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PJ Gallagher is based on the true life story of comedian PJ Gallagher and stars telly’s favourite funny lady Katherine Lynch. / Hookers Do It Standing Up by Lady Grew who makes her come back to Dublin Fringe. Check out “Ireland’s Favourite Courtesan” (Sunday Independent) with her back against a brick wall. Perhaps failing in prostitution she may seek refuge as a stand-up comic. / Astronaut by Joe Wright a spoken-word multimedia theatre piece which premiered in London is inspired by the Apollo House occupation in 2016 / Soho Theatre and Fishamble present Drip Feed by Karen Cogan, is a fast-paced blistering new play about sexuality, the messiness of being youngish, female and queer in 1990s Ireland. / The Fattest Dancer at St. Bernadette’s from The Breadline Collective - It’s the day before Julian La Blanc’s School of Dance and Drama’s annual showcase and everything is falling apart. Hear Julian’s story as he divulges how he should have been a star, flanked by some of the sassiest 10 years olds in Dublin 1. / Everything Can Be Dismantled by Joan Somers Donnelly and Donncha MacCoil is an interactive fantasy about the politics of housing, this is a show about the spaces we live in now and the spaces we desire. / Owing To The Failure Of by Zoë Comyns is an audio experiment for podcast lovers. Comyns is radio producer who finds 100-year-old Marconi Code books in a junk shop, starts to read the code lists obsessively and twist them into her own life story mimicking a live podcast. / SHAME by Pom Boyd and Sean Millar a highly entertaining and cathartic new show which invites you to witness a sacred punk theatrical ritual through song. Give up the exhausting pretense and wear your crippling shame on your sleeve. There’s laugh a minute COMEDY from Deirdre O’Kane’s A Line of O’Kane. Footloose from her glittering turn on the telly’s Dancing with the Stars and revelling in her return to stand-up, Deirdre has really hit her stride. Don’t miss this hilarious and frank take on 12 frantic months in the life of a tango- tripping, family-minding, telly-making, house-moving, comedy dynamo. / Abie Philbin Bowman makes his Fringe return with Don’t Kiss Me. I’m Irish. We’re Probably Related, a show about parenthood. This comedy show for anyone who suspects that happy parents are really prisoners in denial, posting cute photos of their jailers on Facebook. DANCE at Fringe includes the world premiere of Assisted Solo by Company Philip Connaughton. Connaughton and his long-time collaborator Lucia Kickham and French dance artist Magali Caillet are accompanied by video footage of Madeleine, Philip’s mother, who suffers from advanced dementia. / Liv O’Donoghue makes her first large-scale choreography project, AFTER, using live-stream film, physicality and performance. Investigating our very human fear of endings, O’Donoghue’s show tackles the rise of the right wing. / CAGED by Femme Bizarre examines feminine behavior through the decades.They put themselves through the ringer with aerial stunts, high-octane voguing, explosive vocals and spoken word. / FABLE by Human Collective is a virtuosic street dance show that tells five cautionary tales. Choreographedby Matt Szczerek this highly physical dance show dissects modern life, revealing the disease that sits just under the skin. / NÄHER... CLOSER, NEARER, SOONER from Liz Roche Company is a co-production with GoetheInstitut and Liz Roche Company. Choreographer Liz Roche with cast of 20 performers, along with theatre maker Shane O’Reilly, have together created a site-specific dance piece to mark the opening of the newly refurbished Goethe-Institut. FILM at Fringe – DREAMGUN Film Reads: The Fringe Binge curated by Stephen Colfer brings some comedy all-stars together for script reads of your favourite modern classics. Includes irreverent spins on Harry Potter; Terminator 2: Judgment Day; Psycho; The Matrix; Titanic; Spider-Man; and Batman Begins. DJ Donal Dineen hits the decks for the Young Radicals programme and hosts a musical rollercoaster ride. A proper DJ set designed for kids (under 8s) but suitable for adults too in Tiny Dancer: A DJ Set for Kids - it’s time for the kids to throw some shapes and bust out their best moves. This year’s festival boasts lots of FREE programming. There are ten free shows this year which includes a public art event called Question Project by Mil M2 (Chile). This piece of interactive sculpture will roam the city streets for 16 days crowd sourcing questions for the city from passers by. This offers Dubliners a chance to ask their burning questions of the place they call home. / Award-winning Irish milliner Margaret O’Connor brings her haute couture creations to the streets of Dublin as she designs bespoke hats for the heads of some of our city’s most iconic statues, as well an introducing you to some statues you might never have noticed before in Spitfire Bird. / The PeopleSway is a devised, immersive movement-theatre piece which transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. Stories of the heart, home and homeless in Ireland, revealing beautiful communal truths no longer only at the fringes. / Dublin Fringe Festival’s first ever virtual venue is Dublin Digital Radio – DDR X Fringe. There will be three intimate radio encounters which are appointment listening only as this unique space, where Ireland’s left-of-centre talent finds a new home for music, discussion, experimentation and radical ideas / dumbworld ltd create a street-art opera which is a comic story of passion and revenge played out by octogenarians on zimmer frames in Drive-by Shooting. / Loosysmokes return to Fringe with The Lightkeepers’ Last Stand - an energetic, Foil, Arms + Hog - Craicling impressive, humorous and entirely unexpected performance by one of Ireland’s leading modern circus companies in Dubh Linn Gardens at Dublin Castle. / and the Young Radicals strand commissions Leaving Cert teenager Ayesha Ahmad’s Epoch - a documentation of change, a comingof-age; it explores the summer of 2018 where she captures her last summer in Dublin as school student. Show up, See it first. Step under our spell on every street corner this September. Watch as Fringe transforms Dublin’s map into stages and performances that will make you stop in your tracks. Fringe has the antidotes for whatever ails and brings joy which is yours for the taking. Want a big night out? A great adventure? The freshest new art? You’ll find it all at Fringe. DUBLIN FRINGE FESTIVAL 2018 runs city-wide from September 8 – 23. All 2018 Fringe events are now on sale at fringefest.com or 1850 FRINGE (1850 374 643) from August 29. Facebook - https://www.facebook. com/dublinfringefestival Twitter- @dublinfringe / #dublinfringe Instagram- @dublinfringefest Unwoman Part III - photo by Patricio Cassinoni