GB
  
You are currently viewing the United Kingdom version of the site.
Would you like to switch to your local site?
4 MIN READ TIME

INSIDE OUT

Winner of the Stewart Parker Award for her play The Half Of It, actress and writer Karen Cogan brings her dark comedy, Drip Feed, about growing up female and queer in 1990’s Ireland, to this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival.

Photo by Jonny Birch.

I grew up in Cork city. I took long breaks from school in Turners Cross to make bad films and join theatre companies. ended up at Trinity doing an English and Theatre Studies degree. It was far less practical than I’d hoped and dropped out. An excellent friend died suddenly and woke up to the fact that we don’t necessarily have decades to make the right choices, so started hustling up work as an actor and auditioning for drama schools.

Read the complete article and many more in this issue of GCN
Purchase options below
If you own the issue, Login to read the full article now.
Single Digital Issue 345
 
FREE
Read Now
This issue and other back issues are not included in a new subscription. Subscriptions include the latest regular issue and new issues released during your subscription. GCN

This article is from...


View Issues
GCN
345
VIEW IN STORE

Other Articles in this Issue


Editor’s Letter
FROM THE EDITOR
LGBT+ people are starting the f ght to be heard at the next big Catholic shindig: October’s Synod on Young People
WE ASKED THE TEAM
WHAT SHOW ARE YOU DYIN’ TO SEE THIS YEAR?
Focál Up!
Here We Go Again!
Here’s your official warning, brain boxes – bury those noses
Synth You Been Gone
Putting some zip into the dog days of September, PureGrand
Super Mario
The final whistle has blown on the World Cup leaving
Cast Your Mind
It’s a golden age for podcasts. And that’s half the
A Quickie with...
We have the new single from Jack O’Rourke, with its
Tutu Much
The all-male, high comedy ballet troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de
QUEER VIEW MIRROR
Ahead of the pope’s shindig for some kinds of families,
Following the Camino
Jane Casey is neither religious nor the ‘outdoorsy’ type, so how did walking 117KM through rural Spain on the Camino de Santiago turn out to be so her kind of thing, that she can’t wait to do it again?
THE BOOK GUY
What’s keeping Stephen Boylan up at night this month?
Feature: Music
modern anthem010 Charting The Songs We Love So Well
With her part in the new Mama Mia! and a tour in the oing, Cher is on a bit of a renewed roll, but it’s not her irst time at the comeback rodeo. Exactly 20 years ago she reinvigorated a lagging music career with a song that would go on to be both a record-breaking hit and the apotheosis of her gay appeal. Words by Conor Behan
The Verdict
Years & Years diicult second album?
Interview
Surviving Eddy
As a stage adaptation of The End of Eddy, Édouard Louis bestselling autobiographical novel about anti-gay bullying, comes to the Dublin Theatre Festival, its director Stewart Laing talks to Brian Finnegan about his own reasons for taking on the project, toxic masculinity, and young people inding self-empowerment
Seeking Sanctuary
When aircrat engineer Sinan Shwaili and a group of fellow activists put up posters in Baghdad, hoping to help other LGBTs, little did they know that their lives would instantly fall apart. Sinan shares with Brian Finnegan his story of terror and murder in Iraq, his desperate light to Ireland, and how he is still forced to live with anti-gay hatred in the Direct Provision system. Portrait by Marek Hajdasz
Acting Up In Amsterdam
Robbie Lawlor of ACT UP Dublin shares his most powerful moments of the 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, AIDS 2018, at which protests and radical messages were the order of the day
Glitterati
“The closure of The Dragon, and the curtain closing on The Panti Show both had a big impact on the community.” So says, Beth Hayden, founding member of Glitter HOLE, a gang of performers who mix their response to a percieved lack of drag diversity with radical queer politics. So what we can expect from the inauguaral Glitter HOLE Fringe show, The Fianna Fellatio Party?
pink fringe
There’s a stellar line-up of happenings at the Dublin Fringe Festival with a troupe of shows made by and for queers. Here are some of the highlights:
TERF WARS
The hijacking of London Pride by a group of trans exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) last month is indicative of the rise of what seems like a bitter division within the UK’s LGBT community. But in Ireland, TERFs and trans exclusionary rhetoric have barely been seen or heard. So, what’s diferent about the queer community here, and why is important that we stay tuned to what’s happening across the water? Aisling Cronin reports
OPINION: Kate Kiernan
Trans exclusionary radical feminists relect to us the woundedness of our own community, our desire to be ‘normal’
Photo Essay
THE DREAMERS
riginally from Mongolia, 22 year-old photographer and creative director, Steven
IDENTITIES
As LGBT continues to expand to include ever diversifying letters and identities, more and more people are exploring beyond the narrow deinitions of what it means to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Yet on some level the growing diversity of identity still isn’t being recognised in the larger community. Chris O’Donnell meets some of the people whose identities it under the plus in LGBT+. Illustration by Oliver Weiss
OPINION: Doireann O’Malley
Humans are such diverse, queer creatures, and should be embraced for their dif erences rather than oppressed because of them
community chest
Shirley’s Burn Book
Cherish Maloney has a fungal infection, and…
Chat
X
Pocketmags Support