Gradfest 2026
Our annual festival presented by our MFA students runs June 22nd - July 9th.
We are delighted to announce our full programme of shows as part of Gradfest 2026. Four 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:
Marble by Marina Carr
Run: Tuesday, 23rd - Thursday, 25th June, Studio 2
When two married couples become consumed by a series of shared dreams, the boundaries between fantasy and reality begin to collapse. As desire, jealousy, and buried longing seep into their waking lives, the emotional architecture of their marriages starts to fracture.
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Far Away by Caryl Churchill
Run: Wednesday, 24th - Friday, 26th June, Studio 1
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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Penelope by Enda Walsh
Run: Monday, 6th - Wednesday, 8th July, Studio 2
At the bottom of a drained swimming pool, Penelope’s four remaining suitors eke out a ridiculous existence. While her husband is away fighting the Trojans, her home has become the stage for a pathetic contest of manhood, with each suitor vainly attempting to win her favour through increasingly deranged displays of devotion.
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The Moors by Jen Silverman
Run: Tuesday, 7th - Thursday, 9th July, Studio 1
On the eerie, savage moors live two sisters. While the eldest commands the household, the youngest spends her days writing in a diary or minding their dog - a great big mastiff filled with poetic longing. The sudden arrival of a governess and a moorhen disrupts their world and pushes them all to the edge of violence.
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