Dublin Fringe Festival Sep 6 - 21

The Dublin Fringe Festival wishes to thank everyone who made this year our most successful to date: sponsors, staff, companies and artists, interns, volunteers, designers and, of course, the record breaking audiences who all contributed to this excellent year. Keep your ears to the ground for word on the 2009 festival, or for sneaky peeks and special offers sign up to our newsletter here

- Team Fringe

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Pushing The Envelope

International and Irish work that melds genres and takes art forms to new levels more >

In Motion

New dance works by top Irish and International companies more >

Guaranteed Fresh

Exciting Irish productions of contemporary plays for the first time in Dublin more >

First Glance

Premiers of new Irish plays more >

On The Streets

Outdoor and free events taking over the city more >

The Secret Garden

The Hennessy Spiegeltent and much, much more. All happening in the Iveagh Gardens more >

Special Events

Intensive dance workshops, networking opportunities and wonderfully entertaining special shows more >

Outer Space

Exciting works in non-traditional spaces - cars, parks, schools, hotels and more more >

Lets Get Visual

Our visual art programme, happening in Dublin's leading contemporary galleries more >

Bouffon Glass Menajoree

(Pushing The Envelope)

Performance Research Experiment #1

(Pushing The Envelope)

Polaroid

(Pushing The Envelope)

Saori's Birthday

(Pushing The Envelope)

Susan & Darren

(Pushing The Envelope)

The Four Horsemen Project

(Pushing The Envelope)

Tundra

(Pushing The Envelope)

ByGones

(In Motion)

Dance Double Bill 1

(In Motion)

Dance Triple Bill 1

(In Motion)

Dance Triple Bill 2

(In Motion)

Round She Goes

(The Secret Garden)

Red Bastard

(The Secret Garden)

Fundamentals Of Motion

(Special Events)

Flying School

(Special Events)

Physical Theatre

(Special Events)

Bouffon

(Special Events)

The Art Of Laughter

(Special Events)

Rock Paper Scissors

(Outer Space)

Pinocchio

(On The Streets)

The Common Will

(First Glance)

Director's Blog

The festival is in full swing and I find time to reflect on things

Posted On: Sep 12 / 11.49 | 1 Comment

Some true festival magic happened last night in the artist club, when Camille O’Sullivan (who had guested earlier in Duke Special’s night) came on stage just as we had to switch off the PA at 1.30am and sang In the Port of Amsterdam, un amplified...

It’s on: Festival starts today!

Posted On: Sep 6 / 17.26 | 3 Comments

The Iveagh Gardens look absolutely beautiful at night. My admiration and thanks to all the tech team and site crews who worked to exhaustion levels in the torrential rains yesterday. But despite the more than difficult weather conditions we got it re...

Daily Blog

The end is now upon us!

Posted On: Sep 21 / 11.54 | 0 Comments - Be the first to comment, click here!

Here we are, the last day of the Dublin Fringe Festival 2008!!!!!  At this point I think it's important to reflect over the last few weeks and think about what the Fringe meant to each of  us - the crazy nights in Spiegeltent, the wonderful shows t...

count down

Posted On: Sep 19 / 22.00 | 1 Comment

Twenty four hours until the last ticketed event opens and I can stop talking about guest lists, allocations, comps, discounts, buy backs, float sheets, refunds, apologies (I'm sorry, we're out of programmes/ tickets/ printer ink), cancellations, apol...

Judge's Blog

Wolfgang is looking a wee bit peaky this morning…

Posted On: Sep 22 / 10.08 | 3 Comments

...as my granny might have said. In case any of the rest of you fringophiles are having difficulty remembering the closing ceremony it went like this...performance/awards/drink/sound glitch/performance/award/drink/sound glitch/award/performance/da...

Electric picture show at the Spiegal

Posted On: Sep 17 / 11.59 | 0 Comments - Be the first to comment, click here!

I like 3kapano's music, it's a cool blend of prog/stoner rock influenced by Kraut rocks bands such as cluster and Popal Vuh, with a dash of early Pink Floyd. The show they did at the Spiegal a couple of yrs ago, as backing to the si...