Festival Events!

Finally the festival has begun! Opening night was a huge success. Dodgems a co-production between Coiscéim and the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival in the O’Reilly Theatre was packed to the rafters. Once the show came down, to rapturous applause, guests happily made their way down to the Hugh Lane Gallery where the opening of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival was celebrated in style in the beautiful surroundings of the gallery.

Now that the festival is truly underway we are very busy making sure that our Friends of the Festival and Sponsors are enjoying the festival as much as we are! On Monday we had our informal friends’ night in the Odessa Club, which was a very enjoyable night. As always it was great to catch up with the Friends of the Festival, both old and new! There was much animated chatter about festival highlights. Those who caught Gatz at the weekend were mesmerised and those with tickets to The Year of Magical Thinking were eagerly looking forward to the performance.

We’re also busy organising corporate entertainment for our Sponsors and Corporate Friends at the moment. The Westbury Hotel, Balzac and The Shelbourne Hotel are among the prestigious venues for our various corporate entertainment evenings over the course of the festival. DAA and Ulster Bank both had very enjoyable nights at The Year of Magical Thinking earlier this week at the Gaiety Theatre.

The first of our Corporate Friends Nights is taking place tonight and all those going are thrilled about the prospect of seeing Vanessa Redgrave. Those who would prefer something a little lighter are holding off until next Tuesday when we will be hosting our second night at The Cripple of Inishmaan in the Olympia Theatre. Either way both nights are guaranteed to be very enjoyable and a great way to entertain!

With still well over a week of the festival left there is lots of activity still to come in the Development Department!


Gemma Duke
Development Manager