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Donal Talbot Styling: Sophie Donaldson Hair: Jake Ryan Make-up: Polina Perminova Models: Dion Mahoney and Tommy Solovyo at Not Another Intl. Shot on location at The Gate Theatre, with thanks to Selina Cartmell and Christine Monk. quietceremony.com ashebespoke.ie hannahennis.online nstagram.com/sharonsweeneydesign Once Before I Go, a new play by Phillip McMahon and directed by Selina Cartmell opens as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival on October 1 and runs until October 23 (previews from September 24). This deeply moving portrait of three close queer friends over a period of 40 years in Dublin, Paris and London, offers an insightful look at living with humility, forgiveness and love. The story is told against the backdrop of Dublin’s burgeoning gay rights movement in the 1980s and 1990s and the contemporary LGBTQ+ community of today. “Once Before I Go looks at LGBTQ+ activism, love and friendships, and while it celebrates how far our community has come, it asks questions about all that was lost on the march towards progress,” says writer Phillip McMahon. “I like to think that the fabulous ghosts of The Gate’s founders Micheál Mac Liammóir and Hilton Edwards would be tickled by this play happening in their theatre.” 32