Quare Tales
An evening of new short plays
Join us for an evening of new short plays. There will be something for everyone, from comedy to drama, from sci-fi to horror, the plays were selected from over 100 received after a call out from us last year. The plays will be performed in Galway on Saturday 24th Feb (Venue TBC) and the Teachers Club in Dublin on 298th Feb and 1st March at 7.30. Tickets for the Dublin show go on sale on 23/1/24 at https://www.ticketsource.eu/actingoutshows/e-lddxdd or you can scan this QR code
Artwork by Tim Fish timfishworks.com/
NewsQuare Tales- a competition to find
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Acting Out, Dublin’s LGBTQ+ community theatre group are today launching a competition to find new short plays with an LGBTQ+ theme. Going under the title, “Quare Tales’, the project will see six ten minute plays selected, for performance by Acting Out in February 2024. All shortlisted playwrights will get a performance fee of €60 and the winning entry will get an additional €100 prize.
Artistic Director, Howard Lodge said, “We really want to encourage people to have a go at writing a play! Visibility is still really important and there is nothing more visible than seeing our stories performed for an audience. The idea of writing can be daunting, so we thought by asking for a short piece, budding writers may be less intimidated.” Acting Out’s resident writer and producer, Sean Denyer said, “For many centuries our community was not able to tell their stories, or if they did, they risked prosecution or worse. Thankfully, things in Ireland have changed, but there is still a great need for our tales to be told, and we are planning to put all the successful plays on our website, as a resource for other theatre groups’. Entry is open now via a submission form at https://forms.gle/Gb4mTayRSJGMWfSP9 Entries close at 5pm on October 31st. There will be a zoom session in mid-October on tips for writing a short play that people will be able to sign up to. Look for details of this and more information on the completion on Acting Out’s social media pages. |
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GETTING OVER HUGH
A NEW PLAY OPENS AT IDGTF IN MAY
When Alan ends up sitting next to Rory at a matinee of 'Beaches', it’s almost a case of hate-at-first-site. But after somehow agreeing to meet him for a drink, his opinion of Rory slowly starts to change. There’s only one problem. Alan is still married to Hugh. At least in his head, he is. Will he be able to move on? Or will a dark secret, continue to haunt him forever?
'Getting Over Hugh', is the queer rom-com you didn’t know you needed, and is brought to you by the multi-award winning LGBTQ+ Theatre group 'Acting Out' and the writer of previous Festival hits, including 'The Death of Me' and 'The Ref'.
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'Getting Over Hugh', is the queer rom-com you didn’t know you needed, and is brought to you by the multi-award winning LGBTQ+ Theatre group 'Acting Out' and the writer of previous Festival hits, including 'The Death of Me' and 'The Ref'.
BOOK NOW BY CLICKING ON THE BUTTON BELOW⬇️
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After a long long break we are delighted to announce that Acting Out workshops are back. Acting Out are Dublin’s award winning LGBTQ+ theatre group and people with experience, or none, are welcome to join us playing, creating, developing skills and performing. Every Thursday at Outhouse on Capel St. 7-9pm. €5 per session.
Happy Out!
A new mini Arts Festival for Dublin Pride
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Acting out has been working with the wonderful folk at Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride to develop a new mini festival celebrating some of our community’s excellent creative talent. Five different events will be held between 30th May and 6th June, spanning comedy to cabaret, music and drama. All events are FREE and being held in our well known LGBTQ+ venues who have provided great support. We hope this may become an annual event!
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Best Served Cold
A twisty new revenge drama is coming to Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges as part of Brighton Fringe Festival
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Best Served Cold, a twisty gripping drama of love, hate and revenge is our new show is coming to Junkyard Dogs at The Round Georges from May 26-29.
What starts out as a prank quickly escalates into something much more sinister. But who exactly is fooling who?
This is our third visit to Brighton Fringe where we were nominated for Best New Play in 2018 and 2019.
What starts out as a prank quickly escalates into something much more sinister. But who exactly is fooling who?
