Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival

16 Possible GlimpsesMarina Carr's new play examines the life and death of Anton Chekhov through a series of dialogues and domestic scenes in a production directed by Wayne Jordan. Peacock Theatre Until Oct 29 8pm €18-€25

The Blue BoyBrokentalkers stages its long-developing, formally innovative response to the experiences of men and women incarcerated in Catholic residential care institutions, incorporating dance, documentary and music in its revelation of childhood abuse. The Lir Ends Oct 16 7.30pm (Sat mat 3pm) €18-€25

Juno and the PaycockThe Abbey opened the festival in a major co-production with the National Theatre of Great Britain on Seán O'Casey's classic, directed by Howard Davies. Abbey Theatre Until Nov 5 7.30pm (Sat mat 2pm) €13-€40 01-8787222 abbeytheatre.ie

LaundryAnu Productions, site-specific mavens, stages the second of its four-part history of the former Monto area, here bringing audiences into the former Magdalene Laundry on Sean MacDermott Street – an astonishing glimpse behind closed doors and into a chasm of still unresolved pain. Magdalene Convent, Sean MacDermott St Ends Oct 15 Various times 11am-5.30pm €13-€18

Peer GyntArthur Riordan's new version of Ibsen's unwieldy classic finds the echoes between places and ages in Rough Magic's new production. O'Reilly Theatre Ends Oct 16 7.30pm (Sat mat 2pm, Sun 4pm) €20-€30

Request ProgrammeEileen Walsh moves silently through her apartment as the audience manoeuvres silently around her in Corcadorca's off-site production of Franz Xaver Kroetz's play. Millennium Tower, Millennium Walkway Oct 14/16 4.30pm/5.30pm/ 6.30pm/8.30pm €15

Revolution Now!Those charming theatrical havoc-wreakers, Gob Squad, stage a revolution – sort of – in a work that uses technology, tea and cake, electric guitars and (of course) camera and big screens. The revolution, you see, will be televised. Samuel Beckett Theatre, TCD Ends Oct 15 7.30pm €28-€33

Slattery's Sago SagaThe Performance Corporation restages its Flann O'Brien whirligig, Arthur Riordan's adaptation and completion of the unfinished book, for the UBDTF's ReViewed programme. Rathfarnham Castle Ends Oct 16 Fri 8pm, Sat 3pm/8pm, Sun 6pm €15-€20

The Speckled PeopleHugo Hamilton adapts his autobiographical novel of a German-Irish upbringing in Patrick Mason's premiere production. Gate Theatre Until Nov 5 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm) €15-€35

TestamentColm Tóibín's second play, a festival commission, is a monologue for Marie Mullen, who, under Garry Hynes's direction, tells of the burden of Mary, mother of Jesus. Unlikely to be a piece of religious pageantry, but perhaps the greatest story never told. Project Arts Centre Ends Oct 16 €20-€35 (mat Sat 2.30pm)

TradeMark O'Halloran's first play in more than a decade is an intimate encounter between a middle-aged, closeted gay man and a rent boy who meet in a B&B in North Dublin, staged in a B&B in North Dublin. Tom Creed directs for THISISPOPBABY. Meeting point: O'Reilly Theatre Ends Oct 16 1pm 6pm (Sun 2.30pm) €12-€15

The Wild BrideCornwall-based theatrical spectacle specialists Kneehigh make a long-awaited journey to Dublin with director Emma Rice's new work of fable, dark humour and discovery. Gaiety Theatre Ends Oct 15 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm) €15-€35

World's End LaneAnu Productions remount the extraordinary first instalment of their four-part project to return the history of Monto to the area's living present, here reviving the vicious prostitution of the area for thrilling, unnerving one-on-one experiences. The Lab, Foley St Ends Oct 15 Various times from 5-8pm (Sat 1-4pm) €15