Productions from home and abroad will be staged during the 13 days of the Dublin Theatre Festival.
Details of The Dublin Theatre Festival are announced at the HQ, the Music Hall of Fame.
In addition to a programme for children in Temple Bar, theatres throughout the city will stage productions from Ireland and overseas.
This year the event has a new title sponsor becoming the Eircom Dublin Theatre Festival.
Fergus Linehan, the incoming director of the festival, outlines some of the productions on show this year. There will be new work from established Irish writers such as Seamus Heaney, Frank McGuinness and Bernard Farrell. New talent will have a chance to be seen with work from writers such as Pat Kinevane and Chris Lee.
'The Diary of One Who Vanished' will have its world premiere at the festival. The production is a new translation by Séamus Heaney and directed by Deborah Warner.
After 10 years at the helm current Dublin Theatre Festival director Tony Ó Dálaigh will step down this year. Reflecting on some memoires of his time leading the festival he recalls a review written in the Irish Press for a show that never took place.
The Dublin Theatre Festival runs from 4 to 17 October.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 27 August 1999. The reporter is Colm Connolly.
