the centenary of the 1916 Rising, The Lir Academy presents the Irish premiere of Tena Štivičić’s epic play which charts the tr...
Tiger Dublin Fringe presents TRYST
Matt and Steph are hungover. Their wedding is in a week. Things are under control. Mostly. But when their best friend Rachel arrives unannounced, she reveals a se...
Tiger Dublin Fringe presents BlackCatfishMusketeer
This is a play about people getting to know each other through screens. It doesn’t look like the Internet, but it feels like it: it’s compellingly weird, totally ...
Tiger Dublin Fringe presents Fist Pump
Fist Pump transports you from blissed out raves and psychedelic landscapes to stories of revolt, grief and female empowerment. RAK is a new artistic collaboration...
Scripted
The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin presents a showcase of new plays by this year’s graduating Master in Fine Art playwrights. ...
Tiger Dublin Fringe presents Start with a Circle
Start with a circle. Continue outwards. Keep going. Stop, start over. Start with a circle. This time work inwards. Good, start again. Making progress? Getting los...
Havin’ A Gala, Cabaret 2016
Directed by Ronan Phelan. Musical direction by Morgan Cooke The graduating classes of The Lir Academy are proud to present: HAVIN’ A GALA, sponsored...
Design Exhibition 2016
Gradfest will launch with the opening of the Design Exhibition 2016. This temporary exhibition, displayed in the main foyer of The Lir Academy showcases a range o...
Grimly Handsome by Julia Jarcho
A pair of Christmas tree salesmen have come to wreak havoc in NYC. A pair of detectives are bent on catching the killer. A young woman finds herself drawn into th...
After the End by Dennis Kelly
Louise wakes up to find herself in an underground nuclear fallout shelter belonging to her colleague Mark, who has rescued her from the devastation caused by a su...
Love and Information by Caryl Churchill
“You feel as if you’re hurtling’ ‘hurtling through my life’ ‘like the front seat of a rollercoaster’ ‘But I feel as if I’m choosing’ ‘Yes...
The Coming World by Christopher Shinn
The Coming World is a play about three people on a beach along the picturesque New England coast, struggling to deal with an inexpressible pain as they search for...
Short Film Screening 2016
Final year acting, stage management and technical theatre students worked on two short films with film directors Rebecca Daly and Ruth Meehan. The films will be s...
Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind in a new version by Anya Reiss
Anya Reiss’s fearlessly contemporary adaptation of this always controversial classic repositions Wedekind’s challenging story of emerging adolescent sexuality in ...
I Am A Camera by John Van Druten
I Am A Camera by John Van Druten is adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s novel Goodbye to Berlin part of the Berlin Stories. It looks at life in a Berlin boarding...
The Provoked Wife by John Vanbrugh
Sir John Vanbrugh’s second comedy is an outspoken portrayal of sex, marriage, temptation and revenge in the 18th century. Lady Brute, the provoked wife, is hell b...
In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl
In a seemingly perfect, well-to-do Victorian home, proper gentleman and scientist Dr. Givings has innocently invented an extraordinary new device for treating “hy...
The Cradle Will Rock
A Brechtian tale of corruption, greed, lies, deceit and prostitution. Set in Steeltown, USA, The Cradle Will Rock is a Brechtian tale of corruption, greed...
Buddleia by Paul Mercier
Buddleia is a thrilling account of a troubled city at a time of great flux. First staged to great success in 1995, this revival of Paul Mercier’s contemporary cla...
Object Piggy
Balloons, bodies and steel rings, a Bauhaus Ballet for Dublin city, Object Piggy re-figures aerial dance as a fetish for hardware; a circus-sculpture; a looking-o...
Scripted
The Lir Academy presents a showcase of new plays by this year’s graduating MFA in Playwriting students. The seven playwrights have been immersed in training led b...
The Lir Cabaret 2015
The yearly Cabaret will take place on Friday 10th July from 7.00pm until the wee small hours. Cabaret & wine reception at the Samuel Beckett Theatre,...
Design Exhibition
A display of sample design work from the MFA lighting design, costume design and set design students of 2015. The exhibition will open in the foyer of Th...
Damascus
It’s the Arab Spring. Syria is on the verge of revolution. Damascus has always been a city of transformations. Paul is here to sell his English-language textbooks...
