10 days in Dublin

Dublin's latest independent arts festival 10 days in Dublin gets underway on July 7th, and runs for, you guessed it, ten days. It's a not-for-profit festival and as a result shows are really cheap, they want to encourage people to see as many as they can. There's some really interesting and unusual sounding things going on.

Here are five festival picks...

7th July - The Buzz Aldrin Allstars vs Super Mario Brothers. Play classic computer games to live music! The craic! The Workman's Club at 7pm €10

8th July - Master and Margarita. Stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's classic Soviet satire. Said to be the inspiration for The Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil. Features a giant walking, talking cat - what more could you want. Samuel Beckett Theatre at 7.30pm €12

12th July - Little Green Cars. Band of rather talented 18 year olds who are hot stuff apparently (...not as in they're hot but as in they're on the up. I don't know what they look like...). The Workman's Club at 8.30pm €5

13th July - The Maids. Jean Genet's disturbing tale of two bored housemaids who plot to murder their mistress via lesbianism, incest and ritualized ceremonial role play. Nothing like a bit of sinister theatre. St. Mary's Abbey at 8pm €10

14th July - The Arrow of Time. Scarily good sounding magic/mind-reading magician Shane Gillen aims to 'delve into the depths of theatre of the mind'. He's already tried it on Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson and come away unscathed...go see! The Players Theatre at 8pm €10


For more, and to book tickets to any show see http://10daysindublin.ie