Gradfest 2025
Our annual festival presented by our MFA students runs June 24th - July 9th.
We are delighted to announce our full programme of shows as part of Gradfest 2025. Three shows, staged by our MFA directors, designers and producers, performed and crewed by our undergraduate students with over sixty students involved over three weeks.
Gradfest is a collaboration of productions at The Lir Academy at Trinity College Dublin. These plays are a culmination of an intensive year of hands-on training by our MFA students in directing, producing, set design, lighting design and costume design.
The cast of each of the productions consists of final-year acting students and these productions will be stage-managed and technically managed by our stage management and technical theatre students.
See more on our MFA students at the link here.
What's On:
Gundog by Simon Longman
Run: Tuesday, 24th - Friday, 27th June
On a farm in the middle of nowhere, sisters Becky and Anna try to hold their family together after the death of their mother. Time is always moving somewhere – but here it’s very quiet. When they discover a stranger wandering across their land, the three establish an unlikely partnership in their determination to survive.
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Walden by Amy Berryman
Run: Saturday, 5th - Wednesday, 9th July
Beneath a dying sky, twin sisters reunite, one returned from the stars, the other rooted in the soil of what remains. In a woodland cabin, time stretches and memory stirs. Once destined to walk the same path, Stella and Cassie now face a future they never dreamed of, shaped by absence, wonder, and the quiet ache of survival.
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You Got Older by Clare Barron
Run: Monday, 7th - Thursday, 10th July
After losing her job, boyfriend and apartment, Mae returns to Washington State to take care of her dad.
Back in her childhood home, she struggles to adapt and distracts herself with fantasies of a cowboy. In this intimate, vulnerable and hilarious dark comedy, Clare Barron skillfully blends reality with make-believe to explore family, illness and a re-coming of age.
Book here.