East of Berlin
A teenage boy in Paraguay discovers a terrifying hidden secret about his father’s past. Starting in 1970 and moving back through time, East of Berlin is a hauntin...
Pornography
A city on the brink. One week in July 2005. London is crashing from the euphoria and promise of the 2012 Olympic bid, G8 summit, and Live 8 concer...
Gruesome Playground Injuries by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Plays Ltd
“Does it hurt?” Kayleen and Doug have known each other for 30 years. Over the course of their friendship, they have witnessed most of each other’s injuries...
Living Quarters
Commandant Frank Butler has returned a hero from a peace keeping mission in the Middel East. The Irish state, using all the pomp it can muster, decamps to Friel’s...
My Child and Contractions
Both of Bartlett’s brilliant short plays ask the same basic question: is it still possible to live a good life in an increasingly fractured society that is obsess...
Metamorphosen
This spring, an exciting collaborative project led by members of the dynamic Irish Chamber Orchestra and directed by Katherine Hunka sees string students from fou...
Ten Thousand Miles Away
Led by the renowned pianist, Iain Burnside, exceptionally gifted students from the Royal Irish Academy of Music, The Lir Academy and Juilliard School, New York, j...
Northern Star
Northern Star, one of the plays included in Stewart Parker’s “Three Plays for Ireland” is based on Henry Joy McCracken struggling to compose his final speech to t...
O Go My Man
Seemingly ordinary healthy relationships are disintegrating as partners become ex partners and revenge becomes a normal part of their everyday lives. Set in Dubli...
Troilus and Cressida
For ten years the Greek army has been encamped around the walls of Troy. The siege is getting nowhere, the war is stalemate - and the reason is that the Greek com...
Tarry Flynn
Conall Morrison’s adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh’s semi-autobiographical novel, first produced at The Abbey Theatre in 1997, introduces music, choreography and an...
Scripted
The six MFA playwrights (from Ireland, Scotland and America) have been immersed in training led by Graham Whybrow (former Literary Manager of the Royal Court) and...
Electra, The MFA Showcase
There are rumours that her brother, Orestes, is returning to kill her mother. Does she want to heal or to avenge? Nick Payne adapts Sophocles’ tragedy for a moder...
The Ugly One, The MFA Showcase
Lette thought he was normal. When the extent of his ugliness is revealed he turns to a plastic surgeon for help. But after the bandages come off, Lette soon learn...
Foxfinder, The MFA showcase
A foxfinder arrives at Samuel and Judith’s farm to investigate a suspected contamination, driven by the belief that the beast must be unearthed and destroyed to p...
Midsummer, The MFA Showcase
Helena is a divorce attorney. Bob is an illegal car salesman. Their paths cross one midsummer night in Edinburgh, and a wild weekend ensues, fueled by sex and sto...
Pains of Youth by Ferdinand Bruckner, translated by Daphne Moore
Set in the aftermath of World War I, Bruckner’s classic Pains of Youth is a melancholic tale detailing the lives of a group of highly sexed medical students resid...
The Clearing by Helen Edmundson
The Clearing is set in seventeenth century Ireland, where Cromwell’s army are ethnically cleansing their way across the land in preparation for British settlement...
Into the Woods Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine
Sondheim’s famous Into the Woods, premiered to critical acclaim on Broadway in 1987. It won several Tony Awards, including Best Score, Best Book and Best Actress ...
Transitions Dance Company
Stefanie Batten Bland A physically demanding, full company dance work with a strong theatrical flavour that is emotionally driven and poe...
The Night Season by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
The Night Season tells the story of three Sligo sisters who, abandoned by their mother 15 years previously, have been brought up by their cynical drunken father a...
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
A bitter sweet play of sunshine and shadow. Twelfth Night is Shakespeare’s greatest and most delicate comedy dealing with the nature of identity, gender and passi...
Bold Girls by Rona Munro
Bold Girls explores the lives of four Belfast women revealing the complex relationships and the lies and betrayal that fester beneath. Cassie, Marie and Nora’s li...
Schiller’s Mary Stuart in a new version by Peter Oswald
Mary Stuart, one of the great classics of European theatre, depicts the last days of Mary Queen of Scots. Mary Stuart is imprisoned in England for the murder of h...
Scenes from the Big Picture by Owen McCafferty
City life in one of the most troubled cities in the world. Twenty one characters’ lives are interwoven to produce a slice of life in Belfast; another day in a cit...