Treading the boards at Forest Fringe
MID-WINTER is closed-season for arts festivals, so it’s a nice surprise that British arts initiative, Forest Fringe, is visiting Dublin’s The Lir this week for a three-day ‘micro-festival’. Forest Fringe features well-regarded theatre-makers and performers in Britain and Ireland, among them Action Hero, Kieran Hurley, Dan Canham, and Veronica Dyas and Amy Conroy. The bill is the same each night, so every audience can see the full roster. The event is in association with the Dublin Fringe Festival.
Forest Fringe is artist-led and has carved out its own niche at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. Co-founder Deborah Pearson will present her new work, The Future Show, in Dublin, and the bill is impressive. It includes the Irish premieres of Action Hero’s acclaimed show Watch Me Fall and Kieran Hurley’s solo piece, Hitch, which documents his hitchhiking trek to the G8 summit in Italy. Amy Conroy — whose hit play I Heart Alice Heart I was produced at the national theatre earlier this year — will air her work-in-progress, Break.
