Great Stories = Memorable, Meaningful Nights Out
We guarantee you a great night out. How?
Warm Welcome
We promise you a warm welcome, because for us, audience comes first. We’ll take good care of your precious night out.Great Plays
We find great plays: gripping stories – funny and moving, thrilling and thought-provoking, revealing and inspiring, and something you’ll want to talk about.Electric Acting
We bring these to vivid life with electric acting from our passionate ensemble of professional actors … right on your doorstep in Dublin.
Come and join us for great stories.
What’s On
2020-2021 Residency
AboutFACE are delighted to announce that we will be the Theatre Company in Residence at The Civic theatre in Tallaght, South Dublin for 2020-2021!
We’ve got a very special history with the Civic, having now presented 6 different productions there, going back to our early days in 2003. We’re very excited to be making our home there in 2020-2021 and about the projects we have planned for this year at the Civic.
Check out the Civic’s official announcement for more details…
Call for Submissions
AboutFACE Theatre is inviting submissions from emerging Irish women playwrights for Transatlantic Tales 2021.
Application Deadline: April 18th, 2021.
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Great Plays Gang
Are you looking for a fun creative outlet? Or maybe you did some acting in the past and would like to dip your toe in again? If so, you’ll love our Great Plays Gang!
It’s our online program that’s sort of like a cross between a book club and an acting class, where we explore a new play each month …
We talk to to major actors, playwrights, directors and producers, including Tony, Obie and Olivier award winners, about what got them into theatre, their favourite plays, the experiences that have surprised them, what they’ve learned and why they love it!
Guests so far have included:
- actors Ewen Bremner, Denise Gough, Chukwudi Iwuji & Kathleen Chalfant
- playwrights Neil Labute, Stella Feehily & John Cariani
- director Kristin Hanggi
- producer Neil Murray
What’s Upcoming
January 2021
Transatlantic Tales 2020
What do you do during a lockdown, when your big June show has been cancelled? Well, put on a live digital international production spanning 5,000 km with over 20 artists of course!
We’re bringing together theatre artists from America and Ireland to create and perform eight new 3-minute plays – each set on a Zoom call, to be developed in May and performed via online video the first week of June. We’ll be pairing 8 of our Irish-based actors (the cast of our cancelled show) with 8 of our favourite US-based actors, plus 8 writers who’ve been featured in the past at our NEWvember Festival. We can’t wait!
If you missed the Live Premiere on June 6th 2020, you can now watch recordings of each of the 8 plays, plus the post-show Q&A, on our Youtube Channel.
March 2021
United States v. One Book Called Ulysses
On Friday March 19th 2021, AboutFACE were delighted to partner with with The James Joyce Centre in Dublin to share a live online reading of United States v. One Book Called Ulysses, Colin Murphy’s new play about the greatest literary trial of the twentieth century! Pitting the publishers Random House against the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, which viewed James Joyce’s Ulysses as scandalous and obscene, this funny and dynamic new play, based on documentary materials from RTE journalist Declan Dunne, retells the story of the historic Woolsey Judgement of 1933 … If you missed the live performance, you can watch a recording here for a limited time!
