DIT Drama Festival: 22nd February - 5th March
If you missed out on DITs 'Best Event 2003', then you'll want to change all that for 2004. This year's DIT Drama Festival is being held from 22nd February to 5thMarch at the Project Theatre in Temple Bar. The good news is that wehave doubled our run, so this year there should be a seat for everyone!The festival is set to include three-night runs from Aungier St, KevinSt. and Cathal Brugha & Bolton St; as well as guest performances fromSt.Pats Drama Society and an assembled cast performing The Death of Loveby Joe Savage.
Aungier Street presents, as has become tradition two original plays, written and performed by its own members. Under the combined heading Big City, Small Town, the two plays explore two uniquely Irish situations. Kilmacree is a riotous black-comedy set in rural Ireland, which deals with the tribulation that a death (or near-death) can bring to the family; while Buskers is a collection of monologues from Grafton Street, that are accurate to the point of both hilarity and distress.Big City, Small Town runs on 26th February, and 3rd & 4th March.
Bolton St. and Cathal Brugha St. Drama Society presents The Producers by Mel Brook and The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler. Both plays also run on three nights: Tuesday 24th February, and Monday & Tuesday, 1st & 2nd March. The Producers is a comedy which portrays a down-and-out producer attempting to make one last comeback by producing the worst play in the world (!). The Vagina Monologues is a powerful and moving play; it does, however, have its funny moments and doesn't fall short on the shock factor.
Kevin Street has been particularly prolific this year, and brings three productions to the Festival.' Fresh from their own site-based Drama Week (16th to 21st February), the Kevin St. Society present Lone Star and Laundry & Bourbon on opening night, the 23rd February; as well as two further performances of Oscar Wilde's classic, The Importance of being Earnest, on 27th February and 5th March.
This Festival is important to our Society and these nights which we are to perform will be the fruits of our hard work (blood, sweat and tears).
We are here to entertain you (as well as ourselves!) and so we hope to have your support on these nights. Following the Drama Festival, the best of our plays will be off to represent DIT in the Irish Student Drama Association (ISDA) Festival which will be held in Galway from 6th to 13th March.
Tickets cost E8/E5 students, and Season Tickets are available for
E25/E20 on the door. All shows start at 8:00pm.
For more information visit www.ditdrama.ie
