I’m looking forward to being in Dublin in May for the first time since the annual International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival started in 2004. There are some plays in the programme I have high hopes for.
Of particular interest to me will be Jack, The Lad, a rent boy’s journey of self-discovery, Dream Man which is set in the world of telephone sex lines, apollo /dionysus which promises to be an uninhibited fleshing out of ancient myths, The Irish Curse, which explores masculinity, The Boy Who Fell from the Roof from South Africa, and The Gaydar Diaries, a piece about the infamous dating site. (The co-founder of which, incidentally, Gary Frisch, somersaulted off his balcony and plunged to his death in February after taking too much ketamine; he’d been depressed and over-indulging in drugs since the death of his mother. His last reported word was “Wahey!”)
I reviewed the festival with Peter Crawley of The Irish Times, for Nadine O’Regan’s arts and entertainment show The Kiosk on Phantom FM.
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