Dublin Fringe Festival brings eclectic mix to city

One of the country’s biggest performing arts showcases will open in Dublin today.

Cast members from the smash hit La Clique will launch the 13th Dublin Fringe Festival, which will see more than 100 shows in over 30 venues across the city.

The annual two-week event provides a platform for the most innovative and fresh theatre, visual arts, dance, live art, mixed media and music performances in the country.

La Clique, which features a world-class roll-call of circus and cabaret performers including sword-swallower MisBehave and bathtub aerialist David O’Mer, opens tonight in the Fringe Spiegeltent, George’s Dock.

The festival boasts an eclectic line-up, including a radical Stormont musical, bovine bone installations, freaked-up fire shows, lunatic clowns, crazy nuns and Buddhist monks, plus the biggest sell-out shows from Edinburgh and New York.

Theatre buffs will also be well-served, with plays by Mark Ravenhill, Albert Camus, Moliere, Anton Chekhov, Stewart Parker and award-winner Declan Gorman added to the mix.

The Dublin Fringe Festival runs until September 23.