This is our third visit to Brighton Fringe where we were nominated for Best New Play in 2018 and 2019.
The Death of Me
A new comedy. About Dying.
For a Programme for The Death of Me click the link above ⬆️
Susanne has a great life - a job she loves, a fantastic Polish wife called Magda, a child she adores, and a gay ex-husband who is now her best friend. But after a lump in her breast is discovered, her life may never be the same again.
Combining humour with pathos, this new play, by the award-winning writer of ‘The Ref’ and ‘The Decriminalisation Monologues’, explores one woman’s cancer journey; one which will force her to examine the most important question facing us all.
What is it I want, out of the life I have left?
Combining humour with pathos, this new play, by the award-winning writer of ‘The Ref’ and ‘The Decriminalisation Monologues’, explores one woman’s cancer journey; one which will force her to examine the most important question facing us all.
What is it I want, out of the life I have left?
Listen to a short interview with the writer of The Death of Me below.
The Decriminalisation Monologues on Tour
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Our GALA Award winning show embarks Ona short Irish tour this autumn, visiting Cork, Clonmel, Manorhamilton, Dublin and Birr. Booking details will be announced shortly.
Each show will be followed by a post show discussion facilitated by local LGBTQ+ groups about growing up queer in Ireland before it was decriminalised. Booking is now open at Booking is now open at: linktr.ee/actingoutgroup |
The Queer Poetry Project
Sadly we were not able to do our usual live show for Dublin Pride this year, so instead we met virtually during Lockdown V3 and read poems, which we then transformed into ten short films. We’re releasing one each day from June 7th. We are living in a golden age for queer poetry and the poems run the gamut from funny, to provocative, to moving,to romantic and to cynical. But all are thought provoking and some are simply gorgeous. Most are two minutes or under. So take a moment.
All of them can be found on our new Queer Poetry Project Page
All of them can be found on our new Queer Poetry Project Page
Acting out receive funding to take award winning show, The Decriminalisation Monologues on tour in 2021
Acting Out are thrilled to announce that we have received funding from the LGBTQI+ Communities Integration Fund from the Department of Children, Equality, disability. integration and Youth which will enable us to take our award winning show, the Decriminalisation Monologues, on tour in Ireland in 2021. Artistic Director, Howard Lodge said, “ We probably got more response to this piece than any we have done and besides winning the National GALA Award this year it was nominated for Best New Play in three festivals in the UK and Czechia. However, it had not been seen outside of Dublin in Ireland, so it is brilliant that we can take it around the country. Writer, Sean Denyer said, “We stand on the shoulders of those who went before us, and the resilience and strength of an older generation of gay and lesbian people has gone largely unrecorded. We hope this piece is a contribution to addressing this”.
Details of the tour are now being worked on and more details will be available in the new year.
Details of the tour are now being worked on and more details will be available in the new year.
Can you see me
A new short film
Acting Out win the 2020 National GALA Award for Arts and Entertainment!
Acting Out shortlisted for National GALA Award for The Decriminalisation Monologues
We are both thrilled and humbled to have been shortlisted for The GALAS award for Arts/Entertainment for our show, The Decriminalisation Monologues, which was a tribute to those in the LGBTQ+ community whose bravery and resilience paved the way to where we are today and on whose shoulders we stand. First performed in Outhouse as part of Dublin LGBTQ Pride the show was subsequently nominated for Best Play in Brighton, Prague and Manchester Fringe Festivals, and we'd love to do it again at home. To add to the excitement this is a category subject to public vote! You can vote for us at www.galas.ie
Acting Out will be returning to Brighton and Prague with new show called, ‘Best Served Cold
We are delighted to announce that our new show, Best Served Cold has been selected for the Brighton Fringe Festival and Prague Fringe Festival, both in May 2020.
More details here
More details here
Acting Out nominated for Best Newcomers and Long-listed for Best New Play at Greater Manchester Fringe.
The Awards for this year’s Greater Manchester Fringe we’re handed out this Sunday and we were delighted to be nominated in two categories.
Read more here.
Read more here.
