The acclaimed Dublin Theatre Festival will take place in 20 venues across the city from 29 September to 16 October 2022. Its wide-ranging programme, which this year has a strong emphasis on movement and bodies, will showcase the best of Irish theatre alongside exceptional international works.
Boasting 17 world premieres, a new initiative to increase accessibility of the programme, a full season of Theatre for Children and a FESTIVAL+ programme of engaging talks, critical events and new work-in-development showcases, the festival offers something for everyone.
The 2022 festival will feature a strong international showing, welcoming artists from the UK, Brazil, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Italy and France.
Among this year’s highlights will be Romeo Castellucci’s remarkable Bros, a dark and unsettling work in which the actors follow orders received through headsets in real time.
From France comes Crowd, a hallucinatory rollercoaster of intense emotions and collective euphoria in a performance based on the club scene.
Irish highlights include the world premiere of the stage adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s novel The Blackwater Lightship, a story of a broken family, making a family of your own and the cost of caring for each other.
The festival also features a number of works relating to the centenary celebrations of James Joyce’s masterpiece Ulysses.