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ROADMAP Steve Coogan in Dublin Genuine excitement
here as living legend (and seven-time BAFTA Award winner) Steve Coogan leads the first ever adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s iconic film, Dr Strangelove in the Bord Gais from Feb 5th - 22nd. This jet-black comedy masterpiece, about a rogue U.S. General who triggers a nuclear crisis, is brought to the stage by acclaimed BAFTA and Emmy Award winner Armando Iannucci and Olivier Award winner Sean Foley in an explosively funny satire of mutually assured destruction. Unmissable. Bordgaisenergytheatre.ie BEYOND THE PALE One of our fave Festivals has announced its first wave of acts and it’s another class line up of the best live acts and DJ’s with Wicklow woman Roisin Murphy playing a homecoming of sorts as she headlines at this wonderfully bespoke Festival on the Glendalough estate. Jon Hopkins, berlioz, Ezra Collective, Boney M, Jeff Mills, The Sugarhill Gang, Death in Vegas, Horse Meat Disco, Zero 7 (DJ Set) are just some of the other acts performing. itsbeyondthepale.ie for tickets and info. WATER IN THE DESERT FIRE IN THE NIGHT FIRST FORTNIGHT FESTIVAL The always excellent First Fortnight Festival continues nationwide until Jan 18th. A particular highlight is a celebration of community and connection through music, poetry, and performance in partnership with St Patrick’s Mental Health Services. Featured performances include the enchanting Emma Langford, the rising star Luke Clerkin and writer, playwright, performer, and spoken-word artist Dagogo Hart. St Patricks University Hospital, Jan 16th, 6pm, pay what you can. firstfortnight.ie for more info 10 Tramp Press, publisher of Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat and Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones, has acquired Ireland and UK rights for Water in the Desert Fire in the Night, a debut novel by Gethan Dick, to be published May 2025. Water in the Desert Fire in the Night is a novel about mothering, wolves, bicycles, midwifery, post-apocalyptic feminism, gold, hunger and hope. It’s about an underachieving millennial, a retired midwife and a charismatic Dubliner who set out from London after the end of the world to cycle to a sanctuary in the southern Alps. It’s about the fact that the world ends all the time, and it’s about what to try to do next. Gethan Dick, who was born in Belfast and grew up in the west of Ireland said: “I’ve always been interested in the end of the world. Long before I had kids, I was certain there was something about the idea of pregnancy and childbirth beyond the apocalypse – I talked for twenty years about writing a post-apocalyptic novel, and then in the first lockdown we ended up living for two months in a stone shepherd’s cabin on Mont Sainte Victoire. It was twenty metres square and we had no electricity, no running water, no toilet, and the roof leaked.” Pre-orders are available online from Kennys.ie as well as your local bookseller.