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Smock Alley Theatre
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Dublin's newest oldest theatre. Enjoys contemporary takes on the classic and the excitement of the emerging artist.
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https://smockalley.com/
We are seeking an Operations and Admin Lead to support our small, busy team during an important period of organisational transition.

More Details can be found here smockalley.com/opportunities/
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Soul Paint is a virtual reality experience by Sarah Ticho & Niki Smit, backed by behavioural scientists and researchers. Narrated by Rosario Dawson, this experience asks you the question: ‘Where are you feeling?’

🎭 Soul Paint
📅 15 - 17 Jan
🎟️ shorturl.at/GOvSB
December 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Matty recounts his last day alive, over and over, telling us contradicting versions of a day in a life that was already falling apart.
He Dies in the End is a time-bending, funny and heartfelt piece of new writing, a riff on time and potential.

🎭 He Dies in the End
📅 15-17 Jan
🎟️ shorturl.at/rWfOh
December 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
✨As part of First Fortnight 2026✨

This Virtual Reality composition is about migration and isolation.

The experience will immerse participants in a fusion of movement, text, music and the Connemara landscape.

🎭 Ar Ais Arís
📆 15 – 17 Jan
🎫 tinyurl.com/4vmnyn35
December 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Wishing a very happy opening night to the entire cast and crew of Uncle Vanya tonight!

Join us for this years 'Classic at Christmas' at Smock, running until 20 December, with Supper and Show tickets available on select evenings

Photos by: Olga Kuzmenko
December 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🎭 Future Stories
📅 10 Jan
🎟️ shorturl.at/bY8Zg

Future Stories, an 18 month participatory art project, will premiere a new film work by 10 young people with experience of the Irish care system.
December 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
TheatreSports™ is a high-octane improv showdown, fuelled by spontaneous scene challenges, team spirit, and the rising heat a live audience brings to the game.

🎭 TheatreSports™
📅24 Jan
🎟️ smockalley.com/theatresports/
December 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Would you risk it all for a losing chance?

MU Drama proudly presents 3 original plays written by our very own students. Each play is joined together by a common theme of chance, fate, and the cruelty of decisions.

🎭 Lose Your Chance: One Acts Festival
📅 3 + 4 Dec
🎟️ tinyurl.com/k5ewart8
November 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
When their abbot dies and a Viking ship appears on the horizon, three cowardly medieval monks face a life and death decision that swiftly unravels into chaos, self-reflection, betrayal and adventure.

🎭 Dead Monks
📅16 - 19 Dec
🎟️ smockalley.com/dead-monks/
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
✨SELLING FAST✨

UNCLE VANYA by Brian Friel, after Anton Chekhov

Smock Alley Theatre & Cathal Cleary Company, with Once Off Productions, present Anton Chekhov’s classic play, starring Risteárd Cooper & Eavan Gaffney.

🎭 UNCLE VANYA
📅 4 - 20 Dec
🎟 tinyurl.com/2jaews3j
November 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
An inspector. An artist. A book full of unanswered questions. Whatever happens, this is going to be a mess. Expect tension. Expect chaos. Don’t expect a happy ending.

🎭 Murder Is For Other People
📅 24 - 29 Nov
🎟️ smockalley.com/murder-is-fo...
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
What really happened the night Jesus was born?

This is our tale of how it all began, you know, the whole Christmas thing. It may not be quite the tale you know, or even think you know. Sometimes a good story needs a little… fabrication…maybe even a spaceship?

📆 11 - 13 Dec
November 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Tonight! 🌟

An Irish backpacker blags his way onto a prawn trawler and discovers a rarely seen world of hard labour and harder fishermen, where drinking, fighting, storms and hungry sharks are part of everyday life.

🎭 Trawled
📅 21 Nov
🎟️ smockalley.com/trawled/
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Join us before Uncle Vanya this Christmas for a light supper comprising a grazing platter along with a drink in our stunning and beautifully ornate Banquet Hall.

*Available on selected evenings only.

🎭 Uncle Vanya
📅 4 - 20 Dec
🎟️ smockalley.com/uncle-vanya/
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
An inspector. An artist. A book full of unanswered questions. Whatever happens, this is going to be a mess. Smokey stylish noir meets surreal and silly sincerity in this murderous tale where logic unravels, performers make big accent choices, and nothing is quite what it seems.
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Oliver Cole, born in Kells, County Meath, is an acclaimed Irish singer-songwriter known for his evocative lyrics and distinctive sound. His latest album, Wingspan, released on October 3, 2025, has been described as a stream of consciousness approach to songwriting.
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Amhráin na Gealaí is a performance of songs of Phoebe Bridgers translated into Irish by poets Caitríona Ní Chléirchín and Dairena Ní Chinnéide, and performed by Belfast indie-pop artist Aoibha.

🎭 AMHRÁIN NA GEALAÍ: TIONSCADAL PHOEBE BRIDGERS
📅 22 Nov
🎟️ shorturl.at/0Dyx4
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Guth na hÉigse is a Poetry Speaking Competition for Post-Primary Schools, based on the Poetry Aloud poetry speaking competition initiated by the National Library of lreland & Poetry lreland.

🎭GUTH NA hÉIGSE: COMÓRTAS LABHARTHA FILÍOCHTA D'IAR-BHUNSCOILEANNA
📆21 Nov
🎫Free event for schools
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
In the Duais Bashō Haiku Poetry Competition, post-primary students are invited to compose a haiku in the English or Irish language and submit their haiku for adjudication.

🎭 DUAIS HAIKU BASHŌ: HAIKU READING AND AWARD PRESENTATION
📅 21 Nov
🎟️ shorturl.at/neJl1
November 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Join Irish poet Julie Breathnach-Banwait as she reads from her 2023 collection Cnámha Scoilte to live music from composer and concertina player Jack Talty, interwoven with sean-nós songs from Síle Denvir, and featuring on-screen visuals created by Donegal artist Kim Sharkey.
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"If you’re going to be sad, son, you might as well be sad in the sun."

Lost In Asia opens tonight at Smock Alley Theatre!

🎭 Lost In Asia
📅 11 - 15 Nov
🎟️ shorturl.at/fVcuH
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Do all monks go to heaven?

When their abbot dies and a Viking ship appears on the horizon, three cowardly medieval monks face a life-and-death decision that swiftly unravels into an chaos, self-reflection, betrayal and adventure.

🎭 Dead Monks
📅 16 - 19
🎟️ tinyurl.com/56twt484
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
What really happened the night Jesus was born? You dont know? Let us show you. This is our tale of how it all began, you know, the whole Christmas thing.

🎭 A Scandal In Bethlehem
📅 11 - 13 Dec
🎟️ shorturl.at/tiuXf
November 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Following a three month affair between two anonymous men, Boyfriends, charts the ups and downs and roundabouts of a modern situationship. The show asks us to ponder on that age old question: what the f*ck is romance anyway?

🎭 Boyfriends
📅 12 - 15 Nov
🎟️ shorturl.at/Tii3Q
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Join twenty somethings Sally, Nat and Kyle in this hilarious comedy as they develop a love for, and the people involved with, Northern Soul. What started as a College project has grown into a passion, but the dance steps are exhausting.

🎭DO I LOVE YOU?
📅 18 – 21 Mar
🎟️ shorturl.at/cSwRA
November 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM