Dublin Shakespeare Society will present two short one act radio plays by Chekhov at 7.30pm, Saturday 27 April. In “Smoking is bad for you”, the hen-pecked Ivan Ivanovich Nyukin has been persuaded to deliver a public lecture by his wife. He doesn’t manage to stay on the topic… Nyukin is played by Padraig Denihan […]
Dublin Shakespeare Society – Zoom performance of ” A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Episode 1 Wednesday 9th June 2021 Login @7:30pm Performance @ 8:00pm (Episode 2 Friday 25th June 2021) Co – Directors George Carroll & Brendan O’Daly Cast Bottom Padraig Denihan Demetrius/Fairy Barry O’Connor Egeus Peter Prior Helena/Snug Niamh O’Brien Rihannon Hermia Niamh Delaney […]
Dublin Shakespeare Society – Zoom performance of ” A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Episode 2 Friday 25th June 2021 Login @7:30pm Performance @ 8:00pm Co – Directors George Carroll & Brendan O’Daly Cast Bottom Padraig Denihan Demetrius/Fairy Barry O’Connor Egeus Peter Prior Helena/Snug Niamh O’Brien Rihannon Hermia Niamh Delaney Hippolyta/Fairy Brigid Sweeney Lysander/Fairy Kevin […]
Render Unto Caesar is a radio play written by the late Patrick J. Power. About the author Patrick J Power, a “Raheny veteran” was born in 1929 and he died in March of this year (2021) – just three days before his 92nd birthday. The renowned storyteller was originally from Roscommon where his father was […]
Our Annual AGM is due to take place on 17th February 2022 at 8pm. This will be held online using the “Zoom” application and details will be emailed to members shortly. If you have any matters you wish to have raised at AGM, please email to president@dublinshakespearesociety.ie
‘Shaking It Up!’ After 2+ years of enforced absence from face-to -face rehearsal and performance, the Artistic Committee believes it’s the ideal opportunity for our members to re-engage creatively with both the form and content of our theatre. In 2022, we want our members to breathe new life into our output, capturing and expressing the […]
A U D I T I O N S Dublin Shakespeare Society will be presenting a workshop performance of “His Grave Has Got No Name”, a short play based on Oscar Wilde’s Poem ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’. This piece is part of our ‘Shake It Up’ Programme where work in progress is workshopped for one […]
This show will be performed on 25th of June 2022. Auditions will be held on 11th and 12th of May. It is a Revue style show which is inspired by Samuel Beckett. There will be sketches, poems and musical numbers. Cast requires 6 female characters and 6 male characters no particular age. Contact Dermot Corrigan […]
Based on The Ballad of Reading Goal by Oscar Wilde the themes still relevant today: loss, guilt, imprisonment and a judicial system based on the idea of revenge and retribution and how that affects the most vulnerable in society. His Grave has got No Name is a devised piece especially for theatre based on the […]
This Forum Theatre event comprised two short pieces devised over six weekly workshops with Shakes members. Forum Theater, one of the major techniques within Theatre of the Oppressed, allows spectators to collaborate in the experience by becoming ‘spect-actors’ (the audiences who participate in the actual performance). Through a moderator (Joker) and a group of actively […]