Laugh, cringe and cry with this lonely Limerick story

Tragic protagonists ought to know they can’t escape their origins or elude their destinies. Is that why companies at the Tiger Dublin Fringe are returning to an ancient source?

Company SJ create a splitting performance from Beckett’s prose fragments in a crumbling building. Strangely, it becomes a wholly united experience

This ‘live edited dance film’ undercuts its erotic charge with goofy comedy

A real tragedy and an epic myth inform a violent young Irish man’s quest for home. It takes a while to get there

John Doran wants you to join a cult: what have you got to lose?

A personal look at the battle between NYC Catholic conservatism and a free-for-all Queens approach

A “live concept album” from alt-pop act Maud in Cahoots uses theatricality to expose a world of surfaces

Interesting fact: Taridgrades can suspend their metabolism for up to 10 years. Expect this show to similarly ensnare your attention

This show will change your life: or at the very least make you laugh. What more could you want?

Don’t forget to take a breath before plunging into Phelim Drew’s Orwell adaptation

It fizzes, it cracks, it whips and raps: Dublin free style

This tale, based on a 1939 court case, has chilling parallels with ‘modern’ Ireland

Dramatic trickery can go Whistle, while Turf gives up its secrets slowly

More illuminating facts and insights than you could shake a Hubble Space Telescope at

From comedy and therapy to dance and aerobics, from quick fixes to four-hour marathons, we have a Fringe show for you

This drive-in dance show demands your attention

Descended from a long line of planted oppressors, an Irish actor wonders about his genetic inheritance

This documentary-style piece sets itself the formidable task of exploring disability service provision in Ireland

Veronica Coburn’s comedy brings a 1920s play honking into the 21st century