The 2010s

Over a hundred years since the Shakes was first established, the current organisation continues to perform the works of Shakespeare, as well as introducing works by new playwrights and experimenting with different formats.

Under Milk Wood

Under Milk Wood by poet Dylan Thomas was performed in 2014. View the full Gallery of Photos HERE

Macbeth

The production featured a young Donal McCann (in two parts), later to achieve national and international fame as an actor, Maire O’Neill (Lady Macbeth), later of the Abbey theatre, the future film director Bob Quinn (Banquo), as well as Mike Murphy (Macduff).

Hamlet

Another ‘high’ during the decade was a production of Hamlet at the newly restored Casletown House, in 1969 by the late Liam McGuinness, a long time stalwart, and later President, who first joined the Society in 1952 and remained active until the mid-1990s. The main hallway of the House was used for the setting and […]

A Masque for Minerva

To mark the 400th Anniversary of the death of Shakespeare, The Dublin Shakespeare Society presents – A Masque for Minerva. The Goddess Minerva summons up some of the fun, the beauty and the pathos in the writings of the greatest dramatist of his own or any other age.

DSS presents Le-Cauchemar-de-Dracula

THE DRAC PROJECT

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