This is th 9th edition of the SCENE + HEARD programme and we are STARGAZING! ​Inside, You’ll find Music, Myths, Witches, Sieges, and Dead Monks. You’ll find Theology, Philosophy, Ancient Gods, Aerobics and Acrobatics. You’ll find love, loss, longing, Cronie Boys, Common Girls, Feral Women, and Quiet Men. You’ll find Gleeks, Freaks, Catfishers and Starchasers, Synesthesia, SIMS, Showponies and Sheep! At SCENE + HEARD We believe that Art is supposed to reach its audience. We believe that it is the prerogative of the work to sometimes not work. We also believe the audience should

Having premiered in Palestine in 2022, MILK مِلْك is a powerful visual theatre experience concerned with a disaster. Not with its causes, its type or its consequences, but with how it divides time in two – before and after – and rifts the two apart, turning time into something with no duration or end. Past becomes present and future loses all meaning other than endless repetition. Inside this rift, which at first appears safe, a group of women look everywhere for their lost motherhood. Coming to the Abbey Theatre for eight performances only, this powerful and determined performance

Join us as the Newpoint Players, directed by Donal O’Hanlon, present this humorous historical fantasy, this reflection on the legacy of one of Ireland’s most important, yet almost forgotten, emigrants, Thomas D’Arcy McGee. In Canada Wexford’s Thomas D’Arcy McGee (1825–1868) is revered as a founding father, perhaps the founding father, of the country. In Ireland, he is either unknown or reviled as a traitor; a physical force republican turned colonial loyalist. On the 200th anniversary of his birth, McGee is called from the grave to answer, in the Court of History, the charge