This October Dublin City will go gothic for the third annual Bram Stoker Festival, running Friday 24^th through to Monday 27^th October 2014.  Festival Artistic Director Jo Mangan has been giving us a sneak preview of what’s in store and information about an upcoming artists’ call-out… (more)

“We’re thrilled to have the chance to channel the darker side in putting together the Bram Stoker Festival 2014. It’s going to be a fantastic and unexpected bank holiday weekend for those wanting to get their inner goth on, as well as aficionados of the work of Mr. Stoker himself.

Star of Ros na Rún Takes on Beckett!

Macdara Ó Fátharta, the villainous barman Tadhg Ó Direáin in Ros na Rún, is playing in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape in the Irish Language at The New Theatre, Dublin, this coming June.

Macdara had a lengthy stage career at The Abbey, as well as appearing in the films Far and Away, The Blackwater Lightship, and the first ever Irish Language feature film Poitín. This is Macdara’s first Beckett role. Téip Dheireanach Krapp is a new translation of Beckett’s celebrated one man show by world renowned poet and translator Gabriel Rosenstock. It is directed by Cathal Quinn, Artistic Director of the award winning Mouth on Fire Theatre Company, who has already taken Beckett’s work to India this year, and is just back from its second highly successful trip to Japan.

The company has received backing from Dublin City Council, Foras na Gaeilge and Culture Ireland has kindly supported the performances abroad.

Performance Dates:  June 9^th – 14^th 2014 @7.30pm  (Preview Monday 9^th June)

Venue:   The New Theatre, 43 East Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 

 www.thenewtheatre.com   01 670 33 61

Tickets:  €15/€12