Fringe benefits

THE following are some highlights from this year's Dublin fringe festival, which runs from next Monday

THE following are some highlights from this year's Dublin fringe festival, which runs from next Monday. The Dublin Theatre Festival starts the following week (October 7th).

Andrews Lane Studio: Stuck by Fergal O'Byrne. Pink Panda presents this comedy set in a men's room. Mon Sat, 1 p.m.

My Name Is Kate Perry And I've Been Drinking - one woman show of sketches. Mon-Fri, 6 p.m.

Ay, Carmela! by Jose Sanchis Sinisterra, translated by David Johnston. Eye to Eye presents this play set during the Spanish Civil War which follows a pair of travelling entertainers. Mon-Sat. 8.15 p.m.

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Trinity Players: Fille Du Ciel Et De La Terre by Joseph Delteil. French company La Comedie de Reims presents this production on the life of Joan of Are. Mon-Sat, 1 pm.

Entering Angels by Nicola McCartney and Lucy McLellan. Glasgow company LookOut presents this play set on October 2nd, the day on which newspapers say the world will end. Mon-Fri, 6 p.m.

Best by Fred Lawless. Set in Liverpool in 1963, Pete Best becomes a rock `n' roll icon while the Beatles fade into oblivion, but the Beatles decide to take matters into their own hands. Mon-Sat, 8.30 p.m.

City Arts Centre:

The Home Made Child by Louise Ironside, based on an idea by John Mitchell. Lung Ha's Theatre Company from Edinburgh presents this dark fairy tale for adults based around Balaz's reworking of Bluebeard's Castle. Tues-Sat, 7.30p.m.

Stirfry with Owen O'Neill. Fri, 11.30 pm.

Bewley's Theatre: The Pat Hobby Stories - adapted and performed by Paul Birchard. Based on F. Scott Fizgerald's short stories about a failed screenwriter, boozer and back. Mon-Sat, 1 p.m.

Valley Song by Athol Fugard. Presented by Valley Productions with Don Foley in the dual roles of Author and Buks and Esmeralda Buhl as Veronica. Directed by Caroline Fitzgerald. Opens Mon, 8.15 pm

Piwnica Pod Baranami - music and song from the oldest cabaret in Europe. Wed-Fri, 11.30 pm.

Kilmainham Gaol: Wolfe Tone's Lament by Jonathan Ryder. A Wild Card production in which two actors perform numerous roles including Tone, King George II, architects of the French Revolution, spies, generals, rebels etc. Mon-Sat, 6 p.m.

Temple Bar Gallery: Streetcar - a short, sharp, in your face version of Tennessee Williams's masterpiece presented by Corn Exchange. TueSat, 9 p.m.

Alliance Francaise: Los Losas De Paris - French cabaret with translation from the English-speaking MC. Tues-Fri, 10 p.m.

Un Conte De Fee De l'Ouest Sauvage - Alliance Francaise de Cork presents this fairytale of the Wild West, an evocation of the great French comic books. Wed-Fri, 8 p.m.

Da Club: Honor Heffernan and Louis Stewart. Wed-Fri, 8 p.m.

The Nualas: an evening of music, mirth and macrame. Fri and Sat, midnight (Also at IFC Meeting Room Wed-Sat, 11 p.m.

International Bar: Musical Chairs - devised and performed by Amadan Theatre, fast moving comedy about a therapy group of people addicted to musicals. Mon-Sat, 1 p.m.

Blood And White Spirits by Marc-Ivan O'Gorman. Second in a trilogy of plays examining the way the sexes are, and the relationship between two painters, an artist and a housepainter sharing a house. Presented by Double Take. Mon-Fri, 6 p.m.

Eamonn Dorans: The Lads by Ken Slattery. Weasel Enterprises presents this work in which four characters work on a storyline which pokes fun at elements of popular culture. Mon-Fri, 5 p.m.

The Norseman: Waitin' On The Ma - Cool Roots Theatre Company presents two plays by Aidan Parkinson. The first is about two brothers on graduation day whose alcohol consumption increases as they wait for their mother. The second is about two spinsters who get so carried away by the wrestling on TV that they get into the act themselves. MonFri for two weeks at 8.30 p.m.