Dublin Theatre Festival announces an ambitious programme that includes Shakespeare, Synge and Arthur Miller.
The Dublin Theatre Festival to run in September announces a programme that includes a musical comedy set in wartime Dublin. Festival director Fergus Linehan believes this year's festival will be the most popular.
More than any other year, I think that it's a festival for the people.
The productions will feature clowns, ghosts, war, and espionage. It is not all big productions. Druid Theatre Company has two new productions of plays by John Millington Synge which will run for five nights in a tiny hall in Glendalough before heading to the festival. Fergal McGrath, of Druid Theatre Company says that it is director Garry Hynes's ambition to bring Synge's work to the people and places that were at the heart of the writer's vision.
The scope of the festival has broadened over the past five years attracting new international work. Next year the Dublin Theatre Festival will have a new director with Don Shipley taking the reins. He describes the festival as,
One of the last remaining contemporary theatre festivals.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 11 August 2004. The reporter is Jennifer O'Connell.
