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eatre festival is back to thrill, entertain and provoke. The big ticket is the Oscar nominated actress Ruth Negga performing Hamlet in the Gate Theatre (Sept 27 - Oct 13). However, some of the other big productions which should prove a draw for visitors included Rough Magic’s vibrant stage adaptation of the seminal novel by James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Pavilion, Dun Laoighaire: Sept 26-Oct 7) and Corn Exchange’s reimagining of Arthur Miller’s iconic film The Misfits (Smock Alley: Sept 27-Oct 7). Our top tip for a truly authentic Irish experience is Home Theatre (Oct 10-13) which pairs 30 hosts from the Dublin 15 district with 30 leading theatre makers who will perform new works in their homes. dublintheatrefestival.com Various venues, September 27 - October 14 Festival Festival of History Exhibition Beano The Beano is an institution. Celebrating 80 years in existence, Dennis the Menace, Gnasher and the Bash Street Kids form a stable of characters who have become intergenerational household names. It still sells almost 2m copies annually, all from its base in Dundee. To mark this milestone, Pop Artist Horace Panter has transported the notorious gang of iconic British comic characters into the worlds of Warhol, Lichtenstein and Hockney in a new collection of paintings and silkscreen prints. ebow Gallery, 1 Castle Street, Dublin 8, from September 6 We often hear George Santayana’s line being trotted out about those who cannot remember the past being condemned to repeat it. George is right. So take this chance to deep dive into history. You can get up to speed on The Romanovs before Mad Men’s Matthew Weiner makes them hot stuff on Amazon Prime. There’s talks on Karl Marx and his Irish connections, the sinking of the RMS Leinster whose centenary falls on October 10h, Hitler’s women pilots in the Third Reich, women in Hollywood in the ‘30s, as well as a star turn by our very own Brian McMahon — he of the Brand New Retro parish, p14 — whose talk ‘The Inevitable Seduction (Ireland and Pop Culture)’ will take place in Drumcondra Library on Thursday September 27. Various venues, September 24 to October 4 dublinfestivalofhistory.ie 6