Dublin Fringe: Have drama, will travel
THE ‘Show in a Bag’ has become a staple of the Dublin Fringe Festival. Staged in Bewleys Café, on Grafton Street, it is a series of plays, each one featuring a maximum of two performers, and developed by and for the performer(s). The format is inexpensive.
Show in a Bag debuted in 2010. Most of its shows have enjoyed an afterlife. A number, like Fight Night, which featured a tour-de-force turn by Aonghus Óg McAnally, have been critically lauded. The format’s most high-profile success is Sonya Kelly’s The Wheelchair on My Face, which has toured to plaudits. The comic piece snatched a Fringe First gong in Edinburgh last year. It travels to New York this month.
