Wishing a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all the patrons, companies and staff who helped make 2025 a super year for us here at Smock Alley Theatre. Looking forward to seeing everyone in 2026! Lots of love, Smock Alley xx

From John Godber comes a brand new smash-hit comedy. Join twenty somethings Sally, Nat and Kyle in this hilarious comedy as they develop a love for, and the people involved with, Northern Soul. 🎭 Do I Love You? 📅 18 - 21 Mar 🎟️ smockalley.com/do-i-love-you

Christopher John Francis Boone is 15. Mrs Shears’ dog has been speared with a garden fork, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact to try and solve the mystery of who killed Wellington. His detective work takes him on a frightening journey that upturns his world.

📣 #jobfairy 👉Operations & Admin Lead @smockalley.bsky.social 🗣This part-time role ➡️strengthens DMT’s administrative systems ➡️financial & governance structures ➡️smooth operations across our programmes, artist supports 📋 performingartsforum.ie/job/operatio... ⏰Closing 12noon Sunday 21 December

Join us for this powerful conversation about autism, identity and belonging in contemporary Ireland. The conversation will reflect on the diversity and brilliance of autistic lived experience and ask how true inclusion and cultural change can challenge stereotypes.

Opening tomorrow! 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/

Mammary Mountain is an intimate, immersive, haptic experience that explores disease in the body, and how an individual cancer journey sits within the wider landscape. 🎭 Mammary Mountain 📅 9 - 11 Jan 🎟️ shorturl.at/1kxj6

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/

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

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

✨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

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

🎭 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.

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/

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

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/

✨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

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...

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

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/

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/

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

"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

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

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

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

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

Oliver Cole is an acclaimed Irish singer-songwriter known for his evocative lyrics and distinctive sound. Join us as he performs songs from his highly acclaimed new album Wingspan as well as some old favourites. 🎭 Oliver Cole Album Launch 📆 20 Nov 🎫 tinyurl.com/5ydk2nyx

Join us after The Dolldrums on 8 Nov in the Banquet Hall for a drink, some audiovisual trans artistry and queer speakers before we descend deep into The DollHouse Rave on the site of a former Dublin gentleman’s club in the Boys School. Watch and join in as we transform it with queer joy and dance.

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

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.

The Dolldrums is a modern parable about the truths we deny and the perceptions we embrace. No matter how far we run from ourselves, we can never escape who we truly are. A New Play by Liath Hannon, star of hit Irish Film Girls and Boys.

After the sudden death of his father, Aaron is left completely numb. He runs. Runs from his grief, the mourning neighbours, the auntie in law’s and the Deirdre’s and Sharon’s of Dublin with their endless talk of mortgages and buying bleedin’ gaffs.

Hailed by Edward Albee as “the greatest American play ever written”, Our Town is set in the small town of Grover’s Corners over three acts. A poignant, powerful exploration of everyday life, love, and loss, we are delighted to host this Pulitzer Prize winning classic in November.

Sa chomórtas filíochta Haiku Duais Bashō tugtar cuireadh do dhaltaí iar-bhunscoile haiku a chumadh, i mBéarla nó i nGaeilge nó go dátheangach, agus a gcuid haiku a chur faoi bhráid moltóra. As part of IMRAM 🎭 DUAIS HAIKU BASHŌ: HAIKU READING AND AWARD PRESENTATION 📆 21 Nov 🎫 tinyurl.com/435fhku3

Opening tonight! 🌟 Beatrice is expecting and it’s a girl… fuck. She’s hormonal, frustrated, horny, lonely and feeling totally and utterly F-… F-… fine about it all. 🎭 It's F- 📅 20 - 24 Oct 🎟️ smockalley.com/its-f/

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

This Halloween Bum Notes will be improvising Ireland’s first musical in the dark! Come see what happens when you let the story, songs, & characters of Broadway get written in real time by some of Ireland’s silliest improv comics. 🎭 The Improvised OoOoOoOosical 📆 29 + 30 Oct 🎫 tinyurl.com/4d9c53du

Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh was without doubt Ireland's most gifted sports commentator. Across his sixty year career, from his 1949 radio debut to his last All-lreland final on television in 2010, he was a deeply loved companion for generations of GAA fans.

Fusing pastoral acoustic folk with dreamy electronic pop, Phoebe Bridgers is known for exquisitely crafted lyrics that explore themes of heartbreak, loss, faith, family relationships and coming-of-age.

Entr’acte Musical Theatre and Drama Society present Our Town this November. Hailed by Edward Albee as “the greatest American play ever written”, Our Town is a poignant, powerful exploration of everyday life, love, and loss. 🎭 Our Town 📅 5 - 8 Nov 🎟️ smockalley.com/ourtown/

✨ ANNOUNCING ✨ UNCLE VANYA by Brian Friel, after Anton Chekhov Smock Alley Theatre and Cathal Cleary Company, in association with Once Off Productions, present Anton Chekhov’s classic play, starring Risteárd Cooper and Eavan Gaffney. 🎭 UNCLE VANYA 📆 4 - 20 Dec 🎟 tinyurl.com/2jaews3j

Set in 1850, Belfast Girls tells the story of five fierce young women who face their dark pasts on a ship bound for Australia, as they leave Belfast in search of a better life. Confined in close quarters in the belly of the ship, they embark on a tumultuous sea journey.

Síceolaí, file, scríbhneoir & máthair as Ceantar na nOileán i gConamara í Julie Breathnach-Banwait. Her work explores family, landscape & history, taking the reader from the shores of Conamara to the deserts of Australia. 🎭 CNÁMHA SCOILTE: SPLIT BONES 📅 19 Nov 🎫https://shorturl.at/kC2Pz

Lily Burke will do anything to be a real girl. Even if it kills her. The Dolldrums is a modern parable about the truths we deny and the perceptions we embrace. No matter how far we run from ourselves, we can never escape who we truly are.