THISISPOPBABY announces new show 0800 CUPID

THISISPOPBABY have announced their new show 0800 CUPID, set to premiere at Project Arts Centre Dublin as part of Dublin Theatre Festival and running from September 28 to October 5.

THISISPOPBABY’s newest offering since their smash hit WAKE earlier this year, 0800 CUPID is written by Emer Dineed, directed by Phillip McMahon and features music production by Irish EDM icon Elaine Mai.

Described as a “a genre-defying, vibrant and timely response to the swelling social anxiety of our post-pandemic, pre-apocalyptic world” and “a camp catalyst for reconnection,“ the show aims to explore a “fantastic period” of Dineed’s life, looking at her father’s dementia diagnosis, her nightlife career, getting diagnosed with Tourette’s and being fired from her call centre day job.

 

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0800 CUPID “explores life’s meaning, the enigma of being, navigating an internal crisis, coping, thriving, surviving and Dineed's pilgrimage back from the brink through her drag persona, crumbling club-kid, Cupid.”

Dineed was nominated for Best Performer at the Dublin Fringe Festival for the role of DJ Duncan Disorderly in THISISPOPBABY’s WAKE and was the recipient of the Cork Midsummer Festival’s Jane Anne Rothwell Award.

WAKE was met with a wide range of critical success last year, with Hot Press describing it as a “nebulous, fun and utterly surreal take on the Irish funeral tradition- designed to make audience members cry, laugh - and perhaps most importantly, dance.”

Tickets for 0800 CUPID at Projects Arts Centre Dublin range from €20 to €30 and will be available here from August 7.